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GEORGE EDWARD BRAMMER, lawyer, jurist and legislator, died at Des Moines, Iowa, May 9, 1948; born at Dedham, Carroll county, Iowa, March 4, 1886, son of William Harrison and Martha Edwards Brammer, the father still living and residing at Shenandoah, Iowa; graduated from Dedham high school, and from Drake university in 1908 with degree of LL.B.; admitted to Iowa bar the same year and has since practiced law in Des Moines; taught in law school of Drake university and received degree of LL.M. in 1911; received honorary LL.D. degree from Central college at Pella in 1943; elected representative from Polk county in Iowa General assembly in 1915; served as judge of the Ninth judicial district in 1922; a member of the county, state and American bar associations, and president of the Polk county bar association in 1947; head of the law firm of Brammer, Brody, Charlton, Parker & Roberts; married Mary Frances Gilliland, of Bloomington, Illinois, June 21, 1911, who died in 1947, they having a daughter, Mary Carolyn Harper, and a son, James William Brammer, both of Des Moines; an elder of the University Christian church, a trustee of Drake University, a director of the Central National bank, Des, Moines, and chairman of the board of the Dutton-Lainson Company, Hastings, Nebraska; a Republican and member of social and law fraternities, the Masonic order and local clubs.