Representative Frank C. Lake View All Years

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Frank C. Lake

Woodbury County

One of the representatives from Woodbury county, was born in Golden, Colorado, April 18, 1879. He came to Iowa and located at Cedar Rapids in 1903, where he joined the reportorial staff of the Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette. After spending three years in newspaper work in Cedar Rapids, he went to Sioux City and joined the reportorial staff of the Sioux City Journal. He has made Sioux City his home since that time, and during his residence there served on both the Sioux City Journal and Sioux City Tribune as reporter and department editor. He founded, and was editor for one year, the Saturday Mirror, a weekly publication devoted to society, clubs, amusements and politics. He entered Iowa politics by being chosen Secretary of the Woodbury County Republican Central Committee, 1912, and served four years in that capacity. His grandfather, Seth Lake, was an early Iowa settler, having built one of the first houses in Waterloo. Was elected representative on the republican ticket in 1916. His lodge affiliations are Masonic, Elks and Yeoman.

House District 58