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CHESTER W. WHITMORE
MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee, appointed to prepare suitable resolutions commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable Chester W. Whitmore of Ottumwa, begs leave to submit the following:
Chester W. Whitmore was born in Burlington, Iowa, January 11, 1869. He attended Lake Forest University in Illinois and the Chicago Law College, receiving a Bachelor of Law degree. He also was affiliated with the Phi Delta Phi Law Fraternity.
In 1896 he was admitted to the Illinois bar and practiced law in Chicago until 1900, when he was admitted to practice in Iowa and immediately established a law office in Ottumwa, Iowa. He also was admitted to practice before the U. S. Supreme Court in 1913.
In politics he was a Republican and took an active and responsible place in the party of his choice. He was elected Senator in 1914, representing Wapello county in the Thirty-sixth, Thirty-seventh, Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth General Assemblies of the State of Iowa. He also served for four years in Company G, 54th Regiment of the Iowa National Guard.
Senator Whitmore, shortly before his death, retired from the practice of law and sold his law office in Ottumwa, Iowa, preparatory to retiring in California. He died on December 4, 1943, in San Francisco, California, four days after his arrival there from his home in Ottumwa, Iowa.
He is survived by his widow; by two sons, Lt. Hobart Whitmore of the U. S. Army, and Kenneth Whitmore, and a step-son, Frank Hook, besides one sister and one brother.
Therefore Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Fifty-first General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That in the passing of Senator Whitmore this state mourns the loss of a valuable and honored citizen; a man who devoted many years of his life to public service, and the Senate of Iowa by this resolution extends to the family of Chester W. Whitmore its deepest sympathy.
Be It Further Resolved, That a copy of this memorial resolution be printed in the Journal of the Senate and that the Secretary be directed to send enrolled copies to the members of the family of the deceased.
ELMER K. BEKMAN,
ALDEN L. DOUD,
J. R. BARKLEY,
LUKE VITTETOE,
T. H. KLEIN,
Committee.
The resolution was unanimously adopted.