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JOSEPH R. FRAILEY
MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee, appointed to prepare suitable resolutions commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable Joseph R. Frailey, begs leave to submit the following:
Joseph R. Frailey was born in Fort Madison, Iowa, March 2, 1876, and was a lifelong resident of that community. He was graduated from Fort Madison high school in 1893; from the college of liberal arts of the State University of Iowa in 1898, and from the college of law of the University in 1900. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi and Phi Delta Phi fraternities.
He was employed for about five years in the legal department of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, and then took up the practice of law in Fort Madison, serving as city solicitor from 1905 to 1914.
He was married October 20, 1905, to Miss Genevieve Albright.
During the Spanish American War he served as lieutenant in Company F, Fiftieth Iowa Infantry, United States Volunteers.
Mr. Frailey represented Lee county in the State Senate for sixteen years from 1914 until 1922, and from 1926 until 1934. He was a very active, able and popular member. He served as a director of the Cattermole Library in Fort Madison for twelve years.
He was a member of the Lee County and Iowa Bar Associations, the State Historical Society, B.P.O.E. Lodge 374, and A. F. & A. M. 440.
Mr. Frailey passed away October 6, 1944, at his home in Fort Madison. He is survived by his wife and a sister, Margaret S. Frailey.
Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Fifty-first General Assembly, That in the passing of Senator Frailey the state has lost an able man of strong character and all who served with him in the Senate have lost a real friend.
Be It Further Resolved, That this resolution be printed in the Memorial section of the Journal of the Senate, and that copies be sent to the surviving wife and sister.
STANLEY L. HART,
ALDEN L. DOUD,
FRED CROMWELL,
HARLAN C. FOSTER,
J. R. BARKLEY,
Committee.
The resolution was unanimously adopted.