Senator Francis Elmer Shane View All Years

Compiled Historical Information
Date of Death: 4/19/1955
Birth Place: Guthrie County, Iowa
Birth County: Guthrie
Party Affiliation: Republican
Assemblies Served:
Senate: 38 (1919)
Home County: Adams
Francis Elmer Shane
Adams County
Senator from the Sixth district, composed of Adams and Taylor counties, was born in Guthrie county, Iowa, January 28, 1876. Lived on the farm with parents, and graduated from the Coon Rapids High School in 1896. He took a business course at the Capital City Commercial College, graduating in May, 1897. In 1903 he became cashier of the Adams County Bank at Nodaway, Iowa, and advanced to the office of vice president on January 1, 1919. On January 14, 1919, was elected director and cashier of the First National Bank at Villisca, Iowa. He has held the offices of town treasurer, school treasurer, M.E. church treasurer, cemetery treasurer, and Masonic Lodge treasurer. During the great world war he, as township chairman, handled the Liberty Loan, Red Cross, Y.M.C.A. and other drives for funds asked for by the United States government. Elected state senator on the republican ticket in November, 1918.