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JAMES F. JOHNSTON
MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable James F. Johnston, begs leave to submit the following memorial:
James F. Johnston was born in Lucas county, April 25, 1875, and passed away at Chariton, Iowa, on November 6, 1958.
He was the son of John and Rebecca Johnston.
He was educated in rural schools, Western Normal school and Simpson College. He taught school and later engaged in general farming and stock raising.
Mr. Johnston was a lifelong member of the Methodist Church, and a member of the Lucas county board of supervisors for three years.
He was intensely interested in governmental, legislative and political affairs and was first elected as a State Representative in 1914, serving in the Thirty-sixth, Thirty-seventh and Forty-sixth sessions of the General Assembly, and as a State Senator from the Lucas-Wayne district in the Thirty-ninth, Fortieth and Fortieth Extra sessions.
Surviving Mr. Johnston is a brother, Charles M. Johnston of Zanesville, Ohio, and four sisters, Lida R. Shore, Florence V. Prior, Bernice Johnston, and Nora Johnston of Chariton; three nephews and five nieces. One sister, Mrs. Belle Brown, and a brother, Matthew Johnston, preceded him in death.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Fifty-eighth General Assembly of Iowa: That in the passing of the Honorable James F. Johnston the people of Lucas county and the entire State of Iowa have sustained a great loss, and the House expresses its appreciation of his character and public service and tenders, by this resolution, its sincere and heartfelt sympathy to the members of his family in their sorrow.
Be It Further Resolved: That a copy of this resolution be spread upon the Journal of the House, and that the Chief Clerk be directed to forward an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.
NEAL PIERCE,
MRS. K. M. FALVEY,
REED CASEY,
Committee.