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Warren Alexander Caldwell

Mahaska County

WARREN A. CALDWELL

MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee appointed to prepare a memorial resolution commemorating the life and public service of the late Honorable Warren A. Caldwell begs leave to submit the following:

Warran A. Caldwell was born in Mahaska county on a farm near the town of Wright on January 7, 1886. He attended rural school and also two years in Penn Academy at Oskaloosa. Following this period he taught a rural school for two years.

He was married in 1907 to Isabelle Hay of Oskaloosa and to this union three sons were born. They are Norval, Harold and Robert.

Prior to 1912 he operated a farm in the community where he was born. In 1912 he moved to Oskaloosa and assumed the active management of the Caldwell Silo Company. In 1914 he was elected a member of the Mahaska County Board of Supervisors, in which capacity he served for six years. In 1920 he was elected from the fourteenth Senatorial District to the Iowa Senate where he served in the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth General Assemblies. After this period he became actively engaged in the real estate business in Oskaloosa in which profession he continued until his death. Senator Caldwell was an active Republican and remained actively interested in party politics during his entire life.

On March 4, 1944, while at work in his office, he was stricken with cerebral hemorrhage from which he never regained consciousness and passed away on March 7, leaving to mourn his death his widow and sons, Norval of Oskaloosa, Harold, who is serving with the armed forces in the Southwest Pacific, and Robert of Des Moines, together with a host of friends.

Therefore, Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Fifty-first General Assembly of Iowa, That in the passing of Senator Caldwell, Iowa has lost a distinguished citizen whose entire life was devoted to public. civic and political life in his community and the state.

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.

A. E. AUGUSTINE,

T. H. KLEIN,

ROSS R. MOWRY,

LUKE VITTETOE,

ELMER K. BEKMAN,

Committee.

The resolution was unanimously adopted.

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