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Charles M. Dutcher

Johnson County

CHARLES M. DUTCHER

MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee which was appointed to report resolutions commemorating the life, character and services of the late Charles M. Dutcher, begs leave to submit the following report:

Charles M. Dutcher was born at Humboldt, Kansas, on April 29, 1869, and came to Iowa City with his parents in 1877, when he was nine years old.

He attended public school in Iowa City where he graduated in 1889, and later attended the State University where he graduated in liberal arts and law in 1894. He was admitted to the Iowa Bar in 1894. After admission to the Bar, he practiced law in Iowa City, continuously to the day of his death, which occurred in Des Moines on Tuesday, November 17, 1936, while he was presenting an argument before the Supreme Court. He was County Attorney of Johnson county in 1897 and 1898.

In 1921 he was elected President of the Iowa State Bar Association. He represented Johnson and Iowa counties in the Iowa State Senate in the Thirty-ninth, Fortieth and Fortieth Extra General Assemblies.

In 1925 Governor John Hammill offered him an appointment to the Iowa Supreme Bench, which he declined.

He was able, honest and courageous. He left a host of admiring friends who sincerely sympathize with the widow and three surviving children.

F. C. SCHADT,

FRANK BYERS,

H. J. GRUNEWALD,

Committee.

The resolution was unanimously adopted.

Senate District 25