Representative Frank C. Lake View All Years

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Compiled Historical Information
Date of Death: 10/3/1952
Birth Place: Golden, Colorado
Party Affiliation: Republican
Assemblies Served:
House: 37 (1917) - 40 (1923)
Home County: Woodbury
Frank C. Lake
Woodbury County
Representative from Woodbury county. Born in Golden, Colorado, April 18, 1879. He came to Iowa and located at Cedar Rapids, November 30, 1903, where he joined the reportorial staff of the Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette, and three years later joined the Sioux City Journal. He has made Sioux City his home and served on both the Sioux City Journal and Sioux City Tribune as reporter and department editor. He founded and was editor for one year of the Saturday Mirror. He entered Iowa politics as secretary of the Woodbury County Republican Central Committee, 1912, and served four years. His grandfather, Seth Lake, was an early Iowa settler. He is a Mason, Elk and Yeoman. Elected representative in 1916, re-elected in 1918 and 1920. A republican in politics.