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LINUS B. FORSLING
MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable Linus B. Forsling, begs leave to submit the following memorial:
Linus B. Forsling was born in Sioux City, Iowa, on March 23, 1890. He attended grade and high schools in Sioux City and was graduated in law from Cumberland University. He began the general practice of law in 1915, and became a police judge of Sioux City in 1918.
Mr. Forsling had a long and successful career in the Iowa legislature.
He was first elected a state representative in 1920 and reelected in 1922, 1924, 1926, 1928 and 1930. He was then elected to the Senate in 1938. Senator Forsling was a key legislator in 1939 in the successful drive for adoption of Governor George A. Wilson’s extensive state reorganization plan. The governor asked for and obtained consolidation of all state law enforcement agencies and the state motor vehicle division into the present Iowa Department of Public Safety. Prior to that time the highway patrol, the state bureau of investigation, the state fire marshal’s office and the motor vehicle division were scattered under other state jurisdictions or were independent entities. Senator Forsling skillfully guided the plan to adoption by the Senate.
On January 14, 1937, he was married to Edith V. Cover.
From 1940 to 1958 Mr. Forsling served as a District Judge in the Fourth Judicial District (Monona and Woodbury Counties).
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Sixty-fourth General Assembly of Iowa: That in the passing of the Honorable Linus B. Forsling, on May 2, 1970, the State has lost an honorable citizen and a faithful and useful servant, and the Senate by this resolution would express its appreciation of his service, and tender its sympathy to the members of his family.
Be It Further Resolved: That a copy of this resolution be spread upon the Journal of the Senate and that the Secretary of the Senate be directed to forward an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.
ALDEN J. ERSKINE, Chairman
JAMES SCHABEN
J. WESLEY GRAHAM
Committee
The resolution was unanimously adopted.