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ANDREW J. SHINN.
MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee named to draft suitable resolutions commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Andrew J. Shinn, beg leave to submit the following:
Andrew J. Shinn was born in Pottawattamie County, November 7, 1866. In February, 1880, he moved with his parents to a farm in Harrison County where he resided until his death. He received his education in the rural schools and was a farmer by occupation. In 1901 he was elected sheriff of Harrison County and in 1922 was elected to the Senate representing Harrison, Crawford and Monona counties. He died on the eighth day of April, 1928.
Senator Shinn has left a worthy record in this body. He was a man of unquestioned honesty and integrity and whatever he believed he espoused courageously and openly. He typified and was one of the pioneer blood that moulded the commonwealth of Iowa. He loved this State, believed in it and fought for its welfare as he saw such welfare. Men such as he have rendered and will render invaluable service to the State and are needed and wanted in the deliberative and legislative bodies that minister to its service. He has left to those who knew and loved him, a record of unselfish and honest service to his fellow citizens.
Therefore, Be It Resolved, That in the death of Senator Andrew J. Shinn the state and community where he lived have suffered the loss of an influential and honored citizen; a man of strong character and unselfish devotion to duty in public and private life; and the Senate of Iowa would tender by this Resolution its sympathy to the widow and children who survive.
Be It Further Resolved, That a copy of these Resolutions be spread upon the journal of the Senate as the expression of the life and worth of the deceased, and an engrossed copy thereof be transmitted to the widow.
O. P. BENNETT,
O. E. GUNDERSON,
WM. E. MCLELAND,
Committee.