Senator John Andrew McIntosh View All Years

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John Andrew McIntosh

Decatur County

Senator from the fifth district, comprising Decatur, Ringgold and Union counties, was born in Mercer county, Mo., 1870, and moved with his parents to Iowa in 1882. He has been a resident of Decatur county practically all his life. He attended the rural schools, the Davis City high school, Central Normal university, from which he graduated with the degree of bachelor of science, and the state teachers' college. In 1899 he was elected county superintendent of schools of Decatur county and served four years. Before that time and some time after leaving the county superintendent's office he was a school teacher, both in the graded and rural schools. In 1904 he was married to Miss Delia Cherrington and they have two children, a boy and a girl. He is a member of the M. E. church. He belongs to the I.O.O.F., A.F. & A.M., K. of P., M.W.A. and Homestead lodges, as well as the O.E.S. He has been chairman of the republican county central committee, also secretary of the Leon Carnegie library board, and president of the Leon school board. A republican in politics.

Senate District 5