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HARRY C. WHITE
MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee, appointed to prepare suitable resolutions commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable Harry C. White, begs leave to submit the following:
Harry C. White, the son of John White and Mary Thompson, was born in Fairview, Ohio, October 6, 1869 and passed away at the age of 85, November 16, 1954.
His formal education was acquired at the Tilford Collegiate Academy in Vinton, Iowa, where he graduated in the year 1889. He also attended Cornell college in 1890.
He was united in marriage to Etta Bumgardner, January 31, 1894, at Vinton, Iowa. To this union were born two sons, Harold B. and Donald J., both living.
Mr. White was a rural school teacher in Benton County from 1886 to 1888. He was assistant postmaster at Creede, Colorado, from 1892 to 1894; he was also a farmer near Vinton, Iowa.
In the years 1911 and 1913 he served as a member of the House of Representatives in the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth General Assembly.
From 1913 to 1923 he served as a member of the State Senate in the Thirty-sixth, Thirty-seventh, Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, Fortieth Extra, Forty-first and Forty-fourth General Assemblies from Benton and Tama Counties.
During the years from 1933 to 1939 he was a member of the Iowa State Board of Control. He was a Presbyterian, Democrat, and past county chairman of the Central Committee.
His hobbies were raising good beef cattle, reading history, biographies and current events.
He passed away at the Vinton Hospital, after an illness of six months.
Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Fifty-sixth General Assembly: That in the passing of the Honorable Harry C. White, the state has lost a valuable and honorable citizen and one who contributed unselfish service to the State of Iowa.
Be It Further Resolved: That a copy of this resolution be spread on the Journal of the Senate, and that the Secretary of the Senate be directed to forward an enrolled copy to the members of the family of the deceased.
LAWRENCE PUTNEY,
W. C. MOLISON,
W. ELDON WALTER,
Committee.