Representative Fred C. Lovrien View All Years

FRED C. LOVRIEN

MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable Fred C. Lovrien, begs leave to submit the following memorial:

Fred C. Lovrien was born July 26, 1875, on a farm in Humboldt County, Iowa. He was the son of Frank and Agnes Lovrien. He graduated from the State University of Iowa law school in 1897 and began the practice of law at Humboldt in June of that year. He later was a partner in the firm of Lovrien and Lovrien with his brother, Frank S. Lovrien. In 1901 he married Jennie Bell French. They had four daughters and one son.

In 1922 he was elected a Republican member of the State Legislature and served as Humboldt County Representative in the Fortieth, Fortieth Extra, Forty-first, Forty-second, Forty-second Extra and Forty-third sessions of the General Assembly. Mr. Lovrien co-authored the Lovrien-Brookhart law creating a state sinking fund for public deposits in closed banks, was floor leader, a member of the Joint Legislative Committee on tax revision and tenth district member of the Republican State Central Committee. He resigned August 27, 1929, to accept an appointment by Governor John Hammill to be judge of the Fourteenth Judicial District, and remained on the bench four years before returning to his law practice. He had made his home in Spirit Lake since his retirement in 1945. Mr. Lovrien was a member of the Baptist Church.

He passed away March 20, 1961, in Long Beach, Mississippi. Surviving him are his widow, Jennie; four daughters, Mrs. Carol Hope Matty, Tucson, Arizona; Mrs. Alice Mahon, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Mrs. Gladys Lasser, Moline, Illinois; Mrs. Frieda Howell, Jopez, Kentucky; and a son, Arthur Lovrien, Spirit Lake, Iowa.

Therefore, Be It Resolved by the Home of Representatives of the Sixtieth General Assembly of Iowa: That in the passing of the Honorable Fred C. Lovrien the state has lost an honored citizen and a faithful and useful public servant, and the House 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 House and that the Chief Clerk be directed to forward an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.

PERCIE VAN ALSTINE,

CASEY LOSS,

FRANCES HAKES,

Committee.