Representative Samuel R. Torgeson View All Years

SAMUEL R. TORGESON

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

Samuel R. Torgeson was born at Hanlontown, Iowa, on May 28, 1892, and passed away in Minneapolis on September 25, 1954. He received his early education in the rural schools and at Waldorf College. In 1917 he received the Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Olaf College.

Mr. Torgeson married Miss Emma Dahl of Worth County. A son, Dean Nathan, was born May 2, 1926.

After a two-year period of teaching, Mr. Torgeson began in 1919 a long career in banking, serving first as assistant cashier of a bank at Hanlontown, and later as cashier of the Farmers Trust and Savings Bank at Joice, Iowa. Since 1933, he served as cashier, later as executive vice president and director of the Farmers and Merchants State Bank in Lake Mills. He served as president of the State Bankers Association of Iowa in 1937 and 1938.

Mr. Torgeson was a member of the Iowa House of Representatives, serving in the Forty-second, Forty-second Extra, Forty-third and Forty­fourth sessions of the General Assembly. He was a member for eight years of the Republican State Central Committee.

During the years, he has been an active church man, having served as deacon and trustee in the various parishes to which he has belonged; for thirty-five years he continuously taught Sunday School classes. Mr. Torgeson was a director of the Board of Pensions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church.

Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Fifty­sixth. General Assembly of Iowa: That in the passing of the Honorable Samuel R. Torgeson, the people of Worth County and of the entire State of Iowa have sustained a great loss and the House expresses its appreciation of his character and public service and tenders, by this resolution, its sincere and heartfelt sympathy to his beloved family in their great sorrow and loss.

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.

W. R. CHRISTIANSEN,

HENRY C. NELSON,

CHARLES R. BURTCH,

Committee.