Representative Clyde B. Charlton View All Years

CLYDE B. CHARLTON

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

Clyde B. Charlton was born at Rolfe, Iowa, on January 10, 1899. He attended public schools in that town, graduating from the Rolfe High School in 1916. After serving in the United States Navy in World War I, he entered the University of Iowa from which he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1921 and the degrees of Bachelor of Laws and Juris Doctor in 1923.

After his graduation from law school, Mr. Charlton was admitted to the bar in Iowa in June of 1923 and at once commenced the practice of law in Des Moines with the firm of Stipp, Perry, Bannister and Starzinger. In 1926 he formed a partnership with Louis A. Parker.

Mr. Charlton married Grace Orcutt of Monroe, Iowa, on June 12, 1926. To this union were born two children, Anne Charlton and Clyde Henry Charlton.

In 1929 Mr. Charlton and Mr. Parker, with Joseph I. Brody and the late Judge George E. Brammer formed the law firm of Brammer, Brody, Charlton & Parker, which emained in existence until 1948 when its name was changed to Brammer, Brody, Charlton, Parker and Roberts. In 1950 this firm was succeeded by the firm of Brody, Charlton, Parker & Roberts, of which Mr. Charlton was a member at the time of his death.

In addition to practicing law, Mr. Charlton was financially interested in a number of local business concerns and actively participated, as an executive, in the management of their affairs. He was general counsel and director of Wood Brothers, Inc., from 1935 to 1947 and was president and director of the Orcutt Hybrid Corn Company from 1940 to 1946. He became a vice president and director of the Iowa Paint Manufacturing Company in 1933 and of Iowa Guarantee, Inc., in 1938. He continued to hold these offices until the date of his death.

Throughout his life, Mr. Charlton was active in the Republican Party and a strong believer in its principles. He was elected on the Republican ticket as State Representative from Polk county in the Forty-second Iowa General Assembly. He was a delegate to numerous county and state conventions and in 1932 was a delegate to the party’s national convention in Chicago.

Mr. Charlton’s sudden and untimely death occurred at Des Moines, Iowa, on October 29, 1951. He left to survive him his wife and two children.

Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Fifty-fifth General Assembly of Iowa, That in the passing of the Honorable Clyde B. Charlton, the state has lost an honored citizen and a faithful, 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 the Chief Clerk be directed to forward an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.

EARL C. RYAN,

PAUL PARKER,

J. O. WATSON, JR.,

Committee.