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JOSEPH WAGNER
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable Joseph Wagner, begs leave to submit the following memorial:
Joseph Wagner was born in Germany, April 4, 1883, and passed away at Davenport, April 9, 1957.
On November 3, 1902, he married Elsie Trefts. To this union a son was born, Paul Wagner, who passed away in 1928. Mrs. Wagner preceded her husband in death in September, 1956.
He served as State Representative from 1925 to 1929, in the Forty-first, Forty-second and Forty-second Extra sessions of the General Assembly.
Prior to his service in the House of Representatives he served as Scott county deputy auditor from 1909 to 1917; from 1917 to 1924 he was Scott county auditor.
Mr. Wagner was a past president of the Iowa Association for Tax Justice and the Motor Club of Iowa.
He had been a director of the Iowa State Real Estate Board and the State Association of Insurance Agents. He was a member of the Lions Club, Kiwanis, Chamber of Commerce, and the Davenport Country Club.
In 1928-29 he served as an alderman of Davenport.
Mr. Wagner is survived by two brothers, Arthur and Paul, both of Davenport, Iowa.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Fifty-eighth General Assembly of Iowa: That in the passing of the Honorable Joseph Wagner the state has lost an honored citizen and the House tenders by this resolution, its sincere sympathy to the surviving brothers in their sorrow.
Be It Further Resolved: That a copy of this resolution be spread on the Journal of the House and that the Chief Clerk be directed to forward an enrolled copy to the brothers of the deceased.
KENNETH STRINGER,
RILEY DIETZ,
A. L. MENSING,
Committee.