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HOMER H. HUSH
MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable Homer H. Hush, begs leave to submit the following memorial:
Homer H. Hush was born in Montgomery County, Iowa, on July 14, 1889. His parents were early settlers of the county. He was educated in the schools of Montgomery County and attended Simpson College.
Mr. Hush was elected to the Iowa House as the Republican Representative from Montgomery County in 1928 and 1930 and served in the Forty-third and Forty-fourth General Assemblies; and to the Iowa Senate in 1932 where he was the Senator from Mills and Montgomery Counties during the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth General Assemblies. In 1936, Mr. Hush changed party affiliation and as a Democrat, headed the Iowa Farmers Committee for the re-election of President Roosevelt. He served as Assistant Secretary of Agriculture under Governor Nelson Kraschel.
He was also associate editor of Wallace’s Farmer from 1942 until his retirement in 1956.
Mr. Hush died October 22, 1976, in Rochester, Minnesota, and is survived by three sons; Clarence of Emporia, Kansas, Howard of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, and Merle of Minneapolis, Minnesota; five grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Sixty-seventh General Assembly of Iowa: That in the passing of the Honorable Homer H. Hush, the state has lost an honored citizen and a faithful and useful public servant, and the Senate by this resolution would express its appreciation of his service to his community, state and nation and tender its sympathy and kindest regards to the members of his family.
Be It Further Resolved: That a copy of this resolution be spread upon the Journal of the Senate, and that the Secretary of the Senate be directed to forward an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.
CALVIN O. HULTMAN, Chairperson
JAMES E. BRILES
TOM SLATER
Committee
The resolution was unanimously adopted.