Representative Leonard Simmer View All Years

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Compiled Historical Information
Date of Death: 12/1/1957
Birth Place: Agency, Iowa
Birth County: Wapello
Party Affiliation: Republican
Assemblies Served:
House: 42 (1927) - 44 (1931)
Home County: Wapello
Leonard Simmer
Wapello County
Representative from Wapello county, was born in Wapello county, 1890. Graduate of public schools, Agency, Iowa, of Iowa Wesleyan college in 1914, of law school of State University of Iowa in 1920. Engaged in the practice of law in Ottumwa, Iowa, since 1920. President, Wapello Oil Company, Ottumwa, Iowa. Member of the forty-second and forty-third general assemblies. Married in 1915 to Agnes Shank of Agency, Iowa. Has four children.