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Harold L. Irwin
Clinton County
Senator from Clinton county, residence De Witt, was born on a farm near Belle Plaine, Iowa, May 15th, 1897. Educated in grade schools, graduated from high school in Belle Plaine, Iowa. Served in the field artillery, officers training camp in Zachary, Ky., during the World war in 1918. B.A. degree 1919; graduate of college of law with LL.B. degree, 1921, from State University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. Attended University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. Married to Helen Muriel Shoesmith of Guthrie Center, Iowa, 1921. Practiced law in the city of Cedar Rapids for a period of about one year upon graduation from the state university, and thereafter practiced law in Clinton county in the town of Grand Mound, and the city of De Witt, Iowa. Member of the state bar association, P.A.D. law fraternity, Phi Kappa Sigma literary fraternity, and Masonic and K.P. orders. Church preference Methodist. Parents Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Irwin, Belle Plaine, Iowa. One daughter, Marjorie Ellyn, born June 15th, 1930.