Senator Frank Iradelle Coykendall View All Years

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Compiled Historical Information
Date of Death: 5/26/1941
Birth Place: Fairfield, Iowa
Birth County: Jefferson
Party Affiliation:
Republican
Democrat
Assemblies Served:
Senate: 44 (1931) - 45 (1933)
Home County: Page
Frank Iradelle Coykendall
Page County

FRANK COYKENDALL, farmer and legislator, died May 26, 1941. Born in Jefferson County, Iowa, March 13, 1878, and educated in the rural schools, he became a prominent breeder of cattle. Active in farm work, he served as speaker on farm subjects over radio station KMA, Shenandoah. In 1930 he was elected to the state senate from Page and Fremont counties as a Republican, though he ran on the Democrat ticket in the fall election against the man who defeated him in the Republican primaries.