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PAUL LAMBERT MILLHONE

MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable Paul Lambert Millhone, begs leave to submit the following memorial:

Paul Lambert Millhone was born in rural Page County, Iowa, on December 8, 1892, the son of Isaac Newton and Flora Wymore Millhone.

In 1931 he was one of the few Republicans elected to the House of Representatives. He was a member of the House until 1934, at which time he was elected Senator from Page and Fremont Counties, and continued to serve in the Senate until 1938.

Paul Millhone was a long time Clarinda attorney. During his lifetime, he was a leader in his community and throughout the State. His death occurred on June 26, 1970.

For nearly a half century he practiced law in Page County. He initially started the practice of law with the firm of Wilson & Keenan in Shenandoah in 1922, and in 1925, when he was elected Page County Attorney, he moved to Clarinda, where he lived for the remainder of his life.

As a legislator and attorney, it was his conviction that the purpose of the law was to serve the people. He lived his life with the same conviction. He served his community and his state with a constant effort to maintain the welfare of the people in that community and state.

He was for many years a member of the School Board of the Clarinda Community School District. He also served for many years as a director of the Municipal Hospital in Clarinda.

Upon graduating from Simpson College, Mr. Millhone taught two years during World War I at Kemper Military School in Missouri. In 1922 he graduated from Western Reserve University Law School, Cleveland, Ohio, with a Juris Doctor Degree.

On June 26, 1926, he was married to Margaret Griffith of Des Moines, Iowa. Five children were born to this union. At the time of his death, Mr. Millhone was survived by his wife, Margaret; his brother, Frank, of Clarinda; three daughters, Martha Mary Smeltzer of Carmichael, California; Margie Ruth Williams of Cody, Wyoming; and Alice D. Fountain of Worthington, Ohio; two sons, John Paul of Des Moines, and James N. of Clarinda; and seven grandchildren, Paul, Kirk and Mark Millhone, Peter and David Williams, and Robert and Patricia Fountain.

Therefore, Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Sixty-fourth General Assembly of Iowa: That in the passing of the Honorable Paul Lambert Millhone, 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, and tender its sympathy 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.

EARL G. BASS, Chairman

JAMES W. GRIFFIN, SR.

JAMES E. BRILES

Committee

The resolution was unanimously adopted.