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PAUL HARVEY CUNNINGHAM
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable Paul Harvey Cunningham, begs leave to submit the following memorial:
Paul Harvey Cunningham was born June 15, 1890, on a farm in Indiana county, Pennsylvania, the son of Robert Harvey and Sarah Jane (McQuaide) Cunningham.
He was a graduate of State Teachers College at Indiana, Pennsylvania, and received his law degree from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1915. In December, 1918, he married Harriett French Plummer. To them were born three children. The first Mrs. Cunningham died in 1922; in 1926 he married Gail Fry, who survives him.
In 1919 Mr. Cunningham began practicing law in Des Moines. He was elected to represent Polk County in the Forty-fifth, Forty-fifth Extra and Forty-sixth sessions of the General Assembly, serving from 1933 to 1936.
He later represented the Fifth Iowa Congressional District in the United States Congress in its Seventy-seventh, Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, Eightieth, Eighty-first, Eighty-second, Eighty-third and Eighty-fourth sessions; he was co-author of the G. I. Bill and sponsor of the automatic guarantee provision in its loan section.
Mr. Cunningham passed away on July 16, 1961, at Gull Lake near Brainerd, Minnesota. Surviving him are his widow, Gail; a son, Paul, Jr., of Des Moines; and a daughter, Harriet Sarah Cunningham of McCook, Nebraska.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Sixtieth General Assembly of Iowa: That in the passing of the Honorable Paul Harvey Cunningham the state has lost an honored citizen and a faithful and useful public servant, and the House 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 House and that the Chief Clerk be directed to forward an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.
WILLIAM F. DENMAN,
HOWARD C. REPPERT,
RAYMOND EVELAND,
Committee.