Representative William A. Mooty View All Years

Compiled Historical Information
Date of Death: 1/12/1946
Birth Place: Ballymahon, Ireland
Birth Country: Europe
Party Affiliation: Republican
Assemblies Served:
House: 37 (1917) - 38 (1919)
45 (1933)
Home County: Grundy
Family Members Who Served in the Iowa Legislature: Son: William L. Mooty; GAs 54 - 57
William A. Mooty
Grundy County
Representative from Grundy county, was born in Longford county, Ireland, sixty-nine years ago. He came to New York City in the summer of 1878 and then came west and settled in Grundy county, Iowa. He attended the public schools in Grundy Center, Tilford Academy at Vinton, Iowa, and Western College, Toledo, Iowa. April 12, 1905, he married May E. Kaufman of Morrison, Iowa, and they have two children: William L. and Helen M., both of Grundy Center, Iowa. He has held the following offices: township clerk, county supervisor, president of Meat Producers Association of Grundy county, director of Grundy County Farmers Mutual Insurance Company, and was vice-president of the same company one year. He is also president of the Farmers Savings bank of Morrison, Iowa. Occupation: farmer and stockman. He served in the thirty-seventh and thirty-eighth general assemblies besides the present forty-fifth. A republican.