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JOSEPH E. DOZE
MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee, appointed to prepare suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable Joseph E. Doze of Humeston, Iowa, begs leave to submit the following:
Joseph E. Doze, educator, merchant, and legislator, was born on a farm in Decatur County, Iowa, November 18, 1854, and died on April 20, 1950, at Humeston, Iowa. He was the son of Francis K. and Cena Doze. He attended the public schools of the state, taught school for several years in the schools of Page and Ringgold Counties. Served as county superintendent of schools and two terms as county auditor in Ringgold County.
In 1890 he moved to Humeston where he operated a machine shop and foundry. In 1909 he founded the oldest distributing agency for the Ford automobile in the Des Moines territory. Has been a member of the town council and mayor of Humeston several terms.
Senator Doze was elected as State Representative for Wayne County in 1912 and served in the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth General Assemblies. He was elected State Senator for the fourth district in 1933, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the Honorable J. H. Judd. Served in the Forty-fifth, Forty-fifth Extra, and Forty-sixth General Assemblies.
He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth, one daughter, Mrs. F. L. Clark of Iowa City, and one son, Lynn, of Humeston, Iowa.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Fifty-fourth General Assembly: That in the passing of the Honorable Joseph E. Doze, the state has lost a valuable and honorable citizen and the Senate would tender by this resolution its sincere sympathy to the surviving members of his family, and
Be It Further Resolved: That a copy of this resolution be spread on
the Journal of the Senate, and that the Secretary of the Senate be directed to forward enrolled copies to the members of the family of the deceased.
RAY FLETCHER,
SHERMAN WEST,
X. T. PRENTIS,
Committee.
The resolution was unanimously adopted.