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Representative James E. Craven View All Years

Compiled Historical Information
Date of Death: 5/15/1945
Birth Place: Kellogg, Iowa
Birth County: Jasper
Party Affiliation: Democrat
Assemblies Served:
House: 36 (1915)
44 (1931) - 47 (1937)
Home County: Jasper
James E. Craven
Jasper County

JAMES E. CRAVEN, farmer and legislator, died at Newton, Jasper county, Iowa, May 15, 1945; born on a farm near Kellogg, September 6, 1866; his parents coming from New York to Iowa a few years earlier; after attending rural schools he took a three-year course in Hazel Dell academy at Newton, Iowa; married to Julia Smith of Poweshiek county, Iowa, December 14, 1892; engaged in farming and stock raising; had a long service in the Iowa House of Representatives from Jasper county in the Thirty-sixth, Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh General Assemblies; has engaged in insurance underwriting and active in Democratic party affairs.

House District 38
Committees
46th GA (1935)
Legislation Sponsored
46th GA (1935)