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Harold L. Irwin
Clinton County
Senator from the twenty-second district, Clinton county, was born on a farm near Belle Plaine, Iowa, May 15, 1897. Educated in grade schools, graduated from high school in Belle Plaine, Iowa. Served in the field artillery, officers' training camp in Zachary, Kentucky, during the World war. B. A. degree, 1919; graduate of college of law with LL. B. degree, 1921, from State University of Iowa. Attended University of Michigan. Married to Helen Muriel Shoesmith of Guthrie Center, Iowa, 1921. Practiced in the city of Cedar Rapids for a period of about one year after graduation from the state university, and thereafter practiced law in Clinton county in the town of Grand Mound, and the city of DeWitt, Iowa. Member of the state bar association, P.A.D. law fraternity, Phi Kappa Sigma literary fraternity, and Masonic and K. P. orders. Church preference, Methodist. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Irwin, Belle Plaine, Iowa. One daughter, Marjorie Ellyn, born June 15, 1930. Elected senator in 1930 and re-elected in 1934. A democrat.
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