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DEAN W. PEISEN, legislator and jurist, a resident of Eldora, Iowa, died near New Providence, Iowa, at the home of his son, George, November 26, 1946; born at Eldora, June 3, 1888; graduated from the Eldora high school in 1905, Cornell college in 1909 and Harvard university law school in 1912; engaged in the practice of law in Eldora since 1913; served in the general assembly in sessions of 1937 and 1939, in the latter leading the action reorganizing several of the state departments, the greatest change being the organization of a department of public safety; became judge of the district court of the Eleventh Iowa judicial district, comprising Boone, Franklin, Hamilton, Hardin, Story, Webster and Wright counties January 1, 1941, in which capacity he was serving at the time of his death, and had been hearing a lengthy case at Centerville, Iowa, outside his district, by special appointment of the state supreme court; recently appointed one of three Iowa judges to serve on a committee with three attorneys to study the state’s divorce laws and court proceedure; served as a trustee of Cornell college, and on the board of the Eldora Methodist church; survived by his wife Jessie Foote Peisen, and two children, Dana and George.