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CLAUDE JOHNSON
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable Claude Johnson, begs leave to submit the following memorial:
Claude Johnson was born December 19, 1878, on a farm near Rippey, Iowa, and passed away June 30, 1957, at the age of 79 years.
He graduated from the Washington Township High School and taught several terms in the local schools.
He was united in marriage on November 16, 1902 to Nora Morain.
Mr. Johnson was one of the organizers of the consolidated school and served on the board of education during the consolidation and building program and continued to serve for a number of years. He was chairman of the first farm program in Greene County. He served many years as president of the Rippey Mutual Telephone Company.
Mr. Johnson was elected to the state legislature as Representative from Greene County and served during the Forty-seventh General Assembly in 1937.
He was a member of the Elmo Lodge No. 465 of the Masons of Rippey.
His interest in public affairs on a community, state, or national level was very keen up until his death.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Fifty-eighth General Assembly of Iowa: That in the passing of the Honorable Claude Johnson, the state has lost an honorable citizen and a faithful and useful public servant, and the House by this resolution would express its appreciation of his service, and tender its sympathy to the members of his family.
Be It Further Resolved: That a copy of this resolution be spread upon the Journal of the House, and that the Chief Clerk be directed to forward an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.
RAYMOND FISHER,
W. J. JOHNSON,
JOHN A. BAUMHOVER,
Committee.