Representative Lovodica R. Clements View All Years

HONORABLE L. R. CLEMENTS

MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable L. R . Clements of Marion county, Iowa, begs leave to submit the following report:

L. R. Clements was born November 6, 1851, in Morgan county, Ohio, the son of J. R. and Malinda Clements. He came to a farm near Monroe, in Jasper county, Iowa, at the age of four. He obtained his early education in schools in and around Newton, Iowa, and later he attended Grinnell College.

In October, 1876, he was united in marriage to Angeline R. Jacobs and to this union were born three daughters and one son. One daughter preceded him in death and Mrs. Clements died in 1907.

Mr. Clements ran a mercantile business in Newton, Iowa, from 1877 to 1879, and was connected with a furniture store in Des Moines for ten years, and thereafter he operated excelsior manufacturing plants in Cainsville, Missouri, and in Harvey, Iowa.

Mr. Clements was a member of the Democratic party and was deputy county clerk from 1917 to 1921, and from 1930 to 1935. He was elected as representative from Marion county to the Forty-seventh General Assembly of Iowa, at the age of 85, being the oldest member of that General Assembly.

Mr. Clements was a Presbyterian and a member of the I. 0. 0. F. At the time of his death he was the oldest living charter member of the Center Star Lodge in Des Moines.

His home for some years prior to his death was in the town of Harvey, Marion county, Iowa. There he was a respected citizen and a prominent community man.

Mr. Clements died December 16, 1939, at the age of eighty-eight years. He left surviving him three children: Josephine Bean, Pearl L. Patterson and Harold Clements, and a number of grandchildren.

Mr. Clements was kindly, good natured and liked by all who knew him. He was a studious reader. Despite his age, in his later life he retained a keen mind and active interest in public affairs, local, state and national.

Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Forty-ninth. General Assembly, That, in the passing of the Honorable L. R. Clements, the state has lost a valued and honored citizen and the House, by this resolution, tenders its sympathy to the members of the family of L. R. Clements.

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 members of the family of Mr. Clements.

CARROLL JOHNSON,

GEO. H. KEENEY,

A. H. AVERY,

Committee.

Unanimously adopted, April 3, 1941.