Representative Morgan James McEnaney View All Years

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Compiled Historical Information
Date of Death: 4/14/1964
Birth Place: Waucoma, Iowa
Birth County: Fayette
Party Affiliation: Democrat
Assemblies Served:
House: 47 (1937)
Home County: Cerro Gordo
Morgan James McEnaney
Cerro Gordo County

MORGAN J. MCENANEY

MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable Morgan J. McEnaney, begs leave to submit the following memorial:

Morgan J. McEnaney was born May 14, 1906, in Waucoma, Fayette County, Iowa, and passed away on April 14, 1964. He was the son of James E. and Alice R. McEnaney. Mr. McEnaney received A.B. and LL.B. degrees from the College of Saint Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1928. He was admitted to the Minnesota bar in 1928 and the Iowa bar in 1931. Mr. McEnaney began the practice of law in Minneapolis in 1928.

Successively, he became retail representative for International Harvester Company in Mason City in 1931, and was attorney with the State Legal Department of Iowa in Des Moines in 1934. He began the practice of law in Mason City on January 7, 1935.

On November 7, 1936, he married Viola G. Colloton.

He served one session in th Forty-seventh General Assembly.

Surviving him is his wife, Mrs. Morgan J. McEnaney; his son, Morgan James McEnaney, Jr., Des Moines, Iowa; his daughter, Mrs. Robert Laubenthal, Iowa City, Iowa.

Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Sixty-first General Assembly of Iowa: That in the passing of the Honorable Morgan J. McEnaney, the state has lost an honored 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.

R. J. CLAPSADDLE,

OLGA D. WOLCOTT,

FLOYD P. EDGINGTON,

Committee.