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HUGH W. LUNDY
MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable Hugh W. Lundy, begs leave to submit the following memorial:
Hugh W. Lundy was born at Spring Hill, Warren County, Iowa, on August 28, 1893, the son of James W. and Anna Peverly Lundy.
He graduated from Indianola High School in 1911 and from Simpson College in Indianola in 1915. Mr. Lundy also attended the University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton School of Commerce.
In 1916 he married June Skinner of Genoa, New York. They were the parents of a daughter.
Mr. Lundy was the principal of the Winterset High School in 1917 to 1918 and was principal of the Albia High School from 1918 to 1925.
In 1924 he graduated from the College of Law at Drake University and was admitted to the Bar. He practiced law in Albia and, for twenty years, served as the Albia City Attorney.
In 1936 Mr. Lundy was a delegate to the Republican National Convention.
He was first elected to the Iowa Senate from Marion and Monroe Counties in 1936 and served from 1937 to 1944 during the Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth and Fiftieth General Assemblies. In 1944 he ran for Lieutenant Governor in the Republican primary. He later returned to public service in the Iowa House of Representatives in which he was a member from Monroe County in 1947 and 1948 during the Fifty-second General Assembly. In the Senate he was, at different times, chairman of the committee on Mines and Mining and the committee on Public Utilities. He was the ranking member of the committee on Judiciary. During his service in the Senate he successfully sponsored many items of legislation including several relating to taxation.
During his life, Mr. Lundy was a member of many fraternal and service organizations. For twelve years he was the secretary of the Iowa Coal Institute and also president of the Iowa Association of Commercial Organization Secretaries.
He lived to be eighty-three years of age and died on November 17, 1976, at Ottumwa, Iowa. He is survived by a sister, Helen Whitnah, of Wayzata, Minnesota; and a daughter, Lorraine Knight of Berwyn, Pennsylvania. His wife predeceased him in July of 1967.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Sixty-seventh General Assembly of Iowa: That in the passing of the Honorable Hugh W. Lundy, the state has lost an honored citizen and a faithful and useful public servant, and the Senate by this resolution would express its appreciation of his service to his community, state and nation and tenders its sympathy and kindest regards to the members of his family.
Be It Further Resolved: That a copy of this resolution be spread upon the Journal of the Senate, and that the Secretary of the Senate be directed to forward an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.
GENE W. GLENN, Chairperson
FORREST V. SCHWENGELS
BASS VAN GILST
Committee
The resolution was unanimously adopted.