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LESTER S. GILLETTE
MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Lester S. Gillette, begs leave to submit the following:
Lester S. Gillette was born in Dickinson County June 28, 1892, and passed away January 27, 1964.
In 1917 Lester S. Gillette and Cecelia E. Murray were married. To this union seven children were born; Jean, Mary, Riley, John, Charles, Rita and Frances.
He attended rural school, Milford High School, Iowa State College, and the University of Missouri. He had a Master’s degree. A member of the honorary fraternities Alpha Zeta, Delta Sigma Rho, Phi Kappa Phi and Sigma Xi. Member of the staff of Iowa State College experiment station 1914 to 1919. He was a farmer and was nationally known as a judge of dairy cattle.
He served on the Farm Debt Advisory Board, Dickinson County Farm Bureau, Milford township school board, C. D. Farm Service Company, Spencer Farm Loan Association and Iowa State Farm Bureau Executive committee. He served on the state advisory committee of the Farm Security Administration.
He was elected State Senator in 1936 from the Forty-seventh Senatorial District comprised of Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Kossuth, and Palo Alto Counties.
He was a Director of the Farm Credit Board of the eighth district. He was the democratic candidate for Governor in 1950. He served on the State Board of Regents July 1, 1943 to June 30, 1949 and February 13, 1957 to June 30, 1961.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Sixty-first General Assembly of Iowa: That in the passing of Lester S. Gillette, the state has lost a valuable, loyal and honored citizen, and by this resolution tenders its sincere sympathy to the members of the family.
Be It Further Resolved: That a copy of this resolution be spread on the Journal of the Senate and that the Secretary of the Senate be instructed to forward an enrolled copy to each member of his family.
MERLE W. HAGEDORN, Chairman,
H. KENNETH NURSE,
JOHN P. KIBBIE,
Committee.
The resolution was unanimously adopted.