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FRANK B. HALLAGAN
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable Frank B. Hallagan, begs leave to submit the following memorial:
Frank B. Hallagan was born August 16, 1889, in Franklin County, Illinois. He passed away on July 2, 1957 at Des Moines, at the age of 67.
Mr. Hallagan was educated in the public schools and Valparaiso University, Valparaiso Indiana, and received his law degree from that institution in 1914. In 1907 he served his country in Company F, 23rd United States Infantry in the Philippine Islands, and the Mexican border.
On July 6, 1914, he was married to Pearl Kirkpatrick of Royalton, Illinois, and to them was born one child, a daughter.
He moved to Des Moines that same year and became general counsel for the National Life Insurance Association. During World War I Mr. Hallagan left Iowa to become an instructor at the officers’ training school at Camp Lee, Virginia. He returned to Iowa to practice law as general counsel for the Merchants Life Insurance Company in Des Moines.
In 1927-28, he served as Judge of the Des Moines Municipal Court. During World War II, he was chief legal officer of selective service in Iowa, retiring after the end of the war with the rank of brigadier general.
Mr. Hallagan represented Polk County in the House of Representatives during the Forty-eighth session of the General Assembly, and, during the period of Martial Law in Iowa, he served as special assistant attorney general and aid to civil authorities. He was Des Moines corporation counsel under Mayor Heck Ross.
Mr. Hallagan was a member of the College Avenue Christian Church, American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Grand Patron of the Order of the Eastern Star in 1928 and 1929, and head of the Des Moines Consistory in 1946. In recent years he was associated in the law firm of Hallagan, Irish and Burt.
Surviving Mr. Hallagan are his widow, Pearl; his daughter, Mrs. William Marks, Jr., of Des Moines; a brother, Harvey of Bloomington, Illinois; and a sister, Mrs. Charles Sursa, Carbondale, Illinois.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Fifty-eighth General Assembly of Iowa: That in the passing of the Honorable Frank B. Hallagan, the state has lost an honored citizen and a faithful, useful public servant.
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.
JOHN E. ANDREWS,
HOWARD C. REPPERT, JR.,
JOHN M. NAUGHTON,
Committee.