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Representative Walter H. Bonn View All Years

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Compiled Historical Information
Date of Death: 9/29/1952
Party Affiliation: Republican
Assemblies Served:
House: 50 (1943) - 51 (1945)
Home County: Iowa
Walter H. Bonn
Iowa County
Victor Iowa County Republican. Born at Davenport, Iowa, September 11, 1877. Attended public school in Des Moines, Keokuk, and Victor, Iowa. B.A. Central Wesleyan College. Law at University of Southern California and at Drake University. Taught in high schools of Momence, Ill., and Aberdeen, So. Dak. Interested in hardware, furniture, general merchandising, lumber, coal, farming, and banking business for a number of years. Formerly secretary of Victor National Farm Loan Association. Practiced law in Des Moines with C. A. Robbins as partner. Now practicing at Victor. Member of Iowa County and Iowa State Bar Associations. President Victor Independent School Board. Member Capital Lodge A.F. & A.M., Des Moines; 32 degree De Molay Consistory, Clinton, Iowa. Member Methodist church. Married to Elsie Boss of Indianola, Iowa. Serving first term.
House District 40
Committees
50th GA (1943)
Legislation Sponsored
50th GA (1943)