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JAMES A. NEWSOME
MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee, appointed to prepare suitable resolutions commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable James A. Newsome, begs leave to submit the following memorial:
James A. Newsome was born near Last Chance, Lucas County, Iowa, August 6, 1878, and died at Derby, Iowa, November 14, 1952, at the age of 74 years.
He received his formal education in the schools of Lucas County and at Iowa State College, and taught in the rural schools of Lucas and Clark Counties for ten years. For many years he was president of the school board and also served on the County Board of Education.
Ever since its origin he has been active in the Farm Bureau and served as a director and president. He was one of the organizers of the Derby District Agricultural Association and the Derby District Fair and was its first secretary. He was a director and past treasurer of the Lucas County Mutual Fire Insurance Company and also served on the Cemetery Board. He was a member of A.F. & A.M. and I.O.O.F.
In 1912 he was married to Mary E. Taylor of Lucas County, and to this union were born a son and a daughter.
Mr. Newsome served the State of Iowa as a representative in the Fiftieth General Assembly and the Fiftieth Extra and was sent to the Fifty-first and Fifty-second General Assemblies as senator from the Fourth District.
He is survived by his wife, his son, Wright Newsome, and daughter, now Mrs. Margaret Newsome Crawford. He is also survived by five grandchildren.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Fifty-fifth General Assembly of Iowa: That in the passing of the Honorable James A. Newsome, the people of Lucas County and of the entire State of Iowa have sustained a great loss and the Senate expresses its appreciation of his character and public service and tenders, by this resolution, its sincere and heartfelt sympathy to his beloved family in their great sorrow and loss.
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 directed to forward an enrolled copy to the members of the family of the deceased.
X. T. PRENTIS,
W. C. STUART,
G. D. BELLMAN,
Committee.
The resolution was unanimously adopted.