Representative Walter Sherman Pritchard View All Years

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Compiled Historical Information

Date of Death: 11/30/1946

Birth Place: Belmond, Iowa

Birth County: Wright

Party Affiliation: Republican

Assemblies Served:
House: 49 (1941) - 51 (1945)

Home County: Hancock

Family Members Who Served in the Iowa Legislature: Father: John S. Pritchard; GAs 29 - 31; Uncle: Charles D. Pritchard; GA 10

Walter Sherman Pritchard

Hancock County

WALTER SHERMAN PRITCHARD, legislator, banker and farmer, died at Garner, Iowa, November 30, 1946; born at Belmond, Wright county, Iowa, September 28, 1871, son of John Sherman and Florine Bloom Pritchard, the former a member of the Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth and Thirty first General Assemblies; educated in the Belmond schools, and the Northern Iowa Business college at Garner; married in 1896 to Jennie Finch and they have five sons and three daughters; served as mayor of Garner two years and a member of the council six years; engaged in banking first as cashier of the Belmond State Bank from 1890 to 1900; at different periods has devoted his energies to livestock raising, farming and distribution of automobiles in partnership with three of his sons; was a member of the Iowa General Assembly three terms, but not a candidate this year for re-election; a director and former member of the legislative committee of the Iowa Automobile Dealers Association; a member of the Masonic order, a past president of the Lions club and a Republican; active in Boy Scout work and the Farm Bureau and political circles in county and district.

House District 86