Senator Robert Keir View All Years

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Compiled Historical Information
Date of Death: 7/9/2011
Party Affiliation: Republican
Assemblies Served:
Senate: 49 (1941) - 52 (1947)
Home County: Clay
Robert Keir
Clay County
Spencer Republican 47th Senatorial District Clay, Dickinson, O'Brien Counties. Born in Sac county, Iowa, June 6, 1905. Graduated from Sac City high school and Iowa State college at Ames with degree in Animal Husbandry. Engaged in farming since 1933, owning and operating farm in Clay county. Married February, 1935, to Lana G. Peeso of Spencer. Has three children, Richard, age 10, and twin sons, Wendell and Kendall. Active in Farm Bureau organization, president of Clay County Farm Bureau for three years. First vice-president Clay County Fair. Member of Board of Trustees of Methodist church. First elected to Senate in 1940. Re-elected in 1944.