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Representative Daniel Lothian View All Years

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Compiled Historical Information
Date of Death: 1/30/1892
Birth Place: Perthshire, Scotland
Party Affiliation: Republican
Assemblies Served:
House: 6 (1856)
Home County: Linn
Daniel Lothian
Linn County
Born in Perthshire, Scotland, February 2, 1815. With his widowed mother he came to Canada in 1823, and from there to the United States settling in Vermont, where he was married to Miss Harriet Senbury in Lamoille county in 1837. From New York city where he was settled after marriage he moved to Iowa reaching Cedar Rapids in 1852. In 1856, he was elected to the Sixth Iowa General Assembly representing Linn county and served on term. He was elected county judge in 1857, holding the office until 1864, in the meantime selecting Marion as his home where as an abstractor of titles be built up a large business.
Sources:
House District 32
Committees
6th GA (1856)
Standing Committees
Legislation Sponsored
6th GA (1856)