Senator Irving D. Long View All Years

IRVING D. LONG

MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Irving D. Long, begs leave to submit the following memorial:

Irving D. Long was born in Delaware County, April 15, 1895, and died at the Delaware County Memorial Hospital in Manchester, Iowa, October 26, 1972, after suffering a stroke. Irving D. Long graduated from the Manchester High School, and also graduated in law from the University of South Dakota in 1917. He was admitted to practice law in Iowa in 1919, and had practiced law in Manchester, Iowa from 1921 until shortly before his death. He was Delaware County Attorney from 1923 until 1929.

Irving D. Long was married to Ella Cates in 1916. He was a member of the Christian Church, Masonic Lodge, Knights of Pythias, Lions, and served as secretary-treasurer of the Delaware County Bar Association. He as survived by his wife, Ella, two sisters, Mrs. Ruby Timmons and Gertrude Long, all of Manchester, Iowa.

A Republican, Mr. Long was elected to the Iowa Senate in 1941, and served four terms, 1941 through 1948, and from 1957 through 1964. He was President Pro Tempore of the Senate in 1961 and was a former chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee. During the Forty-ninth General Assembly in 1941, Senator Long was chairman of the Building and Loan Committee and ranking member of the Highways Committee. In the Fiftieth General Assembly, in 1943, he was chairman of the Board of Control Committee and ranking member on the Judiciary 2 Committee. During the Fifty-first General Assembly in 1945, Senator Long was chairman of the Appropriations Committee, and ranking member of the Private Corporations Committee. In 1947, the Fifty-second General Assembly, Senator Long was chairman of the Tax Revision Committee and ranking member on the Appropriations Committee. Senator Long returned to the Senate for the Fifty-seventh General Assembly in 1957. He was chairman of the Governmental Affairs Committee, and ranking member on the Judiciary 1 Committee. During the Fifth-eighth General Assembly, Senator Long served as chairman of the Governmental Affairs Committee and ranking member on the Ways and Means Committee. During the Fifty-ninth General Assembly, Senator Long served as chairman of the Rules Committee, and in 1963 during the Sixtieth General Assembly he served as chairman of the Insurance Committee and ranking member on the Judiciary 1 Committee.

Therefore, Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Sixty-fifth General Assembly of the State of Iowa: that, in the passing of Irving D. Long, the state has lost an honored citizen, and the Senate by this resolution would express its appreciation of his services to his community, state and nation and tender its sympathy and kindest regards to the members of his family.

Be It Further Resolved: That a copy of this resolution be spread upon the Journal of the Senate, and that the Secretary of the Senate be directed to forward and enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.

DALE L. TIEDEN, Chairman

W. R. RABEDEAUX

CHARLES P. MILLER

Committee

The resolution was unanimously adopted.