Representative Maurice E. Baringer View All Years

MAURICE BARINGER

Maurice “Mo” Baringer was born on December 4, 1921 in Arkansas City, Kansas. He graduated from the University of Kansas with a bachelor’s degree in business in 1943, and served three years in the Army Air Corps during the war. He attended Iowa State University where he earned both his bachelor’s and his master’s degrees in animal science. At Iowa State University he met and married his wife Dorothy Schlensig in 1948. They started a family and together raised four children.

He worked in the feed business as a feed nutritionist and executive for 12 years with Occo Feeds in Oelwein, Iowa. Maurice served as a chairman on the Scientific Advisory Committee of the National Feed Ingredients Association, vice-president of the Association, and member of the Nutrition Council and American Feed Manufacturers Association. He was a member of the Elks, Lions, Farm Bureau, American Legion and Farm House Fraternity.

Maurice was a Republican from Fayette County. He was elected to the Iowa House of Representatives in the fall 1961 serving four terms and as the Speaker of the House in the Sixty-second General Assembly. During his time in the House he was influential in the creation of the Iowa Community College System and Iowa Public Television. He received a citation from the Statehouse Press Corps as outstanding representative in 1967.

After serving in the Iowa House he was elected Iowa State Treasurer, which he held through 1982 and then headed the Iowa Public Employee Retirement system until 1991. He also had a leadership role in the restoration of Terrace Hill as the new governor’s mansion.

Maurice Baringer passed away on May 25, 2011 at the age of 90.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE EIGHTY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF IOWA, That in the passing of the Honorable Maurice Baringer, the State has lost an honored citizen and a faithful and useful public servant, and the House by this Resolution would express its appreciation of his service.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That a copy of this Resolution be spread upon the Journal of the House, and that the Chief Clerk be directed to forward an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.

LEE HEIN

ROGER THOMAS

Committee