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ANDREW P. VARLEY

Andrew P. Varley was born December 2, 1934, in Stuart, son of Preston and Esther Varley. He attended country school and graduated from Menlo High School in 1952. He married Marilyn Saucke on August 23, 1959, in Farnhamville, Iowa and they had four sons: Warren, Tom, John and Curtis.

Andrew received his Bachelor of Science in agricultural economics from Iowa State University in 1957. He was a member of Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity. He received his master’s degree in economics from North Carolina State-Raleigh in 1961. In 1962 he and Marilyn returned to Pine View Angus Farm in Adair County and raised their family.

He was a farmer raising cross-bred Angus cattle and a planter of trees. He served on the Iowa Arboretum board and was a member of the American Conifer Society. After his time as a legislator, he was appointed to chair of the Commerce Commission (now Iowa Utilities Board), serving for eight years. He was the Senior VP of Energy Pricing and Regulatory Service for American Electric Power in Columbus, Ohio from 1988-2000.

Andrew was a Republican from Adair County. He was elected to the Iowa House of Representatives in the fall of 1966, serving for six terms. During his time he served on the following committees: Agriculture, Appropriations, Constitutional Amendments and Reapportionment, County and Township Affairs, Energy, Higher Education, Natural Resources, Rules, State Planning and Development, and Ways and Means. He served as Majority Leader from 1971-73, Speaker of the Iowa House from 1973-1975 and Assistant Minority Leader 1975-1979. He received the Outstanding Young Alumnus Award from Iowa State University in 1968.

Representative Varley passed away on November 19, 2018, at the age of 83.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE EIGHTY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF IOWA, That in the passing of the Honorable Andrew P. Varley, 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.

RAY SORENSEN

KENAN JUDGE

STAN GUSTAFSON

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