Senator Edward E. Nicholson View All Years

EDWARD E. NICHOLSON

MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable Edward E. Nicholson, begs leave to submit the following memorial:

Edward E. Nicholson was born in Elkhart, Illinois, January 15, 1904. He attended and was graduated from Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois, in 1929, after serving as a school principal at Beacon, Illinois, before graduating. He married Helen Kay at Decatur, Illinois, in 1931. They had one daughter and one son. A flood in 1939 forced him out of the bakery which he operated in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, whereupon he entered into partnership in the Warren Nicholson Company in Davenport, Iowa, a paper box manufacturing company.

Senator Nicholson was a prominent citizen and public servant in Davenport from 1938 until his retirement in 1968. He served on the Board and for three years as Board president of the YMCA and worked untiringly toward the creation of the present Family Y facility. He was elected to the Davenport School Board in 1958. He also served on the Board of Directors and as President of the Davenport Chamber of Commerce, as President of the Board of Directors of the Davenport Country Club, a Director of the Kiwanis Club, Chairman of the I Club, President of the Quad-City Navy League Council, and was active in the Community Chest. Other organizations counting him among their members were Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Davenport; Rock Island Arsenal Country Club; Davenport Outing Club; Iowa and Illinois Farm Bureaus and Kaaba Temple.

Edward E. Nicholson was elected to the Senate from Scott County and served during the Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth General Assemblies during which time he served on the Ways and Means, Constitutional Amendments and Reapportionment Committees and was Ranking Member of the Higher Education Committee. He also served on several study panels including taxation, collective bargaining for public employees, tax exemptions and educational problems.

He died July 23, 1974. Survivors include his widow, Helen, a daughter, Mrs. Charles E. Buchheit, Green Bay, Wisconsin, and a son, James E. Nicholson, Akron, Ohio, and four grandchildren.

Therefore, Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Sixty-sixth General Assembly of Iowa: That, in the passing of the Honorable Edward E. Nicholson, the state has lost an honored citizen and a faithful and useful public servant, 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 an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.

LOUIS P. CULVER, Chairman

ELIZABETH SHAW

WILLIAM E. GLUBA

WARREN E. CURTIS

Committee

The resolution was unanimously adopted.