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THOMAS COOPER EVANS
Mr. Speaker: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character, and public service of the late Honorable Thomas Cooper Evans begs to submit the following Memorial:
Thomas Cooper Evans was born May 26, 1924 in Cedar Rapids, son of Thomas E. and Ora Evans. He earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Iowa State University and a master’s degree in civil engineering. In 1948 he married Jean Ruppelt.
Mr. Evans spent 22 years in Washington, including 14 years in the Army. He served as a staff member of the Atomic Energy Commission and was director of lunar missions at NASA in the early 1960’s.
He served Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District from 1980-1986. He didn’t run in 1986, but was hired by Governor Terry Branstad to study ways to improve Iowa’s grain quality and exports. The Des Moines Register named him Iowa Farm Leader of the Year in 1989. Mr. Evans served in the elder Bush administration through 1991.
Through 1996, Mr. Evans worked for Volunteers in Overseas Cooperative Assistance, working on free-enterprise agriculture policy initiatives in the former Soviet Republics and Eastern Bloc states.
He lived in Grundy Center with his wife, Jean and spent much of his time in recent years farming in Missouri.
A Republican, Mr. Evans was a member of the Sixty-sixth, Sixty-seventh, Sixty-seventh Extra and the first half of the Sixty-eighth General Assemblies.
Thomas Cooper Evans passed away December 22, 2005, at the age of 81.
Now Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Eighty-first General Assembly of Iowa, That in the passing of the Honorable Thomas Cooper Evans, 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.
LANCE HORBACH
MARK SMITH
POLLY GRANZOW
Committee