Junkin, Joseph M

JUNKIN

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Author: Benjamin F Gue

Joseph M Junkin was a native of Iowa, having been born at Fairfield in 1854. He
was educated in the schools of Fairfield and Red Oak, taking the law course at
the State University at Iowa City, graduating in 1879. Soon after he entered
into partnership with Horace E Deemer, who became a judge of the Supreme Court
of the State. In 1895 Mr. Junkin was nominated by the Republicans of the
district composed of the counties of Mills and Montgomery for State Senator. He
was elected and served in the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh General
Assemblies, attaining high rank as a legislator. At the close of his term he was
re elected serving in the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth General Assemblies,
taking an active part in the important work of the two sessions.

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History of Iowa: From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
Four Volumes by Benjamin F Gue
Volume IV
Iowa Biography

Copyright 1903

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