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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IowaIrvin St. Clair PEPPER
(1876-1913)
PEPPER, Irvin St. Clair, a
Representative from Iowa; born in Davis County, Iowa, June 10,
1876; attended the public schools; was graduated from Southern Iowa
Normal School at Bloomfield in 1897; principal of the Atalissa High
School and of the Washington School at Muscatine; secretary for
Congressman Martin J. Wade of Iowa 1903-1905; graduated from the
law department of George Washington University, Washington, D.C.,
in 1905; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced
practice in Muscatine, Iowa; served as prosecuting attorney of
Muscatine County 1906-1910; elected as a Democrat to the
Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses and served from March 4,
1911, until his death in Clinton County, Iowa, December 22, 1913;
chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department
(Sixty-third Congress); interment in Shaul Cemetery, near Ottumwa,
Wapello County, Iowa.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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