Irvin S. Pepper, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Irvin S. Pepper

American politician

Date of Birth: 10-Jun-1876

Place of Birth: Davis County, Iowa, United States

Date of Death: 22-Dec-1913

Profession: lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Irvin S. Pepper

  • Irvin St.
  • Clair Pepper (June 10, 1876 – December 22, 1913) was a Democratic U.S.
  • Representative from Iowa's 2nd congressional district. Pepper was born on a farm in Davis County, Iowa.
  • He attended public schools and graduated from Southern Iowa Normal School at Bloomfield in 1897.
  • He later served as principal of the Atalissa, Iowa High School and of the Washington School at Muscatine, Iowa. He relocated to Washington, D.C.
  • to serve as secretary for Democratic Congressman Martin J.
  • Wade of Iowa's 2nd congressional district from 1903 to 1905.
  • In 1905, he graduated from the George Washington University Law School, in Washington.
  • He was admitted to the bar the same year and returned to Muscatine to commence practice.
  • He served as prosecuting attorney of Muscatine County from 1906 to 1910. In 1910, Pepper ran as a Democrat for an open seat in the U.S.
  • House to represent Iowa's 2nd congressional district.
  • He won the Democratic nomination, then defeated Republican Charles Grilk in the general election.
  • He was then re-elected two years later with "little opposition."On December 22, 1913, part way through his second term, Pepper died following an operation for infection of the gall bladder.
  • He was recovering in Clinton County, Iowa, from typhoid fever, which had left him in a weakened state.In the Sixty-third Congresses, he served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department.
  • He also served as a member of the House Committee on Military Affairs.
  • At the time of his death, he served as secretary of the Democratic National Congressional Committee.
  • In all, he served from March 4, 1911 until his death. Pepper had planned to enter the contest in Iowa for the U.S.
  • Senate seat held by Albert B.
  • Cummins, in what would be Iowa's first direct election of a U.S.
  • Senator.He was interred in Shaul Cemetery, near Ottumwa, Iowa.

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