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  Dolliver, James I.
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NameJames I. Dolliver
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Fort Dodge, Iowa , United States
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Born August 31, 1894
DiedDecember 10, 1978 (84 years)
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InfoDOLLIVER, James Isaac, (nephew of Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver), a Representative from Iowa; born in Park Ridge, Cook County, Ill., August 31, 1894; attended the public schools in Hot Springs, S.Dak.; was graduated from Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa, in 1915; taught school at Alta and Humboldt, Iowa, 1915-1917; during the First World War served in the United States Army as a private in the Third Service Company of the Signal Corps; was graduated from the University of Chicago Law School in 1921; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Chicago; moved to Fort Dodge, Webster County, Iowa, in 1922; prosecuting attorney of Webster County, 1924-1929; member of the school board of Fort Dodge Independent School District 1938-1945; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-ninth and to the five succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1945-January 3, 1957); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1956 to the Eighty-fifth Congress; served as regional legal counsel for International Cooperation Administration in the Middle East, 1957-1959; retired in 1959; resided in Spirit Lake, Iowa; died in Rolla, Mo., December 10, 1978; interment in Oakland Cemetery, Fort Dodge, Iowa.

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Son James Morgan Dolliver 1924-2004

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RACES
  11/06/1956 IA District 6 Lost 49.92% (-0.15%)
  11/02/1954 IA District 6 Won 60.34% (+20.68%)
  11/04/1952 IA District 6 Won 68.72% (+37.66%)
  11/07/1950 IA District 6 Won 64.60% (+29.60%)
  11/02/1948 IA District 6 Won 55.84% (+11.68%)
  11/05/1946 IA District 6 Won 63.44% (+26.88%)
  11/07/1944 IA District 6 Won 58.76% (+17.64%)
  06/05/1944 IA District 6 - R Primary Won 52.66% (+5.33%)
  06/01/1942 IA US Senate - R Primary Lost 12.70% (-38.99%)
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