Arch W. McFarlane

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Arch W. McFarlane (born April 14, 1885 in Waterloo , Iowa , †  July 24, 1960 in Chicago , Illinois ) was an American politician . Between 1928 and 1933 he was lieutenant governor of the state of Iowa.

Career

Arch McFarlane attended public schools in his home country. In 1904 he graduated from Waterloo East High School . Between 1906 and 1914 he worked for various gasoline companies. Then he founded the Puritan Coal Company , which was based in Chicago. At the same time, he founded Arch McFarlane Fuel Company, Inc in his hometown of Waterloo , which he ran for the rest of his life, along with all his other activities. From 1914 he was politically active as a member of the Republican Party . Between 1915 and 1922 he sat in the House of Representatives from Iowa , whose president he was from 1919. In 1922 he ran unsuccessfully in his party's primary election for the US House of Representatives . In 1927 and 1928 he was a member of the State Senate .

After the death of Lieutenant Governor Clem F. Kimball , McFarlane was elected Lieutenant Governor of Iowa. He held this office between 1928 and 1933. He was Deputy Governor and Chairman of the State Senate. He served under Governors John Hammill and Daniel Webster Turner . Between 1932 and 1954 he was a member of the Iowa House of Representatives with two brief interruptions, and then again to the State Senate until 1958. In 1953 he became president of the Pioneer Lawmakers Association . In 1960, Arch McFarlane ran again for the Iowa Senate. In June he won his party's primary election. The actual choice was, as always, in the fall of this year. In July he attended the Republican National Convention in Chicago, where then Vice President Richard Nixon was nominated as the party's presidential candidate. During that convention, McFarland died suddenly of a heart attack. He was buried in his hometown of Waterloo.

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