Irvin S. Pepper

Irvin S. Pepper

Irvin St. Clair Pepper (born June 10, 1876 in Davis County , Iowa , † December 22, 1913 in Clinton County , Iowa) was an American politician . Between 1911 and 1913 he represented the state of Iowa in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Irvin Pepper was born on a farm in Davis County. He attended the public schools of his home country and then until 1897 the Southern Iowa Normal School in Bloomfield . After that he worked as a teacher himself. Between 1903 and 1905, Pepper served as secretary to Congressman Martin Joseph Wade . After studying law at the same time at George Washington University and being admitted to the bar in 1905, he began to practice his new profession in Muscatine . Between 1906 and 1910, Pepper served as a district attorney in Muscatine County .

Politically, Pepper was a member of the Democratic Party . In the 1910 congressional election he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of Iowa , where he succeeded Republican Albert F. Dawson on March 4, 1911 . After a re-election in 1912 he was able to exercise his mandate until his death on December 22, 1913. From March 1913 he was chairman of the Committee for Control of the Ministry of Post. He was also on the military committee. During his tenure in the House of Representatives, the 16th and 17th amendments were passed. It was about the introduction of general income tax and the direct election of US Senators. Irvin Pepper died of typhoid fever that he contracted while staying in Clinton County, where he was recovering from the effects of a gallbladder infection. At the time of his death, he was planning to run for the US Senate .

Web links

• Irvin S. Pepper in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Irvin S. Pepper in the database of Find a Grave (English)