Alva L. Hager
Alva Lysander Hager ( * October 29, 1850 in Jamestown, New York; † 29 January 1923 in Des Moines, Iowa ) was an American politician. Between 1893 and 1899 he represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Career
In 1859 Alva Hager came with his parents to Cotton Ville in Jackson County, Iowa. 1863 the family moved into the Jones County on. Hager attended public schools in Monticello and Anamosa. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Iowa in Iowa City and its made in 1875 admitted to the bar he began in Greenfield to work in his new profession.
Politically, Hager member of the Republican Party. In 1891 he was a member of the Senate of Iowa. A year later, he led the Republican Party at the state level. In 1892 he was in the ninth constituency of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he met on March 4, 1893 the successor to the Democrats Thomas Bowman. After two re- election he was able to complete in 1899 three contiguous legislatures in Congress until March 3. In this time of the Spanish-American War was from 1898. Those days came, among others, the Philippines under American administration. Even the former Kingdom of Hawaii was part of the United States.
1898 Hager missed his party's nomination for a second term. In the following years he worked again as a lawyer. In 1901 he moved his residence and his law firm to Des Moines. In this city he was 1911-1918 in the banking business operates; there he is on 29 January 1923 passed away.