Hiram Kinsman Evans

Hiram Kinsman Evans ( born March 17, 1863 Walnut Township, Wayne County, Iowa, † July 9, 1941 in Corydon, Iowa ) was an American politician. Between 1923 and 1925 he represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Hiram Evans attended the public schools of his native crept the high schools in Seymour and Allerton. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Iowa in Iowa City and its made ​​in 1886 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Holdrege (Nebraska ). In 1887 he returned to Iowa, where he first settled in Corydon in Seymour, and then from 1889. There he worked as a lawyer. From 1891 to 1895 Evans was district attorney in Wayne County.

Politically, Evans member of the Republican Party. In 1896 and 1897 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Iowa. Between 1897 and 1904 he was a member of the board of the University of Iowa. He was also from 1901 to 1903 mayor of Corydon. Between 1904 and 1923, Evans judge was in the third judicial district of Iowa.

Following the resignation of Congressman Horace Mann Towner, who had been appointed governor of Puerto Rico, Evans in 1923 as the candidate of his party in the eighth constituency of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he came into effect on June 4, 1923 at its new mandate. Since he did not run in the regular congressional elections of 1924, he could only finish the opened term of his predecessor until March 3, 1925.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Evans again worked as a lawyer in Corydon. Between 1927 and 1933 he was a member of the parole board of his home state. After that he held no other political offices more. Hiram Evans died on 9 July 1941 in his hometown of Corydon.

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