Irvin S. Pepper

Irvin St. Clair Pepper ( born June 10, 1876 at 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 U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Irvin Pepper was born on a farm in Davis County. He attended the common schools and afterwards until 1897, the Southern Iowa Normal School in Bloomfield. After that he was himself a teacher. Between 1903 and 1905, Pepper worked as secretary of Congressman Martin Joseph Wade. After a while studying law at the George Washington University and its made ​​in 1905 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Muscatine. Between 1906 and 1910, officiated Pepper as district attorney in Muscatine County.

Politically Pepper was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1910 he was in the second electoral district of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the 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 22 December 1913. Since March 1913, he was Chairman of the Committee for the control of the postal ministry. He also sat on the Military Committee. During his time in the House of Representatives of the 16th and the 17th Amendment to the Constitution were adopted. It was about the introduction of the general income tax and the direct election of U.S. senators. Irvin Pepper died of typhus fever which he had contracted during a stay in Clinton County, where he was recovering from the consequences of a gall bladder infection. At the time of his death he was planning a run for the U.S. Senate.