IOWA OFFICIAL REGISTER 1933-1934 BIOGRAPHIES UNITED STATES SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES EDWARD CLAYTON EICHER, WASHINGTON. - Representative in Congress for the first congressional district, was born December 16, 1878, on a farm near Noble, Washington county, Iowa, son of Benjamin and Lydia Sommer Eicher; graduated from the University of Chicago in June, 1904, receiving the degree of Ph.B.; admitted to the Iowa bar in 1906 and the Illinois bar in 1907; member of the Mennonite church of Noble, Iowa, and of Alpha Delta Phi college fraternity and Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity; married on August 19, 1908, to Hazel Mount; member of governor's commission to take Iowa soldiers' vote, 1918; member Washington county, Iowa State, and American Bar associations; delegate to democratic national convention. 1932; elected to the seventy-third congress at the November, 1932, election. A democrat. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County _http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/_ (http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/) IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: _http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/_ (http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/)