IOWA OFFICIAL REGISTER 1933-1934 BIOGRAPHIES UNITED STATES SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES L. J. DICKINSON, ALGONA. - United States Senator, was born in Lucas county, Iowa, October 29, 1873; descendant of Nathaniel Dickinson, of Hadley, who settled in Massachusetts in 1630; graduate Cornell college, Iowa, B.S., 1898, State University of Iowa, L.L.B., 1899; admitted Iowa bar 1899; located in Algona, Iowa, 1899; married, August 21, 1901, to Miss Myrtle Call; two children, L. Call and Ruth A.; served as county attorney Kossuth county two terms; committeeman tenth Iowa district on republican state central committee 1914-1918; elected to the sixty-sixth, sixty-seventh, sixty-eighth, sixty-ninth, seventieth, and seventy-first congresses. Elected United States Senator in 1930, term expiring March 4, 1937. Delegate-at-large to the republican national convention in 1932. 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/)