IOWA OFFICIAL REGISTER 1933-1934 BIOGRAPHIES ELECTIVE STATE OFFICIALS M. P. CONWAY, ATLANTIC. - Railroad Commissioner, was born and has lived his entire life in Cass county, Iowa. Attended country school, city school and business college. Spent boyhood days on farm; one year railroading. Married an Atlantic girl in 1899. Moved to Anita and became a realtor. Has four children, three girls and a boy. Moved back to Atlantic in 1908 and has lived there since, being engaged in the real estate and insurance business except during the war, at which time he was chairman of the council of defense, liberty bonds and all war activities in Cass county, and was in the next group to go across when armistice was signed. Member of the democratic state central committee for sixteen years. Never ran for elective office except that of Railroad Commissioner, and was elected November 8, 1932. 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/)