IOWA OFFICIAL REGISTER 1933-1934 BIOGRAPHIES UNITED STATES SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES FRED BIERMANN, DECORAH. - Representative in Congress for the fourth congressional district, was born March 20, 1884, at Rochester, Minn.' graduated from the Decorah high school in 1901; attended the University of Minnesota for three years; graduated from Columbia University with a bachelor of arts degree in 1905; attended Valder's Business College in Decorah in 1906 and Harvard Law School 1907-8; editor and publisher of the Decorah Journal, 1908-1931; married Miss Adel Rygg, January 25, 1930. During the World War was a volunteer in the United States army and served from May, 1917, until June, 1919; of this period ten months was spent overseas as first lieutenant in the Eighty-eighth division. Postmaster at Decorah, 1913-1923; park commissioner at Decorah since 1923; for about twenty years was chairman of the democratic central committee of Winneshiek county, and for eight years was a member of the democratic state central committee; elected to the seventy-third congress on 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/)