IOWA OFFICIAL REGISTER 1933-1934 BIOGRAPHIES UNITED STATES SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES CASSIUS C. DOWELL, DES MOINES. - Representative in Congress for the sixth congressional district, was born in Warren county, Iowa; graduated from Drake University in the liberal arts and law departments; lawyer by profession; represented Polk county in the senate of the state for a number of years; member of Loyal Order of Moose, Modern Woodmen of American, Maccabees, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Masons, Grotto, Consistory, Mystic Shrine, Delta Theta Phi, Phi Beta Kappa, and the University Church of Christ; married Miss Belle I. Riddle, of Des Moines, Iowa; elected as a representative to the sixty-fourth congress and to each succeeding congress, including the seventy-third. A republican. 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/)