IOWA OFFICIAL REGISTER 1933-1934 BIOGRAPHIES UNITED STATES SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES OTHA D. WEARIN, HASTINGS. - Representative in Congress for the seventh congressional district, was born on a farm near Hastings, January 19, 1903; attended country school, graduating from Tabor Academy in 1920, and received A. B. degree from Grinnell College in 1924. Prior to and since 1924, has been associated with his father in farm work; elected treasurer of Wearin rural school district in 1926; delegate to state democratic conventions of 1924, 1926, 1928, and 1930; assistant secretary of Iowa democratic convention, 1928; temporary chariman, keynoter, and permanent chairman of Iowa state democratic judicial convention, 1930; elected to Iowa state legislature in 1928 and re-elected in 1930; assistant floor leader of minority party in forty-forth general assembly of Iowa; appointed by Governor of Iowa as a delegate to the International Mid West Aeronautics convention in Minneapolis, 1930; while abroad in 1927 studied farm production and did research work in the International Institute of Agriculture in Rome; author of "An Iowa Farmer Abroad;" editor of weekly syndicate "An Iowa Farmer in Foreign Fields"; a co-editor of weekly syndicate, "New Roads in Old Mexico;" staff contributor to Wallace's Farmer; member of Iowa State Historical Society, Valley Forge Historical Society, Grinnell alumnae, and farm organizations; elected to the seventy-third congress November, 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/)