Jack E. McCoy (May 28, 1929 – December 29, 2014) was a politician and labor activist.
Born in
Ottumwa, Iowa, he worked at the Ottumwa meatpacking plant and served as an officer in the local United Packing House Workers Local 1. He served in the
Iowa House of Representatives
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from 1955 until 1959, after having been elected at the age of 25 and as the first Democrat to ever have been elected to the Iowa House from Wapello County. At the time, he was the youngest person ever to be elected to the Iowa House from any district.
He then served as vice president of the Iowa Federation of Labor. In 1962, he was named to the
AFL-CIO national staff and appointed Regional Director of the Committee on Political Education, a position he held for the next 25 years. He retired from the AFL-CIO in 1987.
McCoy resided in
Council Bluffs, Iowa from 1974 to 2014. McCoy was involved in the
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, and was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion. He died in
Miami, Florida
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Legislative - Ottumwa Evening Post - April 08, 2015
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1929 births
2014 deaths
People from Council Bluffs, Iowa
People from Ottumwa, Iowa
Democratic Party members of the Iowa House of Representatives
American trade union leaders
AFL–CIO people
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