Jack Schroeder (August 21, 1925 – December 19, 2017)
was an American politician in the state of
Iowa.
Schroeder was born in
Davenport, Iowa
Davenport is a city in and the county seat of Scott County, Iowa, United States. Located along the Mississippi River on the eastern border of the state, it is the largest of the Quad Cities, a metropolitan area with a population of 384,324 and a ...
. He attended law school at
Drake University and was a lawyer. He was also a former chairman of the board of directors and chief executive officer of General Life of Iowa Investment Company and General Life of Iowa Insurance Company.
He is also a veteran of the
U.S. Navy Air Forces. Schroeder served in the
Iowa House
The Iowa House of Representatives is the lower house of the Iowa General Assembly, the upper house being the Iowa Senate. There are 100 seats in the Iowa House of Representatives, representing 100 single-member districts across the state, form ...
from 1951 to 1955 for district 43, and in the
State Senate from 1955 to 1967. In the Senate, he represented District 21 from 1955 to 1963, and District 17 from 1963 to 1967. In the 58th Iowa General Assembly, he was majority leader of the Senate.
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1925 births
2017 deaths
People from Davenport, Iowa
Businesspeople from Iowa
Iowa lawyers
Republican Party Iowa state senators
Republican Party members of the Iowa House of Representatives
20th-century American businesspeople
20th-century American lawyers
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