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Iowa Official Register 1927-1928

W.J. BREAKENRIDGE
Senator from the forty-seventh district comprising Palo Alto, Kossuth, Emmet, Clay and Dickinson counties, was born in 1892 in Wright county, Iowa. Moved to Tama county two years later where he was raised and educated in the country schools of north Tama county at Dinsdale. Was graduated from the Traer high school and from the Iowa State college in 1915. Member of the Gamma Sigma Delta honorary agricultural fraternity. since 1915 has been active in operating from one to five farms and has given much time to farm organization activities. Served as county agent in Cherokee county in 1918 and as president of the Tama county farm bureau in 1919. Moved to Palo Alto county in 1920 to operate a seven hundred acre farm. Served as president of the Palo Alto county farm bureau from 1921 to 1925. Member of the school board and cooperative elevator board. Chairman of the republican county committee. Elected to the state senate in 1924. Married October 20, 1915, to S. Edith McMillan of Traer and has four children, three boys and one girl. Member of the Masonic lodge and the Congregational church.
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