WEARIN, Otha Donner, a Representative from Iowa; born on a farm near Hastings, Mills County, Iowa, January 10, 1903; attended the country schools; was graduated from Tabor (Iowa) Academy in 1920 and from Grinnell (Iowa) College in 1924; served as treasurer of Wearin, Iowa, rural school district 1926-1928; engaged in agricultural pursuits and also as an author and editor; member of the State house of representatives 1928-1932; delegate to the Iowa State Democratic Judicial convention in 1930 and served as chairman; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1936 and 1940; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, and Seventy-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1939); was not a candidate for renomination in 1938 but was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for United States Senator; resumed agricultural pursuits; member of the Alien Enemy Hearing Board for the southern district of Iowa 1941-1944; member of the Democratic State Central Committee 1948-1952; member of Mills County Board of Education; unsuccessful for Democratic nomination for United States Senator in 1950 and for Governor of Iowa in 1952; staff advisor to Iowa Governor Herschel C. Loveless, January 1959-1961; member, Iowa State Commission on Aging, July 1965-1969; author; was a resident of Hastings, Iowa., until his death in Glenwood, Iowa, on April 3, 1990; interment in Malvern Cemetery.
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[ Top ]Wearin, Otha D. Along Our Country Road. Illustrated by Felix Summers. Des Moines: Wallace-Homestead Book Company, 1976.
------. Clarence Arthur Ellsworth: Artist of the Old West 1885-1964. Shenandoah, Iowa: World Publishing Company, 1967.
------. Country Roads to Washington. Des Moines: Wallace-Homestead Company, 1976.
------. Grass Grown Trails. Illustrated by Felix Summers. Des Moines: Wallace-Homestead Book Company, 1977.
------. An Iowa Farmer Abroad. Des Moines: Homestead Publishing Company, 1928.
------. I Remember Yesteryear. Illustrated by Felix Summers. Des Moines: Wallace-Homestead Book Company, 1974.
------. Political Americana. Shenandoah, Iowa: World Publishing Company, 1967.
------. Political Campaign Bottles in Color, With Prices. Leon, Iowa: Mid-America Book Company, 1969.
------. Rhymes of a Plain Countryman. Hastings, Iowa: Grasslands Press, 1980.
------. Statues That Pour: The Story of Character Bottles. Denver: Sage Books, 1965.
------. "The Tabor and Northern Railroad." Annals of Iowa 3 ser., 6 (Fall 1966): 427-30.
------. Uncle Henry. Hastings, Iowa: Grasslands Press, 1980.
