HOEVEN, Charles Bernard

HOEVEN, Charles Bernard
Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives
1895–1980

Biography

HOEVEN, Charles Bernard, a Representative from Iowa; born in Hospers, Sioux County, Iowa, March 30, 1895; attended the public schools and Alton (Iowa) High School; State University of Iowa at Iowa City, B.A., in 1920 and from its law department, LL.B., 1922; was admitted to the bar in 1922 and commenced practice in Alton, Iowa; during the First World War served as a sergeant, Company D, Three Hundred and Fiftieth Infantry, Eighty-eighth Division, and with the Intelligence Service, First Battalion, in England and France; county attorney of Sioux County, Iowa, 1925-1937; member of the State senate 1937-1941, serving as president pro tempore 1939-1941; temporary and permanent chairman of Iowa Republican State Judicial convention in 1942; delegate to each Iowa State Republican convention from 1925 to 1970 and chairman in 1940; delegate to Republican National Convention, 1964; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth and to the ten succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1965); chairman, Republican Conference (Eighty-ninth Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1964 to the Eighty-ninth Congress; vice president of savings bank; resided in Orange City, Iowa, where he died November 9, 1980; interment in Nassau Township Cemetery, Alton, Iowa.

View Record in the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress

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External Research Collections

Buena Vista College Library

Storm Lake, IA
Papers: In the Honor Iowans Convocation Records, 1966. ca. 4 inches. Correspondence as school official with persons honored.

Northwestern College
Ramaker Library

Orange City, IA
Papers: 6 feet. Photographs, sound recordings, and memorabilia. Restricted.

University of Iowa Libraries

Iowa City, IA
Papers: 1925-1965. 17 feet (ca. 33,000 items). Correspondence, speeches, news releases, voting records, photographs, and memorabilia. Unpublished index in library.
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