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Secretary of State
WAYNE M. ROPES
Onawa
Republican
Born at Onawa, Iowa, October 23, 1898, son of Jess L. and Mae Moorhead Ropes.
Attended the public schools there, the National Business College at Sioux City and the
Hohenshuh-Carpenter College of Embalming at Des Moines. Served as Monona County
Auditor from 1925 to 1933 and State Representative of such county in 48th G. A. Has
been chairman of the Monona County Republican Central Committee, commander of
the David McNeill Post, American Legion, and president of the Onawa Commercial
Club. Member of First Christian Church, Consistory, Forty and Eight, I.O.O.F., Moose
and F.O.E. During World War I, was in the Medical Corps of the U. S. Navy, serving
at naval bases in Ireland, Italy and France. Married Cora Grapes of Blencoe, Iowa,
and has two children; Majayne and John Milton; elected Secretary of State in 1942;
re-elected in 1944.