Fred Schwengel 86 Iowa legislators who promote Capitol
Fred Schwengel, eight Republican members of Congress from Iowa and the founder of the United States Capitol Historical Society, died Thursday. He was 86
He died in heart failure at a hospital in Arlington, Arlington, Va., where he lived.
Mr. Schwengel was first elected to the Iowa house in 1954 for the first arrondissement, Davenport, Iowa City, and arable land in the south-east. It was swept in 1964 in the landslide Lyndon B. Johnson, but dismissed two years later and served until his second defeat in 1972.
He served in the House Public Works Committee, support the legislation, the system of Interstate Highways. He supported the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Home Rule for the District of Columbia. In 1971, he led objections against a proposal to amend the Constitution to allow organized prayer in public schools.
“I think we would lower the quality of prayer, when we write the state,” he said, the day the measure was defeated. Interest in Capitol
His passion was, however, history, including the story of Abraham Lincoln and USA Capitol. He wrote that the legislation has led to the poet Carl Sandburg address to Congress in 1959 on the 150 anniversary of the birth of Lincoln, and he served as vice-chairman of the Civil War Centennial Commission.
A native of Franklin County, Iowa, Frederick Delbert Schwengel graduate of the North East Missouri Teachers College in 1930 and attended graduate school at the University of Iowa.
Before joining Congress, he worked as a professor of history and on the other hand, a system of insurance executive. From 1945 to 1955, he served in the Iowa House of Representatives.
Encouraged by Speaker Sam Rayburn, Mr Schwengel Capitol Historical Society founded in 1962. He served as chairman for the next 30 years and will continue to preside. Through its fundraising, the company provided on the Capitol, more than $ 1 million worth of art, artifacts and historical documents.
Mr. Schwengel, as a member of Congress has announced that more than 800 push-ups a day, welcomes tours by the Capitol long after his retirement.
Survivors his wife of 61 years, Ethel, a son, Franklin Dean Schwengel Santa Monica, California, a daughter, Dorothy Jean Cosby Alexandria, Va., brother, sister, five grandchildren and great-grandchildren one.
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