John H. Gear

John Henry Gear


United States Senator from Iowa
In office March 4, 1895 – July 14, 1900
Preceded by	James F. Wilson
Succeeded by	Jonathan P. Dolliver
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa's 1st district
In office March 4, 1887 – March 3, 1891
Preceded by	Benton J. Hall
Succeeded by	John J. Seerley
In office March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1895
Preceded by	John J. Seerley
Succeeded by	Samuel M. Clark
11th Governor of Iowa
In office January 17, 1878 – January 12, 1882
Lieutenant	Frank T. Campbell
Preceded by	Joshua G. Newbold
Succeeded by	Buren R. Sherman
Member of the Iowa House of Representatives
In office 1871–1877
Personal details
Born	(1825-04-07)April 7, 1825 Ithaca, New York
Died	July 14, 1900(1900-07-14) (aged 75) Washington, D.C.
Political party	Republican

John Henry Gear (April 7, 1825 – July 14, 1900) served as the 11th Governor of Iowa, a United States Representative and a member of the United States Senate.

Biography

Born in Ithaca, New York, he attended the common schools and moved to Galena, Illinois, in 1836, to Fort Snelling, Minnesota, in 1838, and to Burlington, Iowa, in 1843, where he engaged in mercantile pursuits. He was elected mayor of Burlington in 1863 and as a member of the Iowa House of Representatives from 1871 to 1877, serving as Speaker for two terms.

Gear was Governor of Iowa from 1878 to 1882. He was elected as a Republican to represent Iowa's 1st congressional district in the U.S. House for the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses, serving from March 4, 1887 to March 3, 1891. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1890, but was appointed by President Benjamin Harrison as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, serving from 1892 to 1893. He returned to the U.S. House for one final term, winning the 1892 1st district election, then serving in the Fifty-third Congress, from March 4, 1893 to March 3, 1895.

In 1894, Gear was elected by the Iowa General Assembly to the United States Senate. He was reelected in 1900. He served from March 4, 1895, until his death on July 14, 1900, before the start of his second term. He had been chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Pacific Railroads in the Fifty-fourth through Fifty-Sixth Congresses.

He died, aged 75, in Washington, D.C., and his interment was in Aspen Grove Cemetery in Burlington.

References

United States Congress. "John H. Gear (id: G000110)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
http://freepages.books.rootsweb.com/~cooverfamily/album_12.html

Political offices
Preceded by Joshua G. Newbold	Governor of Iowa 1878–1882	Succeeded by Buren R. Sherman
United States House of Representatives
Preceded by Benton J. Hall	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa's 1st congressional district March 4, 1887 – March 3, 1891	Succeeded by John J. Seerley
Preceded by John J. Seerley	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa's 1st congressional district March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1895	Succeeded by Samuel M. Clark
United States Senate
Preceded by James F. Wilson	U.S. Senator (Class 2) from Iowa 1895–1900 Served alongside: William B. Allison	Succeeded by Jonathan P. Dolliver

United States Senators from Iowa

Class 2	Jones Grimes Howell Wright Kirkwood McDill J. Wilson Gear Dolliver Young Kenyon Rawson Brookhart Steck Dickinson Herring G. Wilson Gillette Martin Miller Clark Jepsen Harkin Ernst

Class 3	Dodge Harlan Kirkwood Harlan Allison Cummins Stewart Brookhart Murphy Gillette Hickenlooper Hughes Culver Grassley

Governors of Iowa

Territorial (1838–46)	William B. Conway (acting) Robert Lucas John Chambers James Clarke

State (since 1846)	Briggs Hempstead Grimes Lowe Kirkwood Stone Merrill Carpenter Kirkwood Newbold Gear Sherman Larrabee Boies Jackson Drake Shaw Cummins Garst Carroll Clarke Harding Kendall Hammill Turner Herring Kraschel Wilson Hickenlooper Blue Beardsley Elthon Hoegh Loveless Erbe Hughes Fulton Ray Branstad Vilsack Culver Branstad

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa

1st	W. Thompson Miller Henn A. Hall S. Curtis J. F. Wilson McCrary Stone McCoid B. Hall Gear Seerley Gear S. Clark Hedge Kennedy Kopp Eicher Martin Schwengel Schmidhauser Schwengel Mezvinsky Leach Nussle Braley Blum

2nd	Leffler L. Clark J. P. Cook Thorington Davis Vandever Price Smyth W. Wolf Cotton Tufts Price Farwell Murphy Hayes G. Curtis Lane Rumple Wade Dawson Pepper Vollmer Hull Letts B. Jacobsen W. Jacobsen Talle L. Wolf Bromwell Culver Blouin Tauke Nussle Leach Loebsack

3rd	Allison Donnan Ainsworth Burdick Updegraff Henderson Birdsall Pickett Connolly Sweet Robinson Willford Gwynne Gross Grassley Evans Nagle Lightfoot Boswell Latham Young

4th	Grinnell Loughridge Walden Pratt Deering Weller Fuller Sweney Butler Updegraff Haugen Biermann Talle Le Compte Carter Kyl Bandstra Kyl N. Smith Ganske Latham King

5th	Kasson G. Dodge Palmer J. Wilson R. Clark W. G. Thompson J. Wilson Frederick Kerr J. Hamilton Cousins Good Cole Thurston Le Compte Cunningham N. Smith Scherle Harkin Lightfoot Grandy Latham King

6th	A. Hubbard Pomeroy Orr Loughridge Sampson Weaver Cutts J. C. Cook Cutts J. C. Cook Weaver Lacey White Lacey D. Hamilton Kendall Kirkpatrick Ramseyer Dowell Utterback Dowell Goodwin Cunningham Gilchrist J. I. Dolliver Coad Hoeven Greigg Mayne Bedell Grandy

7th	Kasson Cummings E. Gillette Kasson H. Smith Conger Hays Hull Prouty Dowell Wearin Jensen Hansen Scherle

8th	McDill Sapp Hepburn Anderson Flick Hepburn Jamieson Towner Evans Thurston Gilchrist Hoeven

9th	Orr Oliver Carpenter Pusey Lyman Reed Bowman Hager McPherson W. Smith Green Vincent Swanson G. Gillette Harrington Narey

10th	Holmes J. P. Dolliver Conner Woods Dickinson Gilchrist

11th	Struble Perkins Thomas E. Hubbard Scott Steele Scott Boies Campbell

AL	Hastings and Leffler

Terr	Chapman A. Dodge

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 38477291 LCCN: n88218775 US Congress: G000110

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