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Leo Hoegh
Leo Arthur Hoegh (/hɔɪɡ/); March 30, 1908 – July 15, 2000) was a decorated U.S. Army officer, lawyer, and politician who served as the 33rd governor of Iowa from 1955 to 1957.
His record of public service included important contributions to his home state and to his country. His career in elective office came to an early end, after his willingness to raise taxes to jump-start improvements to Iowa's roads and schools alienated his conservative Republican allies, and handed Democratic gubernatorial nominee Herschel C. Loveless an issue to exploit.
Hoegh was born on a farm in Audubon, Iowa in 1908, to William Hoegh, who was the president of the farmer Savings Bank of Elkhorn, Iowa, and Annie (Johnson) Hoegh. Nels Peder Hoegh, Hoegh's grandfather, left a farm in Denmark in 1866 to search for gold in Colorado. He invested much of his newfound fortune in farmland in Audubon County, Iowa, became a community leader, and upon his death left separate farms for each of his thirteen children.
When Hoegh was born his family only spoke Danish, it was not until Leo attended school that he began to speak English. While his father ran a bank in nearby Elk Horn, Iowa, Leo decided to become a lawyer.
He received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Iowa in 1929, where he distinguished himself as a captain of the water polo team and as the founding president of Gamma Nu chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha. He competed in swimming and was selected for membership the original Iowa Honor Society, forerunner to the national honor society, Omicron Delta Kappa.
As Leo graduated from the University of Iowa College of Law in 1932, his father sold all of his assets in an unsuccessful effort to prevent the Elk Horn bank from failing. Leo started private practice in Chariton, the county seat of Lucas County in south central Iowa.
He married Mary Louise Foster in 1936 and had two daughters.
In 1936, Hoegh was elected as a Republican to the first of his three terms in the Iowa House of Representatives, where he exhibited leadership and rose successively to become Republican Floor Leader and chairman of the Judiciary Committee. He also developed "a solid, orthodox reputation as an unrelenting penny pincher." He served from 1937 to 1942, resigning to join the war effort. While serving in the Iowa House, he also served as Chariton City Attorney from 1941 to 1942.
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Leo Hoegh
Leo Arthur Hoegh (/hɔɪɡ/); March 30, 1908 – July 15, 2000) was a decorated U.S. Army officer, lawyer, and politician who served as the 33rd governor of Iowa from 1955 to 1957.
His record of public service included important contributions to his home state and to his country. His career in elective office came to an early end, after his willingness to raise taxes to jump-start improvements to Iowa's roads and schools alienated his conservative Republican allies, and handed Democratic gubernatorial nominee Herschel C. Loveless an issue to exploit.
Hoegh was born on a farm in Audubon, Iowa in 1908, to William Hoegh, who was the president of the farmer Savings Bank of Elkhorn, Iowa, and Annie (Johnson) Hoegh. Nels Peder Hoegh, Hoegh's grandfather, left a farm in Denmark in 1866 to search for gold in Colorado. He invested much of his newfound fortune in farmland in Audubon County, Iowa, became a community leader, and upon his death left separate farms for each of his thirteen children.
When Hoegh was born his family only spoke Danish, it was not until Leo attended school that he began to speak English. While his father ran a bank in nearby Elk Horn, Iowa, Leo decided to become a lawyer.
He received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Iowa in 1929, where he distinguished himself as a captain of the water polo team and as the founding president of Gamma Nu chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha. He competed in swimming and was selected for membership the original Iowa Honor Society, forerunner to the national honor society, Omicron Delta Kappa.
As Leo graduated from the University of Iowa College of Law in 1932, his father sold all of his assets in an unsuccessful effort to prevent the Elk Horn bank from failing. Leo started private practice in Chariton, the county seat of Lucas County in south central Iowa.
He married Mary Louise Foster in 1936 and had two daughters.
In 1936, Hoegh was elected as a Republican to the first of his three terms in the Iowa House of Representatives, where he exhibited leadership and rose successively to become Republican Floor Leader and chairman of the Judiciary Committee. He also developed "a solid, orthodox reputation as an unrelenting penny pincher." He served from 1937 to 1942, resigning to join the war effort. While serving in the Iowa House, he also served as Chariton City Attorney from 1941 to 1942.
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