Joe Ihm

Joe Ihm was a member of the Missouri House of Representatives.[1]

Biography

Ihm was born to Charles Frank and Mary Helen (Weber) Ihm on September 3, 1889 in Sinsinawa, Wisconsin. He attended school in Lamar, Missouri and Salisbury, Missouri. He would become a farmer and later a service station operator. During World War II, he enlisted in the Reserve Military Forces. A Roman Catholic, Ihm was a member of the Knights of Columbus and the Society of the Holy Name.

On July 4, 1921, Ihm married Doris Browne. They would have a son, Eldon, before her death on July 23, 1949. On August 1, 1950, Ihm married Agnes Weller. They would also have a son, John, born after his father's death. Ihm died in a motor accident in Humansville, Missouri on March 13, 1951 and was buried in Lamar Heights, Missouri.

Political career

Ihm was a member of the House of Representatives in 1951, remaining a member until his death. Previously, he had been Treasurer of Barton County, Missouri from 1949 to 1950. He was a Republican.

gollark: Similarly to basically all distributed systems problems, if you have a trustworthy central authority running the entire economy you can eliminate a lot of waste.
gollark: So soap, socks, razors, whatever.
gollark: In things not seen by other people much!
gollark: Expensive watches are status symbols. People probably know at some level that they are getting a status symbol.
gollark: If they wanted it for *function* they would buy a cheap digital one as I did.

References
  1. Official Manual of the State of Missouri. 1951. pp. 159, 161.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.