Horace Boies

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Horace Boies was born on December 7, 1827 in Aurora, New York. He was a governor of Iowa, and was the only Democrat to serve in that position from 1845-1933. In 1889 he was elected governor by opposing the dry Republican demand for prohibition . Reelected in 1891, he was defeated, when hard times came in 1893, by Frank D. Jackson, a Republican.

In 1892, Boies ran a distant third in the presidential nominating contest at a Democratic National Convention handily dominated by former (and future) president Grover Cleveland.

He died on April 4, 1923, in Long Beach, California.

He is buried at the Elmwood Cemetery in Waterloo, Iowa.

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