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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 from the 2nd district
In office January 8, 1872 – January 13, 1878
Preceded by	multi-member district
Succeeded by	multi-member district
Personal details
Born	(1825-04-07)April 7, 1825 Ithaca, New York, U.S.
Died	July 14, 1900(1900-07-14) (aged 75) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Resting place	Aspen Grove Cemetery Burlington, Iowa, U.S.
Political party	Republican
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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.

See also

• List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–1949)

References

1. "Representative John Henry Gear". Iowa General Assembly. Retrieved December 4, 2023.
2. "John H. Gear Dead". Sioux City Journal. July 15, 1900. p. 3. Retrieved June 7, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.

• United States Congress. "John H. Gear (id: G000110)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
• http://freepages.books.rootsweb.com/~cooverfamily/album_12.html
• http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433082380605;view=1up;seq=5 Memorial addresses on the life and character of John Henry Gear late a senator from Iowa delivered in the Senate and the House of Representatives frontispiece 1901

v t e 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

v t e 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 Finkenauer Hinson Miller-Meeks
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 Miller-Meeks Hinson
3rd	Allison Donnan Ainsworth Burdick Updegraff Henderson Birdsall Pickett Connolly Sweet Robinson Willford Gwynne Gross Grassley Evans Nagle Lightfoot Boswell Latham Young Axne Nunn
4th	Grinnell Loughridge Walden Pratt Deering Weller Fuller Sweney Butler Updegraff Haugen Biermann Talle LeCompte Carter Kyl Bandstra Kyl N. Smith Ganske Latham King Feenstra
5th	Kasson G. Dodge Palmer J. Wilson R. Clark W. G. Thompson J. Wilson Frederick Kerr J. Hamilton Cousins Good Cole Thurston LeCompte 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 Leffler
Terr	Chapman A. Dodge

v t e Speakers of the Iowa House of Representatives
Browne Bonham Temple Grant Noble McFarland Shelledy Edwards Clarke Butler Wright Russell Cotton Wilson Gear J. Y. Stone Alford Struble Wolf Head Redman Hamilton Mitchell H. Stone Byers Funk Bowen Eaton Clarke Kendall Feely Stillman Cunningham Atkinson Pitt McFarlane Anderson Edson Carter J. H. Johnson F. Johnson Miller Mitchell Foster Irwin Blue Burma Felton Kuester Lynes Hanson Mooty Lisle Nelson Naden Steffen Baringer Harbor Varley Cochran Millen Harbor Stromer Avenson Arnould Van Maanen Corbett Siegrist Rants Murphy Paulsen Upmeyer Grassley

• 1825 births
• 1900 deaths
• Republican Party governors of Iowa
• Speakers of the Iowa House of Representatives
• People from Galena, Illinois
• Politicians from Ithaca, New York
• Politicians from Washington, D.C.
• Mayors of places in Iowa
• Politicians from Burlington, Iowa
• United States Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury
• Republican Party United States senators from Iowa
• Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Iowa
• People from Fort Snelling, Minnesota
• 19th-century members of the United States House of Representatives
• 19th-century United States senators
• 19th-century members of the Iowa General Assembly