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Horace M. Towner

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Horace Mann Towner (18551937) was a Republican United States Representative from Iowa from 1911 until 1923, when President Warren G. Harding appointed him Governor of Puerto Rico, a post he held until 1929. Towner also served as a county superintendent of schools, a judge, and a lecturer on constitutional law in Iowa. During his congressional service, Towner was chairman for four years of the Committee on Insular Affairs of the House of Representatives.

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Preceded byWilliam Darius Jamieson U.S. Congressman from Iowa
8th District

1911-1923
Succeeded byHiram Kinsman Evans
Preceded byJuan Bernardo Huyke
(Acting)
Governor of Puerto Rico
1923-1929
Succeeded byJames R. Beverly
(Acting)
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