Edmund Perry Hanson (August 14, 1889 – January 11, 1953) was an American politician and a veteran of

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from the state of

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. Hanson was born in

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in 1889. He grew up on a farm near Dean, Iowa. He graduated from Moulton High School in 1907 and afterwards from

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. He served as a Republican for one term in the Iowa House of Representatives from January 14, 1935, to January 10, 1937. Hanson died in Centerville,

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in 1953. He was interred in Oakland Cemetery in Centerville.

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1889 births 1953 deaths Republican Party members of the Iowa House of Representatives Iowa State University alumni People from Appanoose County, Iowa People from Iroquois County, Illinois Military personnel from Iowa 20th-century members of the Iowa General Assembly {{Iowa-politician-stub