Theodore Michael Gleason (April 4, 1904 – January 3, 1975) was an American politician. Theodore Gleason was born in

Blairsburg, Iowa Blairsburg is a city in Hamilton County, Iowa, Hamilton County, Iowa, United States. The population was 176 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all ...

, on April 4, 1904, to parents Michael J. and Alice Henning Gleason. After graduating from Blairsburg High School, Gleason attended the State College of Iowa. He married Dorothy Neel Gleason in 1934, and moved to Gilmore City. The couple raised six children, and Theodore variously worked as a rural schoolteacher, at a lumber yard, ran a movie theatre, and farmed until retirement in 1973. He died on January 3, 1975, at Pocahontas Community Hospital in

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, aged 70. Politically, Gleason was affiliated with the Democratic Party. He served on the Gilmore City city council prior to his election as a member of the

Iowa House of Representatives The Iowa House of Representatives is the lower house of the Iowa General Assembly, the upper house being the Iowa Senate. There are 100 seats in the Iowa House of Representatives, representing 100 single-member districts across the state, formed ...

. Gleason held the state house District 76 seat for one term, from January 11, 1965, to January 8, 1967.

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