Lucas DeKoster
Lucas DeKoster | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Donald G. Beneke | |
| Succeeded by | district obsolete |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Lucas James DeKoster June 18, 1918 Hull, Iowa |
| Died | February 23, 2000 (aged 81) Hull, Iowa |
| Political party | Republican |
Lucas James DeKoster (June 18, 1918 – February 23, 2000) was an American politician who served in the Iowa Senate from 1965 to 1983.
He was born to parents John and Sarah Katherine DeKoster in
Cleveland–Marshall College of Law. Upon passing the Iowa bar exam in June 1952, DeKoster returned to Hull and practiced general and patent law.[1][2]
DeKoster won election to the
District 1 seat until stepping down in 1983.[1] In 1970, he was a Republican candidate for floor leader of the senate.[3] Ten years after stepping down from the state senate, DeKoster served on the Iowa Senate Ethics Committee.[2]
After his retirement from politics, DeKoster undertook an in-depth study of his family's genealogy and self-published a history/memoir entitled The Books of Our Years.[4]
DeKoster married Dorothea LaVonne Hymans in 1942, with whom he raised five children. He died in Hull on February 23, 2000, aged 81.
References
- ^ a b c "Lucas James DeKoster". Legis.iowa.gov. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
- ^ a b Dreeszen, Dave (February 9, 1992). "Probe calls DeKoster back to service". Sioux City Journal. Retrieved June 13, 2022.
- ^ "Legislative leaders dropping out". Oelwein Daily Register. November 2, 1970. Retrieved June 13, 2022.
- ^ a b "Sarah Poppen De Koster papers". University of Iowa Libraries. Retrieved April 21, 2024.
- ^ "DeKoster, Lucas James". University of Iowa Libraries. Retrieved April 21, 2024.
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