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Wiley Mayne

Official portrait of Wiley Mayne
Wiley Mayne
Former U.S. Representative
U.S. Representative IA
Republican

Republican
IA
House
A Representative from Iowa. Born in Sanborn, O'Brien County, Iowa, January 19, 1917. Attended the public schools of Sanborn, Iowa. S. B. , Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. , 1938. Attended Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass. , 1938-1939. J. D. , Iowa Law School, 1941. Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1941-1943. United States Naval Reserve, lieutenant (jg. ) with destroyer escort duty in the Mediterranean, Atlantic, and Pacific, World War II, 1943-1945. Admitted to the bar in 1941. Lawyer, private practice. President, Iowa State Bar Association, 1963-1964. Chair, Grievance Commission of Iowa Supreme Court, 1964-1966. Commissioner of Uniform State Laws, 1956-1960. Elected as a Republican to the Ninetieth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1967-January 3, 1975). Unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Ninety-fourth Congress in 1974. Delegate to Food and Agricultural Organization, Rome, 1973. Resumed the practice of law in Sioux City in 1975. Died on May 27, 2007, in Sioux City, Iowa. Interment at Roseland Cemetery, Sanborn, Iowa.