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IOWA.

Government. — Iowa was admitted into the Union on December 28, 1846. The General Assembly consists of a Senate of 50 and a House of Repre sentatives of 108 members, meeting every two years for an unlimited Ml Senators are elected for four years, half of them retiring every second year ; Representatives for two years.

The State is represented in Congress by 2 Senators and 1 1 RepresentatiYea.

Governor.— X. K. Kendall, 1921-23 (5,000 dollars).

Secretary of State.— V!. S. Allen.

Iowa is divided into 99 counties. The State capital is Des Moines.

Area and Population. —Area, 56,147 square miles (561 square milea water). Census population on January 1, 1920, 2,404,021. Indian Reserva- tions in 1919, 3,251 acres with a population of 859.

Census Years

White 1 N^gro

Total Per sq. mile

1880 1900 1910 1915

1,615,099 9,516 2,219,160 12,698 2.209,693 15,078 2,341,323 16,743

1,624,615 292 2,231,853 402 2,224,771 400 2,358,066 419

1 Including Indians and Asiatics. In 1910 the population by sex and birth was : —

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White

1,139,621 1,069,570

Negro

8,120 6,853

Asiatic

134 2

Indian

Total

Male Female.

296

175

1,148,171 1,076,600

Total

2,209,191

14,973

136

471

2,224,771

At the Census of 1915, there were 1.212,938 males and 1,145,078 females, and of the total population 264,078 were foreign-born.

The largest cities in the State, with their census population in 1920 are Des Moines (capital), 126,468; Dubuque, 39,141; Sioux City. 71.227 ; Davenport, 56,727 ; Council Bluffs, 36,162 ; Cedar Rapids, 45,566; Burlington, 24,057 : Clinton, 24,151 ; Otumwa, 23,003 ; Keokuk, 14,423 : Muscatine, 16,068; Fort Dodge, 19,333; Waterloo, 36,230; Marshalltown. 15.731: Mason City, 20,065. Of the total population in 1915, 1,277,950 were urban.

Religion, Instruction. — The more important bodies (with 1915 Census figures) are given as follows : Methodist Episcopal, 325,959 ; Roman Catholic, 206,701 ; Lutheran, 107,523 ; Disciples of Christ, 60,720 : Presby- terian, 47,059 ; Baptists, 39,321 ; Congregational, 35,538 ; United Brethren, 10,366 ; reorganized Latter Day Saints (Anti- Polygamy), 10,216.

School attendance is compulsory for 16 consecutive weeks annually