Education
He attended the common schools, and graduated from the University of Iowa at Iowa City in 1875.
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John Seerley
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Career
While serving as principal of Iowa City High School in 1876, he enrolled in the University of Iowa College of Law, graduating in 1877. He was admitted to the bar in 1877 and commenced practice in Burlington, Iowa. He served as City solicitor of Burlington from 1885 to 1890.
This would be the first of three consecutive races between the two.
Two years later, however, Seerley unseated Gear as part of the 1890 democratic landslide, becoming one of six Democratic United States. House members from Iowa in the Fifty-second Congress. In 1892, however, Gear again ran against Seerley.
Like all four Democratic freshmen from Iowa, Seerley lost his bid for re-election. He served in Congress from March 4, 1891 to March 3, 1893.
Seerley resumed the practice of law in Burlington, serving again as City solicitor from 1893 to 1895.
He was also interested in banking and agricultural pursuits. He remained active in Democratic Party activities, serving as a delegate to the 1920 Democratic National Convention. Seerley died in Burlington, on February 23, 1931.
He was interred in Aspin Grove Cemetery.
He was the grandfather of George Irving Bell.
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