Daniel Kerr (politician)
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Daniel Kerr (June 18, 1836 - October 8, 1916) was a U.S. Representative from Iowa.
Born near Dalry, Ayrshire, Scotland, Kerr emigrated to the United States with his parents, settling in Madison County, Illinois, in 1841. He attended the common schools. He was graduated from McKendree College in 1858. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1862 and commenced practice in Edwardsville, Illinois. He enlisted in the Union Army on August 12, 1862. He was promoted to Second Lieutenant, Company G, One Hundred and Seventeenth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, in 1863 and to First Lieutenant in 1864. He served as member of the House of Representatives of Illinois in 1868. He moved to Grundy Center, Iowa in 1870 and continued to practise law. He was a school director in 1875.
Kerr was elected mayor of Grundy Center in 1877. He served as member of the State house of representatives in 1883.
Kerr was elected as a Republican to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses, serving from March 4, 1887 to March 3, 1891. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1890.
He served as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1888 and 1896. He then resumed the practice of his profession. He was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election in 1902 to the Fifty-eighth Congress. He moved to Pasadena, California, in 1909 and lived there until 1916, when he returned to Grundy Center, Iowa, where he died October 8, 1916.He was interred in Rose Hill Cemetery.
