Irvin S. Pepper
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Irvin St. Clair Pepper (June 10, 1876 - December 22, 1913) was a U.S. Representative from Iowa.
Born in Davis County, Iowa, Pepper attended the public schools. He was graduated from Southern Iowa Normal School at Bloomfield in 1897. Principal of the Atalissa High School and of the Washington School at Muscatine. Secretary for Congressman Martin J. Wade of Iowa 1903-1905. He graduated from the law department of George Washington University, Washington, D.C., in 1905. He was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Muscatine, Iowa. He served as prosecuting attorney of Muscatine County 1906-1910.
Pepper was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses and served from March 4, 1911, until his death in Clinton County, Iowa, December 22, 1913. He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Sixty-third Congress). He was interred in Shaul Cemetery, near Ottumwa, Iowa.
