About Walter Osborn
Lived 1878 – 1949 (aged 70–71). Walter Osborn was an American politician.
Isaac Walter Osborn (30 March 1878 – 12 March 1949) was an American politician in Iowa.
Osborn was born on 30 March 1878 and raised on a farm near Davis City, Iowa. Shortly after completing his education in the Davis City schools, Osborn married Nelle Mae Jackson on 2 November 1898. Osborn worked as a rural schoolteacher and was a Boy Scouts of America leader for six years before pursuing his first public office.
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American politician
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Walter Osborn was born in 1878.
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