William Scherle, 80; Former GOP House Member From Iowa
William J. Scherle, 80, an Iowa Republican who served in the House of Representatives from 1967 to 1975, died Aug. 27 of complications from prostate cancer at a nursing home in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Scherle, who represented a district in southwest Iowa, was a member of the House Appropriations Committee. He also sat on the House Committee on Internal Security, formerly known as the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
He once sponsored legislation to deny federal money to colleges for construction projects if the schools gave federal scholarship aid to protesters against the Vietnam War.
In 1974, he lost his reelection fight to Democrat Tom Harkin, who is now a U.S. senator.
Scherle was born in Little Falls, N.Y., and attended Southern Methodist University. He was a grain and livestock farmer and served in the Iowa House of Representatives before being elected to Congress.
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