{{short description|American politician}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2020}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Theodore B. Perry | honorific_suffix = | image = Theodore Bolivar Perry.png | alt = | state_senate = Iowa | district = 15th | party = Democrat<ref name="il"/> | term_start = January 11, 1892 | term_end = January 12, 1896 | predecessor = Edward R. Cassatt | successor = Samuel Druet | prior_term = | birth_name = Theodore Bolivar Perry | birth_date = {{birth date|1833|04|01}} | birth_place = Cincinnati, Ohio, United States | death_date = {{Death date and age|1921|05|14|1833|04|01}} |death_place = Albia, Iowa }}
'''Theodore Bolivar Perry''' (April 1, 1833 – May 14, 1921) was an American lawyer and politician who served in the Iowa State Senate and as prosecuting attorney of Monroe County, Iowa.
Perry was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and, as an adolescent, moved with his family to Iowa.<ref name="il">{{cite web|title=Senator Theodore Bolivar Perry|url=https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislators/legislator?ga=24&personID=3894|website=The Iowa Legislature|publisher=State of Iowa|access-date=August 6, 2017}}</ref> In early adulthood, he was a schoolteacher and, in 1852 began reading law in Albia, Iowa.<ref name="il"/>
In 1854 Perry was admitted to the Iowa Bar and went into practice with John S. Townsend.<ref name="il"/> Perry became a successful attorney, was elected prosecuting attorney of Monroe County, Iowa, and also developed several commercial properties in Albia.<ref>{{cite news|title=Bought Lot for $300|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/39968431/des-moines-tribune/|access-date=February 19, 2018|work=Des Moines Tribune|page=29|date=July 4, 1962|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref name="nps">{{cite web|title=NPS Historic Places Nomination Form|url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/8b958deb-edf2-464e-a1cb-8fe0ef6f0f0f|website=nps.gov|publisher=National Park Service|access-date=August 6, 2017}}</ref> He was elected to the Iowa State Board of Education in 1858, serving for four years.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Theodore Bolivar Perry|journal=Annals of Iowa|date=Fall 1923|volume=14|issue=12|page=160|doi=10.17077/0003-4827.6725|doi-access=free}}</ref> In 1877 he built a large "show residence" in Albia – an elaborate, High Victorian home that has since been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.<ref name="nps"/> He was later elected to the Iowa Senate representing the 15th district (then composed of Marion County, Iowa and Monroe County, Iowa).<ref name="il"/>
Nathan E. Kendall read law under Perry and the two remained lifelong friends.<ref>{{cite news|title=T.B. Perry Passes Away|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/56988746/tb-perry-passes-away/ |access-date=February 19, 2018|work=Des Moines Register |location=Albia, Iowa |date=May 24, 1921|page=4|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> He married Minerva Allison in 1854 and, with her, had two children.<ref name="il"/> After his first wife's death, he remarried, to Amanda Craig. With her, he had three children.<ref name="il"/> Among his grandchildren was J. Harvey Littrell.
==See also== * T.B. Perry House
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