Horace Boies (December 7, 1827 – April 4, 1923) served as the 14th governor of Iowa from 1890 to 1894 as a member of the Democratic Party.
Early life
Horace was born in Aurora, New York to Eber Boies, a farmer and veteran of the War of 1812, and Esther (Henshaw) Boies. When he turned 16 he started working as a farm laborer in the Wisconsin Territory. enacting laws protecting and registering trademarks with the Iowa Secretary of State and enacted laws protecting labor reducing the daily working hours to 8 hours a day, laws were enacted to protect miners, and the creation of a tax commission to study and review the tax laws of Iowa and to make suggestions for improvements.
Boies was the only Democrat Iowa Governor to serve since 1855 and then until 1933.