Mercer, David H
lawyer, congressman, was born July 9, 1857, in Benton county, Iowa. He studied law one year and then entered the senior class of the law department of Michigan state university, graduating in 1882, after which he returned to Brownville to practice his profession.
He served one term as city clerk and police judge; and was twice elected secretary of the republican state central committee. He moved to Omaha in 1885 and for several years was chairman of the republican city and county committees; and was elected secretary of the national republican congressional committee in 1896. He was elected to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.