Eugene J. Hainer, Esq. ~ Julius C. Hainer, Esq.
53rd & 54th Congresses
March 4, 1893 to March 3, 1897
Mr. Hainer attended the public schools of Decatur County, Iowa Agricultural College and Simpson Centenary College in Indianiola, Iowa, from where he graduated from the law department in 1876. He was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Aurora, Nebraska in 1877.
He became interested in banking and a group of creameries in southern Iowa.
Mr. Hainer was elected as a Republican to the 53rd and 54th Congresses of the United States ~ March 4, 1893 to March 3, 1897.
He then returned to his law practice in Aurora, Nebraska. In 1904, he moved to Lincoln. He retired in July 1928 and moved to Omaha, where he resided until his death on March 17, 1929.
Mr. Hainer married Julia Blodgett in 1876. The two of them met while attending Iowa Agricultural College. They sired two daughters, Julia and Laura.
Congressman Hainer's brother, Bayard T. Hainer was appointed to the U. S. Supreme Court as an Associate Justice of Oklahoma Territory in 1898.
Congressman Hainer's brother, Dr. Julius C. Hainer, was a lawyer, physician and a professor of mathematics, chemistry and physics at Iowa State College.
Dr. Julius Caesar Hainer later was appointed a professor of medical jurisprudence at St. Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons, following post-graduate law studies at Cornell University, class of 1885.
Their father, Professor Ignace Hainer was a high-ranking member of the cabinet of Hungarian Premier Batthyani and of Louis Kossuth during the Hungarian Revolutionary War of 1848. After coming to America, Ignace Hainer was appointed a professor of modern languages at University of Missouri, then as a member of an Iowa Grand Jury.
Thier grandfathers on both sides, were lawyers, journalists and high ranking Hungarian government officials going back several generations.
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Tom Blaise Shepherd
great great nephew
""Justice cannot exist
without social and economic equality
under the law"