Life in Iowa
Horace moved to Waterloo, Iowa in 1867 and opened his law office. His legal career became successful.
Boies, who was once a Republican, became a Democrat after the Republican Party began supporting prohibition and high tariffs. In 1889, he was elected governor by opposing the dry Republican demand for prohibition. Reelected in 1891, he was defeated when hard times came in 1893, by Frank D. Jackson, a Republican. He was a prominent populist and advocate of bimetallism. In 1892, Boies ran a distant third in the presidential nominating contest at a Democratic National Convention handily dominated by former (and future) president Grover Cleveland. He died on April 4, 1923, in Long Beach, California. He is buried at the Elmwood Cemetery in Waterloo, Iowa.
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