Terry Edward Branstad is an American politician and former diplomat. A member of the Republican Party,he served three terms in the Iowa House of Representatives from 1973 to 1979 before serving as governor of Iowa from 1983 to 1999 and again from 2011 to 2017. Branstad served as the United States Ambassador to China from 2017 to 2020 under President Donald Trump.
William Boyd Allison was an American politician. An early leader of the Iowa Republican Party,he represented northeastern Iowa in the United States House of Representatives before representing his state in the United States Senate. By the 1890s,Allison had become one of the "big four" key Republicans who largely controlled the Senate,along with Orville H. Platt of Connecticut,John Coit Spooner of Wisconsin and Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island.
Patty Jean Judge is an American politician who served as the 45th lieutenant governor of Iowa from 2007 to 2011 and previously the 13th Secretary of Agriculture of Iowa from 1999 to 2007. She unsuccessfully ran for reelection as lieutenant governor in 2010 after being elected to the office in 2006 with Chet Culver as governor.
Jeff Danielson is a former Democratic Iowa State Senator. Having served the 30th Senate District between 2013 and 2019,he had also previously served the 10th Senate District up until redistricting,between 2005 and 2013.
Petricia S. "Pat" Ward was an Iowa State Senator from the 30th District. A Republican,her service in the Iowa Senate began in 2004,when she won a special election to fill the vacancy left when Mary Kramer was appointed to be U.S. Ambassador to Barbados. It ended with her death in 2012. She had a B.S. in Business and Legal Studies from Central Missouri State University.
Bob Kressig is the Iowa State Representative from the 75th District. He has served in the Iowa House of Representatives since January 2005.
Staci Lynn Appel is an American politician from the U.S. state of Iowa. She served in the Iowa Senate as the Assistant Majority Leader from 2007 to 2011 representing the 37th district. A Democrat,in 2014 she unsuccessfully ran for a seat in the United States House of Representatives for Iowa's 3rd congressional district.
Patrick Grassley is the Iowa State Representative from the 57th District. A Republican,Grassley has served in the Iowa House of Representatives since 2007,and as speaker of the chamber since 2020. Grassley is the grandson of U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley.
Matt Schultz is an American Republican politician who served as Iowa Secretary of State.
Elizabeth Ann Mathis is an American politician,non-profit executive and former broadcast journalist who has served as an Iowa State Senator since 2011. A member of the Democratic Party,she was elected to represent the 18th district in a November 2011 special election and re-elected to the redrawn 34th district in 2012. Mathis was the Democratic nominee for Iowa's 1st congressional district in 2022,losing the general election to incumbent Republican Ashley Hinson.
The 1932 United States Senate election in Iowa took place on November 8,1932. Incumbent Republican Senator Smith Brookhart,a controversial progressive figure within the conservative Iowa Republican Party,was defeated in the June Republican primary by Henry A. Field. Field was in turn defeated in the general election by Democrat Louis Murphy. Brookhart also entered the general election as the candidate of the Progressive Party but finished a distant third.
The 2014 United States Senate election in Iowa was held on November 4,2014. Incumbent Democratic Senator Tom Harkin did not run for reelection to a sixth term in office.
The 2014 United States House of Representatives elections in Iowa were held on Tuesday,November 4,2014,to elect the four U.S. representatives from the state of Iowa,one from each of the state's four congressional districts. The elections coincided with the elections of other federal and state offices,including Governor of Iowa and United States Senate. Primary elections were held on June 4,2014. As no candidate won more than 35% of the vote in the 3rd district Republican primary,that nomination was decided at a party convention on June 21.
Mark Costello is the Iowa State Senator from the 8th District. A Republican,he has served in the Iowa Senate since being elected in 2014. He had also previously served in the Iowa House of Representatives from 2013–2014.
Robert "Rob" Taylor is an American politician of the Republican Party serving a member of the Iowa House of Representatives for the state's 44th district from 2013 until 2019.
Jake Chapman was an Iowa State Senator from the 10th District. A Republican,he served in the Iowa Senate after being elected in 2012 to a seat that had no incumbent due to redistricting. At the age of 28,Chapman won the election and served as the youngest State Senator in the 85th General Assembly.
The 2016 United States Senate election in Iowa was held November 8,2016,to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Iowa,concurrently with the 2016 U.S. presidential election,as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
David Edmund Young is an American politician who currently serves as a member of the Iowa House of Representatives from the 28th District,and previously served as the U.S. representative for Iowa's 3rd congressional district from 2015 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party,he is a native and resident of Van Meter,a western suburb of Des Moines. He was first elected in 2014 and reelected in 2016;he lost reelection in 2018 to Democrat Cindy Axne. Young unsuccessfully challenged Axne in 2020 in a rematch,losing by 1.3%.
The 2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Iowa were held on November 8,2016,to elect the four U.S. representatives from the state of Iowa,one from each of the state's four congressional districts. The elections coincided with the 2016 U.S. presidential election,as well as other elections to the House of Representatives,elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections. The primaries were held on June 7.
The 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Iowa were held on November 6,2018,to elect the four U.S. representatives from the State of Iowa,one from each of the state's four congressional districts. The elections coincided with the gubernatorial election,as well as other elections to the House of Representatives,elections to the United States Senate,and various state and local elections. The state congressional delegation flipped from a 3–1 Republican majority to a 3–1 Democratic majority. The Democrats had last won the majority of Iowa's seats in the 2010 elections.
