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.
Daniel Frederic Steck,was the only Iowa Democrat in the United States Senate between the American Civil War and the Great Depression. He was sworn in as senator only after an extraordinary election challenge,in which his apparent defeat at the polls by a Progressive Party ally running as a Republican was reversed by a Republican-controlled U.S. Senate over seventeen months later.
Smith Wildman Brookhart,was twice elected as a Republican to represent Iowa in the United States Senate. He was considered an "insurgent" within the Republican Party. His criticisms of the Harding and the Coolidge administrations and of business interests alienated others in the Republican caucus and led to his ouster from the Senate over an election challenge.
Albert Baird Cummins was an American lawyer and politician. He was the 18th governor of Iowa,elected to three consecutive terms and U.S. Senator for Iowa,serving for 18 years. Cummins was a leader of the Progressive movement in Washington and Iowa. He fought to break up monopolies. Cummins' successes included establishing the direct primary to allow voters to select candidates instead of bosses;outlawing free railroad passes for politicians;imposing a two-cent street railway maximum fare;and abolishing corporate campaign contributions. He tried,with less success,to lower the high protective tariff in Washington.
Patrick Grassley is an American politician. A member of the Republican Party,he is the grandson of Iowa United States Senator Chuck Grassley. He has served as the Iowa State Representative for its 57th District since 2023,having previously served the state's 17th (2007–2013) and 50th (2013–2023) districts in the Iowa House of Representatives. He was elected Speaker of the state's House in 2020.
Bernhard Martin Jacobsen was a Democratic U.S. Representative from Iowa who served nearly three full terms during the Great Depression. He was the father of William S. Jacobsen,who succeeded him in Congress following his death.
Burton Erwin Sweet was a four-term Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 3rd congressional district,then a wide but short chain of counties in north-central and northeastern Iowa,in the shape of a monkey wrench.
Charles Edgar Pickett was a two-term Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 3rd congressional district.
James Isaac Dolliver served six terms as a Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 6th congressional district,beginning in 1944. He was the nephew of U.S. Senator Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver of Iowa.
James Perry Conner was a Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 10th congressional district from 1900 to 1909.
Claude Rodman Porter was an American politician and lawyer. He served in both chambers of the Iowa General Assembly and as a United States Attorney,and was a perennial Democratic Party runner-up to Republican victors in three races for governor of Iowa and six races for U.S. senator. In an era in which the Republican Party was so dominant in Iowa that Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver remarked that "Iowa will go Democratic when Hell goes Methodist," Porter twice came closer to winning the governorship than all but one other Democratic candidate of that era. He later served as a member of the U.S. Interstate Commerce Commission for eighteen years.
Iowa's 8th congressional district existed from 1873 to 1963. The district was configured five times. Although the district encompassed four different areas of Iowa in its ninety-year existence,it was always predominantly rural,and elected a Republican lawyer to the United States House of Representatives in all but one of 46 elections.
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.
Timi Brown-Powers is an American therapist and politician serving as a member of the Iowa House of Representatives,representing District 61. She was first elected to the House in 2014.
RasTafari I. "Ras" Smith is an American politician from Iowa. He served in the Iowa House of Representatives from 2017 to 2023,as a legislator from District 62.
Bruce Bearinger is an American politician,educator,and academic administrator who served as a member of the Iowa House of Representatives for the 64th district from 2013 to 2021. Elected in 2012,he assumed office on January 14,2013.
Patricia Mullaney Harper is an American teacher and former politician in the state of Iowa. A Democrat,she served in the Iowa House of Representatives as the representative for the 26th district between 1987 and 1991 and between 1991 and 1997. She then served in the Iowa Senate for the 13th district between 1997 and 2003.
Derek Wulf is an American politician.
Joshua Meggers is an American politician and police officer who has represented the 54th district in the Iowa House of Representatives since January 2023,which consists of Hardin and Grundy counties,as well as parts of western Black Hawk County. He is a member of the Republican Party.
