Iowa's 28th Senate district

Senate District 28

Type	District of the Upper House
Location	Northeast Iowa
Senator	Mike Klimesh (R)
Parent organization	Iowa General Assembly

The 28th District of the Iowa Senate is located in northern Iowa, and is currently composed of Hancock, Humboldt, Wright, Franklin, and Hamilton counties, as well as part of Story County. ^[1]

Current elected officials

Mike Klimesh is the senator currently representing the 28th District. ^[2]

The area of the 28th District contains two Iowa House of Representatives districts: ^[3]

• The 55th District (represented by Michael Bergan)
• The 56th District (represented by Anne Osmundson)

The district is also located in Iowa's 1st congressional district, which is represented by U.S. Representative Ashley Hinson. ^[4]

Past senators

The district has previously been represented by: ^{[5] [6]}

• Jeremiah Jenkins, 1856–1859
• D. Hammer, 1860–1863
• Josiah Hatch, 1864–1865
• Jonathan Cattell, 1866–1869
• Frank Campbell, 1870–1873
• Thomas Mitchell, 1874–1877
• John Nichols, 1878–1883
• Preston Sutton, 1884–1887
• William Mills, 1888–1891
• George Turner, 1892–1895
• J.L. Carney, 1896–1899
• J.B. Classen, 1900–1903
• Charles Eckles, 1904–1908
• Comfort Harvey Van Law, 1909–1912
• Wallace Arney, 1913–1918
• Ray Scott, 1919–1922
• William McLeland, 1923–1932
• Chris Reese, 1933–1936
• Benjamin Chase Whitehill, 1937–1946
• Robert Rockhill, 1947–1948
• W. Eldon Walter, 1949–1956
• Howard Buck, 1957–1964
• Warren Kruck, 1965–1968
• R. Dean Arbuckle, 1969–1972
• Karl Nolin, 1973–1976
• Bill Hutchins, 1977–1982
• Richard Drake, 1983–1992
• Andy McKean, 1993–2002
• James Seymour, 2003–2012
• Michael Breitbach, 2013–2021
• Mike Klimesh, 2021–present

Note: the boundaries of districts have changed over history. Previous politicians of a specific numbered district have represented a completely different geographic area, due to redistricting.

See also

• Iowa General Assembly
• Iowa Senate

References

1. "SENATE DISTRICT 28" (PDF). Iowa General Assembly . Retrieved March 28, 2024.
2. "Iowa Legislature - Legislator List". Archived from the original on June 17, 2016. Retrieved July 5, 2016.
3. "Iowa house districts" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 13, 2011.
4. "Iowa congressional districts" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 13, 2011.
5. https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/BB/696311.pdf%5B%5D
6. "The Iowa general assembly: our legislative heritage 1846-1980" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on June 17, 2016.