Cedar Rapids is a city in and the county seat of Linn County,Iowa,United States. The city lies on both banks of the Cedar River,20 miles (32 km) north of Iowa City and 128 miles (206 km) northeast of Des Moines,the state's capital. The population was 137,710 at the 2020 census,making it the second-most populous city in Iowa. The population of the three-county Cedar Rapids metropolitan area,which includes the nearby cities of Marion and Hiawatha,was 276,520 in 2020. Cedar Rapids is the economic hub of Eastern Iowa,located at the core of the Interstate 380 corridor. The Cedar Rapids metropolitan area is also part of a combined statistical area with the Iowa City metropolitan area.
Grant DeVolson Wood was an American artist and representative of Regionalism,best known for his paintings depicting the rural American Midwest. He is particularly well known for American Gothic (1930),which has become an iconic example of early 20th-century American art.
Mary Clare Higgins is an American politician who was a six-term mayor of Northampton,Massachusetts,from 2000 to 2011. A Democrat,she was the second woman to hold the position. Higgins became the executive director of Community Action Pioneer Valley in September 2011.
Paul Danny Pate Jr. is an American businessman and politician serving as the 32nd Secretary of State of Iowa since 2015,previously holding the office from 1995 to 1999. Pate is the past president of the National Association of Secretaries of State. A member of the Republican Party,he was also in the Iowa Senate from 1989 to 1995 and Mayor of Cedar Rapids from 2002 to 2006. He was an unsuccessful candidate for his party's nomination for Governor of Iowa in 1998.
Kraig Paulsen is an American attorney and politician who served as a member of the Iowa House of Representatives from 2003 to 2017 and as speaker of the Iowa House of Representatives from 2011 to 2015.
Marsena Edgar Cutts was a nineteenth-century politician and lawyer from Iowa. A Republican,he was most notable for his service as Attorney General of Iowa from 1872 to 1877 and in the United States House of Representatives from March 1881 to March 1883 and again from March 1883 until his death.
John Taylor Hamilton was an American businessman from Cedar Rapids,Iowa,and a one-term Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Iowa's 5th congressional district.
Steven V. Carter was a Democratic U.S. Representative from south central Iowa in 1959.
The Iowa flood of 2008 was a hydrological event involving most of the rivers in eastern Iowa which began June 8 and continued until July 1. Flooding continued on the Upper Mississippi River in the southeastern area of the state for many more days. The phrase "Iowa's Katrina" was often heard.
The Postville raid was a raid at the Agriprocessors,Inc.,kosher slaughterhouse and meat packing plant in Postville,Iowa,on May 12,2008,executed by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) division of the Department of Homeland Security together with other agencies.
Ron Corbett is an American politician and former mayor of Cedar Rapids,Iowa.
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.
Tom Riley was an American lawyer from Cedar Rapids,Iowa who served two terms in the Iowa House of Representatives and four in the Iowa Senate.
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.
Joan Miller Lipsky was an American attorney and politician who served as a member of the Iowa House of Representatives from 1967 to 1979.
Monica Vernon is an American politician. She is a former two-term member of the Cedar Rapids City Council and the former Mayor Pro Tempore of Cedar Rapids,Iowa.
The 2018 Iowa gubernatorial election took place on November 6,2018. Incumbent Republican governor Kim Reynolds ran for election to a full term,facing Democratic businessman Fred Hubbell,Libertarian Jake Porter,and independent candidate Gary Siegwarth.
The 2022 United States Senate election in Iowa was held on November 8,2022,to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Iowa. Incumbent Republican Senator Chuck Grassley defeated Democratic nominee Michael Franken to win re-election to an eighth term.
Bradley G. Hart is an American attorney and politician who served as the mayor of Cedar Rapids,Iowa from 2018 to 2022. As the role of mayor is a part-time position,Hart continued to work as a business lawyer at Bradley &Riley during his term.
