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Matthew Whitaker
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Official portrait, 2018
United States Ambassador to NATO
Presumptive nominee
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Joan F. Bolin
 Republican nominee for Treasurer of Iowa
2002		Vacant
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David Jamison
Legal offices
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Stephen Patrick O'Meara
 United States Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa
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