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. He is the longest-serving governor in United States history. Branstad served as the United States Ambassador to China from 2017 to 2020 under President Donald Trump.
Thomas Richard Harkin is an American lawyer,author,and politician who served as a United States senator from Iowa from 1985 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party,he previously was the U.S. representative for Iowa's 5th congressional district from 1975 to 1985. He is the longest-serving senator to spend the entire tenure as a state's junior senator.
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.
Jerry Behn is an American politician who served as a member of the Iowa Senate for the 24th district from 1997 to 2021.
Paul McKinley is the Iowa State Senator from the 36th District. He has served in the Iowa Senate since 2001 and served as Senate minority leader from 2009 until November 2011.
The Iowa House of Representatives is the lower house of the Iowa General Assembly,the upper house being the Iowa Senate. There are 100 seats in the Iowa House of Representatives,representing 100 single-member districts across the state,formed by dividing the 50 Senate districts in half. Each district has a population of approximately 30,464 as of the 2010 United States Census. The House of Representatives meets at the Iowa State Capitol in Des Moines.
Nancy Jane Boettger was the Iowa State Senator from the 9th District. A Republican,she served in the Iowa Senate since 1995. She received a B.A. in Sociology from Iowa State University in 1965 and a B.A. from Buena Vista College in Education in 1982.
Jack G. Hatch is a former Iowa State Senator and American business owner. He was the Democratic nominee for Governor of Iowa in the 2014 election. A Democrat,Hatch served in the Iowa Senate from 2003 to 2015,and was an assistant majority leader. Prior to his election to the Iowa Senate,Hatch served in the Iowa House of Representatives from 1985 to 1993 and 2001 to 2003.
Dolores Mary Mertz was an American politician from Iowa.
Pam Jochum is an American politician serving as the Iowa State Senator from the 36th District and former President of the Iowa Senate. A Democrat,she was a member of the Iowa House of Representatives from 1993 to 2009,when she became a member of the Iowa Senate.
The Iowa Democratic Party (IDP) is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the U.S. state of Iowa.
Sandra Bolden Cunningham is an American Democratic Party politician,who served in the New Jersey State Senate from 2007 to 2024,where she represented the 31st Legislative District. She was sworn into office on November 8,2007. She is the widow of former Jersey City Mayor Glenn Cunningham,who died in 2004.
Swati A. Dandekar is a former Iowa state legislator and former U.S. Executive Director at the Asian Development Bank. She is a Democratic member of the Iowa Utilities Board,awaiting Senate confirmation in 2012. Previously,she was a member of the Iowa House of Representatives for the 36th District from 2003 to 2009 and a member of the Iowa Senate for the 18th District from 2009 to 2011. She received her B.S. degree in Biology and Chemistry from Nagpur University and a graduate diploma in dietetics from University of Mumbai. As of 2011 Dandekar serves as the Chair of the National Foundation for Women Legislators and as a board member of the Iowa Math and Science Coalition,the Greater Cedar Rapids Foundation,and the Belin-Blank International Center for Gifted &Talented. Dandekar previously served on the Iowa Association of School Boards,and as a board member of the Women in Public Policy,and the U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy. On July 23,2013 Dandekar announced that she would be running for the U.S. Congress from the 1st congressional district;she lost in the primary to former state house speaker Pat Murphy,who himself lost to Rod Blum.
Bonnie J. Campbell is an American attorney and politician who served as Attorney General of Iowa from 1991 to 1995. Campbell was also a gubernatorial candidate,an official in the U.S. Department of Justice. President Clinton nominated her to be a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit but the Senate never acted on her nomination.
Shawn Hamerlinck served one term in the Iowa State Senate,representing the 42nd District. He lost re-election in 2012. Hamerlinck was named in a sexual harassment lawsuit,which claimed that Hamerlinck often commented about women's breasts
Robert P. "Rob" Bacon is a Republican politician and former legislator from the state of Iowa. He was elected to the Iowa House of Representatives in 2012 to represent the 48th district. He was previously elected to the Iowa Senate in 2010 to represent District 5,which serves Wright,Hamilton,and Story Counties. Bacon was born in Chicago and his hometown is Maxwell,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.
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 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Iowa were held on November 8,2022,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 other elections to the House of Representatives,elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections. These were the first congressional elections held in Iowa after the 2020 redistricting cycle.
