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.
George Wallace Jones was an American frontiersman,entrepreneur,attorney,and judge,was among the first two United States Senators to represent the state of Iowa after it was admitted to the Union in 1846. A Democrat who was elected before the birth of the Republican Party,Jones served over ten years in the Senate,from December 7,1848 to March 3,1859. During the American Civil War,he was arrested by Federal authorities and briefly jailed on suspicion of having pro-Confederate sympathies.
David Edward Bonior is an American politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. First elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976,Bonior served as Democratic whip in the House from 1991 to 2002,during which time Democrats were in both the majority (1991–1995) and minority (1995–2002),making Bonior the third and second highest-ranking Democrat in the House,respectively.
Roy Eugene Barnes is an American attorney and politician who served as the 80th governor of Georgia from 1999 to 2003. As of 2024,he is the most recent Democrat to serve as governor of Georgia.
David Bremner Henderson was an American attorney,Civil War veteran and Republican Party politician who served as the 34th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1899 to 1903. He represented Iowa in the House from 1883 to 1903. He was the first Speaker from west of the Mississippi River,the second foreign-born Speaker,the only Speaker from Iowa,and the last Speaker who was a veteran of the Civil War.
Michael Thomas Blouin is an American politician who served as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 1979,representing Iowa's 2nd congressional district. He was a candidate in the 2006 race for Governor of Iowa but lost in the primary to Chet Culver.
The Iowa Democratic Party (IDP) is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the U.S. state of Iowa.
Frank Joseph Kelley was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 50th Attorney General of the U.S. state of Michigan. His 37-year term of office,from 1961 to 1999,made him both the youngest and oldest attorney general in the state's history,and led to his nickname as the "Eternal General". He won ten consecutive terms of office. He was the longest serving state attorney general in United States history,until Tom Miller of Iowa surpassed his longevity record in 2019—although Kelley still holds the record for longest continuous tenure as an attorney general. In 37 years of service as Michigan's chief law enforcement officer,he worked in concert with five Michigan governors.
Lincoln Clark was a lawyer and one-term Democratic U.S. Representative from Iowa's 2nd congressional district. His life began and ended in the same small town in western Massachusetts,but included service in every branch of Alabama state government,the U.S. Congress,and the Iowa General Assembly.
William Sebastian Jacobsen was a Democratic U.S. Representative from Iowa's 2nd congressional district who served three terms from 1937 to 1943. He was the son of his predecessor,Bernhard M. Jacobsen who held the same congressional seat for three previous terms.
John Hammill served three terms as the 24th Governor of Iowa from 1925 to 1931.
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.
The 2010 House elections in Iowa occurred on November 2,2010,and elected the members of the State of Iowa's delegation to the United States House of Representatives. Representatives are elected for two-year terms;those elected served in the 112th Congress from January 3,2011,until January 3,2013. Iowa has five seats in the House,apportioned according to the 2000 United States census.
Brian Meyer is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Iowa. A member of the Democratic Party,Meyer serves in the Iowa House of Representatives,representing the 29th district. He previously served on the Des Moines,Iowa City Council.
Richard Clark Turner was an American lawyer and politician.
The 2020 United States House of Representatives elections were held on November 3,2020,to elect representatives from all 435 congressional districts across each of the 50 U.S. states to the 117th United States Congress,as well as six non-voting delegates from the District of Columbia and the inhabited U.S. territories. Special House elections were also held on various dates throughout 2020.
Adam Gregg is an American politician who served as the 47th lieutenant governor of Iowa from 2019 to 2024 and as acting lieutenant governor from 2017 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party,Gregg served as Public Defender of Iowa from 2014 to 2017. He was the Republican candidate for Attorney General of Iowa in the November 2014 elections.
Brenna Bird is an American lawyer and politician from Iowa. A member of the Republican Party,she is the incumbent Iowa Attorney General.
A general election was held in the U.S. state of Iowa on November 8,2022. All of Iowa's executive officers were up for election,as well as a United States Senate seat,all four of Iowa's seats in the United States House of Representatives,25 (half) of the seats in the Iowa Senate,and all 100 seats in the Iowa House of Representatives. Primary elections were held on June 7,2022.
Tom Ellis Murray was an American lawyer and politician.
