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United States congressional delegations from Iowa

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This page displays the historical members of U.S. Congress from Iowa.

Current members

U.S. Senate

The current members of the U.S. Senate from Iowa are:

U.S. House

The current members of the U.S. House from Iowa are:

Historical members

List of United States Senators from Iowa

The following individuals were elected to the U.S. Senate from Iowa.

Class 2

  • Democratic Party (United States) George W. Jones, serving from 1848-1859
  • Republican Party James W. Grimes, serving from 1859-1869
  • Republican Party James B. Howell, serving from 1870-1871
  • Republican Party George G. Wright, serving from 1871-1877
  • Republican Party Samuel J. Kirkwood, serving from 1877-1881
  • Republican Party James W. McDill, serving from 1881-1883
  • Republican Party James F. Wilson, serving from 1883-1895
  • Republican Party John H. Gear, serving from 1895-1900
  • Republican Party Jonathan P. Dolliver, serving from 1900-1910
  • Republican Party Lafayette Young, serving from 1910-1911
  • Republican Party William S. Kenyon, serving from 1911-1922
  • Republican Party Charles A. Rawson, serving from 1922-1922
  • Republican Party Smith W. Brookhart, serving from 1922-1926
  • Democratic Party (United States) Daniel F. Steck, serving from 1926-1931
  • Republican Party Lester J. Dickinson, serving from 1931-1937
  • Democratic Party (United States) Clyde L. Herring, serving from 1937-1943
  • Republican Party George A. Wilson, serving from 1943-1949
  • Democratic Party (United States) Guy M. Gillette, serving from 1949-1955
  • Republican Party Thomas E. Martin, serving from 1955-1961
  • Republican Party Jack R. Miller, serving from 1961-1973
  • Democratic Party (United States) Richard C. Clark, serving from 1973-1979
  • Republican Party Roger W. Jepsen, serving from 1979-1985
  • Democratic Party (United States) Tom Harkin, serving from 1985-Present

Class 3

  • Democratic Party (United States) Augustus C. Dodge, serving from 1848-1855
  • Republican Party James Harlan, serving from 1855-1865
  • Republican Party Samuel J. Kirkwood, serving from 1866-1867
  • Republican Party James Harlan, serving from 1867-1873
  • Republican Party William B. Allison, serving from 1873-1908
  • Republican Party Albert B. Cummins, serving from 1908-1926
  • Republican Party David W. Stewart, serving from 1926-1927
  • Republican Party Smith W. Brookhart, serving from 1927-1933
  • Democratic Party (United States) Richard L. Murphy, serving from 1933-1936
  • Democratic Party (United States) Guy M. Gillette, serving from 1936-1945
  • Republican Party Bourke B. Hickenlooper, serving from 1945-1969
  • Democratic Party (United States) Harold E. Hughes, serving from 1969-1975
  • Democratic Party (United States) John C. Culver, serving from 1975-1981
  • Republican Party Chuck Grassley, serving from 1981-Present

List of United States Representatives from Iowa

The following individuals were elected to the U.S. House from Iowa.

  • Democratic Party (United States) S. Clinton Hastings, serving from 1846–1847
  • Democratic Party (United States) Shepherd Leffler, serving from 1846–1851
  • Democratic Party (United States) William Thompson, serving from 1847–1850
  • Daniel F. Miller (Whig), serving from 1850–1851
  • Democratic Party (United States) Lincoln Clark, serving from 1851–1853
  • Democratic Party (United States) Bernhart Henn, serving from 1851–1855
  • John P. Cook (Whig), serving from 1853–1855
  • Democratic Party (United States) Augustus Hall, serving from 1855–1857
  • James Thorington (Oppositionist), serving from 1855–1857
  • Republican Party Timothy Davis, serving from 1857–1859
  • Republican Party Samuel Curtis, serving from 1857–1861
  • Republican Party William Vandever, serving from 1859–1861
  • Republican Party James Falconer Wilson, serving from 1861–1869
  • Republican Party Josiah B. Grinnell, serving from 1863–1867
  • Republican Party John A. Kasson, serving from 1863–1867, 1873–1877, and 1881-1884
  • Republican Party Asahel W. Hubbard, serving from 1863–1869
  • Republican Party Hiram Price, serving from 1863–1869 and 1877–1881
  • Republican Party William B. Allison, serving from 1863–1871
  • Republican Party Grenville M. Dodge, serving from 1867–1869
  • Republican Party William Loughridge, serving from 1867–1871 and 1873–1875
  • Republican Party William Smyth, serving from 1869–1870
  • Republican Party Charles Pomeroy, serving from 1869–1871
  • Republican Party Francis W. Palmer, serving from 1869–1873
  • Republican Party George W. McCrary, serving from 1869–1877
  • Republican Party William P. Wolf, serving from 1870–1871
  • Republican Party Madison M. Walden, serving from 1871–1873
  • Republican Party Aylett R. Cotton, serving from 1871–1875
  • Republican Party William G. Donnan, serving from 1871–1875
  • Republican Party Jackson Orr, serving from 1871–1875
  • Republican Party James W. McDill, serving from 1873–1877
  • Republican Party Henry O. Pratt, serving from 1873–1877
  • Republican Party James Wilson, serving from 1873–1877 and 1883–1885
  • Democratic Party (United States) Lucien Lester Ainsworth, serving from 1875–1877
  • Republican Party John Q. Tufts, serving from 1875–1877
  • Republican Party S. Addison Oliver, serving from 1875–1879
  • Republican Party Ezekiel S. Sampson, serving from 1875–1879
  • Republican Party Theodore W. Burdick, serving from 1877–1879
  • Republican Party Rush Clark, serving from 1877–1879
  • Republican Party Henry J. B. Cummings, serving from 1877–1879
  • Republican Party Joseph C. Stone, serving from 1877–1879
  • Republican Party William F. Sapp, serving from 1877–1881
  • Republican Party Nathaniel C. Deering, serving from 1877–1883
  • Edward H. Gillette (Greenbacker), serving from 1879–1881
  • James B. Weaver (Greenbacker), serving from 1879–1881 and 1885–1889
  • Republican Party Cyrus C. Carpenter, serving from 1879–1883
  • Republican Party William George Thompson, serving from 1879–1883
  • Republican Party Thomas Updegraff, serving from 1879–1883 and 1893–1899
  • Republican Party Moses A. McCoid, serving from 1879–1885
  • Republican Party Marsena E. Cutts, serving from 1881–1883
  • Republican Party Sewall S. Farwell, serving from 1881–1883
  • Republican Party William P. Hepburn, serving from 1881–1887 and 1893–1909
  • Democratic Party (United States) John C. Cook, serving from 1883–1835
  • Democratic Party (United States) William H. M. Pusey, serving from 1883–1885
  • Luman Hamlin Weller (Greenbacker), serving from 1883–1885
  • Democratic Party (United States) Jeremiah H. Murphy, serving from 1883–1887
  • Republican Party Adoniram J. Holmes, serving from 1883–1889
  • Republican Party Isaac S. Struble, serving from 1883–1891
  • Republican Party David B. Henderson, serving from 1883–1903
  • Republican Party Hiram Y. Smith, serving from 1884–1885
  • Democratic Party (United States) Benjamin T. Frederick, serving from 1885–1887
  • Democratic Party (United States) Benton J. Hall, serving from 1885–1887
  • Republican Party William E. Fuller, serving from 1885–1889
  • Republican Party Joseph Lyman, serving from 1885–1889
  • Republican Party Edwin H. Conger, serving from 1885–1890
  • Republican Party Albert R. Anderson, serving from 1887–1889
  • Republican Party Daniel Kerr, serving from 1887–1891
  • Republican Party John H. Gear, serving from 1887–1891 and 1893–1895
  • Democratic Party (United States) Walter I. Hayes, serving from 1887–1895
  • Republican Party Joseph R. Reed, serving from 1889–1891
  • Republican Party Joseph H. Sweney, serving from 1889–1891
  • Republican Party John F. Lacey, serving from 1889–1891 and 1893–1907
  • Republican Party James P. Flick, serving from 1889–1893
  • Republican Party Jonathan P. Dolliver, serving from 1889–1900
  • Republican Party Edward R. Hays, serving from 1890–1891
  • Democratic Party (United States) Thomas Bowman, serving from 1891–1893
  • Democratic Party (United States) Walter H. Butler, serving from 1891–1893
  • Democratic Party (United States) John Taylor Hamilton, serving from 1891–1893
  • Democratic Party (United States) John J. Seerley, serving from 1891–1893
  • Democratic Party (United States) Frederick E. White, serving from 1891–1893
  • Republican Party George D. Perkins, serving from 1891–1899
  • Republican Party John A. T. Hull, serving from 1891–1911
  • Republican Party Alva L. Hager, serving from 1893–1899
  • Republican Party Robert G. Cousins, serving from 1893–1909
  • Republican Party Samuel M. Clark, serving from 1895–1899
  • Republican Party George M. Curtis, serving from 1895–1899
  • Republican Party Smith McPherson, serving from 1899–1900
  • Republican Party Joseph R. Lane, serving from 1899–1901
  • Republican Party Lot Thomas, serving from 1899–1905
  • Republican Party Thomas Hedge, serving from 1899–1907
  • Republican Party Gilbert N. Haugen, serving from 1899–1933
  • Republican Party James P. Conner, serving from 1900–1909
  • Republican Party Walter I. Smith, serving from 1900–1911
  • Republican Party John N. W. Rumple, serving from 1901–1903
  • Democratic Party (United States) Martin Joseph Wade, serving from 1903–1905
  • Republican Party Benjamin P. Birdsall, serving from 1903–1909
  • Republican Party Albert F. Dawson, serving from 1905–1911
  • Republican Party Elbert H. Hubbard, serving from 1905–1912
  • Democratic Party (United States) Daniel W. Hamilton, serving from 1907–1909
  • Republican Party Charles A. Kennedy, serving from 1907–1921
  • Democratic Party (United States) William Darius Jamieson, serving from 1909–1911
  • Republican Party Nathan E. Kendall, serving from 1909–1913
  • Republican Party Charles E. Pickett, serving from 1909–1913
  • Republican Party Frank P. Woods, serving from 1909–1919
  • Republican Party James William Good, serving from 1909–1921
  • Democratic Party (United States) Irvin S. Pepper, serving from 1911–1913
  • Republican Party Solomon F. Prouty, serving from 1911–1915
  • Republican Party Horace Mann Towner, serving from 1911–1923
  • Republican Party William R. Green, serving from 1911–1928
  • Republican Party George Cromwell Scott, serving from 1912–1915 and 1917–1919
  • Democratic Party (United States) Maurice Connolly, serving from 1913–1915
  • Democratic Party (United States) Sanford Kirkpatrick, serving from 1913–1915
  • Democratic Party (United States) Henry Vollmer, serving from 1914–1915
  • Democratic Party (United States) Thomas J. Steele, serving from 1915–1917
  • Republican Party Burton E. Sweet, serving from 1915–1923
  • Republican Party Harry E. Hull, serving from 1915–1925
  • Republican Party C. William Ramseyer, serving from 1915–1933
  • Republican Party Cassius C. Dowell, serving from 1915–1935 and 1937–1940
  • Republican Party William D. Boies, serving from 1919–1929
  • Republican Party Lester J. Dickinson, serving from 1919–1931
  • Republican Party Cyrenus Cole, serving from 1921–1933
  • Republican Party William F. Kopp, serving from 1921–1933
  • Republican Party Hiram Kinsman Evans, serving from 1923–1925
  • Republican Party Thomas J. B. Robinson, serving from 1923–1933
  • Republican Party F. Dickinson Letts, serving from 1925–1931
  • Republican Party Lloyd Thurston, serving from 1925–1939
  • Republican Party Earl W. Vincent, serving from 1928–1929
  • Republican Party Ed H. Campbell, serving from 1929–1933
  • Republican Party Charles Edward Swanson, serving from 1929–1933
  • Democratic Party (United States) Bernhard M. Jacobsen, serving from 1931–1936
  • Republican Party Fred C. Gilchrist, serving from 1931–1945
  • Democratic Party (United States) Albert C. Willford, serving from 1933–1935
  • Democratic Party (United States) Guy Mark Gillette, serving from 1933–1936
  • Democratic Party (United States) Edward C. Eicher, serving from 1933–1938
  • Democratic Party (United States) Fred Biermann, serving from 1933–1939
  • Democratic Party (United States) Otha Wearin, serving from 1933–1939
  • Democratic Party (United States) Hubert Utterback, serving from 1935–1937
  • Republican Party John W. Gwynne, serving from 1935–1949
  • Democratic Party (United States) Vincent F. Harrington, serving from 1937–1942
  • Democratic Party (United States) William S. Jacobsen, serving from 1937–1943
  • Republican Party Thomas E. Martin, serving from 1939–1955
  • Republican Party Karl M. LeCompte, serving from 1939–1959
  • Republican Party Henry O. Talle, serving from 1939–1959
  • Republican Party Ben F. Jensen, serving from 1939–1965
  • Republican Party Robert K. Goodwin, serving from 1940–1941
  • Republican Party Paul H. Cunningham, serving from 1941–1959
  • Republican Party Harry E. Narey, serving from 1942–1943
  • Republican Party Charles B. Hoeven, serving from 1943–1965
  • Republican Party James I. Dolliver, serving from 1945–1957
  • Republican Party Harold R. Gross, serving from 1949–1975
  • Republican Party Fred Schwengel, serving from 1955–1965 and 1957–1973
  • Democratic Party (United States) Merwin Coad, serving from 1957–1963
  • Democratic Party (United States) Steven V. Carter, serving from 1959
  • Democratic Party (United States) Leonard G. Wolf, serving from 1959–1961
  • Republican Party John Henry Kyl, serving from 1959–1965 and 1967–1973
  • Democratic Party (United States) Neal Smith, serving from 1959–1995
  • Republican Party James E. Bromwell, serving from 1961–1965
  • Democratic Party (United States) Bert Bandstra, serving from 1965–1967
  • Democratic Party (United States) Stanley L. Greigg, serving from 1965–1967
  • Democratic Party (United States) John R. Hansen, serving from 1965–1967
  • Democratic Party (United States) John R. Schmidhauser, serving from 1965–1967
  • Democratic Party (United States) John Culver, serving from 1965–1975
  • Republican Party Wiley Mayne, serving from 1967–1975
  • Republican Party William J. Scherle, serving from 1967–1975
  • Democratic Party (United States) Edward Mezvinsky, serving from 1973–1977
  • Democratic Party (United States) Mike Blouin, serving from 1975–1979
  • Republican Party Chuck Grassley, serving from 1975–1981
  • Democratic Party (United States) Tom Harkin, serving from 1975–1985
  • Democratic Party (United States) Berkley Bedell, serving from 1975–1987
  • Republican Party Jim Leach, serving from 1977–2007
  • Republican Party Tom Tauke, serving from 1979–1991
  • Republican Party T. Cooper Evans, serving from 1981–1987
  • Republican Party Jim Ross Lightfoot, serving from 1985–1997
  • Democratic Party (United States) David R. Nagle, serving from 1987–1993
  • Republican Party Fred Grandy, serving from 1987–1995
  • Republican Party Jim Nussle, serving from 1991–2007
  • Republican Party Greg Ganske, serving from 1995–2003


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