Does your state lean blue or lean red? Check out our new report, highlighting partisan control of state government from 1992-2013.
United States congressional delegations from Iowa
From Ballotpedia
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.
| Historical Representation to the US Senate by Party from Iowa | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Total | |||
| Democratic | 11 | |||
| Republican | 26 | |||
| Total Senators | 37 | |||
| Class 2 Senators from Iowa | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senator | Years Served | Party | ||||||
| George W. Jones | Democratic | 1848-1859 | ||||||
| James W. Grimes | Republican | 1859-1869 | ||||||
| James B. Howell | Republican | 1870-1871 | ||||||
| George G. Wright | Republican | 1871-1877 | ||||||
| Samuel J. Kirkwood | Republican | 1877-1881 | ||||||
| James W. McDill | Republican | 1881-1883 | ||||||
| James F. Wilson | Republican | 1883-1895 | ||||||
| John H. Gear | Republican | 1895-1900 | ||||||
| Jonathan P. Dolliver | Republican | 1900-1910 | ||||||
| Lafayette Young | Republican | 1910-1911 | ||||||
| William S. Kenyon | Republican | 1911-1922 | ||||||
| Charles A. Rawson | Republican | 1922-1922 | ||||||
| Smith W. Brookhart | Republican | 1922-1926 | ||||||
| Daniel F. Steck | Democratic | 1926-1931 | ||||||
| Lester J. Dickinson | Republican | 1931-1937 | ||||||
| Clyde L. Herring | Democratic | 1937-1943 | ||||||
| George A. Wilson | Republican | 1943-1949 | ||||||
| Guy M. Gillette | Democratic | 1949-1955 | ||||||
| Thomas E. Martin | Republican | 1955-1961 | ||||||
| Jack R. Miller | Republican | 1961-1973 | ||||||
| Richard C. Clark | Democratic | 1973-1979 | ||||||
| Roger W. Jepsen | Republican | 1979-1985 | ||||||
| Tom Harkin | Democratic | 1985-Present | ||||||
| Class 3 Senators from Iowa | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senator | Years Served | Party | ||||||
| Augustus C. Dodge | Democratic | 1848-1855 | ||||||
| James Harlan | Republican | 1855-1865 | ||||||
| Samuel J. Kirkwood | Republican | 1866-1867 | ||||||
| James Harlan | Republican | 1867-1873 | ||||||
| William B. Allison | Republican | 1873-1908 | ||||||
| Albert B. Cummins | Republican | 1908-1926 | ||||||
| David W. Stewart | Republican | 1926-1927 | ||||||
| Smith W. Brookhart | Republican | 1927-1933 | ||||||
| Richard L. Murphy | Democratic | 1933-1936 | ||||||
| Guy M. Gillette | Democratic | 1936-1945 | ||||||
| Bourke B. Hickenlooper | Republican | 1945-1969 | ||||||
| Harold E. Hughes | Democratic | 1969-1975 | ||||||
| John C. Culver | Democratic | 1975-1981 | ||||||
| Chuck Grassley | Republican | 1981-Present | ||||||
List of United States Representatives from Iowa
The following individuals were elected to the U.S. House from Iowa.
| |||||||||||||
