List of United States Senators from Iowa
The List of United States Senators from Iowa lists all the people who ever for this state of the US Senate have listened to the Senate classes sorted. One class shows when this senator will be re-elected. The class 2 senators were last re-elected in November 2014; the class 3 senators were elected in 2016.
2nd grade
Iowa has been a US state since December 28, 1846 and has had 24 class 2 senators in Congress to date . Iowa did not send senators until 1848, although it joined the United States in 1846.
Surname | Term of office | Political party | Life dates |
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George Wallace Jones | 1848-1859 | democrat | April 12, 1804 - July 22, 1896 |
James W. Grimes | 1859-1869 | republican | October 20, 1816 - February 7, 1872 |
James Bruen Howell | 1870-1871 | republican | July 4, 1816 - June 17, 1880 |
George Grover Wright | 1871-1877 | republican | March 24, 1820 - January 11, 1896 |
Samuel Jordan Kirkwood | 1877-1881 | republican | December 20, 1813 - September 1, 1894 |
James Wilson McDill | 1881-1883 | republican | March 4, 1834 - February 28, 1894 |
James Falconer Wilson | 1883-1895 | republican | October 19, 1828 - April 22, 1895 |
John Henry Gear | 1895-1900 | republican | April 7, 1825 - July 14, 1900 |
Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver | 1900-1910 | republican | February 6, 1858 - October 15, 1910 |
Lafayette Young | 1910-1911 | republican | May 10, 1848 - November 15, 1926 |
William Squire Kenyon | 1911-1922 | republican | June 10, 1869 - September 9, 1933 |
Charles Augustus Rawson | 1922 | republican | May 29, 1867 - September 2, 1936 |
Smith Wildman Brookhart | 1922-1926 | republican | February 2, 1869 - November 15, 1944 |
Daniel Fredrick Steck | 1926-1931 | democrat | December 16, 1881 - December 31, 1950 |
Lester Jesse Dickinson | 1931-1937 | republican | October 29, 1873 - June 4, 1968 |
Clyde Laverne Herring | 1937-1943 | democrat | May 3, 1879 - September 15, 1945 |
George Allison Wilson | 1943-1949 | republican | April 1, 1884 - September 8, 1953 |
Guy Mark Gillette | 1949-1955 | democrat | February 3, 1879 - March 3, 1973 |
Thomas Ellsworth Martin | 1955-1961 | republican | January 18, 1893 - June 27, 1971 |
Jack Richard Miller | 1961-1973 | republican | June 6, 1916 - August 29, 1994 |
Richard Clarence Clark | 1973-1979 | democrat | * September 14, 1928 |
Roger William Jepsen | 1979-1985 | republican | * December 23, 1928 |
Thomas Richard Harkin | 1985-2015 | democrat | * November 19, 1939 |
Joni Kay Ernst | since 2015 | republican | * July 1, 1970 |
Class 3
Iowa had 13 class 3 senators to date , one of whom, James Harlan, served two non-contiguous terms
Surname | Term of office | Political party | Life dates |
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Augustus Caesar Dodge | 1848-1855 | democrat | January 2, 1812 - November 20, 1883 |
James Harlan 1 | 1855-1865 | Free Soil / Republicans | August 26, 1820 - October 5, 1899 |
Samuel Jordan Kirkwood | 1866-1867 | republican | December 20, 1813 - September 1, 1894 |
James Harlan | 1867-1873 | republican | August 26, 1820 - October 5, 1899 |
William Boyd Allison | 1873-1908 | republican | March 2, 1829 - August 4, 1908 |
Albert Baird Cummins | 1908-1926 | republican | February 15, 1850 - July 30, 1926 |
David Wallace Stewart | 1926-1927 | republican | January 22, 1887 - February 10, 1974 |
Smith Wildman Brookhart | 1927-1933 | republican | February 2, 1869 - November 15, 1944 |
Richard Louis Murphy | 1933-1936 | democrat | November 6, 1875 - July 16, 1936 |
Guy Mark Gillette | 1936-1945 | democrat | February 3, 1879 - March 3, 1973 |
Bourke Blakemore Hickenlooper | 1945–1969 | republican | July 21, 1896 - September 4, 1971 |
Harold Everett Hughes | 1969-1975 | democrat | February 10, 1922 - October 23, 1996 |
John Chester Culver | 1975-1981 | democrat | August 8, 1932 - December 26, 2018 |
Charles Ernest Grassley | since 1981 | republican | * September 17, 1933 |
1 Harlan was elected to the Senate for Republicans in 1857.