The Political Graveyard: Iowa: U.S. Senators

Iowa: U.S. Senators

U.S. Senators from Iowa, 1848-2004 (May be incomplete!)
Augustus C. Dodge 1848-55 George W. Jones 1848-59 James Harlan 1855-57 James Harlan 1857-65 James W. Grimes 1859-69 Samuel J. Kirkwood 1866-67 James Harlan 1867-73 James B. Howell 1870-71 George G. Wright 1871-77 William B. Allison 1873-1908 Samuel J. Kirkwood 1877-81 James W. McDill 1881-83 James F. Wilson 1883-95 John H. Gear 1895-1900 Jonathan P. Dolliver 1900-10 Albert B. Cummins 1908-26 Lafayette Young 1910-11 William S. Kenyon 1911-22 Charles A. Rawson 1922 Smith W. Brookhart 1922-26 Daniel F. Steck 1926-31 David W. Stewart 1926-27 Smith W. Brookhart 1927-33 L. J. Dickinson 1931-37 Louis Murphy 1933-36 Guy M. Gillette 1936-45 Clyde L. Herring 1937-43 George A. Wilson 1943-49 Bourke B. Hickenlooper 1945-69 Guy M. Gillette 1949-55 Thomas E. Martin 1955-61 Jack Miller 1961-73 Harold E. Hughes 1969-75 Dick Clark 1973-79 John C. Culver 1975-81 Roger Jepsen 1979-85 Charles E. Grassley 1981- Tom Harkin 1985-

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

1848: William Henson Wallace, defeated.

1900 Jul 14: John H. Gear, died in office.

1908 Aug 4: William B. Allison, died in office.

1910 Oct 15: Jonathan P. Dolliver, died in office.

1914 Nov 3: Albert B. Cummins (Rep), elected; Maurice Connolly (Dem), defeated; Otis L. Spurgeon (Ind), defeated; Casper Schenk (Progressive), defeated; I. S. McCullis (Socialist), defeated; M. L. Christian (Prohibition), defeated.

1918 Nov 5: William S. Kenyon (Rep), elected; Charles R. Keyes (Dem), defeated.

1920 Nov 2: Albert B. Cummins (Rep), elected; Claude R. Porter (Dem), defeated; H. W. Cowles (Farmer-Labor), defeated; Arthur S. Dowler (Socialist Labor), defeated.

1922 Nov 7: Smith W. Brookhart (Rep), elected; Clyde L. Herring (Dem), defeated.

1924 Nov 4: Smith W. Brookhart (Rep), elected; Daniel F. Steck (Dem), defeated; Luther A. Brewer (Independent-Republican), defeated; L. E. Eickelberg, defeated.

1926 Jul 30: Albert B. Cummins, died in office.

1926 Nov 2: David W. Stewart (Rep), elected unopposed.

1926 Nov 2: Smith W. Brookhart (Rep), elected; Claude R. Porter (Dem), defeated.

1930: John Hammill (Rep), defeated in primary.

1930 Nov 4: L. J. Dickinson (Rep), elected; Daniel F. Steck (Dem), defeated; Arthur A. Wells, defeated; L. E. Eickelberg, defeated.

1936 Jul 16: Louis Murphy, died in office.

1936 Nov 3: Clyde L. Herring (Dem), elected; L. J. Dickinson (Rep), defeated; George F. Buresh (Farmer-Labor), defeated; John B. Hammond (Prohibition), defeated; Lactitia M. Conrad (Socialist), defeated.

1936 Nov 3: Guy M. Gillette (Dem), elected; Berry F. Halden (Rep), defeated; Ernest R. Quick (Farmer-Labor), defeated; Tom Johnson (Socialist), defeated; Alexis U. Coates (Prohibition), defeated.

1938: Lloyd Thurston, defeated for nomination.

1938 Nov 8: Guy M. Gillette (Dem), elected; L. J. Dickinson (Rep), defeated; George F. Buresh (Farmer-Labor), defeated; Raymond E. Hanke (Progressive), defeated; G. W. Bauseman (Prohibition), defeated.

1942 Nov 3: George A. Wilson (Rep), elected; Clyde L. Herring (Dem), defeated; M. M. Heptonstall (Prohibition), defeated; Ernest J. Seemann (Progressive New Dealer), defeated.

1944 Nov 7: Bourke B. Hickenlooper (Rep), elected; Guy M. Gillette (Dem), defeated; W. S. Bowden (Prohibition), defeated; C. W. Drescher (Socialist), defeated.

1948 Nov 2: Guy M. Gillette (Dem), elected; George A. Wilson (Rep), defeated; Seymour Pitcher (Progressive), defeated; Z. Everett Kellum (Prohibition), defeated; Hugo Bockewitz (Socialist), defeated.

1962 Nov 6: Bourke B. Hickenlooper (Rep), elected; E. B. Smith (Dem), defeated.

1966 Nov 8: Jack Miller (Rep), elected; E. B. Smith (Dem), defeated; Robert D. Dilley (American Constitution), defeated; Charles H. Day (Peace Independent), defeated; Herbert F. Hoover (Iowa), defeated; Verne M. Higens (Prohibition), defeated.

1968 Nov 5: Harold E. Hughes (Dem), elected; David M. Stanley (Rep), defeated; Verne M. Higens (Prohibition), defeated.

1972 Nov 7: Dick Clark (Dem), elected; Jack Miller (Rep), defeated; William A. Rocap, Jr. (American), defeated; Fred Richard Benton, defeated.

1974 Nov 5: John C. Culver (Dem), elected; David M. Stanley (Rep), defeated; Lorin E. Oxley (American), defeated.

1978 Nov 7: Roger Jepsen (Rep), elected; Dick Clark (Dem), defeated; Gerald L. Baker (Ind), defeated; Ben L. Olson (Libertarian), defeated.

1980 Nov 4: Charles E. Grassley (Rep), elected; John C. Culver (Dem), defeated; Gary DeYoung (Ind), defeated; Robert V. Hengerer (Libertarian), defeated; John I. Henderson (Ind), defeated.

1984 Nov 6: Tom Harkin (Dem), elected; Roger Jepsen (Rep), defeated; Gary DeYoung (Ind), defeated.

1986 Nov 4: Charles E. Grassley (Rep), elected; John P. Roehrick (Dem), defeated; John Masters (Ind), defeated.

1990 Nov 6: Tom Harkin (Dem), elected; Thomas J. Tauke (Rep), defeated.

1992 Nov 3: Charles E. Grassley (Rep), elected; Jean Lloyd-Jones (Dem), defeated; Stuart Zimmerman (Natural Law), defeated; Sue Atkinson, defeated; Mel Boring, defeated; Rosanne Freeburg, defeated; Carl E. Olsen (Grass Roots), defeated; Richard O'Dell Hughes, defeated; Cleve A. Pulley (Socialist Workers), defeated.

1996 Nov 5: Tom Harkin (Dem), elected; Jim Lightfoot (Rep), defeated; Sue Atkinson, defeated; Fred Gratzon (Natural Law), defeated; Joe Sulentic, defeated; Shirley E. Pena (Socialist Workers), defeated.

1998 Nov 3: Charles E. Grassley (Rep), elected; David Osterberg (Dem), defeated; Susan Marcus (Natural Law), defeated; Margaret Trowe (Socialist Workers), defeated.

2002: Greg Ganske (Rep), defeated.

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