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Iowa's 10th Senate district

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Iowa's 10th
State Senate district

Map of the district
Senator
  Dan Dawson
R

The 10th District of the Iowa Senate is located in Western Iowa, and is currently composed of the cities of Council Bluffs and Carter Lake in Pottawattamie County.[1]

Current elected officials

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Dan Dawson is the senator currently representing the 10th District.

The area of the 10th District contains two Iowa House of Representatives

The district is also located in Iowa's 4th congressional district, which is represented by U.S. Representative Randy Feenstra.

List of Representatives

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Source:[2]

Representative Party Dates Residence Notes
Richard Harbour Democrat 1846-1849 Mahaska County
Joseph Lowe Democrat 1851-1851 Keokuk County
Hadley Johnson Democrat 1852-1853 Council Bluffs, Iowa
James Test Democrat 1854-1855 Council Bluffs, Iowa
John Warner Democrat 1856-1859 Decatur County
James F. Wilson Republican 1860-1861 Fairfield, Iowa Wilson was elected to the US House of Representatives for Iowa's 1st congressional district in 1861.
Joshua Shaffer Republican 1862-1863 Jefferson County
Theron Woolson Republican 1864-1867 Henry County
Charles Matthies Republican 1868 Burlington, Iowa Senator Matthies died in office in 1868.
Charles Beardsley Republican 1870-1873 Burlington, Iowa
John Williams Republican 1874-1877 Des Moines County
John Woolson Republican 1878-1881 Mount Pleasant, Iowa
Lot Abraham Republican 1882-1885 Mount Pleasant, Iowa
John Woolson Republican 1886-1891 Mount Pleasant, Iowa
David Palmer Republican 1892-1899 Washington, Iowa
Amos Alberson Democrat 1900-1901 Washington, Iowa
John Alex Young Republican 1902-1906 Washington, Iowa
William Seeley Republican 1907-1910 Mount Pleasant, Iowa
Samuel Neal Republican 1911-1914 Washington, Iowa
John Lindly Democrat 1915-1918 Winfield, Iowa
James Brookhart Republican 1919-1926 Washington, Iowa Senator Brookhart died in office in 1926.
William Carden Republican 1927-1934 Henry County
Arthur C. Dewey Republican 1935-1942 Washington, Iowa
Harlan Foster Republican 1943-1950 Henry County
Carl Anderson Republican 1951-1958 Washington County
Clifford Vance Republican 1959-1962 Mount Pleasant, Iowa
Richard Stephens Republican 1963-1966 Ainsworth, Iowa
Bass Van Gilst Democrat 1967-1970 Mahaska
Ralph Potter Republican 1971-1972 Linn County
Mike Blouin Democrat 1973-1974 Dubuque County
Robert Carr Democrat 1974-1982 Dubuque County
Alvin Miller Democrat 1983-1992 Cerro Gordo County
Merlin Bartz Republican 1993-2001 Worth County Senator Bartz resigned in 2001 to take a position in the US Department of Agriculture
Amanda Ragan Democrat 2002 Cerro Gordo County
Donald Redfern Republican 2003-2004 Black Hawk County
Jeff Danielson Democrat 2005-2012 Black Hawk County
Jake Chapman Republican 2013-2022 Adel, Iowa
Dan Dawson Republican 2023-Present Council Bluffs, Iowa

Historical district boundaries

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Map Description Years Effective Notes
Keokuk County

Mahaska County

1846-1849 From 1846 to 1857, District numbering was not utilized by the Iowa State Legislature. This convention was added with the passing of the 1857 Iowa Constitution. Numbering of districts pre-1857 is done as a matter of historic convenience.[3]
Keokuk County

Mahaska County
Poweshiek County

1850-1851
Pottawattamie County 1852-1855
Appanoose County

Decatur County
Wayne County

1856-1859
Jefferson County 1860-1863
Henry County 1864-1867
Des Moines County 1868-1877
Henry County 1878-1883
Henry County

Jefferson County

1884-1887
Henry County

Washington County

1888-1962
Louisa County

Washington County

1963-1966
Keokuk County

Mahaska County

1967-1970
Buchanan County

Delaware County (partial)
Linn County (partial)

1971-1972 In 1970, the Iowa Legislature passed an amendment to the Iowa Constitution setting forth the rules for legislative redistricting in order to abide by the rules established by the Reynolds v. Sims Supreme Court Case. The first reapportionment map created by the Republican controlled legislature was deemed Unconstitutional, but was still used for the 1970 Election.[4]
Dubuque County (partial) 1973-1982
Cerro Gordo County (partial)

Winnebago County (partial)
Worth County

1983-1992
Cerro Gordo County

Mitchell County (partial)
Worth County

1993-2002
Black Hawk County (partial)
2003-2012 [5]
Adair County

Cass County (partial)

Dallas County (partial)

Guthrie County
Polk County (partial)

2013-2022
Pottawattamie County (partial) 2023-Present

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "District 10 Map" (PDF).
  2. ^ "Historic Legislator List".
  3. ^ "1846 Iowa Constitution" (PDF).
  4. ^ "Reapportionment in Iowa".
  5. ^ "Iowa Senate District 10" (PDF).