Iowa's 2nd Senate district

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected from Iowa Senate, District 2)

Iowa's 2nd
State Senate district

Map of the district
Senator
  Jeff Taylor
R

The 2nd district of the Iowa Senate, located in Northwestern Iowa, is currently composed of Plymouth and Sioux counties. Its current member of the Iowa Senate is Republican Jeff Taylor.

Current elected officials[edit]

Jeff Taylor is the senator currently representing the 2nd District.[1]

The area of the 2nd District contains two Iowa House of Representatives districts:[2]

The district is also located in Iowa's 4th congressional district, which is represented by U.S. Representative Randy Feenstra.[3]

List of representatives[edit]

Source:[4]

Representative Party Dates Residence Notes
John Fletcher Sanford Whig 1846-1849 Van Buren County
John McCormick Whitaker Democratic 1846-1847
George Grover Wright Whig 1848-1851 Van Buren County
John Brice Spees Whig 1850-1851 Birmingham
Milton D. Browning Whig 1852-1855 Burlington
George Hepner Democratic 1852-1853
William Findlay Coolbaugh Democratic 1854-1855 Burlington
David T. Brigham Democratic 1856-1859 Keokuk
Gideon S. Bailey Democratic 1860-1861 Vernon
Abner McCrary Republican 1862-1865
Eliab Doud Republican 1866-1869 Village Township
Jacob Vale Republican 1870-1873
James B. Pease Anti-Monopoly 1874-1875
James B. Pease Democratic 1876-1877
Horatio Wonn Democratic 1878-1879
Henry Traverse Republican 1880-1881 Bloomfield
Alexander Brown Republican 1882-1883 Keosauqua
John Carr Democratic 1884-1887 Milton
Benjamin R. Vale Republican 1888-1895 Bonaparte
Thomas Bell Republican 1896-1899 Fairfield
Henry Brighton Republican 1900-1903 Fairfield
James Elercik Republican 1904-1908 Douds
William S. Allen Republican 1909-1912 Fairfield
John Taylor Republican 1913-1916 Farmington
George Ball Republican 1917-1920 Fairfield Died in office in 1920.
Charles Fulton Republican 1921-1928 Fairfield
Aaron V. Blackford Republican 1929-1932 Bonaparte
John N. Calhoun Republican 1933-1936 Keosauque
Sanford Zeigler Republican 1937-1944 The Iowa Legislative historian suggests that the 1943-1944 50th General Assembly was finished out by Charles W. Wade.
Alden Doud Republican 1945-1952 Douds
Charles Nelson Republican 1953-1956 Packwood
Norval Evans Republican 1957-1960 Fairfield
Dewey Phelps Republican 1961-1964
Max E. Reno Republican 1965-1969 Van Buren County [5]
Charles G. Mogged Republican 1969-1971 Fairfield [6]
Marvin W. Smith Republican 1971-1972 O'Brien County [7]
Irvin Bergman Republican 1973-1981 Osceola County [8]
Richard Vande Hoef Republican 1981-1983 Ocheyedan [9]
Donald Doyle Republican 1983-1993 Sioux City [10]
Bradly Banks Republican 1993-1997 [11]
John Redwine Republican 1997-2003 Sioux City [12]
Kenneth Veenstra Republican 2003-2005 Orange City [13]
Dave Mulder Republican 2005-2009 Sioux Center [14]
Randy Feenstra Republican 2009-2021 Hull [15]
Jeff Taylor Republican 2021–Present Sioux Center [16]

Historical District Boundaries[edit]

Source:[17]

Map Description Years Effective Notes
Van Buren County 1846-1851 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.[18]
Des Moines County 1852-1855
Van Buren County (part)

Lee County (part)

1856-1859
Van Buren County 1860-1877
Van Buren County

Davis County

1878-1887
Van Buren County

Jefferson County

1888-1962
Van Buren County

Appanoose County

Davis County

1963-1966
Van Buren County

Jefferson County

Davis County

1967-1970
Clay County (part)

Dickinson County

Lyon County (part)

O'Brien County (part)

Osceola County

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.[19]
Clay County (part)

Dickinson County
Emmet County (part)
Lyon County (part)
O'Brien County (part)
Osceola County
Palo Alto County (part)
Sioux County (part)

1973-1982
Ida County (part)
Monona County

Woodbury County (part)

1983-1992
Plymouth County (part)

Woodbury County (part)

1993-2002
Lyon County

Plymouth County (part)

Sioux County (part)

2003-2012
Cherokee County

O'Brien County
Plymouth County (part)

Sioux County

2013-2022
Lyon County

Plymouth County (part)

Sioux County

2023–Present

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Iowa Legislature - Legislator List". Archived from the original on June 17, 2016. Retrieved July 5, 2016.
  2. ^ https://www.legis.iowa.gov/DOCS/Resources/Redist/2011/2011-03-31/HouseStatewide8x11_color.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  3. ^ https://www.legis.iowa.gov/DOCS/Resources/Redist/2011/2011-03-31/CongressStatewide8x11_color.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  4. ^ "Senators of Iowa Senate District 2".
  5. ^ "Legislator Details - Max Reno".
  6. ^ "Legislator Details - Charles Mogged".
  7. ^ "Legislator Details - Marvin Smith".
  8. ^ "Legislator Details - Irvin Bergman".
  9. ^ "Legislator Details - Richard Vande Hoef".
  10. ^ "Legislator Details - Donald Doyle".
  11. ^ "Legislator Details - Bradly Banks".
  12. ^ "Legislator Details - John Redwine".
  13. ^ "Legislator Details - Kenneth Veenstra".
  14. ^ "Legislator Details - Dave Mulder".
  15. ^ "Legislator Details - Randy Feenstra".
  16. ^ "Legislator Details - Jeff Taylor".
  17. ^ "Iowa State Senate District 2 Historic Legislators".
  18. ^ "1846 Iowa Constitution" (PDF).
  19. ^ "Reapportionment in Iowa".