Iowa's 1st Congressional District

Iowa's 1st Congressional District elects one member to the U.S. House of Representatives. Below is the district's current representative, the members of Congress who held this seat before, and Iowa's two U.S. Senators.

Current Representative

Mariannette Miller-Meeks (Republican) currently represents Iowa's 1st Congressional District. See Mariannette Miller-Meeks's full voting record and key issue positions →

District History — Past Representatives

Members of Congress who previously represented Iowa's 1st Congressional District:

• Abby Finkenauer — Democrat (until 2021)
• Rod Blum — Republican (until 2019)
• Bruce Braley — Democrat (until 2015)
• James Nussle — Republican (until 2007)
• Edward Mezvinsky — Democrat (until 1977)
• Frederick Schwengel — Republican (until 1973)
• John Schmidhauser — Democrat (until 1967)
• Edward Eicher — Democrat (until 1939)
• William Kopp — Republican (until 1933)
• Charles Kennedy — Republican (until 1921)

Iowa U.S. Senators

• Charles Grassley — Republican Senator
• Joni Ernst — Republican Senator
• Thomas Harkin — Democrat Senator
• Roger Jepsen — Republican Senator
• John Culver — Democrat Senator
• Richard Clark — Democrat Senator
• Harold Hughes — Democrat Senator
• Jack Miller — Republican Senator
• Bourke Hickenlooper — Republican Senator
• Thomas Martin — Republican Senator
• Guy Gillette — Democrat Senator
• George Wilson — Republican Senator
• Clyde Herring — Democrat Senator
• Lester Dickinson — Republican Senator
• Richard Murphy — Democrat Senator
• Smith Brookhart — Republican Senator
• Daniel Steck — Democrat Senator
• David Stewart — Republican Senator
• Albert Cummins — Republican Senator
• William Kenyon — Republican Senator
• Charles Rawson — Republican Senator
• Lafayette Young — Republican Senator
• Jonathan Dolliver — Republican Senator
• William Allison — Republican Senator
• John Gear — Republican Senator
• James Wilson — Republican Senator
• James McDill — Republican Senator
• Samuel Kirkwood — Republican Senator
• George Wright — Republican Senator
• James Harlan — Republican Senator
• James Howell — Republican Senator
• James Grimes — Republican Senator
• George Jones — Democrat Senator
• Augustus Dodge — Democrat Senator

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