Iowa's 3rd Congressional District

Iowa's 3rd 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

Zachary (Zach) Nunn (Republican) currently represents Iowa's 3rd Congressional District. See Zachary (Zach) Nunn's full voting record and key issue positions →

District History — Past Representatives

Members of Congress who previously represented Iowa's 3rd Congressional District:

• Cynthia Axne — Democrat (until 2023)
• David Young — Republican (until 2019)
• Tom Latham — Republican (until 2015)
• Leonard Boswell — Democrat (until 2013)
• James Lightfoot — Republican (until 1997)
• David Nagle — Democrat (until 1993)
• Thomas Evans — Republican (until 1987)
• Harold Gross — Republican (until 1975)
• John Gwynne — Republican (until 1949)
• Albert Willford — Democrat (until 1935)

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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