The 8th District of the

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is located in southwestern

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, and is currently composed of Pottawattamie County.

Current elected officials

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is the senator currently representing the 8th District. The area of the 8th District contains two

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districts: *The 15th District (represented by Charlie McConkey) *The 16th District (represented by Brent Siegrist) The district is also located in

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, which is represented by U.S. Representative

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.https://www.legis.iowa.gov/DOCS/Resources/Redist/2011/2011-03-31/CongressStatewide8x11_color.pdf

Past senators

The district has previously been represented by:https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/BB/696311.pdf https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/BB/696310.pdf * James C. Ramsey, 1856–1857 * John A. Johnson, 1858–1859 * William F. Coolbaugh, 1860–1861 * John G. Foote, 1862–1863 *

Lewis W. Ross Lewis Winans Ross (December 8, 1812 – October 29, 1895) was an Illinois attorney, merchant, and U.S. Representative from Illinois's 9th congressional district. He was widely known as an antiwar Peace Democrat or Copperhead during the Ameri ...

, 1864–1867 * Napoleon B. Moore, 1868–1871 * J.S. McIntyre, 1872–1875 * Alfred Hebard, 1876–1883 * James S. Hendrie, 1884–1887 * Thomas Weidman, 1888–1891 * A.J. Chantry, 1892–1895 * Joseph M. Junkin, 1896–1903 * Shirley Gillilland, 1904–1912 * Frank F. Jones, 1913–1916 * W.F. Ratcliff, 1917–1920 * H.A. Darting, 1921–1928 * William Cochrane, 1929–1932 * Homer Hush, 1933–1936 * Kenneth A. Evans, 1937–1944 * Oscar Hultman, 1945–1952 * Henry W. Washburn, 1953–1956 * William H. Harbor, 1957–1960 * Edward A. Wearin, 1961–1963 * Clifford M. Vance, 1964–1966 * Richard L. Stephens, 1967–1970 * S.J. Brownlee, 1971–1972 * Hilarius L. Heying, 1973–1976 * Rolf Craft, 1977–1982 * Berl Priebe, 1983–1996 * James Black, 1997 * E. Thurman Gaskill, 1998–2002 *

Mark Zieman Mark L. Zieman (born January 14, 1945) was a Republican Iowa State Senator from Iowa. He was formerly part of the leadership of the Iowa Senate. He represented the largely rural 8th district, covering Allamakee, Winneshiek, Chickasaw and Howard ...

, 2003–2008 *

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, 2009–2012 *

Michael Gronstal Michael E. Gronstal (born January 29, 1950) is a former Iowa State Senator who represented the 8th district in the Iowa Senate. He served from 1985 to 2017 and was the majority leader and chairman of the Rules and Administration committee. He was ...

, 2013–2016 *

, 2017–present

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Current elected officials

Past senators

See also

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