The 20th District of the

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is located in southern

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, and is currently composed of

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County.

Current elected officials

Brad Zaun Bradley Zaun ( R- Urbandale) is an Iowa State Senator formerly from the 32nd District and currently the 20th District. He was the Republican nominee for Iowa's 3rd congressional district in the 2010 general election. Iowa Senate Zaun has ser ...

is the senator currently representing the 20th District. The area of the 20th District contains two

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districts: *The 39th District (represented by

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) *The 40th District (represented by John Forbes) The district is also located in

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, which is represented by

Zach Nunn Zachary Martin Nunn (born May 4, 1979) is an American politician and former member of the Iowa Air National Guard who has served as the U.S. representative for Iowa's 3rd congressional district since 2023. A member of the Republican Party, he w ...

Past senators

The district has previously been represented by: *

Edgar Holden Edgar Holden (March 24, 1914 – August 21, 2001) was an American politician who served in the Iowa House of Representatives from 1967 to 1975 and in the Iowa Senate from 1977 to 1989. He died of prostate cancer on August 21, 2001, in Davenport, ...

, 1983–1988 *

Maggie Tinsman Maggie Tinsman (born July 14, 1936) is an American politician who served as a Republican member of the Iowa State Senate from 1989 to 2007. Tinsman is an alumnus of the University of Colorado and the University of Iowa The University of Io ...

, 1989–1992 *

Jack Rife Jack Rife (born April 10, 1943) is an American politician in the state of Iowa Iowa () is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Mis ...

, 1993–2000 *

Tom Fiegen Thomas Lewis Fiegen (born October 2, 1958) is an American attorney and Democratic Party politician. He served in the Iowa State Senate from 2001 to 2003. He sought the Democratic nomination in the 2010 U.S. Senate election in Iowa but came in ...

, 2001–2002 *

John Putney John Putney (born March 6, 1944) was the Iowa State Senator from the 20th District and whip (politics)#United States, minority whip. A Republican Party of Iowa, Republican, he served in the Iowa Senate from 2003 until his 2009 retirement. He att ...

, 2003–2008 *

Tim Kapucian Tim L. Kapucian (born August 2, 1957) is an American politician who served as a member of the Iowa Senate from the Iowa Senate, District 38, 38th district. A Republican Party (United States), Republican, he served from 2009 to 2021. Early life ...

, 2009–2012 *

, 2013–present

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Current elected officials

Past senators

See also

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