The 28th District of the

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is located in northern

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, and is currently composed of Hancock, Humboldt,

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, and Hamilton Counties, as well as part of Story County.

Current elected officials

Mike Klimesh is the senator currently representing the 28th District. The area of the 28th District contains two

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districts: *The 55th District (represented by Michael Bergan) *The 56th District (represented by Anne Osmundson) The district is also located in

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, which is represented by U.S. Representative

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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 * Jeremiah Jenkins, 1856–1859 * D. Hammer, 1860–1863 * Josiah Hatch, 1864–1865 * Jonathan Cattell, 1866–1869 * Frank Campbell, 1870–1873 * Thomas Mitchell, 1874–1877 * John Nichols, 1878–1883 * Preston Sutton, 1884–1887 * William Mills, 1888–1891 * George Turner, 1892–1895 * J.L. Carney, 1896–1899 * J.B. Classen, 1900–1903 * Charles Eckles, 1904–1908 * Comfort Harvey Van Law, 1909–1912 * Wallace Arney, 1913–1918 * Ray Scott, 1919–1922 * William McLeland, 1923–1932 * Chris Reese, 1933–1936 * B.C. Whitehill, 1937–1946 * Robert Rockhill, 1947–1948 * W. Eldon Walter, 1949–1956 * Howard Buck, 1957–1964 * Warren Kruck, 1965–1968 * R. Dean Arbuckle, 1969–1972 * Karl Nolin, 1973–1976 * Bill Hutchins, 1977–1982 *

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, 1983–1992 *

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, 1993–2002 *

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, 2003–2012 * Michael Breitbach, 2013–2021 * Mike Klimesh, 2021–present Note: the boundaries of districts have changed over history. Previous politicians of a specific numbered district have represented a completely different geographic area, due to

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Current elected officials

Past senators

See also

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