Jerry Behn (born January 31, 1954) is an American politician who served as a member of the

Iowa Senate The Iowa Senate is the upper house of the Iowa General Assembly, United States. There are 50 seats in the Iowa Senate, representing 50 single-member districts across the state of Iowa with populations of approximately 60,927 per constituency, . ...

for the 24th district from 1997 to 2021.

Career

Behn served as a Boone County supervisor from 1995 to 1996. Behn served on the Senate Appropriations committee; the Senate Commerce committee; the Senate State Government committee; the Senate Environment & Energy Independence committee, and the Senate Ethics committee. He also served on the Senate Administration and Regulation Appropriations Subcommittee. Behn was last re-elected in 2008 with 22,970 votes (57%), defeating Democratic opponent, former Iowa Senator Albert Sorensen. Behn was a candidate for the 2010 Iowa gubernatorial election but withdrew, endorsing

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. Behn is a supporter of

capital punishment Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is the state-sanctioned practice of deliberately killing a person as a punishment for an actual or supposed crime, usually following an authorized, rule-governed process to conclude that t ...

, he has introduced a limited death penalty bill in each General Assembly since 1997. his latest attempt was in 2019.

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