Annette Sweeney (born December 9, 1957) is an American politician who is the Iowa State Senator for the
25th District. A
Republican
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Political ideology
* An advocate of a republic, a type of government that is not a monarchy or dictatorship, and is usually associated with the rule of law.
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, she has been in 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, . ...
since 2018, when she won a special election to replace
Bill Dix after Dix resigned from the Senate.
Prior to her election to the Senate, Sweeney was a member of the Iowa House of Representatives from 2009 to 2013.
Sweeney was born in
Buckeye, Iowa. She went to college at
Concordia University Nebraska
Concordia University, Nebraska is a private Lutheran university in Seward, Nebraska. It was established in 1894 and is affiliated with the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod as one of seven schools in the Concordia University System. The univers ...
. She taught middle school literature in
Peoria, Illinois
Peoria ( ) is the county seat of Peoria County, Illinois, United States, and the largest city on the Illinois River. As of the United States Census, 2020, 2020 census, the city had a population of 113,150. It is the principal city of the Peoria ...
, for a short time before taking over the family farm. She married David Sweeney in 1985.
References
External links
Iowa Republicans biography of SweeneyIowa Legislature biography of Sweeney
1957 births
Living people
Women state legislators in Iowa
Republican Party members of the Iowa House of Representatives
People from Hardin County, Iowa
Concordia University Nebraska alumni
Farmers from Iowa
21st-century American politicians
21st-century American women politicians
American women farmers
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