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State Senator
Republican
Bills & Committees
Professor of Political Science
Sioux
91
01/13/2025 - 01/10/2027
2

Term

Serving second term in Senate.

Profession

Professor of political science, Dordt University; former political analyst, KCAU-TV; former assistant professor of political science, Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, Alabama; assistant professor of political science, Western Illinois University, Macomb; instructor of political science and librarian, Rochester Community & Technical College and University Center, Rochester, Minnesota.

Education

Graduated from Spencer High School. Received B.A., political science and history, Northwestern College; M.A. in library and information science, University of Iowa; and M.A. and Ph.D. in political science, University of Missouri, Columbia.

Memberships and Activities

Author of several scholarly books including: Where Did the Party Go?: William Jennings Bryan, Hubert Humphrey, and the Jeffersonian Legacy (University of Missouri Press, 2006); Politics on a Human Scale: The American Tradition of Decentralism (Lexington Books, 2013); and The Political World of Bob Dylan: Freedom and Justice, Power and Sin (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). Represented Iowa as a delegate to the 2012 and 2024 Republican National Conventions.

Birth and Residence

Born in 1961 in Spencer. Raised in Spencer and resides in Sioux Center.

Family Members

Wife, Shirley; one daughter and one son.

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State Senator
Republican
Bills & Committees
Professor of Political Science
Sioux
90
01/09/2023 - 01/12/2025
2

Term

Serving first term in Senate.

Profession

Professor of political science, Dordt University; former political analyst, KCAU-TV; former assistant professor of political science, Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, Alabama; assistant professor of political science, Western Illinois University, Macomb; instructor of political science and librarian, Rochester Community & Technical College and University Center, Rochester, Minnesota.

Education

Graduated from Spencer High School. Received B.A., political science and history, Northwestern College; M.A. in library and information science, University of Iowa; and M.A. and Ph.D. in political science, University of Missouri, Columbia.

Memberships and Activities

Author of several scholarly books including: Where Did the Party Go?: William Jennings Bryan, Hubert Humphrey, and the Jeffersonian Legacy (University of Missouri Press, 2006); Politics on a Human Scale: The American Tradition of Decentralism (Lexington Books, 2013); and The Political World of Bob Dylan: Freedom and Justice, Power and Sin (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). Represented Iowa as a delegate to the 2012 Republican National Convention.

Birth and Residence

Born in 1961 in Spencer. Raised in Spencer and resides in Sioux Center.

Family Members

Wife, Shirley; one daughter and one son.

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State Senator
Republican
Bills & Committees
Sioux
89
01/11/2021 - 01/08/2023
2

Term

Serving first term in Senate.

Profession

Professor of political science, Dordt University; former political analyst, KCAU-TV; former assistant professor of political science, Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, Alabama; assistant professor of political science, Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois; instructor of political science and librarian, Rochester Community & Technical College and University Center, Rochester, Minnesota.

Education

Graduated from Spencer High School. Received B.A., political science and history, Northwestern College; M.A. in library and information science, University of Iowa; and M.A. and Ph.D. in political science, University of Missouri, Columbia.

Memberships and Activities

Author of several scholarly books including: Where Did the Party Go?: William Jennings Bryan, Hubert Humphrey, and the Jeffersonian Legacy (University of Missouri Press, 2006); Politics on a Human Scale: The American Tradition of Decentralism (Lexington Books, 2013); and The Political World of Bob Dylan: Freedom and Justice, Power and Sin (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). Represented Iowa as a delegate to the 2012 Republican National Convention.

Birth and Residence

Born in 1961 in Spencer. Raised in Spencer and resides in Sioux Center.

Family Members

Wife, Shirley; one daughter and one son.