Iowa's 12th Senate district
American legislative district
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Current elected officials
Amy Sinclair is the senator currently representing the 12th District.[2]
The area of the 12th District contains two Iowa House of Representatives districts:
- The 23rd District (represented by Ray Sorensen)
- The 24th District (represented by Joel Fry)
The district is also located in Iowa's 3rd congressional district, which is represented by U.S. Representative Zach Nunn.[3]
List of representatives
| Representative | Party | Dates | Residence | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loring Wheeler | Whig | 1846-1849 | Clinton County | ||
| William Leffingwell | Democrat | 1850-1851 | Clinton County | ||
| Norman Everson | Whig | 1852-1853 | Washington, Iowa | ||
| Hiram Cleaver | Whig | 1854-1855 | Keokuk, Iowa | ||
| James Test | Democrat | 1856-1857 | Council Bluffs, Iowa | ||
| William H. M. Pusey | Democrat | 1858-1859 | Council Bluffs, Iowa | ||
| Daniel Anderson | Republican | 1860-1861 | Monroe County | ||
| Warren Dungan | Republican | 1862-1863 | Chariton, Iowa | ||
| Jacob Dixon | Republican | 1864-1865 | Wapello County | ||
| Edward Stiles | Republican | 1866-1867 | Ottumwa, Iowa | ||
| Abial Pierce | Republican | 1868-1871 | Jefferson County | ||
| Moses McCoid | Republican | 1872-1877 | Fairfield, Iowa | ||
| Sanford Harned | Democrat | 1878-1881 | Keokuk County | ||
| Cassius Brown | Republican | 1882-1885 | Sigourney, Iowa | ||
| Joseph Hutchison | Republican | 1886-1887 | Ottumwa, Iowa | ||
| James Dooley | Republican | 1888-1889 | What Cheer, Iowa | ||
| Joel Stewart | Democrat | 1890-1893 | Grinnell, Iowa | ||
| John Riggen | Republican | 1894-1897 | What Cheer, Iowa | ||
| William Robinson Lewis | Republican | 1898-1901 | Montezuma, Iowa | ||
| John Tinley Brooks | Republican | 1902-1906 | Sigourney, Iowa | ||
| Elbert Clark | Republican | 1907-1910 | Grinnell, Iowa | ||
| Henry Spaulding | Republican | 1911-1914 | Grinnell, Iowa | ||
| Charles Laffer | Republican | 1915-1918 | Sigourney, Iowa | ||
| Theodore Cessna | Republican | 1919-1926 | Grinnell, Iowa | ||
| Frank Beatty | Republican | 1927-1934 | Sigourney, Iowa | ||
| Eugene Mason | Democrat | 1935-1938 | Poweshiek County | ||
| John Edwin Talbott | Republican | 1939-1942 | Brooklyn, Iowa | ||
| Luke Vittetoe | Republican | 1943-1950 | Sigourney, Iowa | ||
| Wilbur Molison | Republican | 1951-1958 | Poweshiek County | ||
| C. Edwin Gilmour | Democrat | 1959-1962 | Grinnell, Iowa | ||
| 1963-1964 | No senator from district 12 is listed on the Iowa Official Register for General Assembly 60. This is the combined result of redistricting and election cycles and affected multiple districts.[5] | ||||
| Stanley Heaberlin | Democrat | 1965-1966 | Pleasantville, Iowa | ||
| Joseph Flatt | Republican | 1967-1970 | Winterset, Iowa | Resigned from office due to moving out of his district. | |
| Glen Bortell | Republican | 1970 | Madison County | ||
| Alden Erskine | Republican | 1971-1972 | Woodbury County | ||
| Clifton Lamborn | Republican | 1973-1976 | Maquoketa, Iowa | ||
| Merlin Hulse | Republican | 1977-1982 | Cedar County | ||
| Ted J. Anderson | Democrat | 1983-1984 | Waterloo, Iowa | ||
| Joy Corning | Republican | 1985-1990 | Cedar Falls, Iowa | ||
| Harry Slife | Republican | 1991-1994 | Waterloo, Iowa | Senator Slife died in office in 1994. | |
| Donald Redfern | Republican | 1994-2002 | Cedar Falls, Iowa | ||
| Kathleen Rehberg | Republican | 2003-2004 | Buchanan County | ||
| Brian Schoenjahn | Democrat | 2005-2012 | Arlington, Iowa | ||
| Joni Ernst | Republican | 2013-2014 | Red Oak, Iowa | Senator Ernst was elected to the US Senate in 2014. | |
| Mark Costello | Republican | 2015-2022 | Imogene, Iowa | ||
| Amy Sinclair | Republican | 2023-present | Wayne County | ||
Historical district boundaries
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