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2016 United States House Of Representatives Elections In Iowa
The 2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Iowa were held on November 8, 2016, to elect the four United States House of Representatives, U.S. representatives from the U.S. state, state of Iowa, one from each of the state's four Iowa's congressional districts, congressional districts. The elections coincided with the 2016 United States presidential election, 2016 U.S. presidential election, as well as United States House of Representatives elections, 2016, other elections to the House of Representatives, United States Senate elections, 2016, elections to the United States Senate and various United States elections, 2016#State elections, state and United States elections, 2016#Local elections, local elections. The primaries were held on June 7. District 1 Incumbent Republican Rod Blum, who had represented the district since 2015, ran for re-election. He was elected with 51% of the vote in 2014. The district had a Cook Partisan Voting Index, PVI of D+5. Republi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States House Of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives is a chamber of the Bicameralism, bicameral United States Congress; it is the lower house, with the U.S. Senate being the upper house. Together, the House and Senate have the authority under Article One of the United States Constitution, Article One of the Constitution of the United States, U.S. Constitution to pass or defeat federal legislation, known as Bill (United States Congress), bills. Those that are also passed by the Senate are sent to President of the United States, the president for signature or veto. The House's exclusive powers include initiating all revenue bills, Impeachment in the United States, impeaching federal officers, and Contingent election, electing the president if no candidate receives a majority of votes in the United States Electoral College, Electoral College. Members of the House serve a Fixed-term election, fixed term of two years, with each seat up for election before the start of the next Congress. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Des Moines Register
''The Des Moines Register'' is the daily morning newspaper of Des Moines, Iowa, United States. History Early period The first newspaper in Des Moines was the ''Iowa Star''. In July 1849, Barlow Granger began the paper in an abandoned log cabin by the junction of the Des Moines and Raccoon River. In 1854, ''The Star'' became the ''Iowa Statesman'' which was also a Democratic paper. In 1857, ''The Statesman'' became the ''Iowa State Journal'', which published three times per week. In 1870, ''The Iowa State Journal'' became the ''Iowa State Leader'' as a Democratic newspaper, which competed with pro- Republican ''Iowa Daily State Register'' for the next 32 years. In 1902, George Roberts bought the ''Register'' and ''Leader'' and merged them into a morning newspaper. In 1903, Des Moines banker Gardner Cowles, Sr. purchased the ''Register and Leader''. The name finally became ''The Des Moines Register'' in 1915. (Cowles also acquired the '' Des Moines Tribune'' in 1908. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timi Brown-Powers
Timi Brown-Powers (born 1967) is an American therapist and politician serving as a member of the Iowa House of Representatives, representing District 61. She was first elected to the House in 2014. Early life and education Timi Brown-Powers was born at Beale Air Force Base in Yuba County, California and raised in the Beaverdale neighborhood of Des Moines, Iowa. Her father worked at the Firestone plant while her mother ran a business out of their home and worked for the Des Moines public schools. Her experiences with her grandmother, a paraplegic, led her to volunteer for programs that help students with disabilities. She graduated from Herbert Hoover High School and attended Des Moines Area Community College for a year. She then moved to Waterloo to attend the University of Northern Iowa, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in therapeutic recreation. Career As a student at the University of Northern Iowa, Brown-Powers worked as a certified nursing assistant. She then worked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telegraph Herald
The ''Telegraph Herald'', locally referred to as the ''TH'', is a daily newspaper published in Dubuque, Iowa, for the population of Dubuque and surrounding areas in Iowa, Illinois, and Wisconsin Wisconsin ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest of the United States. It borders Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michig .... The newspaper is the result of a 1901 merger of the ''Dubuque Herald'' and the ''Dubuque Telegraph''. A descendant of the ''Dubuque Visitor'' (founded in 1836), the ''Dubuque Herald''s first editor was Dennis Mahony. The ''Telegraph'' was founded in 1870, and before merging with the ''Herald'' had absorbed eight local publications. John S. Murphy was the editor and publisher of the ''Telegraph'' at the time of its merger until his death in March 1902. He was a prominent Democratic leader, and editorialized at the time of the merger that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1988 United States House Of Representatives Elections In Iowa
The 1988 United States House of Representatives elections was an election for the United States House of Representatives on November 8, 1988, to elect members to serve in the 101st United States Congress. They coincided with the election of George H. W. Bush as president. Although Bush won with a strong majority, his Republican Party lost a net of two seats to the Democratic Party, slightly increasing the Democratic majority in the House. It was the first time since 1960 that an incoming president's party lost seats in the House. Overall results 409 incumbent members sought reelection, but one was defeated in a primary and six were defeated in the general election for a total of 402 incumbents winning. This was the highest number and percentage of incumbents who won reelection between 1954 and 1992. The Republicans did not field a candidate in one-fourth of the seats in the Southern United States. This is the last congressional election in which Republicans won a House seat in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iowa's 6th Congressional District
Iowa's 6th congressional district is a former List of United States congressional districts, U.S. congressional district in the Iowa, State of Iowa. It existed in elections from 1862 to 1992, when it was lost due to Iowa's population growth rate being lower than that of the country as a whole. The district was created during the American Civil War, Civil War; it was first filled in the 1862 and 1863 United States House of Representatives elections, 1862 general election. Its original representative, Asahel W. Hubbard, was from Sioux City, Iowa, Sioux City in Northwestern Iowa, but redistricting caused the district to be relocated, first to central Iowa (from 1869 to 1874), then to south-central Iowa (from 1875 to 1932), then the Des Moines area (from 1933 to 1942) and then north-central Iowa (from 1943 to 1962). From 1963 to 1992, the district was made up of counties in the northwestern part of the state. Fred Grandy, the 6th district's last representative, was, like its first, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iowa Utilities Board
The Iowa Utilities Board (IUB) is a three-member public utilities commission, with beginnings in 1878. It is a quasi-judicial tribunal, which regulates services and rates of electric, natural gas, water and telecommunication providers, as well as all pipelines and transmission lines in the U.S. state of Iowa and has existed with its present name since 1986. History 1878–1986 In 1878 the ''Iowa Board of Railroad Commissioners'' was founded, whose three members were publicly elected for a two-year term. In 1911, an ''Office of Commerce Counsel'' was established within, which with increasing electrification took on the regulation of transmission lines. In 1937, it was renamed the ''Iowa State Commerce Commission''.History of the Iowa Utilities Board Iowa Utilities Board, n.d., retrieved 18 March 2016 It was only in 1963 that the regulati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swati Dandekar
Swati A. Dandekar (born March 6, 1951) is a former Iowa state legislator and former U.S. Executive Director at the Asian Development Bank. She is a Democratic member of the Iowa Utilities Board, awaiting Senate confirmation in 2012. Previously, she was a member of the Iowa House of Representatives for the 36th District from 2003 to 2009 and a member of the Iowa Senate for the 18th District from 2009 to 2011. She received her B.S. degree in Biology and Chemistry from Nagpur University and a graduate diploma in dietetics from University of Mumbai. Dandekar serves as the Chair (formerly President) of the National Foundation for Women Legislators and as a board member of the Iowa Math and Science Coalition, the Greater Cedar Rapids Foundation, and the Belin-Blank International Center for Gifted & Talented. Dandekar previously served on the Iowa Association of School Boards, and as a board member of the Women in Public Policy (Iowa Charter), and the U.S. Center for Citizen Diplom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Governor Of Iowa
A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of a state's official representative. Depending on the type of political region or polity, a ''governor'' may be either appointed or elected, and the governor's powers can vary significantly, depending on the public laws in place locally. The adjective pertaining to a governor is gubernatorial, from the Latin root ''gubernare''. In a federated state, the governor may serve as head of state and head of government for their regional polity, while still operating under the laws of the federation, which has its own head of state for the entire federation. Ancient empires Pre-Roman empires Though the legal and administrative framework of provinces, each administered by a governor, was created by the Romans, the term ''governor'' has been a convenient term for historians to describe similar systems in antiquity. Indeed, many regions of the pre-Roman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chet Culver
Chester John Culver (born January 25, 1966) is an American politician who served from 2007 through 2011 as the 41st governor of Iowa. A member of the Democratic Party, he had previously served as the 29th Secretary of State of Iowa from 1999 to 2007. He was elected governor in the 2006 Iowa gubernatorial election and ran unsuccessfully for reelection in 2010, losing to Terry Branstad. He was also elected as the federal Liaison for the Democratic Governors Association, serving from 2008 to 2009. He founded the Chet Culver Group, an energy sector consulting firm, in 2011 after he left public office. As of , he is the most recent Governor of Iowa from the Democratic Party. He was appointed to be a member of the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation's board of directors in 2012 by President Barack Obama, serving until 2019, and was re-appointed by President Joe Biden on May 23, 2022. Early life and education Culver was born in Washington, D.C. He is the son of Ann (née Coope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier
''The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier'' is a daily afternoon newspaper published by Lee Enterprises for people living in Waterloo and Cedar Falls, Iowa as well as northeast Iowa. History The first issue of ''The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier'' was published on November 22, 1859, by WH Hartman and George Ingersoll. ''The Courier'' changed to a daily newspaper in 1890, publishing in the afternoon every day except Saturday. Howard Publications bought the ''Waterloo Courier'' and ''Cedar Falls Record'' in 1983. At that time, the ''Courier'' had been owned for 128 years by the same family, and had a daily circulation of around 55,000 in 1983. The circulation of ''The Record'' was about 4,000.(27 January 1983)The impending sale of the Waterloo Courier and the... ''UPI'' Lee Enterprises acquired the Howard chain in 2002.(13 February 2002)Lee Newspapers to buy Howard Publications ''The Baltimore Sun ''The Baltimore Sun'' is the largest general-circulation daily newspaper based i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
