William W. Dieleman (born January 19, 1931) was an American politician in the state of

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. Dieleman was born in

Oskaloosa, Iowa Oskaloosa is a List of cities in Iowa, city in, and the county seat of, Mahaska County, Iowa. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Oskaloosa was a national center of bituminous coal mining. The population was 11,558 in the 2020 U ...

. He attended

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and the

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and was a life insurance underwriter and newspaper publisher. He served in the

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from 1983 to 1995, and House of Representatives from 1975 to 1983 as a Democrat.

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