Curtis Dean "Curt" Hanson (August 13, 1943 – June 16, 2017) was an American politician. He was born and raised on a
Kossuth County, Iowa farm near
Swea City. He was also a resident of
Fairfield for fifty-two years. Hanson received his
B.A. from the
University of Northern Iowa
The University of Northern Iowa (UNI) is a public university in Cedar Falls, Iowa. UNI offers more than 90 majors across the colleges of Business Administration, Education, Humanities, Arts, and Sciences, Social and Behavioral Sciences and grad ...
and his
M.A. from the
University of Iowa
The University of Iowa (UI, U of I, UIowa, or simply Iowa) is a public university, public research university in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. Founded in 1847, it is the oldest and largest university in the state. The University of Iowa is org ...
. He was a driver education teacher at
Fairfield High School for forty-three years, where he received the Fairfield Jaycee Outstanding Young Education Award and was named Fairfield Teacher of the Year Award. Hanson also was president of the Iowa Association of Safety Education and a member of the National Education Society.
Hanson was a member of the
Iowa House of Representatives
The Iowa House of Representatives is the lower house of the Iowa General Assembly, the upper house being the Iowa Senate. There are 100 seats in the Iowa House of Representatives, representing 100 single-member districts across the state, formed ...
. A
Democrat
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Politics
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, he served in the Iowa House since 2009 representing the 90th and 82nd Districts.
On June 16, 2017, he died at the age of 73, from cancer, at his home in Fairfield, Iowa.
Curtis "Curt" Hanson-obituary
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References
External links
Representative Kenneth Veenstra
''official Iowa General Assembly site''
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1943 births
2017 deaths
Democratic Party members of the Iowa House of Representatives
People from Algona, Iowa
People from Fairfield, Iowa
Educators from Iowa
University of Northern Iowa alumni
University of Iowa alumni
21st-century American politicians
Deaths from cancer in Iowa
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