Iowa's 4th Senate district

Iowa's 4th State Senate district
Senator	Tim Kraayenbrink R

The 4th district of the Iowa Senate is located in Northwestern Iowa. It is currently composed of Calhoun, Pocahontas, Sac, and Webster counties.^[1]

Current elected officials

Tim Kraayenbrink is the senator currently representing the 4th District.^[2]

The area of the 4th District contains two Iowa House of Representatives districts:^[3]

• The 7th District (represented by Mike Sexton)
• The 8th District (represented by Ann Meyer)

The district is also located in Iowa's 4th congressional district, which is represented by U.S. Representative Randy Feenstra.^[4]

List of representatives

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Representative	Party		Dates	Residence	Notes
James Davis		Whig	1846-1847	Wapello County
Barney Royston		Democrat	1848-1849	Ottumwa
Henry Benham Hendershott		Democrat	1850-1851	Ottumwa
William Greyer Coop		Democrat	1852-1855	Jefferson County
John Park		Whig	1852-1855	Jefferson County
William F. Coolbaugh		Democrat	1856-1859	Burlington
Lyman Cook		Republican	1856-1859	Burlington
Nathan Udell		Democrat	1860-1867	Appanoose County
Madison M. Walden		Republican	1868-1869	Centerville	Term ended early due to election as Lieutenant Governor of Iowa.
William F. Vermillion		Republican	1870-1871	Centerville
Edward J. Gault		Democrat	1872-1875	Appanoose
Joshua Miller		Republican	1876-1877	Centerville
Henry Laurens Dashiell		Republican	1878-1879	Monroe County
David M. Clark		Greenback	1880-1883	Wayne County
Lewis Miles		Republican	1884-1887	Wayne County
Warren S. Dungan		Republican	1888-1891	Chariton
Lester W. Lewis		Republican	1892-1895	Wayne County
Harvey L. Byers		Republican	1896-1899	Lucas County
Alexander Mardis		Republican	1900-1903	Wayne County
Richard A. Hasselquist		Republican	1904-1906	Chariton
John Alexander McKlvenn		Republican	1907-1908	Chariton
George McCullouch		Republican	1909-1912	Humeston
John H. Darrah		Republican	1913-1916	Chariton
Karl Miles Le Compte		Republican	1917-1920	Corydon
James F. Johnston		Republican	1921-1924	Chariton
Allen G. Dotts		Republican	1925-1928	Corydon
John W. Kent		Republican	1929-1932	Lucas County
John H. Judd		Democrat	1933	Chariton	Died in office on January 14, 1933.
Joseph E. Doze		Democrat	1933-1936	Humeston
Harold V. Levis		Republican	1937-1940	Lucas County
Clarence L. Clark		Republican	1941-1944	Corydon
James Alonzo Newsome		Republican	1945-1948	Lucas County
Pearl W. McMurry		Republican	1949-1950	Corydon
Ray Fletcher		Republican	1951-1952	Corydon
William Corwin Stuart		Republican	1953-1962	Chariton	Term ended early due to selection to the Iowa Supreme Court
Howard Vincent		Republican	1963-1964	Chariton
Franklin S. Main		Democrat	1965-1968	Decatur County
Quentin V. Anderson		Republican	1969-1970	Elision
Herbert Luther Ollenburg		Republican	1971-1972	Garner
Berl E. Priebe		Democrat	1973-1982	Kossuth County
Richard P. Vande Hoef		Republican	1983-1992	Osceola County
John P. Kibbie		Democrat	1993-2012	Palo Alto County
Dennis Guth		Republican	2013-2022	Hancock County
Tim Kraayenbrink		Republican	2023–Present	Webster County

Historical District Boundaries

Source:^[6]

Map	Description	Years Effective	Notes
	Monroe County Wapello County	1846-1849	From 1846 to 1857, District numbering was not utilized by the Iowa State Legislature. This convention was added with the passing of the 1857 Iowa Constitution. Numbering of districts pre-1857 is done as a matter of historic convenience.[7]
	Lucas County Monroe County Wapello County	1850-1851
	Jefferson County	1852-1855
	Des Moines County	1856-1859
	Appanoose County	1860-1877
	Monroe County Wayne County	1878-1883
	Lucas County Wayne County	1884-1962
	Decatur County Ringgold County Union County	1963-1966
	Clarke County Decatur County Ringgold County Wayne County	1967-1970
	Cerro Gordo (partial) Hancock County Winnebago County Wright County (partial) Worth County	1971-1972	In 1970, the Iowa Legislature passed an amendment to the Iowa Constitution setting forth the rules for legislative redistricting in order to abide by the rules established by the Reynolds v. Sims Supreme Court Case. The first reapportionment map created by the Republican controlled legislature was deemed Unconstitutional, but was still used for the 1970 Election.[8]
	Emmet County (partial) Hancock County (partial) Humboldt County (partial) Kossuth County, Iowa Palo Alto County (partial) Pocahontas County (partial) Winnebago County	1973-1982
	Cherokee County Clay County (partial) Lyon County O'Brien County Osceola County Sioux County (partial)	1983-1992
	Clay County (partial) Dickinson County Emmet County Kossuth County (partial) Palo Alto County	1993-2002
	Emmet County Humboldt County Kossuth County Palo Alto County Pocahontas County Webster County (partial) Deer Creek Township Jackson Township Johnson Township	2003-2012	[9]
	Emmet County Hancock County Kossuth County Winnebago County Wright County	2013-2022
	Calhoun County Pocahontas County Sac County Webster County	2023–Present

See also

• Iowa General Assembly
• Iowa Senate

References

1. "2023 Iowa Senate District 4" (PDF).
2. "Tim Kraayenbrink Iowa Legis Bio".
3. https://www.legis.iowa.gov/DOCS/Resources/Redist/2011/2011-03-31/HouseStatewide8x11_color.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}
4. https://www.legis.iowa.gov/DOCS/Resources/Redist/2011/2011-03-31/CongressStatewide8x11_color.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}
5. "Table of Iowa Senate District 4 Historic Senators".
6. "Iowa State Senate District 2 Historic Legislators".
7. "1846 Iowa Constitution" (PDF).
8. "Reapportionment in Iowa".
9. "Iowa Senate District 4" (PDF).