Iowa's 6th Senate district

Iowa's 6th
State Senate district
Map of the district
Senator
  Jason Schultz
R

The 6th district of the Iowa Senate is located in Western Iowa. It is currently composed of Audubon, Carroll, Crawford, Ida, and Shelby counties and part of Pottawattamie County.[1]

Current elected officials

Jason Schultz is the senator currently representing the 6th District.

The area of the 6th District contains two Iowa House of Representatives districts:[2]

The district is also located in Iowa's 4th congressional district, which is represented by U.S. Representative Randy Feenstra.[3]

List of Representatives

Source:[4]

Representative Party Dates Residence Notes
Milton Browning Whig 1846-1849 Burlington
Samuel Fullenwider Whig 1846-1847 Des Moines County
Alfred Fear Democrat 1848-1849 Burlington
George Hepner Democrat 1850-1851 Des Moines County
Enos Lowe Democrat 1850-1851 Des Moines County
John Hedrick Whig 1852-1853 Wapello County
James Ramsey Democrat 1854-1855 Wapello County
William Reed Republican 1856-1859 Jefferson County
James Hagans Republican 1860-1863 Ringgold County
Columbus Bridges Republican 1864-1867 Decatur County
Edward Bill Republican 1868-1869 Albia, Iowa
James Wright Republican 1870-1871 Chariton, Iowa
Robert Dague Republican 1872-1875 Osceola, Iowa
Samuel Bestow Republican 1876-1877 Chariton, Iowa
Frederick Joseph Teale Republican 1878-1879 Decatur City, Iowa
Isaac Keller Republican 1880-1883 Mount Ayr, Iowa
Anson Stephens Republican 1884-1887 Creston, Iowa
George Finn Republican 1888-1895 Bedford, Iowa
William Mitchell Republican 1896-1899 Chariton, Iowa
Franklin Arthaud Republican 1900-1903 Taylor County
Daniel Turner Republican 1904-1908 Corning, Iowa
Theophilus Bennett Republican 1909-1912 Lenox, Iowa
Albert Nye Republican 1913-1916 Athelstan, Iowa
Benjamin Gibson Republican 1917-1918 Corning, Iowa Resigned while in office to serve in the US Army during World War I.
Francis Shane Republican 1919-1920 Villisca, Iowa
John Tuck Republican 1921-1924 Corning, Iowa
Samuel Fackler Republican 1925-1928 Prescott, Iowa
Arthur Leonard Republican 1929-1932 Adams County
Claude Stanley Republican 1933-1936 Corning, Iowa
Ole Kirketeg Republican 1937-1940 Bedford, Iowa
William Turner Republican 1941-1944 Lenox, Iowa
Ole Kirketeg Republican 1945 Bedford, Iowa Senator Kirketeg died while in office in 1945.
Kathlyn Kirketeg Republican 1945-1948 Bedford, Iowa Wife of Ole Kirketeg, Senator Kirketeg took her husbands position after his death in 1945 and was subsequently elected to complete his term, making her the first woman senator in the state of Iowa.[5]
Ernest Humbert Republican 1949-1952 Corning, Iowa Senator Humbert died while in office in 1952.
Thomas Larson Republican 1953-1956 Conway, Iowa
Francis Turner Republican 1957-1960 Corning, Iowa
Orval Walter Democrat 1961-1964 Lenox, Iowa
Charles Vernon Lisle Republican 1963-1969 Clarinda, Iowa
Earl Bass Republican 1969-1970 Malvern, Iowa Elected in a special election.
George Shawer Republican 1971-1972 Fredericksburg, Iowa
Kenneth Scott Democrat 1973-1976 Cerro Gordo County
Alvin Miller Democrat 1977-1982 Clear Lake, Iowa
Lee Holt Republican 1983-1988 Ottosen, Iowa
John Kibbie Democrat 1989-1992 Palo Alto County
Wayne Bennett Republican 1993-1996 Ida Grove, Iowa
Steve King Republican 1997-2002 Odebolt, Iowa King was elected to the US House of Representatives in 2002.
E. Thurman Gaskill Republican 2003-2008 Hancock County
Merlin Bartz Republican 2009-2012 Grafton, Iowa
Mark Segebart Republican 2013-2020 Crawford County
Craig Williams Republican 2021-2022 Manning, Iowa
Jason Schultz Republican 2023-Present Crawford County

Historical district boundaries

Map Description Years Effective Notes
Des Moines County 1846-1851 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.[6]
Wapello County 1852-1855
Jefferson County 1856-1859
Adams County

Ringgold County
Taylor County
Union County

1860-1861
Adams County

Montgomery County
Page County
Ringgold County
Taylor County
Union County

1862-1863
Decatur County 1864-1865
Decatur County

Ringgold County

1866-1867
Monroe County 1868-1869
Clarke County

Lucas County
Union County

1870-1873
Clarke County

Lucas County

1874-1877
Decatur County

Ringgold County
Taylor County

1878-1883
Ringgold County

Taylor County
Union County

1884-1887
Adams County

Taylor County

1888-1962
Fremont County

Mills County
Page County

1963-1970
Bremer County

Chickasaw County
Howard County
Winneshiek County (partial)

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.[7]
Cerro Gordo County (partial)

Worth County

1973-1982
Clay County (partial)

Dickinson County
Emmet County
Palo Alto County (partial)

1983-1992
Crawford County

Ida County
Monona County
Sac County
Woodbury County (partial)

1993-2002
Cerro Gordo (partial)

Franklin County (partial)

Hancock County
Winnebago County
Worth County

2003-2012 [8]
Audubon County

Buena Vista
Carroll County
Crawford County (partial)

 2013-2022
Audubon County

Carroll County
Crawford County
Ida County
Pottawattamie County (partial)

Shelby County

2023-Present

See also

References

  1. ^ "2023-2042 Senate District 6 map" (PDF).
  2. ^ https://www.legis.iowa.gov/DOCS/Resources/Redist/2011/2011-03-31/HouseStatewide8x11_color.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  3. ^ https://www.legis.iowa.gov/DOCS/Resources/Redist/2011/2011-03-31/CongressStatewide8x11_color.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  4. ^ "Historic Legislator List".
  5. ^ "Legislator Fact Sheet Kirketeg".
  6. ^ "1846 Iowa Constitution" (PDF).
  7. ^ "Reapportionment in Iowa".
  8. ^ "Iowa Senate District 6" (PDF).

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