Iowa's 13th Senate district

The 13th District of the Iowa Senate is located in southern Iowa, and is currently composed of Davis, Monroe and Wapello Counties, and portions of Appanoose County.^[1]

Iowa's 13th State Senate district
Senator	Cherielynn Westrich R

Current elected officials

Cherielynn Westrich is the senator currently representing the 13th District.^[2]

The area of the 13th District contains two Iowa House of Representatives districts:^[3]

• The 25th District (represented by Hans Wilz)
• The 26th District (represented by Austin Harris)

The district is also located in Iowa's 3rd congressional district, which is represented by U.S. Representative Zach Nunn.^[4]

List of representatives

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Representative	Party		Dates	Residence	Notes
Samuel Bissell		Democrat	1846-1847	Cedar County
John Parsons Cook		Whig	1848-1851	Tipton, Iowa
Joseph Lowe		Democrat	1852-1853	Springfield, Iowa
James Hogin		Whig	1854-1855	Sigourney, Iowa
Hiram Cleaver		Republican	1856-1857	Louisa County
Samuel Reiner		Republican	1858-1861	Louisa County
James Hurley		Republican	1862-1863	Wapello, Iowa
William Castlebury Shippen		Republican	1864-1867	Monroe County
Augustus Hamilton		Republican	1868-1871	Ottumwa, Iowa
Joseph Merrill		Republican	1872-1877	Ottumwa, Iowa
Gregg Madison		Democrat	1878-1881	Ottumwa, Iowa
Joseph Hutchison		Republican	1882-1885	Ottumwa, Iowa
James Dooley		Democrat	1886-1887	What Cheer, Iowa
Joseph Hutchison		Republican	1888-1889	Ottumwa, Iowa
Peter Ballingall		Democrat	1890-1891	Ottumwa, Iowa	Senator Ballingall "died while on an ocean voyage, near the port of Hong Kong, on his second trip around the world"[6] while in office in 1891.
James Joseph Smith		Republican	1892-1893	Ottumwa, Iowa
Harrison Waterman		Republican	1894-1897	Ottumwa, Iowa
William Anderson McIntire		Democrat	1898-1901	Ottumwa, Iowa
Samuel Houston Harper		Republican	1902-1906	Ottumwa, Iowa
Edwin Moon		Democrat	1907-1910	Ottumwa, Iowa
John Francis Webber		Democrat	1911-1914	Ottumwa, Iowa
Chester Whitmore		Republican	1915-1922	Ottumwa, Iowa
Frank Shane		Republican	1923-1930	Ottumwa, Iowa
Roy E. Stevens		Democrat	1931-1938	Ottumwa, Iowa
Elmer Bekman		Republican	1939-1954	Ottumwa, Iowa
Samuel Burton		Democrat	1955-1958	Ottumwa, Iowa
Jacob Mincks		Democrat	1959-1962	Ottumwa, Iowa
		1963-1964			No senator from district 13 is listed on the Iowa Official Register for General Assembly 60. This is the combined result of redistricting and election cycles and affected multiple districts.[7]
Joseph Flatt		Republican	1965-1966	Winterset, Iowa
Thomas Frey		Republican	1967-1970	Pottawattamie County	In 1964, after previous amendments to the Iowa Constitution were determined to violate the 14th Amendment, an interim plan increased the number of senators and representatives in the state by apportioning additional senators and representatives to the most populous districts/counties. This plan existed from 1965 to 1970, when a new districting and apportionment plan was adopted.[8]
Gilbert Klefstad		Democrat	1967-1968	Council Bluffs, Iowa
James W. Griffin		Republican	1969-1970	Council Bluffs, Iowa
John Wesley Graham		Republican	1971-1972	Ida Grove, Iowa
Tom Riley		Republican	1973-1974	Cedar Rapids, Iowa
James Redmond		Democrat	1975-1978	Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Arthur Kudart		Republican	1979-1982	Linn County
Thomas Lind		Republican	1983-1986	Waterloo, Iowa	Senator Lind died while in office in 1986 and was succeeded by his son, Jim Lind.
Jim Lind		Republican	1987-1997	Waterloo, Iowa	Senator Lind resigned from office in 1997.
Patricia Harper		Democrat	1998-2002	Black Hawk County
Roger Stewart		Democrat	2003-2010	Jackson County
Tod Bowman		Democrat	2011-2012	Maquoketa, Iowa
Kent Sorenson		Republican	2013	Milo, Iowa	Senator Sorenson resigned in 2013 after pleading guilty to obstruction of justice and other felonies related to campaign finances.
Julian Garrett		Republican	2014-2022	Warren County
Cherielynn Westrich		Republican	2023-present	Wapello County

Historical district boundaries

Source:^[9]

Map	Description	Years effective	Notes
	Benton County Cedar County Linn 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.[10]
	Benton County Cedar County Linn County Tama County	1850-1851
	Keokuk County	1852-1855
	Louisa County	1856-1863
	Monroe County	1864-1867
	Wapello County	1868-1885
	Iowa County Keokuk County	1886-1887
	Wapello County	1888-1962
	Adair County Clarke County Madison County	1963-1966
	Pottawattamie County	1967-1970
	Calhoun County (partial) Cherokee County Ida County Sac 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.[11]
	Johnson County (partial) Linn County	1973-1982
	Black Hawk County (partial)	1983-1992
	Black Hawk County (partial)	1993-2002
	Clinton County (partial) Bloomfield Township Brookfield Township Center Township Deep Creek Township Elk River Township Hampshire Township Waterford Township Andover Charlotte Clinton Delmar Goose Lake Dubuque County (partial) Mosalem Township Table Mound Township Washington Township Jackson County	2003-2012
	Madison County Warren County (partial) Excluding Linn Township (partial) Cumming	2013-2022
	Appanoose County (partial) Excluding Independence Township Johns Township Lincoln Township Plano Davis County Monroe County Wapello County	2023-present

See also

• Iowa General Assembly
• Iowa Senate