Iowa's 43rd Senate district
The 43rd District of the Iowa Senate is located in southeastern Iowa, and is currently composed of part of Johnson County.
Current elected officials
Zach Wahls is the senator currently representing the 43rd District.The area of the 43rd District contains two Iowa House of Representatives districts:
- The 85th District
- The 86th District
Past senators
The district has previously been represented by:- Sherman G. Smith, 1862-1864
- George W. Bassett, 1864-1866
- John G. Patterson, 1866-1872
- Alonzo Converse, 1872-1876
- Arad Hitchcock, 1876
- William Larrabee, 1878-1884
- John D. Glass, 1884-1888
- Norman V. Brower, 1888-1896
- Walter F. Harriman, 1896-1904
- Abner H. Gale, 1904-1909
- John Hammill, 1909-1913
- Thomas J.B. Robinson, 1913-1917
- Arthur L. Rule, 1917-1921
- John E. Wichman, 1921-1925
- Charles Frederic Johnston, 1925-1929
- Edward W. Clark, 1929-1933
- William C. McArthur, 1933-1937
- Earl M. Dean, 1937-1941
- Oscar E. Johnson, 1941-1945
- Herman M. Knudson, 1945-1957
- William H. Tate, 1957-1959
- Walter E. Edelen, 1959-1961
- Leigh Raymond Curran, 1961-1965
- Raymond W. Hagie, 1965-1967
- John Leonard Buren, 1967-1969
- Herbert Luther Ollenburg, 1969-1971
- John C. Rhodes, 1971-1973
- Lowell L. Jurkins, 1973-1983
- Thomas Mann, 1983–1990
- Florence Buhr, 1991–1992
- Derryl McLaren, 1993–2001
- Hubert Houser, 2001-2003
- Joe Seng, 2003–2012
- Joe Bolkcom, 2013–2022
- Zach Wahls, 2023–Present