# 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.

## Current elected officials

Cherielynn Westrich is the senator currently representing the 13th District.
The area of the 13th District contains two Iowa House of Representatives districts:
* 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.

## List of representatives

| 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" 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. |
| 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. |
| 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:
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 | |