# Iowa's 17th Senate district

The 17th District of the Iowa Senate is located in central Iowa, and is currently composed of part of Polk County.

## Current elected officials

Izaah Knox is the senator currently representing the 17th District.
The area of the 17th District contains two Iowa House of Representatives districts:
* The 33rd District (represented by Ruth Ann Gaines)
* The 34th District (represented by Rob Johnson)
The district is also located in Iowa's 3rd congressional district, which is represented by Zach Nunn.

## List of representatives

| Representative | Party | Dates | Residence | Notes |
| Jonathan Emerson Fletcher | Democrat | 1852-1853 | Muscatine, Iowa | |
| George W. Wilkinson | Whig | 1854-1855 | Muscatine, Iowa | |
| Jairus Edward Neal | Democrat | 1856-1859 | Marion County, Iowa | |
| Henry H. Williams | Democrat | 1860-1863 | Eddyville, Iowa | |
| John Chrisfield Hogin | Republican | 1864-1865 | Sigourney, Iowa | |
| Ezekiel Silas Sampson | Republican | 1866-1868 | Sigourney, Iowa | Elected district judge in 1868 |
| John C. Johnson | Republican | 1868-1869 | Keokuk County, Iowa | |
| Joseph Warren Havens | Republican | 1870-1873 | Sigourney, Iowa | |
| Lafayette Young | Republican | 1874-1877 | Cass County, Iowa | |
| William Graham | Republican | 1878-1879 | Indianola, Iowa | |
| Mark Antony Dashiel | Republican | 1880-1883 | Indianola, Iowa | |
| Timothy Gordon Caldwell | Republican | 1884-1891 | Adel, Iowa | |
| Henry Franklin Andrews | Republican | 1892-1895 | Exira, Iowa | |
| Albert C. Hotchkiss | Republican | 1896-1899 | Adel, Iowa | |
| Frank M. Hopkins | Republican | 1900-1908 | Guthrie Center, Iowa | |
| George Cosson | Republican | 1909-1910 | Audubon County, Iowa | Elected as Iowa Attorney General in 1911 |
| Anthony Milroy McColl | Republican | 1911-1913 | Woodward, Iowa | Resigned in 1913 to accept appointment to the State Board of Control |
| John Wasson Foster | Republican | 1915-1920 | Guthrie Center, Iowa | |
| Halleck J. Mantz | Republican | 1921-1924 | Audubon, Iowa | |
| Redfield Clipper Mills | Republican | 1925-1928 | Redfield, Iowa | |
| Frank Bissell | Republican | 1929-1932 | Dexter, Iowa | |
| George M. Hopkins | Republican | 1933-1940 | Bear Grove, Iowa | Died in office in 1940 |
| Ai Miller | Republican | 1941-1948 | Gray, Iowa | |
| Glen Edwin Whitehead | Republican | 1949-1956 | Dallas County, Iowa | |
| Gerald William Prince | Republican | 1957-1960 | Guthrie Center, Iowa | |
| Harry L. Cowden | Republican | 1961-1964 | Guthrie County, Iowa | Two senators from district 14 are listed on the Iowa Official Register for General Assembly 60 & 61. This is the combined result of redistricting and election cycles and affected multiple districts. |
| C. Joseph Coleman | Democrat | 1963-1964 | Clare, Iowa | |
| Jack Schroeder | Republican | 1963-1966 | Davenport, Iowa | |
| Joseph W. Cassidy | Democrat | 1965-1966 | Guthrie Center, Iowa | |
| Robert Burns | Democrat | 1967-1968 | Johnson County, Iowa | |
| Minnette Fredrichs Doderer | Democrat | 1969-1970 | Johnson County, Iowa | |
| Rudy Van Drie | Republican | 1971-1972 | Story County, Iowa | |
| Barton L. Schwieger | Republican | 1973-1974 | Waterloo, Iowa | |
| Fred W. Nolting | Democrat | 1975-1978 | Waterloo, Iowa | |
| Richard L. Comito | Republican | 1979-1982 | Waterloo, Iowa | |
| Joseph J. Welsh | Democrat | 1983-1994 | Key West, Iowa | |
| Thomas L. Flynn | Democrat | 1995-2002 | Dubuque, Iowa | |
| Wally E. Horn | Democrat | 2003-2012 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa | |
| Jack Hatch | Democrat | 2013-2014 | Des Moines, Iowa | |
| Tony Bisignano | Democrat | 2015-2022 | Des Moines, Iowa | |
| Izaah Knox | Democrat | 2023-present | Des Moines, Iowa | |

## Historical district boundaries

Source:
| Description | Years effective | Notes |
| Muscatine County | 1852-1855 | |
| Marion County | 1856-1859 | |
| Mahaska County | 1860-1863 | |
| Keokuk County | 1864-1873 | |
| Adair County Adams County Cass County Union County | 1874-1877 | |
| Warren County | 1878-1883 | |
| Audubon County Dallas County Guthrie County | 1884-1962 | |
| Scott County | 1963-1966 | |
| Johnson County | 1967-1970 | |
| Jasper County (partial) Story 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. |
| Black Hawk County (partial) Waterloo | 1973-1982 | |
| Dubuque County (partial) Excluding Dubuque Jackson County | 1983-1992 | |
| Delaware County (partial) Dubuque County (partial) Excluding Dubuque Jackson County | 1993-2002 | |
| Linn County (partial) Cedar Rapids (partial) Region of the city south and west of the Cedar River and the Downtown District | 2003-2012 | |
| Polk County (partial) Des Moines (partial) Region south of the Des Moines River, bounded approximately by 20th and 43rd Streets | 2013-2022 | |
| Polk County (partial) Des Moines (partial) Northern half of the city | 2023-present | |