page_title: 1902 and 1903 United States Senate elections
section_title: Iowa (Special)
hierarchical_section_title: 1902 and 1903 United States Senate elections / Iowa / Iowa (Special)
caption_attribution_description: Portrait in History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
context_page_description: The United States Senate elections of 1902 and 1903 were elections which had the Democratic Party gain three seats in the United States Senate, but the Republicans kept their strong majority.
  As these elections were prior to ratification of the seventeenth amendment, senators were chosen by state legislatures.
context_section_description: First-term Republican John H. Gear had died July 14, 1900 and Republican Jonathan P. Dolliver had been appointed August 22, 1900 to finish the term ending in 1901 and to the term beginning thereafter, pending a special election.
  Dolliver was elected January 22, 1902 to finish the term that would end in 1907.
caption: Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver
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