district state_senate predecessor successor religion birth_place party prior_term birth_date term_start residence spouse article_title term_end name
40th iowa jack nystrom jerry behn evangelical free church of america norwalk , iowa democrat 44th -lrb- 1991 -- 1993 -rrb- 19 february 1932 1991 boone , iowa joann albert sorensen
 january 13 , 1997 albert sorensen
albert sorensen

albert `` al '' sorensen -lrb- born february 19 , 1932 -rrb- served as a democratic iowa state senator from 1991 to 1997 .
he joined the senate after winning a special election in 1991 , his predecessor , jack nystrom -lrb- r-boone -rrb- , having resigned to serve on the iowa liquor commission .
he won re-election in 1992 , but lost in 1996 to republican jerry behn .
during his second term in the senate , sorensen served on several committees in the iowa senate - the agriculture committee ; the natural resources , environment and energy committee ; the small business , economic development & tourism committee ; the state government committee ; and the local government committee , where he was the chair .
sorensen was elected to the boone county board of supervisors in 2000 and re-elected in 2004 .
he was nominated to be the democratic candidate for the 24th senate district , challenging republican incumbent jerry behn in the 2008 general election .
