Leonard Boswell

Leonard L. Boswell ( born January 10, 1934 Harrison County, Missouri) is an American politician. From 1997 to 2013 he represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives. In the 2012 election, he defeated his Republican competitor Tom Latham.

Career

Leonard Boswell visited until 1952 the Lamoni High School in Iowa. Thereafter, he served from 1956 to 1976 in the U.S. Army. He was also used in the Vietnam War. In addition, he was temporarily stationed in Germany and Portugal. In the army he brought it up to lieutenant colonel. During his military service he studied until 1969 at Graceland College. After his military service, he managed the family-owned farm in Davis City. Between 1979 and 1993 he was a board member and most of the time also a director of the Farmer Association in Decatur County.

Politically, Boswell joined the Democratic Party. Between 1984 and 1996 he sat in the Senate of Iowa; Since 1992, he was its president. In the congressional elections of 1996 he was in the third electoral district of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he stepped on 3 January 1997 at the succession of Republican Jim Ross Lightfoot and could be in the following midterm elections say each time until he was defeated in 2012 by his Republican challenger Tom Latham. After the clean slate of the constituencies had been of a different constituency Associate Lotham, which is considered moderate Republican and had worked together often good with Boswell, Boswell challenged in his former constituency; between the two there had been a very expensive and highly controversial election fighting slugfest. With Latham's office on January 3, 2013 Boswell resigned from the Congress.

He was considered a moderate Democrat ( "blue dog" ) and voted often with the Republicans against his party - for example, when it came to the adoption of the Patriot Act. Boswell was a member of the Committee on Agriculture and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in some sub-committees. He is married with Dody Boswell and lives privately in Des Moines.

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