Leach, a Republican, won election to the U.S. House in 1976 and went on to represent parts of eastern Iowa in Congress for 30 years.

Iowa’s longtime U.S. Rep. Jim Leach has died at 82 years old. Leach was born and raised in Davenport and served in the U.S.

Leach represented a GOP culture that's on the brink of extinction, but besides that he was a gracious friend, writes Julie ...

Former Iowa congressman Jim Leach has died at age 82. Leach served as a Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1977 to 2007. He then served as the head of the National Endowment for the ...

Former Governor of Massachusetts, Bill Weld, left and former U.S. Rep. from Iowa Jim Leach, appeared together as Weld ...

Leach graduated from Davenport High School and exceled as a 138-pound high school wrestler. He later was inducted to the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. He spent most of his life as a fiscally ...

Former U.S. Rep. James Leach, a Republican who represented southeast Iowa in Congress for 30 years, died at 82 on Wednesday.

DES MOINES, Iowa -- Former U.S. Rep. Jim Leach, who served 30 years as a politician from eastern Iowa and later headed the ...

He later became a University of Iowa chair in public affairs and a visiting professor in the College of Law and Department of Political Science. In 2016, he was named interim director of the UI Museum ...

Representing eastern Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives for three decades, Leach developed a close connection to the ...

Jim Leach, a Davenport native who represented Iowa in congress for 30 years, has died at the age of 82. Leach was first elected to the U.S. House in 1976 and rose to be Republican chairman of the ...

Leach served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1977 to 2007, a tenure rivaled only by two others in Iowa history.