Jim Leach, an Iowa Republican who served three decades in the U.S. House, broke party ranks by opposing the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and later served as head of the National Endowment for ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Longtime Congressman Jim Leach has died. He was 82 years old. The Davenport-native served 30 years in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1977-2007. The Republican ...

In an interview Wednesday, Loebsack praised Leach as a thoughtful and principled member of Congress. "I wasn’t running against Jim Leach so much as I was running to change control in Washington ...

Former U.S. Rep. Jim Leach, who served 30 years as a politician from eastern Iowa and later headed the National Endowment for the Humanities, died Wednesday. He was 82. Leach, whose death was ...

Maybe I got the legislative assistant job in Jim Leach’s Washington congressional office because I was the only one who could keep the Gestetner mimeograph machine running, a tribute to my youth ...

Jim Leach was always gracious to me as the last Democratic candidate he defeated for U.S. Congress back in 2004. Unlike for so many in today’s environment, Jim listened thoughtfully and engaged ...