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 ...

He endorsed Barack Obama in 2008 and became a Democrat in 2022. By Clay Risen Jim Leach, a soft-spoken, cerebral Iowa Republican who spent three decades in Congress tirelessly lofting the banner ...

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 ...

Jim Leach, who represented Iowa in Congress for 30 years, has died at 82. Leach served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1977 to 2007 as a Republican, a tenure rivaled only by two other U ...

IOWA — Former Iowa congressman Jim Leach, who represented Iowa in Congress for 30 years, has died at the age of 82, reports say. Leach was born in Davenport. He was first elected to Congress as ...

Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, who currently represents southeast Iowa, said she was sad to hear of Leach’s passing in a statement posted on X, formerly Twitter, on Wednesday. “Sad to hear of the ...