DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — 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.

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 ...

While Jim Leach no longer considered himself a Republican in recent years, most of his career was as GOP member and an exemplary one at that. He didn’t always vote as I would have liked in his ...

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 ...

Former Rep. Jim Leach, an Iowa Republican who left Congress in 2007 and later spoke in support of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama at the 2008 Democratic National Convention ...

Flags across Iowa were at half-staff Sunday to honor former Congressman Jim Leach, who died Dec. 11, 2024, at the age of 82. Leach served 30 years as a politician from eastern Iowa and later ...

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

tweaking" -- And that they'll get it done next year. Today, flags across the state were at half-staff to honor Jim Leach. The former Iowa Congressman passed away on Wednesday. KCCI's Amanda Rooker ...

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 ...