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 ...

By Clay Risen Jim Leach, a soft-spoken ... so that he endorsed Barack Obama in 2008 and switched parties in 2022 — died on Dec. 11 in Iowa City. he was 82. His daughter, Jenny Dix, said his ...

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, an Iowa Republican who served three decades ... Endowment for the Humanities during the Obama administration, died Dec. 11 at a hospital in Iowa City. He was 82. His daughter, Jenny ...

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, died Dec. 11.

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 ...