Roger Tabor Stewart is the Iowa

Iowa

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 State Senator

State Senator

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 from the 13th District. A Democrat

Iowa Democratic Party

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, he has served in the Iowa Senate

Iowa Senate

The Iowa Senate is the upper house of the Iowa General Assembly. There are 50 members of the Senate, representing 50 single-member districts across the state with populations of approximately 59,500 per constituency. Each Senate district is composed of two House districts...

 since 2003.

Stewart currently serves on several committees in the Iowa Senate - the Commerce committee; the Environment and Energy Independence committee; the Rebuild Iowa committee; the Ways and Means committee; and the Economic Growth committee, where he is chair.

Stewart was re-elected in 2006

Iowa Senate elections, 2006

The 2006 Iowa Senate election was held on November 7, 2006. The Senate seats for the twenty-five odd-numbered districts were up for election. Senate terms are staggered such that half the membership is elected every two years. Senators serve four-year terms. Prior to the election, the Senate...

 with 12,886 votes (65%), defeating Republican

Republican Party of Iowa

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 opponent Lametta K. Wynn

LaMetta Wynn

LaMetta Wynn was the mayor of Clinton, Iowa from 1995 to 2007. She was the first African-American woman to hold the position of mayor in any Iowa municipality....

. http://www.sos.state.ia.us/pdfs/GenOffResults.pdf

External links

• Senator Roger Stewart official Iowa Legislature site
• Senator Roger Stewart official Iowa General Assembly site
• State Senator Roger Stewart official constituency site