10 Facts About Dave Loebsack

David Wayne Loebsack is an American politician who served as the US representative for from 2007 to 2021.

In 2006, Dave Loebsack narrowly defeated 15-term Republican incumbent Jim Leach in one of the biggest upsets of the cycle.

Dave Loebsack was nominated by a special convention of the 2nd District after failing to get the required number of signatures to be on the primary ballot.

Dave Loebsack won largely by running up an 8,395-vote margin in Johnson County, home to Iowa City.

Dave Loebsack was easily reelected in 2008, taking 57 percent of the vote over Mariannette Miller-Meeks, a doctor from Ottumwa and the former president of the state medical society.

Dave Loebsack faced Miller-Meeks again in 2010 and had a much more difficult time of it than he had two years earlier.

Again, Dave Loebsack was the only Democrat that Iowa sent to the House in 2016.

Democrats flipped the 1st and 3rd districts in this election cycle; therefore, Dave Loebsack was no longer the sole Democratic member of Iowa's congressional delegation.

In September 2017, Dave Loebsack told Ottumwa voters that he supports Dreamers.

Ahead of the 2020 Iowa Democratic caucuses, Dave Loebsack endorsed former South Bend, Indiana, mayor Pete Buttigieg for President of the United States.