1. Thomas Lewis Fiegen was born on October 2,1958 and is an American attorney and Democratic Party politician.
13 Facts About Tom Fiegen
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Tom Fiegen served in the Iowa State Senate from 2001 to 2003.
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Tom Fiegen sought the Democratic nomination in the 2010 US Senate election in Iowa but came in third against Roxanne Conlin who won the primary, with Bob Krause coming in second.
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Tom Fiegen again sought the Democratic nomination in the 2016 US Senate election in Iowa, repeating his third-place showing.
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Tom Fiegen endorsed Bernie Sanders for President prior to Sanders' endorsement of fellow candidate Hillary Clinton.
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Tom Fiegen was reared on a family farm in southeastern South Dakota as the eldest of eleven children.
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Tom Fiegen worked on the family farm, raising cattle and hogs, until he graduated from high school; he then began taking classes at South Dakota State University while farming and launching a grain bin construction business with his brothers.
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In 1979, rather than continuing at SDSU, Tom Fiegen went to work for the National Farmers Organization in West Fargo, North Dakota.
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Tom Fiegen worked as an apprentice electrician before returning to collegiate study.
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Tom Fiegen graduated from Kansas State University in 1984, majoring in speech and agricultural economics.
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Tom Fiegen subsequently earned a Master of Arts degree in economics and a JD degree, both from the University of Iowa.
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Tom Fiegen is a bankruptcy lawyer specializing in farms and small businesses; he has operated his own legal practice since 1996.
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Tom Fiegen has four grown children, Maureen, Kathryn, Paul, and Theresa.