Chuck Grassley
Charles Ernest Chuck Grassley is the senior United States Senator from Iowa, serving since 1981. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served in the United States House of Representatives and the Iowa state legislature . He was chairman of the Senate Finance Committee from January to June 2001 and from January 2003 to December 2006. Senator Grassley is the current chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the 114th congress.
Grassley was born in New Hartford, Iowa, the son of Ruth and Louis Arthur Grassley, and graduated from the town high school. At Iowa State Teachers College , he earned a B.A. in 1955 and an M.A. in 1956. During his time as a student, Grassley joined the socialprofessional Alpha Gamma Rho Fraternity. Also during the 1950s, Grassley farmed and worked in factories, first as a sheet metal shearer and then as an assembly line worker. He studied toward a Ph.D. in political science at the University of Iowa. In 19671968 Grassley taught at the nowdefunct Charles City College.
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