Flags across Iowa were at half-staff Sunday to honor former Congressman Jim Leach, who passed away on Wednesday.

Iowa and the nation lost a rare public servant last week. And Deba Leach lost her husband, Jim. Former Congressman Jim Leach ...

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Jim Leach UI professor Former congressman From the nosebleed environs in what was then known as the Pepsi Center in ...

Eastern Iowa congressional candidates Democrat Dave Loebsack (left) and Republican Rep. Jim Leach speak Oct. 16, 2006, after ...

Flags will be at half-staff in Iowa on Saturday to honor former Iowa Congressman Jim Leach, who died on Dec. 11.

Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds has ordered all flags in Iowa to be lowered to half-staff from sunrise on Saturday, December 14, ...

Governor Kim Reynolds has ordered the flags to be flown at half-staff this weekend in remembrance of former Congressman Jim ...

Jim Leach, a Davenport native who represented Iowa in Congress for 30 years, has died at the age of 82. Leach — first elected ...

Jim Leach, who represented eastern Iowa in Congress for 30 years and later went on to lead the National Endowment for the ...

Leach represented a GOP culture that's on the brink of extinction, but besides that he was a gracious friend, writes Julie ...

Leach, a Republican, won election to the U.S. House in 1976 and went on to represent parts of eastern Iowa in Congress for 30 years.