Jim Leach, an Iowa Republican who served three decades in the U.S. House, broke party ranks by opposing the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and later served as head of the National Endowment for ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Longtime Congressman Jim Leach has died. He was 82 years old. The Davenport-native served 30 years in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1977-2007. The Republican ...

In an interview Wednesday, Loebsack praised Leach as a thoughtful and principled member of Congress. "I wasn’t running against Jim Leach so much as I was running to change control in Washington ...

Former U.S. Rep. Jim Leach, who served 30 years as a politician from eastern Iowa and later headed the National Endowment for the Humanities, died Wednesday. He was 82. Leach, whose death was ...