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{{short description|Sub-project of WikiProject Iowa}}
This is the government section for [[WP:IOWA|WikiProject Iowa]].  Its scope includes those articles which are part of WikiProject Iowa and which are related to government (e.g. [[Iowa General Assembly]], [[Steve Warnstadt]], [[Code of Iowa]], [[United States Congressional Delegations from Iowa]]).  If you tag an article as part of this section please add them to one or more of the tables in the "Assessment" section below.
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== Tagging articles ==
===WikiProject Iowa banner===
Any article on an Iowa politician will fall under [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Iowa|WikiProject Iowa]].
Use the following in the template:

{{tlx|WikiProject United States|2=class=|3=importance=|4=IA=yes|5=IA-importance=|6=listas=}}

===WikiProject Biography Banner===
This banner is also important, as every article on an Iowa politician will also fall within [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography|WikiProject Biography]]'s [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Politics and government|politician work group]].  <br>
Use the following in the template:<br>
<code><nowiki>{{WikiProject Biography</nowiki></code><br><code><nowiki>
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==Templates==
===Infoboxes===
* {{tl|Infobox officeholder}}

===External links===
* {{tl|CongLinks}}

===Other Templates===
* {{tl|Current U.S. Senators}}
* {{tl|IA-FedRep}}
* {{tl|Current Iowa Representatives}}
* {{tl|Current Iowa Senators}}
* {{tl|Iowa-politician-stub}}
* {{tl|Compact election box no change}}
* {{tl|USSenIA}}
* {{tl|IARepresentatives}}
* <nowiki>{{start box}}</nowiki><br><nowiki>{{S-par|us-ia-hs}}</nowiki> ''If in the [[Iowa House of Representatives]]''<br><nowiki>{{S-par|us-ia-sen}}</nowiki> ''If in the [[Iowa Senate]]''<br><nowiki>
{{succession box| title=</nowiki>''Nth''<nowiki> District |before= | years= |after= }}</nowiki><br><nowiki>{{end box}}</nowiki>

'''Example:'''
{{start box}}
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{{succession box| title=2nd District |before=[[Patrick Gill]] | years=1994 &ndash; 2002 |after=[[Roger Wendt]]}}
{{s-par|us-ia-sen}}
{{succession box| title=1st District |before=[[Steven D. Hansen]] | years = 2002 &ndash; present|after=[[Incumbent]]}}
{{end box}}

===Clean up===
* {{tl|Cleanup Congress Bio}}

==Categories==
* [[:Category:Government of Iowa]]
* [[:Category:Politics of Iowa]]
* [[:Category:Iowa elections]]
* [[:Category:United States senators from Iowa]]
* [[:Category:Members of the United States House of Representatives from Iowa]]
* [[:Category:State constitutional officers of Iowa]]
* [[:Category:Members of the Iowa House of Representatives]]
* [[:Category:Iowa State Senators]]
* [[:Category:Iowa state court judges]]
* [[:Category:Iowa government navigational boxes]]
* [[:Category:Iowa Democrats]]
* [[:Category:Iowa Republicans]]

==Useful sources==
===Biographies===
* Information about every current federal and state level politician can be found at [http://www.vote-smart.org Project Vote Smart], though {{as of|October 2011|lc=y}}, it appears that pages disappear when the politician is no longer in office.
* A biography of every U.S. Senator and Representative can be found at this public domain source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp
* Information about every U.S. federal judge can be found at this public domain source: http://air.fjc.gov/history/home.nsf/Judges!OpenFrameSet
* Information about past and present Iowa State Senators and Representatives can be found at the [http://www3.legis.state.ia.us/ga/legislators.do Iowa General Assembly website]
* The biannually published ''[[Iowa Official Register]]'' (Redbook) is a good source of information on members of the Iowa executive, legislative, and judicial branches.  Many editions also contain election results, historical and governmental essays, and useful photos or portraits.  Older editions are at [[commons:Category:Iowa Official Register]], virtually all editions are on the Iowa legislature's website.
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**These can be cited using {{tl|Redbook}}, which is {{tl|cite journal}} with the parameters that apply to the volume as a whole already filled out.
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* Information about members, and other information about the [[Iowa General Assembly]] from 1981-2002 can be found [http://www.legis.state.ia.us/Pubinfo/Library/Members19812002.pdf here], in a supplement to ''The Iowa General Assembly: Our Legislative Heritage 1846-1980'', complied by Francis (Frank) J. Stork and Cynthia A. Clingan and published in 1979).
* Iowa biographies can be found in [[s:History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century/4|History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century - Volume 4]]

===Elections===
* Information about money in U.S. federal elections can be found at [http://www.opensecrets.org/ Open Secrets], and money in state politics can be found at [http://www.followthemoney.org/ Follow the Money].

==Assessment==
{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Iowa articles by quality statistics}}

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