1007 East Grand Avenue
Des Moines, IA 50319
Full Name:
Dennis R. Guth
Gender:
Male
Family:
Spouse: Margaret; 5 Children: Eric, Natalie, Anna, Peter, Lilly
Birth Date:
04/25/1955
Birth Place:
Belmond, IA
Home City:
Klemme, IA
Religion:
Christian, Evangelical Free Church
BS , Agricultural Mechanization, Iowa State Uiversity, 1977
Graduated, Agricultural Mechanization, Iowa State University, 1977
Senator, Iowa State Senate, District 28, 2023-present
Candidate, Iowa State Senate, District 28, 2024
Senator, Iowa State Senate, District 4, 2012-2023
Candidate, Iowa State Senate, District 4, 2020
Chairman, Ell Township Republicans, 1994-2006
Member, Agriculture Committee
Member, Appropriations Committee
Member, Health and Human Services Committee
Member, Local Government Committee
Member, State Government Committee
Chair, Subcommittee on Administration and Regulation Appropriations
Former Member, Commerce Committee, Iowa State Senate
Former Vice Chair, Ethics Committee, Iowa State Senate
Chair, Iowa State Senate Administration and Regulation Appropriations Subcommittee
Former Member, Iowa State Senate Workforce Committee
Former Member, Rules and Administration Committee, Iowa State Senate
Farmer, Guth Farms Incorporated
Co-Founder, Let Us Vote Iowa, present
Member, National Rifle Association, present
Former Elder, Britt Evangelical Free Church
Member, Elder Board, Britt Evangelical Free Church, present
Member, Corn Association
Member, Family Leader/ Iowa Family Policy Center
Member and President, Hancock County Farm Bureau
Member, Hancock County Pork Producers
Chair, Klemme Area Development Organization
Member, Soybean Association
Number of Grandchildren:
10
Priority Issues:
*Stop and reverse federal encroachment on Iowa's sovereignty and state's rights.
*Defend Iowa's "English Only" law; and promote laws which prohibit illegal aliens from employment and state benefits.
*Reduce the power and scope of unelected bureaucracies.
*Restore the right of parents to direct their children's education, and Keep control of schools with the local school board, not with state or federal agencies.
*Defend Iowa's "Right to Work" law.
*Defend Iowans from excessive, unjustified and punitive taxation.
*Restore and defend the right to life of all innocent persons, from fertilization to natural death.
*Restore our right to keep and bear arms and Defend against any infringement on the right to keep and bear arms.
*Restore traditional marriage by calling for a constitutional amendment which defines marriage as a union between one man and one woman.