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Jefferson County has been represented in the State Senate by William G. Coop, J. R. Teas, Robert Brown, John Howell, John Park, William M. Reed, James F. Wilson, J. M. Shaffer, D. P. Stubbs, A. R. Pierce and M. A. McCoid.

In the House of Representatives, by Alexander Wilson, Richard Quinton, ------ Stansberry, J. W. Culbertson, R. R. Harper, J. H. Flint, S. Whitmore, J. R. Bailey, W. H. Lyons, George Weyand, William Baker, Andrew Collins, Thomas McCulloch, Charles Negus, H. D. Gibson, W. J. Rogers, H. B. Mitchell, J. Wamsley, R. Stephenson, Edmund Meacham, William Bickford, C. E. Noble, Louis Roeder, J. F. Wilson, Thomas Moorman, Mathew Clark, Peter Walker, W. W. Cottle, A. R. Pierce, Owen Bromley, George C. Fry, John Hayden, A. R. Fulton, William Hopkirk, Joseph Ball, Edward Campbell, Jr., W. L. S. Simmons and John Herron.

In 1844, Robert Brown, Samuel Whitmore, J. L. Murray, Hardin Butler and S. S. Ross, were elected Delegates to the State Constitutional Convention. The Constitution submitted was rejected by the people, and, in 1846, a second Convention was called. William G. Coop and S. S. Ross were sent as Delegates. James F. Wilson was chosen a Delegate to the Convention of 1856, for the revision of the Constitution.

Two citizens of the county have represented the First Congressional District of Iowa in the United States Congress -- Bernhard Henn in the Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Congresses, from 1851 to 1855, and James F. Wilson in the Thirty-seventh, Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses from 1862 to 1869. M. A. McCoid, of Fairfield, was elected as Representative to Congress at the October election, 1878.