Early members included a number of state and local politicians who went on to statewide or national office, including Bob Kasten and Tommy Thompson of Wisconsin ; John Engler of Michigan ; Terry Branstad of Iowa, and John Kasich of Ohio.

Branstad focused most of his efforts on endeavors outside of politics when he left office at the beginning of 1999.

The Des Moines Tea Party gave Branstad a " no " on their report card on " criteria for acceptance " and said Branstad had " a history of raising taxes, not a true conservative, and increased the size of government every year he held office, built a state-owned phone company.

" Branstad was accused by former Iowa State Auditor Richard Johnson of keeping " two sets of books " on the state budget when he was governor.

Terry E. Branstad signed a bill creating the Iowa Public Broadcasting Board on May 16, 1983.

On November 30, 1982, Ottumwa mayor Jerry Parker declared the town " Video Game Capital of the World ", a claim that was backed up by Iowa Governor Terry Branstad, Atari and the Amusement Game Manufacturers Association in a ceremony at Twin Galaxies on March 19, 1983.

Iowa Governor Terry Branstad also does an hour-long call-in show on WHO the 2nd Tuesday of the month.

Wallace achieved four gubernatorial terms across three decades, totaling sixteen years in office, a record tied by others but thus far surpassed only by Governor Terry Branstad of Iowa.

* 1946 – Terry E. Branstad, American politician

Terry Edward Branstad ( born November 17, 1946 ) is an American politician who is the 42nd and current governor of Iowa since January 2011.

Branstad was the 39th governor of Iowa from 1983 to 1999 and President of Des Moines University from 2003 to 2009.

Born to a Norwegian-American Lutheran farming family in Leland, Iowa, Branstad received his undergraduate degree from the University of Iowa and his law degree from Drake University Law School.

Branstad served three terms in the Iowa House of Representatives from 1973 to 1979 and served as the 41st Lieutenant Governor of Iowa from 1979 to 1983, when he was elected Governor of Iowa.

Branstad attends the recommissioning ceremony for the USS Iowa ( BB-61 ) | USS Iowa, April 28, 1984.

In 1991, Branstad ignored binding arbitration with employees of the State of Iowa's labor unions by vetoing a salary bill, was taken to court, and lost later in appeals in the state court system ( AFSCME Iowa Council 61 et al., v. Branstad ).

On October 7, 2009, Branstad filed papers to run for Iowa Governor in the 2010 election.

On Tuesday June 8, 2010 Branstad won the Republican gubernatorial nomination in Iowa, but when opposing candidate Bob Vander Plaats conceded, he did not endorse Branstad.

Johnson said Branstad needed to be " transparent " to Iowa voters about the reporting of Iowa's finances during his tenure as governor.

## Governor of Iowa ( Terry Branstad )

In 1994, he entered the Republican primary race for Governor of Iowa against incumbent Terry Branstad ; he lost the election by 4 percentage points.

Edwards hence joins the late George C. Wallace of Alabama, Jim Hunt of North Carolina, Bill Janklow of South Dakota, Terry Branstad of Iowa and Jim Rhodes of Ohio as 16-year governors.

Terry Branstad was elected to a fifth term as governor of Iowa in 2010.

With a tenure in office to date of, Perry is the longest continuously serving current U. S. governor, and the second longest serving current U. S. governor — after Terry Branstad of Iowa.

The Dennison decision was overruled by Puerto Rico v. Branstad, ; now, the federal courts may require the extradition of fugitives.

In 1998, Terry Branstad chose not to seek re-election following sixteen consecutive years as governor.

Lightfoot became the odds-on favorite to succeed Branstad.

Branstad entered the 2010 race as the front runner for both the primary and general elections.

When elected governor at age 36, Branstad was the youngest chief executive in Iowa's history and when he left office, was Iowa's longest-serving governor.

He founded Branstad and Associates, LLC and was also a partner in the firm of Kaufman, Pattee, Branstad & Miller, and a financial advisor for Robert W. Baird and Co.

In August 2003, Branstad accepted an offer from Des Moines University to become its president.

Branstad was appointed by President George W. Bush to chair the President's Commission for Excellence in Special Education.

On August 2, 2009, the Des Moines Register reported that Branstad was actively considering running for the Republican nomination for governor.

The promenade, for example, continues to take place on the Chahar Bagh, a mile-long garden of plane and poplar trees that now serves as the city's principal street.

SBA serves also as a clearing house for information on products and processes particularly adaptable for exploitation by small firms.

It still stands as a monument to the engineering skills of the last century and still serves in the gasoline age to carry heavy traffic on U.S. Route 250 -- the old Beverly and Fairmont Turnpike.

For me, these will belong more completely to their surroundings if they are conceived in this early stage, though I freely admit that I do not hesitate to add or eliminate figures on the full sheet when it serves my final purpose.

If you have a full-time doctor now, can he be replaced with a part-time doctor or one who serves on a fee-per-case basis only??

As a result, they go on thinking of the church, with introverted and self-centered satisfaction, only in connection with the way in which it serves them and their families.

It is hard, on the other hand, to blame the policeman, blank, good-natured, thoughtless, and insuperably innocent, for being such a perfect representative of the people he serves.

She now serves on the board of directors of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Dallas Theater Center and on the board of trustees of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts.

Putting on local musicians at this place in the program serves a triple purpose: it saves the top flight jazz men from being wasted in this unenviable spot, when the audience is cold, restless, and in flux ; ;

She also serves on the Board of Trustees for Southern Vermont College in Bennington, Vermont.

A tabernacle frame on a wall serves similar hieratic functions as a free-standing, three-dimensional architectural baldaquin or a ciborium over an altar.

The test serves as a quick and convenient assay to estimate the carcinogenic potential of a compound since standard carcinogen assays on rodents are time-consuming ( taking two to three years to complete ) and expensive.

* Revised Code of Washington 9. 12. 010: " Every person who brings on his or her own behalf, or instigates, incites, or encourages another to bring, any false suit at law or in equity in any court of this state, with intent thereby to distress or harass a defendant in the suit, or who serves or sends any paper or document purporting to be or resembling a judicial process, that is not in fact a judicial process, is guilty of a misdemeanor ; and in case the person offending is an attorney, he or she may, in addition thereto be disbarred from practicing law within this state.

When the server serves, the shuttlecock must pass over the short service line on the opponents ' court or it will count as a fault.

In contrast to a commercial bank, a central bank possesses a monopoly on increasing the nation's monetary base, and usually also prints the national currency, which usually serves as the nation's legal tender.

The Trustees elect a President to serve as the chief executive officer of the Institute and administer the affairs on the Institute on behalf of the board, a Provost who serves as the chief academic officer of the Institute below the President, and ten other vice presidential and other senior positions.

It serves as preparation for graduate school and helps to explain why Caltech has the highest percentage of alumni who go on to receive a PhD of all the major universities.

Although it serves as a rival to Confucianism, a school of active morality, this rivalry is compromised and given perspective by the idiom " practise Confucianism on the outside, Taoism on the inside.

Extensive sociological, sexological and medical debate have focused on the clitoris, primarily concerning anatomical accuracy, orgasmic factors and their physiological explanation for the G-Spot, and whether the clitoris is vestigial, an adaptation, or serves a reproductive function.

It has a load-bearing function, which concentrates the weight of the entablature on the supportive column, but it primarily serves an aesthetic purpose.

It is in the El Paso Independent School District, located on Fort Bliss property, and serves a portion of Fort Bliss.

Krulak also serves on the boards of ConocoPhillips, Freeport-McMoran ( formerly known as Phelps Dodge Corporation ) and Union Pacific Corporation.