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Thomas Richard “Tom” Harkin (born November 19, 1939) is the junior United States Senator from Iowa and a member of the Democratic Party. First elected to the Senate in 1984, Harkin was a candidate for his party’s presidential nomination in 1992, and is currently chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.
In 1969, Harkin moved to Washington, D.C., and began work as an aide to Democratic Congressman Neal Smith. During his work for Smith, he accompanied a congressional delegation that went to South Vietnam in 1970.
In 1984, Harkin won the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate and defeated freshman Republican Roger Jepsen by a surprisingly wide 11-point margin. He was reelected in 1990, 1996, 2002 and 2008. He has served in the Senate longer than any Democrat in Iowa’s history, and only Neal Smith has served in Congress longer among Iowa Democrats.
Senator Harkin married Minnesota native Ruth Raduenz in 1968 and has two daughters: Amy, born in 1976, and Jenny, born in 1981.
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