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Sarah Trone Garriott (IA-03)

Democrat - Iowa

Running for House

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This close election will help determine control of the House & Senate. 

Sarah Trone Garriott is a Lutheran minister, nonprofit leader, mother, and Iowa state senator who has spent her career serving communities through faith, public service, and advocacy. Before entering politics, she worked as a hospital chaplain, pastor, and interfaith-engagement leader with the Des Moines Area Religious Council Food Pantry Network. Elected to the Iowa Senate in 2020, she became known for her work on health care, education, human rights, and support for working families. Trone Garriott is running for Congress in Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District to bring her record of community service to Washington, arguing that Iowans deserve a representative who will lower costs, protect health care, strengthen public education, support rural communities, and defend democracy and the rights of all Americans.

PARTY: Democrat

EDUCATION: College of St. Scholastica(B.A.),Harvard Divinity School (M.T.S.). Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (M.Div.)

OCCUPATION PRIOR TO CONGRESSIONAL SERVICE: Iowa State Senator, Emmy Award-winning television news anchor and journalist.

BORN: May 21, 1978

VOTING RECORD

First-time candidates do not yet have a voting record.

“It’s uncomfortable to see faith and political power collide.”
- Sarah Trone Garriott

POLITICAL CAREER

  • Iowa State Senate District 14 (2023-present)

  • Iowa State Senate District 22 (2020-2022)


INTERESTING FACTS

  • Served as an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer, spending a year supporting victims of domestic violence in New Mexico.

  • Was a chaplain at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia and later at Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago.

  • Flipped a Republican-held Iowa Senate seat in 2020.

24d 3h 55m 17s until Election Day '26

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