Jeff Shipley
Member of the Iowa House of Representatives
from the 87th district
Assumed office
January 14, 2019
Preceded byPhil Miller
Personal details
Born (1988-08-09) August 9, 1988 (age 35)
Euclid, Ohio, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
Residence(s)Fairfield, Iowa, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of Iowa (B.A.)

Jeff Shipley (born August 9, 1988) is an American politician from the state of Iowa currently serving in the Iowa House of Representatives as the representative of District 87.[1]

Shipley was born in Euclid, Ohio, in 1988 and was raised in Naperville, Illinois, where he graduated high school. He received his B.A. in political science from the University of Iowa in 2010. Since 2011, he has been a resident of Fairfield, Iowa.[2]

In March 2021, Shipley stated that the term "white privilege" is "racist on its face" and believes that when the term "white privilege" is used, it judges him based on the color of his skin, saying it was "just as Dr. Martin Luther King advised people not to do".[3]

In late January 2024, Shipley proposed a bill to remove gender identity protections from Iowa civil rights law and classify gender dysphoria as a disability. The bill was eventually rejected on January 31.[4] Shipley previously compared affirming transgender identity or gender dysphoria to affirming a sarcoma, saying "a sarcoma would be treated with aggressive therapies to remove or heal the cancerous growth and that same medical framework should be applied to the epidemic of identity disorders".[5]

Electoral history

2014

Election Political result Candidate Party Votes %
Iowa House general election, 2014 [6]
District 82		Democratic Curt Hanson (I)Democratic5,88551.7
Jeff Shipley Republican5,48748.3

2018

Election Political result Candidate Party Votes %
Iowa House general election, 2018 [7]
District 82		Republican Jeff ShipleyRepublican6,12050.1
Phil Miller (I) Democratic6,08349.8

2020

Election Political result Candidate Party Votes %
Iowa House general election, 2020 [8]
District 82		Republican Jeff Shipley (I)Republican7,77050.47
Phil Miller Democratic7,60449.36

2022

Election Political result Candidate Party Votes %
Iowa House primary elections, 2022 [9]
District 87		Republican Jeff ShipleyRepublican1,60554.80
Joe Mitchell Republican1,31945.03
Write-ins Republican50.17
Iowa House general election, 2022 [10]
District 87		Republican Jeff ShipleyRepublican6,43955.45
Mike Heaton Democratic5,15444.39
Write-ins 190.16

References

  1. ^ Iowa Legislative Services Agency. "State Representative". Retrieved 19 September 2020.
  2. ^ "Republican Jeff Shipley will represent Iowa House district 82". Bleeding Heartland. 2018-11-27. Retrieved 2020-09-19.
  3. ^ "Standing up for free speech (unless it's about white privilege or implicit bias)". Iowa Capital Dispatch. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
  4. ^ "Iowa House lawmakers reject bill to remove gender identity protections from Iowa civil rights law". Iowa Capital Dispatch. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
  5. ^ "Rep. Jeff Shipley Says Trans Iowans Have Mental Illness, Compares Them to Cancer". Iowa Starting Line. Retrieved 10 March 2024.
  6. ^ "State of Iowa – General Election 2014 – Canvass Summary (11/04/2014)" (PDF). Secretary of State of Iowa. 2014-12-01. p. 191. Retrieved 2020-09-19.
  7. ^ "State of Iowa – General Election 2018 – Canvass Summary (11/06/2018)" (PDF). Secretary of State of Iowa. 2018-12-03. p. 170. Retrieved 2020-09-19.
  8. ^ "State of Iowa – General Election 2020 – Canvass Summary (11/03/2020)" (PDF). Secretary of State of Iowa. 2020-11-30. p. 144. Retrieved 2020-12-01.
  9. ^ "State of Iowa – Primary Election 2022 – Canvass Summary (06/07/2022)" (PDF). Secretary of State of Iowa. 2022-06-07. p. 408. Retrieved 2022-12-08.
  10. ^ "State of Iowa – General Election 2022". Secretary of State of Iowa. 2022-11-08. Retrieved 2022-11-08.
Iowa House of Representatives Preceded byDennis Cohoon 87th district 2023-Present Succeeded byIncumbent Preceded byPhil Miller 82nd district 2019–2023 Succeeded byBobby Kaufmann
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