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Branstad Reflects on Career and Revolutionary Era Figures
Des Moines recalled Iowa Governor Terry Branstad 21 years in office in a Capitol room. He compares his tenure to historic leaders like George Clinton, noting Clinton’s Revolutionary War log chain across the Hudson and service as Jefferson and Madison’s vice president.
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Stephen Mally
the Gazette
Terry Branstad
Iowa Ag
Elwell Family Food Center
Iowa State Fairgrounds
Des Moines
Branstad
New York
George Clinton
U.S
Iowa Capitol
Iowa
Hudson River
New York City
Hudson
Thomas) Jefferson
James
Madison
Clinton