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Jim Leach

Jim Leach
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Chairperson of the National Endowment for the Humanities
In office
August 7, 2009 – April 23, 2013
President Barack Obama
Preceded by Carole Watson (Acting)
Succeeded by Carole Watson (Acting)
Chairman of the House Banking and Financial Services Committee
In office
January 4, 1995 – January 3, 2001
Speaker Newt Gingrich
Dennis Hastert
Preceded by Henry B. Gonzalez
Succeeded by Mike Oxley
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Iowa's 2nd district
In office
January 3, 2003 – January 3, 2007
Preceded by Jim Nussle
Succeeded by David Loebsack
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Iowa's 1st district
In office
January 3, 1977 – January 3, 2003
Preceded by Edward Mezvinsky
Succeeded by Jim Nussle
Personal details
Born James Albert Smith Leach
(1942-10-15) October 15, 1942 (age 74)
Davenport, Iowa, U.S.
Political party Republican
Spouse(s) Deba Leach
Alma mater Princeton University
Johns Hopkins University
London School of Economics
Religion Episcopal

James Albert Smith "Jim" Leach (born October 15, 1942) is an American academic and former politician. He served as ninth Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities from 2009 to 2013 and was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa (1977–2007).

Leach was the John L. Weinberg Visiting Professor of Public and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University. He also served as the interim director of the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University from September 17, 2007, to September 1, 2008, when Bill Purcell was appointed permanent director.

Previously, Leach served 30 years (1977–2007) as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Iowa's 2nd congressional district (numbered as the 1st District from 1977 to 2003). In Congress, Leach chaired the House Committee on Banking and Financial Services (1995–2001) and was a senior member of the House Committee on International Relations, serving as Chair of the Committee’s Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs (2001–2006). He also founded and served as co-chair of the Congressional Humanities Caucus. He lost his 2006 re-election bid to Democrat Dave Loebsack. Leach sponsored the 1999 Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act, a notable piece of banking legislation of the 20th century.


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