Steve King
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa's 4th district |
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Assumed office January 3, 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Tom Latham |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa's 5th district |
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In office January 3, 2003 – January 3, 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Tom Latham |
| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
| Member of the Iowa Senate from the 6th district |
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In office January 3, 1997 – January 3, 2003 |
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| Preceded by | Wayne Bennett |
| Succeeded by | Thurman Gaskill |
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Steven Arnold King May 28, 1949 Storm Lake, Iowa, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Marilyn |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | Northwest Missouri State University |
Steven Arnold "Steve" King (born May 28, 1949) is a member of the United States House of Representatives from Iowa's 4th congressional district; the district is located in the northwestern part of the state and includes Sioux City. King is a member of the Republican Party and has been serving in Congress since 2003.
King was born on May 28, 1949, in Storm Lake, Iowa, the son of Mildred Lila (née Culler), a homemaker, and Emmett A. King, a state police dispatcher. His father has Irish and German ancestry, and his mother has Welsh roots, as well as American ancestry going back to the colonial era. King has also stated that he is Latino, although it has since been established that he is not. King graduated in 1967 from Denison Community High School. He is married to Marilyn, with whom he has three children. Raised a Methodist, King attended his wife's Catholic church, converting 17 years after marrying her.
King attended Northwest Missouri State University from 1967 to 1970, and was a member of the Alpha Kappa Lambda Fraternity, majoring in math and biology. He did not graduate. Congressman King avoided the draft with "2S" deferments in 1967, 1968 and 1969. Nine days after receiving his third deferment, President Richard Nixon signed an amendment to the Military Service Act of 1967 that created the draft lottery. Under the new lottery system, draft deferments were still allowed. Because he had been receiving deferments under the old draft system, King was still shielded from being drafted in the lottery system as long as he maintained his deferments and stayed in school.
In the first lottery held on December 1, 1969, 366 numbers were assigned, one for each possible birth date. The birth date of May 28, Steve King’s birth date, was assigned number 308. This was an extremely high number. The highest number drafted that year was, in fact, 195. Furthermore, King’s draft number was assigned to him permanently. It meant that he would be protected from the draft by his high number even if he allowed his draft deferment to expire by leaving school. King did leave school when he quit Northwest Missouri State University in 1970. No reason has ever been publicly offered as to why he chose to leave Northwest Missouri State three years into his college education without earning a degree.
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