Dan Clute Explained

Dan Clute
State House:	Iowa
District:	59th
Term Start:	2007
Term End:	2009
Preceded:	Gene Maddox
Succeeded:	Chris Hagenow
Birth Date:	14 January 1966
Birth Place:	Mason City, Iowa
Party:	Republican
Spouse:	None
Children:	Grant, Grayson
Alma Mater:	University of Iowa
Occupation:	Regional Business Development Executive, MidWestOne Financial Group
Profession:	Banking
Website:	https://www.legis.iowa.gov/perma/020220227902

Dan Clute (born January 14, 1966) represented the 59th District in the Iowa House of Representatives 2007 - 2009. He received his BBA (1988) and MBA (1989, with “First in Class” honors) from the University of Iowa, and is Market President at MidWestOne Financial Group

Clute was elected in 2006 with 7,250 votes (58%), defeating Democrat Jim Sammler.^[1] Mike Huckabee appeared at a campaign event for him 9 September 2009 in Clive.^[2] In the Iowa House, Clute served on the Commerce committee, the Economic Growth committee, the Local Government committee, and the Economic Development Appropriations Subcommittee. His campaign raised and spent money in 2007,^[3] but hardly at all in 2008;^[4] he was not a candidate for the Iowa General Assembly in 2008.

Before his election to the Iowa House he was elected to the Clive City Council in a special election in 2003 and to a four-year term in 2004. He began in politics at the age of ten years, and was a College Republican. After establishing his career in the Des Moines area, he joined the Bull Moose Club of young Republican professionals. He worked for George W. Bush's Iowa caucus effort in the 2000 Republican Party presidential primaries.^[5]

Mr. Clute was employed at Wells Fargo Financial (1989 - 2000) before joining the Citi Cards operations center in West Des Moines, Iowa. He has lived in Clive since 1997, and is a member of the Lions Club and Historical Society there. He was elected President of the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation's board of directors, and Vice President of the Greater Des Moines Habitat for Humanity's board. In 2003 he was named to the Des Moines Business Record’s “40 Under 40” list, and honored on 2004 with Mason City High School Distinguished Alumni Award – Alumnus of the Decade 1980’s.^[6]

External links

• Clute on Project Vote Smart
• Clute's erstwhile Website at the Iowa House
• Clute at Iowa House Republicans

Notes and References

1. Web site: Official Results Report - Statewide Election: 2006 General Election 7 November 2006 . 21 November 2006 . 2009-03-18 . . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20061214021626/http://www.sos.state.ia.us/pdfs/GenOffResults.pdf . December 14, 2006 .
2. Web site: P2008-Iowa Visits--Republican Prospects . 2009-03-19 . Eric M. . Appleman . Eric M. Appleman . Democracy in Action: A Framework for Understanding and Following the 2008 Presidential Campaign . at the home of Paul and Bev Leighton.
3. Web site: Form DR-2 disclosure report . 2009-03-19 . Kenneth J. . Popken . Clute for State House Committee . 28 April 2008 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20091019205827/https://webapp.iecdb.iowa.gov/PublicView/statewide/2007/Period_Due_Date_19-Jan%20following%20year/Candidates/Clute%20Dan__1620__scanned.pdf . 2009-10-19 . Report submitted to Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board for last part of 2007.
4. Web site: Form DR-2 disclosure report . 2009-03-19 . Kenneth J. . Popken . 28 April 2008 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20091019205827/https://webapp.iecdb.iowa.gov/PublicView/statewide/2007/Period_Due_Date_19-Jan%20following%20year/Candidates/Clute%20Dan__1620__scanned.pdf . 2009-10-19 . Final Report to Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board covers 2008.
5. News: Sharon . Baltes . Politics and community involvement are constants in Clute's life . . . . November 21, 2004 . 2009-03-19 .
6. Web site: Newsletter . 2009-03-19 . March 2006 . . Page 3 . Dan Clute was born and raised in Mason City, Iowa. Upon graduation from the MBA program at the University of Iowa, in 1989, he moved to the Des Moines area for a position in the Treasury Department of Wells Fargo Financial. In January 1997, he decided to build a house in the growing community of Clive. In July 2000, he accepted a position on the senior management team of the Citi Cards operations center in West Des Moines (a unit of Citigroup). He was elected to the Clive City Council at a special election in September 2002, and was re-elected to a four-year term in November 2003. . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080509122900/http://www.cityofclive.com/document-center/documents/newsletter2006mar.pdf . 2008-05-09 .