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Mark I. Thompson
RepublicanIncumbent
- In office now
- State Representative, District 56
- Work
- State representative; retired U.S. Marine Corps officer and former State Department counterterrorism official
Mark I. Thompson is the sitting State Representative for District 56 in the Iowa General Assembly; the Legislature's records list service beginning with the 90th General Assembly (2023).
Mark I. Thompson grew up on an Iowa farm, graduated from Buena Vista College and was commissioned a Marine officer in 1977, serving 20 years including special operations and counter-drug missions. He then joined the State Department's Counterterrorism Bureau, where he took part in or led deployments of the Foreign Emergency Support Team from the late 1990s.
Thompson's committees
- Judiciary
- Local Government
- Veterans Affairs