Gazette Staff Updated: 7 November 2008 | 2:02 pm in The Archive Attic

Tom Harkin's "other job"?

On Wednesday, The Gazette reported: “Sen. Tom Harkin made history Tuesday by becoming the first Iowa Democrat to win a fifth term in the U.S. Senate.”

Did you know that briefly, Harkin held another job?

Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), right, an occasional guest at Gazette Editorial Board meetings, was "editorial writer for a day" on Friday. It is one of 77 "jobs" Harkin has filled since going to Congress in 1974. The United States (U.S.) senator drew a full day's assignment: column and headline writing, copy editing, etc. At left is editorial writer Mike Deupree. January 9, 1987.

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Tom Harkin's "other job"?

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