{"id":2233,"date":"2015-01-09T16:36:24","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T22:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/?page_id=2233"},"modified":"2023-01-06T17:04:39","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T23:04:39","slug":"tom-shipley","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/senators\/tom-shipley\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Shipley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\" style=\"grid-template-columns:33% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"731\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/ShipleyTom2019-731x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10387 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/ShipleyTom2019-731x1024.jpeg 731w, https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/ShipleyTom2019-214x300.jpeg 214w, https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/ShipleyTom2019-137x192.jpeg 137w, https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/ShipleyTom2019.jpeg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 731px) 100vw, 731px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"mce_21\">State Senator, District 9<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Phone<\/strong>:\u00a0712-621-3276<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Email<\/strong>: tom.shipley@legis.iowa.gov<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Committees:<\/strong> Ethics (Chair), Natural Resources and Environment (Vice Chair), Agriculture, Judiciary, Local Government, Transportation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Subcommittee:<\/strong> Agriculture and Natural Resources Appropriations<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-background is-style-wide\" style=\"background-color:#0000001a;color:#0000001a\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/gSVGjH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Sign up for updates from Senator Shipley (opens in a new tab)\">Sign up for updates from Senator Shipley<\/a><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-background is-style-wide\" style=\"background-color:#0000001a;color:#0000001a\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Senator Tom Shipley was born and raised in Adams County, and is the fifth generation in his family to be involved in agriculture in Adams County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He graduated from Villisca High School in 1971 and from Iowa Western Community College in 1973. Senator Shipley earned a Bachelor\u2019s of Science in agriculture education in 1975 from Iowa State University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After graduating from Iowa State University, he taught VoAg from 1975 to 1978 at Fremont-Mills High School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has devoted much of his life to agriculture, working as a livestock production specialist for Land O\u2019 Lakes, a feed department manager at United Farmers Merc. Coop, and director of issues and policy management for the Iowa Cattlemen\u2019s Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senator Shipley has one daughter, a son-in-law and one granddaughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He always has been active in the community, serving 18 years as a member on the Villisca School Board, 22 years in the Villisca Volunteer Ambulance Service, and as an elder, deacon, Sunday school teacher and choir member in the First Presbyterian Church. Senator Shipley also served as board member on the Mills\/Montgomery County Cattlemen\u2019s Association, Adams County Cattlemen\u2019s Association, and the Iowa Cattlemen\u2019s Association District 18 director. He additionally served as the Iowa membership co-chair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senator Shipley also has small farming operation and cow herd in Nodaway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Senator, District 9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":10389,"parent":10,"menu_order":29,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P5y3Wb-A1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2233"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12750,"href":"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2233\/revisions\/12750"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowasenaterepublicans.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}