Statewide Iowa — Greene County Attorney Thomas Laehn is planning to run for the U.S. Senate as a Libertarian. Laehn says Iowans are ready for someone outside the current two-party system who will push back against executive overreach.
Some Libertarian Party candidates have won non-partisan elections in Iowa for seats on city councils as township trustees, but Laehn is the first listed on the ballot as a Libertarian to win a partisan election in Iowa.
Laehn formally kicked off his campaign for one of Iowa’s U.S. Senate seats on Saturday. Laehn was raised in the small northeast Iowa town of Allison, where his father was a Lutheran minister and his mother was the school librarian. Laehn’s online biography lists degrees from Drake University and Louisiana State University and a stint as a professor at McNeese State before enrolling and graduating from the University of Iowa law school in 2017. He was elected Greene County Attorney the following year and reelected in 2022.
