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Steve King

Steve King is known as an American politician and former businessman. He is most famous for being the U.S. Representative in Iowa since 2003.

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Background and Age

Steven Arnold King was born on May 28, 1949 in Storm Lake, Iowa. Steve King experienced childhood in a family of lawmakers in Storm Lake, Iowa. He went to Denison Community High School, where he met Marilyn Kelly, whom he married in 1972. Steve studied math and science at Northwest Missouri State University. He started King Construction in 1975 and developed the business from one bulldozer. He carries profitable information to Congress as an agribusinessman and an entrepreneur for a long time.

Career and Net Worth

Steve King was chosen for Congress in 2002 to speak to Iowa's Fifth Congressional District. During the 2012 election cycle, Iowa was redistricted to four regions. Kings presently speaks for the Fourth Congressional District in the 114th Congress which includes Ames, Fort Dodge, Mason City, Sioux City and Spencer.

In August 2019, Steve King, a Republican whose history of making bigot and troublesome comments drove him to be deprived of his board of trustees assignments not long ago, questioned Wednesday if there would be any populace of the world left if rape and interbreeding never occured. His remark drew quick judgment from top House Republicans and one called for him to leave. King, who speaks to a profoundly conservative locale in northwest Iowa, made the comments toward the Westside Conservative Club in Urbandale, Iowa, as he disclosed his restriction to exemptions for rape and incest in abortions.

Marriage, Wife and Kids

Steve King is married to Marilyn King. Steve King met his significant other, Marilyn in high school. Steve and Marilyn both went to Denison Community High School in Denison, Iowa. They started dating in Steve's senior year; Marilyn was in her junior year at the time. Five years after Steve's high school graduation, he and Marilyn were married. Steve and Marilyn have three developed children and eight grandchildren.

Steve and Marilyn were married in June 1972, this happened to be the same day that the Watergate break-in occurred. Marilyn works as a teacher, she started off teaching preschool at a Lutheran Church in Kiron and at a preschool at a Methodist Church in Odebolt. Steve and Marilyn are both Catholic, and they are members of the St. Martin's Church in Odebolt. Marilyn King later earned a degree from Buena Vista University, taking night classes and eventually starting her career teaching primary school.


Quick Facts
Birth Date: 28 May, 1949
Age: 71 yrs
Citizenship: United States of America
Birth Place: Storm Lake
Education: Northwest Missouri State University
Gender: Male
Description: US Representative for Iowa (1949-)
Net Worth 2021: 500 million
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Last Modified: Oct 16 2020
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