Claude Rodman Porter | |
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![]() Porter in 1910 | |
Member of the Iowa Senate from the 3rd district | |
In office January 8, 1900 – January 10, 1904 | |
Preceded by | Beryl F. Carroll |
Succeeded by | Lewis Leroy Taylor |
Member of the Iowa House of Representatives from the 4th district | |
In office 1896–1900 | |
Preceded by | George W. Wyckoff |
Succeeded by | Frank Smith Payne |
Personal details | |
Born | Moulton, Iowa, U.S. | July 8, 1872
Died | August 17, 1946 Washington, D.C., U.S. | (aged 74)
Political party | Democratic |
Education | Parsons College St. Louis Law School |
Occupation | Attorney |
Claude Rodman Porter (July 8, 1872 – August 17, 1946) was an American politician and lawyer. He served in both chambers of the Iowa General Assembly and as a United States Attorney, and was a perennial Democratic Party runner-up to Republican victors in three races for governor of Iowa and six races for U.S. senator. In an era in which the Republican Party was so dominant in Iowa that Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver remarked that "Iowa will go Democratic when Hell goes Methodist,"[1] Porter twice came closer to winning the governorship than all but one other Democratic candidate of that era.[2] He later served as a member of the U.S. Interstate Commerce Commission for eighteen years.