Claude R. Porter

Claude Rodman Porter
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	(1872-07-08)July 8, 1872 Moulton, Iowa, U.S.
Died	August 17, 1946(1946-08-17) (aged 74) Washington, D.C., U.S.
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.