Chuck Grassley

== Early career ==
In the 1950s, Grassley farmed and worked in factories in Iowa, first as a [[sheet metal]] shearer and then as an [[assembly line]] worker. From 1967 to 1968, he taught at [[Charles City College]].<ref name="IAlegis00" />

Grassley represented parts of [[Butler County, Iowa|Butler County]] in the [[Iowa House of Representatives]] from 1959 to 1975.<ref name=IAlegis00>{{cite web |url=https://www.legis.iowa.gov/Legislators/legislatorAllYears.aspx?PID=253 |title=Charles Grassley |access-date=May 25, 2012 |work=www.legis.iowa.gov |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121213143203/https://www.legis.iowa.gov/Legislators/legislatorAllYears.aspx?PID=253 |archive-date=December 13, 2012}}</ref> He then served in the [[United States House of Representatives]] from 1975 to 1981.<ref name="bioguide">{{cite web|title=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress - Grassley, Charles Ernest - Biographical Information|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000386|publisher=Office of Art and Archives and Office of the Historian, The United States Congress|access-date=April 21, 2013|url-status = live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130310095205/http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000386|archive-date=March 10, 2013}}</ref>