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Matthew Oleson

Republican · Iowa · 2026

Running for Iowa House District 38, Iowa

Top priorities

From the campaign site

  • Returning schools to the basics of reading, writing and math
  • Stewarding the education budget
  • Protecting children
Biography

Oleson is an Iowa classroom teacher who describes 32 years in public education, teaching three decades of Iowa students, per the campaign site. Oleson says he is running for the Iowa House on education, taxpayer and parental-authority concerns, per the campaign site.

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