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Ro Foege

American politician (born 1938)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 24, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Romaine Henry "Ro" Foege is an American politician who served in the Iowa House of Representatives from 1996 to 2008, representing Iowa's 29th House of Representatives district as a member of the Democratic Party, which included representation for portions for the counties of Linn and Johnson. He additionally served as director of the Iowa Department on Aging from 2010 to 2011.

Editorial summary

“Ro Foege” enters the record as american politician (born 1938). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Foege, American and politician can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996, 2008, 2010, 2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Foege, American and politician.
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Why this record matters

“Ro Foege” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Foege, American and politician provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 24, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1996, 2008, 2010 and 2011.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ro Foege” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.