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Sebastian V. Buehler house, 1935, Odebolt
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Great-grandpa Buehler taking in hay, farm near Odebolt
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Tom's dad with his parents, Mary (Buehler) and Harold Hoefling, Odebolt, abt. 1933
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Tom (L) at the Hoefling family farm in Odebolt, with sister Sally (R) and baby cousin, abt. 1966
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Tom and Siena
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Tom and Siena, with oldest kids and Sally's daughter
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Tom at the southern border with Rep. Steve King and Alan Keyes
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Alan Keyes and the Hoeflings
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Tom and Siena

Tom Hoefling is a seventh-generation Iowan.

Tom Hoefling has Iowa roots dating back seven generations.  On his mom’s side are some of the earliest settlers in Fremont County, in the far southwest corner of the state.  On his Dad’s side are some of the earliest settlers in Odebolt, Sac County, in northwest Iowa.  As teenagers, two great-great grandfathers fought for the Union in the Civil War before finding their permanent homes on the farm near Odebolt, the hometown of many of Tom’s family members, and the place his father was born.  

Tom Hoefling was born in Omaha, Nebraska, where his dad moved to work after coming back from his service in the Korean War.  From infancy until kindergarten, Tom was raised in Carter Lake, Iowa, and then Early, Iowa, and Climbing Hill, Iowa, before attending school in Ralston, Nebraska.  Well-traveled, he has visited all forty-eight contiguous states, but has lived most of his adult life in Iowa
-- including the last twenty-two years in Lohrville, in Calhoun County.

Tom and his wife, Siena, celebrated their fourteenth wedding anniversary last December.  Since their marriage, their home has been in Lohrville, where they have raised their seven young children.  Tom also has five children from his first marriage, but two passed away in early childhood. His three living adult children live in Iowa and Idaho.  He has four beautiful grandchildren, so far.


Tom is a seasoned national conservative political activist, writer, publisher, organizer, and consultant. He is known primarily for his efforts to abolish abortion, and his staunch defense of traditional marriage. He has also been a long-time advocate for the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms, private property rights, economic liberty, fundamental tax reform, secure borders, and the maintenance of American sovereignty and security through a Reaganite peace-through-strength foreign policy.

He was closely associated politically for many years with former Reagan administration official and U.N. Ambassador Dr. Alan Keyes.


Tom is the primary author of the Equal Protection for Posterity Resolution, which is revolutionizing how Americans look at what must be done to stop the abortion holocaust.


He is among the few American political leaders who is rated by American Right to Life as a Tier One Personhood Pro-Lifer.

In November of 2015, Tom Hoefling was listed by Newsmax as one of America's "100 Most Influential Pro-Life Advocates."

Tom's roots:

Sebastian Buehler
Sebastian Buehler, Civil War vet and settler in Richland Township, Sac Co., Iowa
Civil War veteran Abner Chandler and wife, Henrietta Dunn -- Odebolt early settlers
Abner Chandler (center). Abner served as mayor of Odebolt.
Cordelia Chandler (right), taking a ride around Odebolt
Jesse Hiatt, veteran of the War of 1812, and his wife, Mary (Polly) Proctor, buried in Fremont County, Iowa
Great-grandparents Orris Henry Hiatt and Mary Rebecca Hill. Orris was born in Fremont County, Iowa. He and his wife are buried in Pottawattamie County, Iowa.
Joel and Patsy Estes, founders of Estes Park, Colorado. Patsy lived her final years in Iowa and is buried in Fremont County.
Tom's great-great grandmother Sarah Estes Hiatt raised eight children in Fremont County, Iowa
Abner Chandler (left) and family
Abner Chandler and wife, in a Model T, before the streets were paved in Odebolt
Tom's grandma Mary Buehler, Odebolt
Mary Buehler and sisters riding to school
Tom's grandpa Harold Hoefling, Odebolt
Harold and Mary (Buehler) Hoefling, Odebolt
Harold and Mary (Buehler) Hoefling
Tom's grandma Mary Buehler (little girl)
Young Mary Buehler (left), Odebolt
Sebastian Valentine Buehler and mother, Mary Obrecht, in Richland Township, Iowa
Great-grandparents Sebastian Valentine Buehler and Cordelia Chandler, 1908
Mary Buehler (left)
Tom's dad, Lawrence Hoefling (left)
Young Lawrence Hoefling on small pony
Lawrence's birthplace, the Hoefling family farmhouse in rural Odebolt
Lawrence (right) and siblings in Odebolt
Lawrence, ready to leave Odebolt for Korea

'Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain.'

Tom Hoefling on Government:


"Just as 'good fences make for good neighbors,' good government is mainly about knowing where the legitimate boundaries are, and having the courage to defend those borders forcefully. This is true in terms of the defense of our territory, our security, and our national sovereignty, but it also applies to the sworn duty of all of those in government to equally protect the God-given, unalienable rights of each individual person, from their creation onward, their sacred obligation to stay well within the enumerated powers of our constitutions, and of the role legitimate government must play in balancing the competing rights and interests of the people, in order to establish justice."

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