Biography

Sebastian V. Buehler house, 1935, Odebolt

Great-grandpa Buehler taking in hay, farm near Odebolt

Tom's dad with his parents, Mary (Buehler) and Harold Hoefling, Odebolt, abt. 1933

Tom (L) at the Hoefling family farm in Odebolt, with sister Sally (R) and baby cousin, abt. 1966

Tom and Siena

Tom and Siena, with oldest kids and Sally's daughter

Tom at the southern border with Rep. Steve King and Alan Keyes

Alan Keyes and the Hoeflings

Tom and Siena

Tom Hoefling is a seventh-generation Iowan.

Tom 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, right here 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, Calhoun County.

Tom and his wife, Siena, celebrated their twelfth wedding anniversary last December. Since their marriage, their home has been in Lohrville, where they have raised their six young children. Tom has five additional 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. And, believe it or not, the birth of Tom’s twelfth child is expected in July!

Tom Hoefling is motivated to run for the Iowa House to implement a pro-family, pro-liberty, pro-prosperity agenda, so that our great state can keep its greatest resource -- people! -- and once again become “A Place to Grow.”

Tom is a seasoned national conservative political activist, writer, publisher, organizer, and consultant. He is known primarily for his pro-life work and his defense of traditional marriage. He has also been a long-time fierce 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."