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Western Iowa legislator suffers heart attack

March 13, 2011 By O. Kay Henderson

A state legislator from Council Bluffs suffered a heart attack this weekend. 

Fifty-six-year-old Representative Mark Brandenburg, a Republican, was at the public library in Council Bluffs Saturday morning — one of four area lawmakers who were attending a legislative forum in a library meeting room. Brandenburg didn’t feel well, stepped outside and according to a legislative staffer, doctors determined he had a heart attack. 

Surgeons at Creighton Hospital inserted a stent to open one of his arteries according to an aide to House Republicans. 

Last November, Brandenburg defeated a Democratic legislator to win a seat in the Iowa House. Brandenburg has taught at Iowa Western Community College for the past decade after a 34-year career with the Omaha Public Power District.

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