Marilyn King Bio, Wiki

Marilyn King is renown for being the wife to Steve King, an American politician and former businessman serving as a U.S. Representative from Iowa since 2003. King has had a history of controversial statements like throughout his 14 years in the House of Representatives.

While defending anti-abortion legislation that does not make exceptions for rape or incest, he said on August 14th without rape or incest “would there be any population of the world left?”

Marilyn King & Steve King

According to the Sioux City Journal, Steve King met his wife Marilyn in high school. Steve and Marilyn both attended Denison Community High School in Denison, Iowa. They began dating in Steve’s senior year; Marilyn was in her junior year at the time.

Steve and Marilyn were married on June 17th, 1972. Ther wedding happened to be the same day that the Watergate break-in took place. Steve King went on to attend Northwest Missouri State University. He did not graduate, and he founded a construction company a few years after leaving college.

Steve and Marilyn have now been married for 45 years. Marilyn, like Steve, is a gun collector, and an Iowa state representative told Talking Points Memo that Steve is “more likely to give her a new gun for Christmas than a new watch or ring.”

Steve King’s wife Marilyn is a school teacher.

Marilyn & Jase King of the Kelly, Lally, & Houlihan clans. Raising them right on green eggs n ham. Happy St. Pats Day pic.twitter.com/7aVObumoKK

— Steve King (@SteveKingIA) March 17, 2015

Marilyn King Teaching Career

Marilyn started off teaching preschool at a Lutheran Church in Kiron, as well as at a preschool at a Methodist Church in Odebolt. However, Steve and Marilyn are both Catholic, and they are members of the St. Martin’s Church in Odebolt, according to King’s website.

Marilyn King later earned a degree from Buena Vista University, taking night classes and eventually beginning her career teaching elementary school.

Marilyn King in the Media

Marilyn has appeared on screen with her husband Steve a handful of times over the course of his political career. In 2014 when Steve produced a video of himself reading mean tweets that are sent to him. This was styled after a popular segment on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

In the video has since been removed from YouTube because it contained copyrighted music, Marilyn reads a tweet which says, “I bet Steve King smells like mothballs and dusty Bibles.” She also reads one which says, “Oddly, no one has compiled a list of all the cuckoo things Steve King has said.” After reading the tweet, Marilyn takes a pause before saying, “No, they have.”

Marilyn also appeared in a TV ad for Steve in 2012, when he was seeking re-election. “Steve King? He’s had one wife, one house and one church for forty years,” she says in the ad. “And I’m that one wife.”

Marilyn King Children

Steve and Marilyn King have three children: David, Michael, and Jeff. Their first born, David is the owner of King Construction, the firm his father founded but left when he ran for Congress. 39-year-old Michael King lives in Odebolt, Iowa with his wife, and he works for Rex Chevrolet. Jeff King, who is current 38 lives in Wall Lake, Iowa with his wife and child. Jeff previously managed his father’s campaign.

In 2009, Steve King missed his son Michael’s wedding so that he could vote against the Affordable Care Act. His wife Marilyn attended the wedding, however.

Who is Steve King? His Controversial Statements

Steven Arnold King was born on May 28th, 1949. He is an American politician and former businessman serving as a U.S. Representative from Iowa since 2003. A member of the Republican Party, he represented Iowa’s 5th congressional district until 2013, when redistricting renumbered it the 4th. This district is in northwestern Iowa and includes Sioux City.

King has had a history of controversial statements like throughout his 14 years in the House of Representatives.

While defending anti-abortion legislation that does not make exceptions for rape or incest, he said on August 14th without rape or incest “would there be any population of the world left?”

Democrats Kirsten Gillibrand and Bernie Sanders soon demanded he step down. “You are a disgrace. Resign,” Ms Gillibrand wrote on Twitter. Her remarks were quickly echoed by other 2020 Democratic hopefuls Cory Booker, Beto O’Rourke and Julián Castro.

A Republican lawmaker, Iowa state Senator Randy Feenstra, also criticised Mr King’s remarks.