Adam Peters

Adam Peters is the Democratic candidate for Iowa House of Representatives District 97 in the November 3, 2026 general election, after defeating incumbent Rep. Ken Croken in the June 2 Democratic primary.[1] According to his campaign website, he is Director of Operations at Clock, Inc., an LGBT+ community center in the Quad Cities, and has worked as a campaign organizer and show choir director.[2]

Adam Peters says on his campaign website that he was raised in Walcott, Iowa, and graduated from the Davenport Community School District.[2] He attended Luther College and then spent nearly a decade serving, bartending and managing at Micky's Irish Pub in Iowa City, according to the site.[2] Peters writes that he began his political involvement as a precinct captain for then-Senator Barack Obama, and later was one of the first organizers hired for Pete Buttigieg's presidential campaign in Iowa, a member of the Biden/Harris 2020 digital team in Pennsylvania, and digital director for Mike Franken's 2022 U.S. Senate campaign.[2] The site also lists him as an adviser to Rep. Ken Croken's state House and mayoral races, a member of the Scott County Democratic Central Committee, chair of the Iowa Stonewall Democrats, and a 2024 Democratic National Convention delegate from Iowa.[2]

Peters says he has spent 15 years working with high school students in the performing arts as a show choir director, clinician and show designer.[2] For the last four years he has been Director of Operations at Clock, Inc., which his site describes as an LGBT+ community center in the Quad Cities.[2] In the 2026 Democratic primary he received 62.9 percent of the vote to Croken's 37.0 percent, according to Ballotpedia, and he faces Republican Charlie Helmick in the general election.[1]

Researched from the cited sources on 2026-10-21. Not yet independently fact-checked.