Donald Redfern

{{Short description|American politician}}

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|name =Donald Redfern

|image = Donald B. Redfern - Official Portrait - 79th GA.jpg

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|office=Member of the Iowa State Senate

|term_start =January 11, 1993

|term_end =January 9, 2005

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|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1945|6|9}}

|birth_place =Nebraska City, Nebraska, United States

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|party = Republican

|occupation=lawyer

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Donald B. Redfern (born June 9, 1945) is an American politician in the state of Iowa.

Redfern was born in Nebraska City, Nebraska. He attended Carleton College and Columbia University Law School and is a lawyer. He served Iowa Senate from 1991 to 2004, as a Republican (12th district from 1993 to 2003 and 10th district from 2003 to 2005).{{cite web|url=https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislators/legislator/legislatorAllYears?personID=112|title=State Senator|author=Iowa Legislative Services Agency|publisher=|accessdate=16 October 2015}}

Redfern's unsuccessful 1988 Congressional run is discussed in Chinese political theorist Wang Huning's book America Against America{{Cite magazine |last=Che |first=Chang |date=2022-03-21 |title=How a Book About America's History Foretold China's Future |url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/how-a-book-about-americas-history-foretold-chinas-future |access-date=2022-07-05 |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-US}} as an example of the dynamics of U.S. political campaigns.{{Cite book |last=Wang |first=Huning |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1310466186 |title=America against America |date=2022 |isbn=979-8-4122-5062-5 |location=[United States] |oclc=1310466186}}