Leach to Head Harvard's Institute of Politics

From the Des Moines Register...

Former Rep. Jim Leach of Iowa will be the director of the Institute of Politics at Harvard University for the current academic year, it was announced this morning by the university.

Leach, a Republican from Iowa City who served in the U.S. House for 15 terms before his defeat in 2006, will succeed Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat from New Hampshire
who is leaving to run for the U.S. Senate in her home state.

The Institute of Politics is part of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.