Daryl Beall was elected in 2006 to his second four-year term to the Iowa Senate. He represents the people of Calhoun, Greene and Webster counties.

Senator Beall is chair of the Veterans Affairs Committee and the International Relations Committee. He serves as vice-chair of the Local Government and Transportation committees.  Beall is also a member of the Economic Growth and Education committees, and the Transportation Budget Subcommittee.

Beall was born in Fort Dodge and grew up near the Calhoun County town of Somers. He attended Iowa Central Community College in Fort Dodge, where he earned his associates degree and served as student body president. He earned a B.A. in political science from Buena Vista University and a Master of Public Administration from Drake University. He was a Taft Fellow at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Beall taught political science courses at Urbandale High School, where he created and directed the Government Intern program in which students worked for state legislators. He earned the Teacher’s Medal from the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge for his innovative teaching style. He later was twice elected to the Fort Dodge School Board.

Beall managed his family-owned furniture business in Fort Dodge and was president of the Downtown Retailers Association. He also served as president of the Interfaith Forum, the Kiwanis Club, chairman of the missions committee at his church, and as a board member of the Child Abuse Council, Arts Council, and the Alcoholism Treatment Center.

He was active in Sister City, serving as president, and helped organize linkages in Japan, Canada and Russia. He worked as a mission volunteer with the Lakota people in South Dakota.

Beall is a member of the Izaak Walton League, the Kiwanis Club, and Trinity United Methodist Church. He earned the 2002 Martin Luther King Jr. Award for Community Service for his demonstrated efforts to promote racial harmony and tolerance of all people.  The Izaak Walton League named Beall Legislator of the Year in 2006 for legislative leadership on recycling and environmental protection.

Beall ran for Secretary of State in 1972 and remains the youngest statewide candidate in the history of Iowa. He served on the Washington staff of Congressman Stanley Greigg and on the Academy Selection Committee for Congressman Berkley Bedell.  In 2008, the Iowa Asian Alliance named him "Asian Ambassador."

Through what The Des Moines Tribune called “Beall’s one-man crusade,” Daryl focused statewide attention on reforming Iowa’s lower courts and urged the Iowa Legislature to pass a proposed Unified Court System, which it did. He was elected and served as Justice of Peace before the office was eliminated.

Beall was a newspaper columnist, editor, publisher and public relations manager at weekly and daily newspapers in Iowa, Colorado and South Dakota before returning to Fort Dodge, where he was marketing director for The Messenger. He has earned several state, national and Associated Press awards for column and editorial writing and for newspaper promotion. He also served as University Relations Director and on the President’s Council at Dakota Wesleyan University.

Daryl and his wife, Jo Ann, have three grown children and nine grandchildren.