Karl Miles LeCompte (May 25, 1887 – September 30, 1972)[1] was a ten-term Republican U.S. Representative from south-central Iowa.

[2] In 1918, during the First World War he served as a private in the medical detachment of United States General Hospital No.

In a successful bid for the Republican nomination in the primary, his advertisements stressed that he was "inalterably opposed to the New Deal Program of waste and extravagance.

After the 1956 election, Carter filed a challenge against the result with the U.S. House, which decided two years later that LeCompte was properly declared the winner.

[5] This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress