List of speakers of the Iowa House of Representatives explained
The following is a list of speakers of the Iowa House of Representatives since statehood.
Speakers of the Iowa House of Representatives
Speaker | Term | Party | County/Residence | Notes | Citation |
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Jesse B. Browne | 1846–1848 | | Whig | Lee County | | [1] |
Smiley Bonham | 1848–1850 | | Democratic | Johnson County | | |
George Temple | 1850–1852 | | Democratic | Des Moines County | | |
James Grant | 1852–1854 | | Democratic | Scott County | | |
Reuben Noble | 1854–1856 | | Whig | Clayton County | | |
Samuel McFarland | 1856–1858 | | Republican | Henry County | | |
Stephen B. Shelledy | 1858–1860 | | Republican | Jasper County | | |
John Edwards | 1860–1862 | | Republican | Lucas County | | |
Rush Clark | 1862–1864 | | Republican | Johnson County | | |
Jacob Butler | 1864–1866 | | Republican | Muscatine County | | |
Ed Wright | 1866–1868 | | Republican | Cedar County | | |
John Russell | 1868–1870 | | Republican | Jones County | | |
Aylett R. Cotton | 1870–1872 | | Republican | Clinton County | | |
James Wilson | 1872–1874 | | Republican | Tama County | | |
John H. Gear | 1874–1878 | | Republican | Des Moines County | | |
John Young Stone | 1878–1880 | | Republican | Des Moines County | | |
Lore Alford | 1880–1882 | | Republican | Mills County | | |
George R. Struble | 1882–1884 | | Republican | Black Hawk County | | |
William P. Wolf | 1884–1886 | | Republican | Tama County | | |
Albert Head | 1886–1888 | | Republican | Greene County | | |
William H. Redman | 1888–1890 | | Republican | Poweshiek County | | |
John Taylor Hamilton | 1890–1892 | | Democratic | Linn County | | |
William O. Mitchell | 1892–1894 | | Republican | Adams County | | |
Henry Stone | 1894–1896 | | Republican | Marshall County | | |
Howard W. Byers | 1896–1898 | | Republican | Shelby County | | |
James H. Funk | 1898–1900 | | Republican | Hardin County | | |
Daniel H. Bowen | 1900–1902 | | Republican | Allamakee County | | |
Willard L. Eaton | 1902–1904 | | Republican | Mitchell County | | |
George W. Clarke | 1904–1908 | | Republican | Dallas County | | |
Nathan E. Kendall | 1908–1909 | | Republican | Dallas County | | |
Guy A. Feely | 1909–1911 | | Republican | Black Hawk County | | |
Paul E. Stillman | 1911–1913 | | Republican | Greene County | | [2] |
Edward H. Cunningham | 1913–1915 | | Republican | Buena Vista County | | |
William I. Atkinson | 1915–1917 | | Republican | Butler County | | |
Milton B. Pitt | 1917–1919 | | Republican | Harrison County | | |
Arch McFarlane | 1919–1923 | | Republican | Black Hawk County | | |
Joseph H. Anderson | 1923–1925 | | Republican | Winnebago County | | |
Willis C. Edson | 1925–1927 | | Republican | Burna Vista County | | |
Luther V. Carter | 1928–1929 | | Republican | Hardin County | | |
Joseph H. Johnson | 1929–1931 | | Republican | Marion County | | |
Francis Johnson | 1931–1933 | | Republican | Dickinson County | | |
George E. Miller | 1933–1935 | | Democratic | Shelby County | | |
John H. Mitchell | 1935–1937 | | Democratic | Webster County | | |
Lamar P. Foster | 1937–1939 | | Democratic | Cedar County | | |
John R. Irwin | 1939–1941 | | Republican | Lee County | | |
Robert D. Blue | 1941–1943 | | Republican | Wright County | | |
Henry Burma | 1943–1945 | | Republican | Butler County | | |
Harold Felton | 1945–1946 | | Republican | Warren County | | |
Gus Kuester | 1947–1955 | | Republican | Cass County | | |
William Lynes | 1951–1955 | | Republican | Bremer County | | |
Arthur C. Hanson | 1955–1957 | | Republican | Lyon County | | |
William L. Mooty | 1957–1959 | | Republican | Grundy County | | |
Charles Vernon Lisle | 1959–1961 | | Republican | Page County | | |
Henry C. Nelson | 1961–1963 | | Republican | Winnebago County | | |
Robert W. Naden | 1963–1965 | | Republican | Hamilton County | | |
Vincent B. Steffen | 1965–1967 | | Democratic | Chickasaw County | | |
Maurice Baringer | 1967–1969 | | Republican | Fayette County | | |
William H. Harbor | 1969–1973 | | Republican | Mills County | | |
Andrew P. Varley | 1973–1975 | | Republican | Adair, Guthrie County | | |
Dale M. Cochran | 1975–1979 | | Democratic | Webster, Humboldt County | | |
Floyd H. Millen | 1979–1981 | | Republican | Van Buren County | | |
William H. Harbor | 1980 | | Republican | Mills County | | |
Del Stromer | 1981–1983 | | Republican | Hancock County | | |
Donald D. Avenson | 1983–1990 | | Democratic | Fayette County | | [3] |
Robert C. Arnould | 1991–1992 | | Democratic | Scott County | | |
Harold Van Maanen | 1993–1994 | | Republican | Mahaska, Marion County | | |
Ron Corbett | 1995–1999 | | Republican | Linn County | | |
Brent Siegrist | 1999–2002 | | Republican | Pottawattamie County | | |
Christopher Rants | 2003–2006 | | Republican | Woodbury County | | |
Pat Murphy | 2007–2011 | | Democratic | Dubuque County | | |
Kraig Paulsen | 2011–2015 | | Republican | Linn County | | |
Linda Upmeyer | 2016–2020 | | Republican | | | |
Pat Grassley | 2020– | | Republican | | | | |
Speakers of the Iowa Territorial House of Representatives
Notes and References
- Book: Stork, Frank J.. The Iowa General Assembly: Our Legislative Heritage 1846-1980. Clingan. Cynthia A.. Iowa Senate. 1980. Des Moines, Iowa.
- Book: Nancy Weatherly. Sharp. James Roger. Sharp. Bloomsbury Academic. August 30, 2000. Google Books.
- Web site: Members of Iowa General Assemblies 1981-2014. Iowa General Assembly. 2014. December 21, 2023.