List of Governors of Iowa
Governors of the State of Iowa
The southeast portion of Iowa Territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Iowa on December 28, 1846; the remainder became unorganized territory.

List of Governors of Iowa

Section Title: Governors of the State of Iowa
Table Section Text: The southeast portion of Iowa Territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Iowa on December 28, 1846; the remainder became unorganized territory.

No.	Governor	Term in office	Party	Election	Lieutenant Governor

1	-	Ansel Briggs	December 3, 1846 – December 4, 1850 (not candidate for election)	Democratic	1846	Office did not exist

2	-	Stephen P. Hempstead	December 4, 1850 – December 9, 1854 (not candidate for election)	Democratic	1850

3	-	James W. Grimes	December 9, 1854 – January 13, 1858 (not candidate for election)	Whig	1854

4	-	Ralph P. Lowe	January 13, 1858 – January 11, 1860 (not candidate for election)	Republican	1857	Oran Faville

5	-	Samuel J. Kirkwood	January 11, 1860 – January 14, 1864 (not candidate for election)	Republican	1859	Nicholas J. Rusch

1861	John R. Needham

6	-	William M. Stone	January 14, 1864 – January 16, 1868 (not candidate for election)	Republican	1863	Enoch W. Eastman

1865	Benjamin F. Gue

7	-	Samuel Merrill	January 16, 1868 – January 11, 1872 (not candidate for election)	Republican	1867	John Scott

1869	Madison Miner Walden (resigned 1871)

Vacant

Henry C. Bulis (appointed September 13, 1871)

8	-	Cyrus C. Carpenter	January 11, 1872 – January 13, 1876 (not candidate for election)	Republican	1871

1873	Joseph Dysart

9	-	Samuel J. Kirkwood	January 13, 1876 – February 1, 1877 (resigned)	Republican	1875	Joshua G. Newbold

10	-	Joshua G. Newbold	February 1, 1877 – January 17, 1878 (not candidate for election)	Republican	Succeeded from Lieutenant Governor	Vacant

11	-	John H. Gear	January 17, 1878 – January 12, 1882 (not candidate for election)	Republican	1877	Frank T. Campbell

1879

12	-	Buren R. Sherman	January 12, 1882 – January 14, 1886 (not candidate for election)	Republican	1881	Orlando H. Manning

1883

13	-	William Larrabee	January 14, 1886 – February 27, 1890 (not candidate for election)	Republican	1885	John A. T. Hull

1887

14	-	Horace Boies	February 27, 1890 – January 11, 1894 (lost election)	Democratic	1889	Alfred N. Poyneer

1891	Samuel L. Bestow

15	-	Frank D. Jackson	January 11, 1894 – January 16, 1896 (not candidate for election)	Republican	1893	Warren S. Dungan

16	-	Francis M. Drake	January 16, 1896 – January 13, 1898 (not candidate for election)	Republican	1895	Matt Parrott

17	-	L. M. Shaw	January 13, 1898 – January 16, 1902 (not candidate for election)	Republican	1897	James C. Milliman

1899

18	-	Albert B. Cummins	January 16, 1902 – November 24, 1908 (resigned)	Republican	1901	John Herriott

1903

1906	Warren Garst

19	-	Warren Garst	November 24, 1908 – January 14, 1909 (successor took office)	Republican	Succeeded from Lieutenant Governor	Vacant

20	-	Beryl F. Carroll	January 14, 1909 – January 16, 1913 (not candidate for election)	Republican	1908	George W. Clarke

1910

21	-	George W. Clarke	January 16, 1913 – January 11, 1917 (not candidate for election)	Republican	1912	William L. Harding

1914

22	-	William L. Harding	January 11, 1917 – January 13, 1921 (not candidate for election)	Republican	1916	Ernest Robert Moore

1918

23	-	Nathan E. Kendall	January 13, 1921 – January 15, 1925 (not candidate for election)	Republican	1920	John Hammill

1922

24	-	John Hammill	January 15, 1925 – January 15, 1931 (not candidate for election)	Republican	1924	Clem F. Kimball (died September 10, 1928)

1926

Vacant

Arch W. McFarlane (appointed November 15, 1928)

1928

25	-	Dan W. Turner	January 15, 1931 – January 12, 1933 (lost election)	Republican	1930

26	-	Clyde L. Herring	January 12, 1933 – January 14, 1937 (not candidate for election)	Democratic	1932	Nelson G. Kraschel

1934

27	-	Nelson G. Kraschel	January 14, 1937 – January 12, 1939 (lost election)	Democratic	1936	John K. Valentine

28	-	George A. Wilson	January 12, 1939 – January 14, 1943 (not candidate for election)	Republican	1938	Bourke B. Hickenlooper

1940

29	-	Bourke B. Hickenlooper	January 14, 1943 – January 11, 1945 (not candidate for election)	Republican	1942	Robert D. Blue

30	-	Robert D. Blue	January 11, 1945 – January 13, 1949 (not candidate for election)	Republican	1944	Kenneth A. Evans

1946

31	-	William S. Beardsley	January 13, 1949 – November 21, 1954 (died in office)	Republican	1948

1950	William H. Nicholas

1952	Leo Elthon

32	-	Leo Elthon	November 21, 1954 – January 13, 1955 (successor took office)	Republican	Succeeded from Lieutenant Governor	Vacant

33	-	Leo Hoegh	January 13, 1955 – January 17, 1957 (lost election)	Republican	1954	Leo Elthon

34	-	Herschel C. Loveless	January 17, 1957 – January 12, 1961 (not candidate for election)	Democratic	1956	William H. Nicholas

1958	Edward Joseph McManus

35	-	Norman A. Erbe	January 12, 1961 – January 17, 1963 (lost election)	Republican	1960	W. L. Mooty

36	-	Harold Hughes	January 17, 1963 – January 1, 1969 (resigned)	Democratic	1962

1964	Robert D. Fulton

1966

37	-	Robert D. Fulton	January 1, 1969 – January 16, 1969 (successor took office)	Democratic	Succeeded from Lieutenant Governor	Vacant

38	-	Robert D. Ray	January 16, 1969 – January 14, 1983 (not candidate for election)	Republican	1968	Roger Jepsen

1970

1972	Arthur Neu

1974

1978	Terry Branstad

39	Terry Branstad attends recommissioning ceremony for USS Iowa, Apr 28, 1984.JPEG	Terry Branstad	January 14, 1983 – January 15, 1999 (not candidate for election)	Republican	1982	Robert T. Anderson

1986	Jo Ann Zimmerman

1990	Joy Corning

1994

40	-	Tom Vilsack	January 15, 1999 – January 12, 2007 (not candidate for election)	Democratic	1998	Sally Pederson

2002

41	-	Chet Culver	January 12, 2007 – January 14, 2011 (lost election)	Democratic	2006	Patty Judge

42	-	Terry Branstad	January 14, 2011 – May 24, 2017 (resigned)	Republican	2010	Kim Reynolds

2014

43	-	Kim Reynolds	May 24, 2017 – present	Republican	Succeeded from Lieutenant Governor	Vacant

Adam Gregg (appointed May 25, 2017)

2018

Sentence(s)

Robert D. Ray served as the 38th Governor of Iowa from January 16, 1969 to January 14, 1983.

final_sentence: Robert D. Ray served as the 38th Governor of Iowa from January 16, 1969 to January 14, 1983.