# List of speakers of the Iowa House of Representatives

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 |
| Jesse B. Browne | 1846–1848 | Whig | Lee County |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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

| Speaker | Term | Party | County/Residence |
| William Henson Wallace | 1838–1839 | Whig | Henry |
| Edward Johnstone | 1839–1840 | Democratic | Lee |
| Thomas Cox | 1840–1841 | Democratic | Jackson |
| Warner Lewis | 1831–1842 | Democratic | Dubuque |
| James McGowan Morgan | 1842–1843 | Democratic | Des Moines |
| James P. Carleton | 1843–1845 | Democratic | Johnson |
| James McGowan Morgan | 1845 | Democratic | Des Moines |
| George W. McCleary | 1845–1846 | Democratic | Louisa |