Lieutenant Governor of Iowa

The **Lieutenant Governor of Iowa** is a assistant governor. If the governor quits or dies, then the lieutenant governor will become governor of the state. The current Lieutenant Governor is Republican Chris Cournoyer since 2024.

Before 1990, the governor and lieutenant governor were elected in separate elections; since then they have run together on the same ticket.

## List

|Image|Lt. Governor|Took office|Left office|Party|Governor(s) served under|||||||
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||Oran Faville|1858|1860|rowspan=15|Republican|Ralph P. Lowe||||||
||Nicholas J. Rusch|1860|1862|rowspan=2|Samuel J. Kirkwood|||||||
||John R. Needham|1862|1864|||||||||
||Enoch W. Eastman|1864|1866|rowspan=2|William M. Stone|||||||
||Benjamin F. Gue|1866|1868|||||||||
||John Scott|1868|1870|rowspan=3|Samuel Merrill|||||||
||Madison Miner Walden|1870|1871|||||||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Henry C. Bulis|rowspan=2|1871|rowspan=2|1874|||||
|rowspan=2|Cyrus C. Carpenter|||||||||||
||Joseph Dysart|1874|1876|||||||||
||Joshua G. Newbold|1876|1877|Samuel Kirkwood||||||||
||Frank T. Campbell|1878|1882|John H. Gear||||||||
||Orlando H. Manning|1882|1886|Buren R. Sherman||||||||
||John A. T. Hull|1886|1890|William Larrabee||||||||
||Alfred N. Poyneer|1890|1892|rowspan=2|Horace Boies|||||||
||Samuel L. Bestow|1892|1894|Democratic||||||||
||Warren S. Dungan|1894|1896|rowspan=12|Republican|Frank D. Jackson||||||
||Matt Parrott|1896|1898|Francis M. Drake||||||||
||James C. Milliman|1898|1902|Leslie M. Shaw||||||||
||John Herriott|1902|1907|rowspan=2|Albert B. Cummins|||||||
||Warren Garst|1907|1908|||||||||
||George W. Clarke|1909|1913|Beryl F. Carroll||||||||
||William L. Harding|1913|1917|George W. Clarke||||||||
||Ernest Robert Moore|1917|1921|William L. Harding||||||||
||John Hammill|1921|1925|N. E. Kendall||||||||
||Clem F. Kimball|1925|1928|rowspan=2|John Hammill|||||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Arch W. McFarlane|rowspan=2|1928|rowspan=2|1933|||||
|Daniel Webster Turner||||||||||||
||Nelson G. Kraschel|1933|1937|rowspan=2|Democratic|Clyde L. Herring||||||
||John K. Valentine|1937|1939|Nelson G. Kraschel||||||||
||Bourke B. Hickenlooper|1939|1943|rowspan=8|Republican|George A. Wilson||||||
||Robert D. Blue|1943|1945|Bourke B. Hickenlooper||||||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Kenneth A. Evans|rowspan=2|1945|rowspan=2|1951|Robert D. Blue||||
|rowspan=3|William S. Beardsley|||||||||||
||William H. Nicholas|1951|1953|||||||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Leo Elthon|rowspan=2|1953|rowspan=2|1957|||||
|Leo A. Hoegh||||||||||||
||William H. Nicholas|1957|1959|rowspan=2|Herschel C. Loveless|||||||
||Edward J. McManus|1959|January 12, 1961|Democratic||||||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|W. L. Mooty|rowspan=2|January 12, 1961|rowspan=2|January 17, 1965|rowspan=2|Republican||Norman A. Erbe|
|rowspan=2|Harold E. Hughes|||||||||||
||Robert D. Fulton|January 17, 1965|January 1, 1969|Democratic||||||||
||Roger Jepsen|January 16, 1969|January 1973|rowspan=3|Republican|rowspan=3|Robert D. Ray|||||
||Arthur A. Neu|January 1973|January 12, 1979|||||||||
||Terry Branstad|January 12, 1979|January 14, 1983|||||||||
||Robert T. Anderson|January 14, 1983|January 1987|rowspan=2|Democratic|rowspan=3|Terry Branstad|||||
||Jo Ann Zimmerman|January 1987|January 1991|||||||||
||Joy Corning|January 1991|January 15, 1999|Republican||||||||
||Sally Pederson|January 15, 1999|January 12, 2007|rowspan=2|Democratic|Tom Vilsack||||||
||Patty Judge|January 12, 2007|January 14, 2011|Chet Culver||||||||
||Kim Reynolds|January 14, 2011|May 24, 2017|rowspan=4|Republican|Terry Branstad||||||
||Adam Gregg|January 18, 2019|September 3, 2024|rowspan=3|Kim Reynolds|||||||
||Amy Sinclair|September 3, 2024|December 16, 2024|||||||||
||Chris Cournoyer|December 16, 2024|Incumbent|||||||||