List of Governors of Iowa

This is a list of Governors of Iowa:

Governor	Took Office	Left Office	Party
Ansel Briggs	1846	1850	Democratic
Stephen P. Hempstead	1850	1854	Democratic
James W. Grimes	1854	1858	Whig
Ralph P. Lowe	1858	1860	Republican
Samuel J. Kirkwood	1860	1864	Republican
William M. Stone	1864	1868	Republican
Samuel Merrill	1868	1872	Republican
Cyrus C. Carpenter	1872	1876	Republican
Samuel J. Kirkwood	1876	1877	Republican
Joshua G. Newbold	1877	1878	Republican
John H. Gear	1878	1882	Republican
Buren R. Sherman	1882	1886	Republican
William Larrabee	1886	1890	Republican
Horace Boies	1890	1894	Democratic
Frank D. Jackson	1894	1896	Republican
Francis M. Drake	1896	1898	Republican
Leslie M. Shaw	1898	1902	Republican
Albert B. Cummins	1902	1908	Republican
Warren Garst	1908	1909	Republican
Beryl F. Carroll	1909	1913	Republican
George W. Clarke	1913	1917	Republican
William L. Harding	1917	1921	Republican
N. E. Kendall	1921	1925	Republican
John Hammill	1925	1931	Republican
Daniel W. Turner	1931	1933	Republican
Clyde L. Herring	1933	1937	Democratic
Nelson G. Kraschel	1937	1939	Democratic
George A. Wilson	1939	1943	Republican
Bourke B. Hickenlooper	1943	1945	Republican
Robert D. Blue	1945	1949	Republican
William S. Beardsley	1949	1954	Republican
Leo Elthon	1954	1955	Republican
Leo A. Hoegh	1955	1957	Republican
Herschel C. Loveless	1957	1961	Democratic
Norman A. Erbe	1961	1963	Republican
Harold E. Hughes	1963	1969	Democratic
Robert D. Fulton	1969	1969	Democratic
Robert D. Ray	1969	1983	Republican
Terry E. Branstad	1983	1999	Republican
Tom Vilsack	1999		Democratic

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