List of speakers of the Iowa House of Representatives explained

Post:Speaker
Body:Iowa House of Representatives
Insignia:State seal of Iowa.svg
Insigniasize:110px
Incumbent:Pat Grassley
Incumbentsince:January 13, 2020
Status:Presiding officer
Appointer:Iowa House of Representatives
Seat:Iowa State Capitol, Des Moines
Inaugural:Jesse B. Browne

The following is a list of speakers of the Iowa House of Representatives since statehood.

Speakers of the Iowa House of Representatives

SpeakerTermPartyCounty/ResidenceNotesCitation
Jesse B. Browne1846–1848WhigLee County[1]
Smiley Bonham1848–1850DemocraticJohnson County
George Temple1850–1852DemocraticDes Moines County
James Grant1852–1854DemocraticScott County
Reuben Noble1854–1856WhigClayton County
Samuel McFarland1856–1858RepublicanHenry County
Stephen B. Shelledy1858–1860RepublicanJasper County
John Edwards1860–1862RepublicanLucas County
Rush Clark1862–1864RepublicanJohnson County
Jacob Butler1864–1866RepublicanMuscatine County
Ed Wright1866–1868RepublicanCedar County
John Russell1868–1870RepublicanJones County
Aylett R. Cotton1870–1872RepublicanClinton County
James Wilson1872–1874RepublicanTama County
John H. Gear1874–1878RepublicanDes Moines County
John Young Stone1878–1880RepublicanDes Moines County
Lore Alford1880–1882RepublicanMills County
George R. Struble1882–1884RepublicanBlack Hawk County
William P. Wolf1884–1886RepublicanTama County
Albert Head1886–1888RepublicanGreene County
William H. Redman1888–1890RepublicanPoweshiek County
John Taylor Hamilton1890–1892DemocraticLinn County
William O. Mitchell1892–1894RepublicanAdams County
Henry Stone1894–1896RepublicanMarshall County
Howard W. Byers1896–1898RepublicanShelby County
James H. Funk1898–1900RepublicanHardin County
Daniel H. Bowen1900–1902RepublicanAllamakee County
Willard L. Eaton1902–1904RepublicanMitchell County
George W. Clarke1904–1908RepublicanDallas County
Nathan E. Kendall1908–1909RepublicanDallas County
Guy A. Feely1909–1911RepublicanBlack Hawk County
Paul E. Stillman1911–1913RepublicanGreene County[2]
Edward H. Cunningham1913–1915RepublicanBuena Vista County
William I. Atkinson1915–1917RepublicanButler County
Milton B. Pitt1917–1919RepublicanHarrison County
Arch McFarlane1919–1923RepublicanBlack Hawk County
Joseph H. Anderson1923–1925RepublicanWinnebago County
Willis C. Edson1925–1927RepublicanBurna Vista County
Luther V. Carter1928–1929RepublicanHardin County
Joseph H. Johnson1929–1931RepublicanMarion County
Francis Johnson1931–1933RepublicanDickinson County
George E. Miller1933–1935DemocraticShelby County
John H. Mitchell1935–1937DemocraticWebster County
Lamar P. Foster1937–1939DemocraticCedar County
John R. Irwin1939–1941RepublicanLee County
Robert D. Blue1941–1943RepublicanWright County
Henry Burma1943–1945RepublicanButler County
Harold Felton1945–1946RepublicanWarren County
Gus Kuester1947–1955RepublicanCass County
William Lynes1951–1955RepublicanBremer County
Arthur C. Hanson1955–1957RepublicanLyon County
William L. Mooty1957–1959RepublicanGrundy County
Charles Vernon Lisle1959–1961RepublicanPage County
Henry C. Nelson1961–1963RepublicanWinnebago County
Robert W. Naden1963–1965RepublicanHamilton County
Vincent B. Steffen1965–1967DemocraticChickasaw County
Maurice Baringer1967–1969RepublicanFayette County
William H. Harbor1969–1973RepublicanMills County
Andrew P. Varley1973–1975RepublicanAdair, Guthrie County
Dale M. Cochran1975–1979DemocraticWebster, Humboldt County
Floyd H. Millen1979–1981RepublicanVan Buren County
William H. Harbor1980RepublicanMills County
Del Stromer1981–1983RepublicanHancock County
Donald D. Avenson1983–1990DemocraticFayette County[3]
Robert C. Arnould1991–1992DemocraticScott County
Harold Van Maanen1993–1994RepublicanMahaska, Marion County
Ron Corbett1995–1999RepublicanLinn County
Brent Siegrist1999–2002RepublicanPottawattamie County
Christopher Rants2003–2006RepublicanWoodbury County
Pat Murphy2007–2011DemocraticDubuque County
Kraig Paulsen2011–2015RepublicanLinn County
Linda Upmeyer2016–2020Republican
Pat Grassley2020–Republican

Speakers of the Iowa Territorial House of Representatives

SpeakerTermPartyCounty/ResidenceNotesCitation
William Henson Wallace1838–1839WhigHenry
Edward Johnstone1839–1840DemocraticLee
Thomas Cox1840–1841DemocraticJackson
Warner Lewis1831–1842DemocraticDubuque
James McGowan Morgan1842–1843DemocraticDes Moines
James P. Carleton1843–1845DemocraticJohnson
James McGowan Morgan1845DemocraticDes Moines
George W. McCleary1845–1846DemocraticLouisa

Notes and References

  1. Book: Stork, Frank J.. The Iowa General Assembly: Our Legislative Heritage 1846-1980. Clingan. Cynthia A.. Iowa Senate. 1980. Des Moines, Iowa.
  2. Book: Nancy Weatherly. Sharp. James Roger. Sharp. Bloomsbury Academic. August 30, 2000. Google Books.
  3. Web site: Members of Iowa General Assemblies 1981-2014. Iowa General Assembly. 2014. December 21, 2023.