List of speakers of the Iowa House of Representatives

Speaker of Iowa House of Representatives
Incumbent Pat Grassley since January 13, 2020
Status	Presiding officer
Seat	Iowa State Capitol, Des Moines
Appointer	Iowa House of Representatives
Inaugural holder	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

Speaker	Term	Party	County/Residence	Notes	Citation
Jesse B. Browne	1846–1848	Whig	Lee County		[1]
Smiley Bonham	1848–1850	Democratic	Johnson County		[1]
George Temple	1850–1852	Democratic	Des Moines County		[1]
James Grant	1852–1854	Democratic	Scott County		[1]
Reuben Noble	1854–1856	Whig	Clayton County		[1]
Samuel McFarland	1856–1858	Republican	Henry County		[1]
Stephen B. Shelledy	1858–1860	Republican	Jasper County		[1]
John Edwards	1860–1862	Republican	Lucas County		[1]
Rush Clark	1862–1864	Republican	Johnson County		[1]
Jacob Butler	1864–1866	Republican	Muscatine County		[1]
Ed Wright	1866–1868	Republican	Cedar County		[1]
John Russell	1868–1870	Republican	Jones County		[1]
Aylett R. Cotton	1870–1872	Republican	Clinton County		[1]
James Wilson	1872–1874	Republican	Tama County		[1]
John H. Gear	1874–1878	Republican	Des Moines County		[1]
John Young Stone	1878–1880	Republican	Des Moines County		[1]
Lore Alford	1880–1882	Republican	Mills County		[1]
George R. Struble	1882–1884	Republican	Black Hawk County		[1]
William P. Wolf	1884–1886	Republican	Tama County		[1]
Albert Head	1886–1888	Republican	Greene County		[1]
William H. Redman	1888–1890	Republican	Poweshiek County		[1]
John Taylor Hamilton	1890–1892	Democratic	Linn County		[1]
William O. Mitchell	1892–1894	Republican	Adams County		[1]
Henry Stone	1894–1896	Republican	Marshall County		[1]
Howard W. Byers	1896–1898	Republican	Shelby County		[1]
James H. Funk	1898–1900	Republican	Hardin County		[1]
Daniel H. Bowen	1900–1902	Republican	Allamakee County		[1]
Willard L. Eaton	1902–1904	Republican	Mitchell County		[1]
George W. Clarke	1904–1908	Republican	Dallas County		[1]
Nathan E. Kendall	1908–1909	Republican	Dallas County		[1]
Guy A. Feely	1909–1911	Republican	Black Hawk County		[1]
Paul E. Stillman	1911–1913	Republican	Greene County		[2]
Edward H. Cunningham	1913–1915	Republican	Buena Vista County		[2]
William I. Atkinson	1915–1917	Republican	Butler County		[2]
Milton B. Pitt	1917–1919	Republican	Harrison County		[2]
Arch McFarlane	1919–1923	Republican	Black Hawk County		[2]
Joseph H. Anderson	1923–1925	Republican	Winnebago County		[2]
Willis C. Edson	1925–1927	Republican	Burna Vista County		[2]
Luther V. Carter	1928–1929	Republican	Hardin County		[2]
Joseph H. Johnson	1929–1931	Republican	Marion County		[2]
Francis Johnson	1931–1933	Republican	Dickinson County		[2]
George E. Miller	1933–1935	Democratic	Shelby County		[2]
John H. Mitchell	1935–1937	Democratic	Webster County		[2]
Lamar P. Foster	1937–1939	Democratic	Cedar County		[2]
John R. Irwin	1939–1941	Republican	Lee County		[2]
Robert D. Blue	1941–1943	Republican	Wright County		[2]
Henry Burma	1943–1945	Republican	Butler County		[2]
Harold Felton	1945–1946	Republican	Warren County		[2]
Gus Kuester	1947–1955	Republican	Cass County		[2]
William Lynes	1951–1955	Republican	Bremer County		[2]
Arthur C. Hanson	1955–1957	Republican	Lyon County		[1]
William L. Mooty	1957–1959	Republican	Grundy County		[1]
Charles Vernon Lisle	1959–1961	Republican	Page County		[1]
Henry C. Nelson	1961–1963	Republican	Winnebago County		[1]
Robert W. Naden	1963–1965	Republican	Hamilton County		[1]
Vincent B. Steffen	1965–1967	Democratic	Chickasaw County		[1]
Maurice Baringer	1967–1969	Republican	Fayette County		[1]
William H. Harbor	1969–1973	Republican	Mills County		[1]
Andrew P. Varley	1973–1975	Republican	Adair, Guthrie County		[1]
Dale M. Cochran	1975–1979	Democratic	Webster, Humboldt County		[1]
Floyd H. Millen	1979–1981	Republican	Van Buren County		[1]
William H. Harbor	1980	Republican	Mills County		[1]
Del Stromer	1981–1983	Republican	Hancock County		[1]
Donald D. Avenson	1983–1990	Democratic	Fayette County		[3]
Robert C. Arnould	1991–1992	Democratic	Scott County		[3]
Harold Van Maanen	1993–1994	Republican	Mahaska, Marion County		[3]
Ron Corbett	1995–1999	Republican	Linn County		[3]
Brent Siegrist	1999–2002	Republican	Pottawattamie County		[3]
Christopher Rants	2003–2006	Republican	Woodbury County		[3]
Pat Murphy	2007–2011	Democratic	Dubuque County		[3]
Kraig Paulsen	2011–2015	Republican	Linn County		[3]
Linda Upmeyer	2016–2020	Republican
Pat Grassley	2020–	Republican

Speakers of the Iowa Territorial House of Representatives

Speaker	Term	Party	County/Residence	Notes	Citation
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

References

1. Stork, Frank J.; Clingan, Cynthia A. (1980). The Iowa General Assembly: Our Legislative Heritage 1846-1980 (PDF). Des Moines, Iowa: Iowa Senate.
2. Sharp, Nancy Weatherly; Sharp, James Roger (August 30, 2000). American Legislative Leaders in the Midwest, 1911-1994. Bloomsbury Academic – via Google Books.
3. Iowa General Assembly (2014). "Members of Iowa General Assemblies 1981-2014" (PDF). Retrieved December 21, 2023.