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Iowa: Governors

Governors of Iowa, 1846-2006 (May be incomplete!)
Ansel Briggs 1846-50 Stephen P. Hempstead 1850-54 James W. Grimes 1854-58 Ralph P. Lowe 1858-60 Samuel J. Kirkwood 1860-64 William M. Stone 1864-68 Samuel Merrill 1868-72 Cyrus C. Carpenter 1872-76 Samuel J. Kirkwood 1876-77 Joshua G. Newbold 1877-78 John H. Gear 1878-82 Buren Robinson Sherman 1882-86 William Larrabee 1886-90 Horace Boies 1890-94 Frank Darr Jackson 1894-96 Francis Marion Drake 1896-98 Leslie M. Shaw 1898-1902 Albert B. Cummins 1902-08 Warren Garst 1908-09 Beryl Franklin Carroll 1909-13 George W. Clarke 1913-17 William L. Harding 1917-21 Nathan E. Kendall 1921-25 John Hammill 1925-31 Dan W. Turner 1931-33 Clyde L. Herring 1933-37 Nelson G. Kraschel 1937-39 George A. Wilson 1939-43 Bourke B. Hickenlooper 1943-45 Robert Donald Blue 1945-49 William S. Beardsley 1949-54 Leo Elthon 1954-55 Leo Hoegh 1955-57 Herschel C. Loveless 1957-61 Norman Erbe 1961-63 Harold E. Hughes 1963-69 Robert D. Fulton 1969 Robert D. Ray 1969-83 Terry Edward Branstad 1983-99 Thomas J. Vilsack 1999-

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

  • 1846 Oct 26: Ansel Briggs (Dem), elected; Thomas McKnight (Whig), defeated.
  • 1850 Aug 5: Stephen P. Hempstead (Opposition), elected; James L. Thompson (Whig), defeated; William Penn Clark (Free Soil), defeated.
  • 1854 Aug 3: James W. Grimes (Whig & Free Soil), elected; Curtis Bates (Dem), defeated.
  • 1857 Oct 13: Ralph P. Lowe (Rep), elected; Benjamin M. Samuels (Dem), defeated; T. F. Henry (American), defeated.
  • 1859 Oct 11: Samuel J. Kirkwood (Rep), elected; Augustus C. Dodge (Dem), defeated.
  • 1861 Oct 8: Samuel J. Kirkwood (Rep), elected; William H. Merritt (Union Democratic), defeated; Benjamin M. Samuels, defeated; Henry Clay Dean, defeated; Charles Mason, defeated; Lincoln Clark, defeated.
  • 1863 Oct 13: William M. Stone (Rep), elected; James M. Tuttle (Dem), defeated.
  • 1865 Oct 10: William M. Stone (Union Republican), elected; Thomas H. Benton (Dem), defeated.
  • 1867 Oct 8: Samuel Merrill (Rep), elected; Charles Mason (Dem), defeated.
  • 1869 Oct 12: Samuel Merrill (Rep), elected; George Gillaspy (Dem), defeated.
  • 1871: J. C. Knapp, defeated.
  • 1873: J. G. Vale, defeated.
  • 1875: Shepherd Leffler (Dem), defeated.
  • 1877: John P. Irish, defeated; Daniel P. Stubbs, defeated.
  • 1877 Feb 1: Samuel J. Kirkwood, resigned.
  • 1879: Henry H. Trimble (Dem), defeated; Daniel Campbell, defeated.
  • 1881: D. M. Clark, defeated; La Vega G. Kinne (Dem), defeated.
  • 1883: La Vega G. Kinne (Dem), defeated.
  • 1885: Charles Edwin Whiting (Dem), defeated.
  • 1887: T. J. Anderson (Dem), defeated.
  • 1889: Joseph Hutchinson, defeated.
  • 1891: Herman C. Wheeler, defeated.
  • 1893: Horace Boies, defeated.
  • 1895: Washington Irving Babb (Dem), defeated.
  • 1897: Frederick Edward White, defeated.
  • 1899: Frederick Edward White, defeated.
  • 1901: T. J. Phillips, defeated; Alexis U. Coates (Prohibition), defeated.
  • 1903: J. B. Sullivan, defeated.
  • 1906: Claude R. Porter, defeated.
  • 1908: Frederick Edward White, defeated.
  • 1910: Claude R. Porter, defeated.
  • 1912: Edward G. Dunn, defeated; John L. Stevens, defeated.
  • 1914: John Taylor Hamilton, defeated.
  • 1916: Edwin T. Meredith (Dem), defeated.
  • 1918: Edwin T. Meredith (Dem), defeated.
  • 1920: Clyde L. Herring (Dem), defeated.
  • 1922: J. Ray Files (Dem), defeated.
  • 1924: John Hammill (Rep), elected.
  • 1926: John Hammill (Rep), elected.
  • 1928: John Hammill (Rep), elected.
  • 1934: Robert W. Colflesh (Rep), defeated in primary.
  • 1940: John K. Valentine (Dem), defeated.
  • 1952: Herschel C. Loveless, defeated.
  • 1954: Ernest Palmer, Jr. (Rep), defeated in primary.
  • 1954 Nov 21: William S. Beardsley, died in office.
  • 1956: Leo Hoegh (Rep), defeated.
  • 1962: Norman Erbe (Rep), defeated.
  • 1968: Donald Johnson (Rep), defeated in primary.
  • 1968: Paul Franzenburg, defeated.
  • 1970 Jun 2: Fulton (Dem), nominated; Gannon (Dem), defeated in primary; Nereim (Dem), defeated in primary.
  • 1970 Nov 3: Robert D. Ray (Rep), elected; Fulton (Dem), defeated; Dilley (American Independent), defeated.
  • 1972: Paul Franzenburg, defeated.
  • 1974: James F. Schaben, defeated.
  • 1990 Jun 5: John Chrystal (Dem), defeated in primary.
  • 1994: Fred Grandy (Rep), defeated in primary.
  • 2006: Chet Culver (Dem), elected.

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