The Political Graveyard: Iowa: House Speakers

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Iowa: House Speakers

Speakers of the Iowa State House of Representatives, 1846-1999 (May be incomplete!)
Jesse B. Browne 1846-48 Smiley H. Bonham 1848-49 George Temple 1850-51 James Grant 1852-53 Reuben Noble 1854-56 Samuel McFarland 1856-57 Stephen B. Shelledy 1858-59 John Edwards 1859-61 Rush Clark 1862-63 Jacob Butler 1864-65 Ed Wright 1866-67 John Russell 1868-69 Aylett R. Cotton 1870-71 James Wilson 1872-73 John H. Gear 1874-77 John Y. Stone 1878-79 Lore Alford 1880-81 George R. Struble 1882-83 William P. Wolf 1884-85 Albert Head 1886-87 William H. Redman 1888-89 John T. Hamilton 1890-91 William O. Mitchell 1892-93 Henry Stone 1894-95 Howard W. Byers 1896-97 James H. Funk 1898-99 Daniel H. Bowen 1900-01 Willard L. Eaton 1902-03 George W. Clarke 1904-06 Nathan E. Kendall 1907-08 Guy A. Feely 1909-10 Paul E. Stillman 1911-12 Edward H. Cunningham 1913-14 William I. Atkinson 1915-16 Milton B. Pitt 1917-18 Arch W. McFarlane 1919-22 Joseph H. Anderson 1923-24 W. C. Edson 1925-26 L. V. Carter 1927-28 Howard A. Mathews 1928 J. H. Johnson 1929-30 Francis Johnson 1931-32 George E. Miller 1933-34 John H. Mitchell 1935-36 La Mar Foster 1937-38 John R. Irwin 1939-40 Robert Donald Blue 1941-42 Henry W. Burma 1943-44 Harold Felton 1945-46 Gus T. Kuester 1947-50 William S. Lynes 1951-54 Arthur C. Hanson 1955-56 W. L. Moody 1957-58 Vern Lisle 1959-60 Henry C. Nelson 1961-62 Robert W. Naden 1963-64 Vincent B. Steffen 1965-66 Maurice E. Baringer 1967-68 William H. Harbor 1969-72 Andrew Varley 1973-74 Dale M. Cochran 1975-77 Floyd H. Millen 1978-79 William H. Harbor 1980 Delwyn Stromer 1981-82 Donald Avenson 1983 Ron J. Corbett 1995-99

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