The print copies of the Executive Orders of the Governors of Iowa are in the process of being digitized and placed in an online repository to ensure easy access to anyone via the Internet. Select a Governor to see a list of their Executive Orders.
Governors of Iowa
Kimberly Kay Reynolds - (2017- ) [4 Executive Orders]
Terry Edward Branstad - (1983-99, 2011-2017) [88 Executive Orders]
Chet Culver - (2007-2011) [27 Executive Orders]
Tom Vilsack - (1999-2007) [51 Executive Orders]
Terry Edward Branstad - (1983-99, 2011-2017) [85 Executive Orders]
Robert D. Ray - (1969-83) [51 Executive Orders]
Robert D. Fulton - (1969) [no Executive Orders listed]
Harold E. Hughes - (1963-69) [11 Executive Orders]
Norman Erbe - (1961-63) [7 Executive Orders]
Herschel C. Loveless - (1957-61) [no Executive Orders listed]
Leo Hoegh - (1955-57) [no Executive Orders listed]
Leo Elthon - (1954-55) [no Executive Orders listed]
William S. Beardsley - (1949-54) [4 Executive Orders]
Robert Donald Blue - (1945-49) [5 Executive Orders]
Bourke B. Hickenlooper - (1943-45) [no Executive Orders listed]
George A. Wilson - (1939-43) [1 Executive Order]
Nelson G. Kraschel - (1937-39) [1 Executive Order]
Clyde L. Herring - (1933-37) [6 Executive Orders]
Dan W. Turner - (1931-33) [no Executive Orders listed]
John Hammill - (1925-31) [7 Executive Orders]
Nathan E. Kendall - (1921-25) [1 Executive Order]
James W. Grimes - (1854-58) [1 Executive Order]
The following Governors of Iowa are in the process of having their Executive Orders added to the online repository.
William L. Harding - (1917-21)
George W. Clarke - (1913-17)
Beryl Franklin Carroll - (1909-13)
Warren Garst - (1908-09)
Albert B. Cummins - (1902-08)
Leslie M. Shaw - (1898-1902)
Francis Marion Drake - (1896-98)
Frank Darr Jackson - (1894-96)
Horace Boies - (1890-94)
William Larrabee - (1886-90)
Buren Robinson Sherman - (1882-86)
John H. Gear - (1878-82)
Joshua G. Newbold - (1877-78)
Samuel J. Kirkwood - (1876-77)
Cyrus C. Carpenter - (1872-76)
Samuel Merrill - (1868-72)
William M. Stone - (1864-68)
Samuel J. Kirkwood - (1860-64)
Ralph P. Lowe - (1858-60)
Stephen P. Hempstead - (1850-54)
Ansel Briggs - (1846-50)