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Secretary of State of Iowa

The Secretary of State of Iowa is the commissioner of elections of the U.S. stateofIowa. A constitutional officer, the officeholder is elected every four years. The Office of the Secretary of State is divided into four divisions: Elections and Voter Registration, Business Services, Administrative Services, and Communications and Publications.

Elections and Voter Registration deals with supervising the 99 county auditors, elections, and voter registration. The division of the office helps the county auditors in telling them which election practices work best. The division also helps in increasing voter registration. The Business Services Division is a records center for businesses in Iowa. The Administrative Services Division and the Communications and Publications Division is involved in scheduling and providing media information, preservation of documents, recordkeeping, and publishing the Iowa Official Register and the Iowa Official Directory of Federal, State and County Officers. The Secretary of State's office is housed in the Lucas State Office Building in Des Moines.^[1]

List of secretaries of state of Iowa[edit]

#	Image	Name	Took office	Left office	Political party
1		Elisha Cutler Jr.	1846	1848	Democratic
2		Josiah H. Bonney	1848	1850	Democratic
3		George W. McCleary	1850	1856	Democratic
4		Elijah Sells	1856	1863	Republican
5		James Wright	1863	1867	Republican
6		Ed Wright	1867	1873	Republican
7		Josiah T. Young	1873	1879	Republican
8		John A. T. Hull	1879	1885	Republican
9		Frank D. Jackson	1885	1891	Republican
10		William M. McFarland	1891	1897	Republican
11		George L. Dobson	1897	1901	Republican
12		William B. Martin	1901	1907	Republican
13		William C. Hayward	1907	1913	Republican
14		William S. Allen	1913	1919	Republican
15		Walter C. Ramsay	1919	1928	Republican
16		Edward M. Smith	1929	1931	Republican
17		G. C. Greenwalt	1931	1933	Republican
18		Ola Babcock Miller	1933	1937	Democratic
19		Robert E. O'Brien	1937	1939	Democratic
20		Earl G. Miller	1939	1943	Republican
21		Wayne M. Ropes	1943	1947	Republican
22		Rollo H. Bergeson	1947	1949	Republican
23		Melvin D. Synhorst	1949	1965	Republican
24		Gary L. Cameron	1965	1966	Democratic
25		Melvin D. Synhorst	1967	1980	Republican
26		Mary Jane Odell	1980	1987	Republican
27		Elaine Baxter	1987	1995	Democratic
28		Paul Pate	1995	1999	Republican
29		Chet Culver	1999	2007	Democratic
30		Michael Mauro	2007	2011	Democratic
31		Matt Schultz	2011	2015	Republican
32		Paul Pate	2015	Incumbent	Republican

References[edit]

• Office of the Secretary of State
• Iowa Official Register 2005-2006
• History of the Office