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Terry Edward Branstad (born November 17, 1946) is an American politician and former diplomat. A member of the Republican Party, he served three terms in the Iowa House of Representatives from 1973 to 1979 before serving as the 39th Governor of Iowa from 1983 to 1999 and again as the 42nd Governor of the state from 2011 to 2017.
Terry Branstad is the longest-serving governor in American history, with a tenure of 22 years, 4 months, and 13 days, as governor of Iowa. This list contains the 50 governors of states in the United States who have served for the longest years, consecutively or otherwise. Pre-statehood territorial and colonial governors are not included. [1]
There have been 41 individuals who held the position of Iowa governor, with two of those serving multiple distinct terms, Samuel J. Kirkwood and Terry Branstad. The current governor, Kim Reynolds, is the first woman to hold the position and was sworn in on May 24, 2017.
Republican incumbent Terry Branstad ran for reelection to a sixth overall and second consecutive four-year term. [1] Branstad went on to win a historic sixth term as governor by defeating Democratic challenger and State Senator Jack Hatch , and on December 14, 2015, he became the longest-serving governor in American history.
Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad greets Chinese President Xi Jinping in Seattle in 2015. President Xi Jinping, the longest-serving head of state in the Peoples Republic of China, carried out a list of ...
Terry Branstad: Jo Ann Zimmerman: January 1987 January 1991 Joy Corning: January 1991 January 15, 1999 Republican: Sally Pederson: January 15, 1999 January 12, 2007 Democratic: Tom Vilsack: Patty Judge: January 12, 2007 January 14, 2011 Chet Culver: Kim Reynolds: January 14, 2011 May 24, 2017 Republican: Terry Branstad: Adam Gregg: January 18 ...
Incumbent Republican Terry Branstad defeated Democratic nominee Lowell Junkins with 51.91% of the vote. Primary elections. Primary elections were held on June 3, 1986 ...
The 1990 Iowa gubernatorial election took place November 8, 1990. Incumbent Republican Governor of Iowa Terry Branstad ran for re-election to a third term as governor. On the Democratic side, state representative Donald Avenson won his party's nomination and both Branstad and Avenson moved on to the general election.