Buren R. Sherman, elected October, 1883.
Wm. Larrabee, elected November 3, 1885.
The first Governor of Iowa, the Hon. Anson Brigs, was sworn in December 3, 1846. Iowa was admitted into the Union as a State December 28, 1846, a few days after Briggs was sworn in Governor.
PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES.
George Washington, of Virginia.
John Adams, of Massachusetts.
Thomas Jefferson, of Virginia.
James Madison, of Virginia.
James Monroe, of Virginia.
John Quincy Adams, of Massachusetts.
Andrew Jackson, of Tennessee.
Martin Van Buren, of New York.
W. H. Harrison, of Ohio.
John Tyler, of Virginia.
James Knox Polk, of Tennessee.
Zachary Taylor, of Louisiana.
Millard Fillmore, of New York.
Franklin Pierce, of New Hampshire.
James Buchanan, of Pennsylvania.
Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois.
Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee.
Ulysses S. Grant, of Illinois.
Rutherford B. Hayes, of Ohio.
James A. Garfield of Ohio.
Chester Allen Arthur, of New York.
Grover Cleveland, of New York.
The President receives a salary of $50,000 per annum, and is authorized to appoint and employ in his official household a private secretary at $3,500 per annum; an assistant secretary at $2,500, who must be a short-hand writer; two executive clerks, each $2,300; a steward at $2,000; and a messenger at $1,200 per annum. In addition he has a cabinet, viz: Secretary of State, Secretary of Treasury, Secretary of Interior, of War, Navy, Postoffice and Justice. This cabinet is selected and appointed by the President.
Gen. Washington, the first President, was inaugurated on the thirtieth of April, 1789. Since that the fourth of March has been selected as inauguration day for the President of the United States.