Iowa State Auditor

The Iowa State Auditor is the State Auditor of the Government of Iowa, United States. The office's mission is to "serve as the taxpayers' watchdog" by "ensuring that government officials use taxpayer dollars for the intended purposes to benefit the public".[1]

State Auditor of Iowa
Incumbent Rob Sand since 2019
Type	State Auditor
Appointer	Elected
Term length	4 years
Constituting instrument	Constitution of Iowa
Formation	1846
First holder	Joseph T. Fales

The office is provided for by the Constitution of Iowa, which requires that the Auditor be elected every four years, simultaneously with the rest of the state's executive branch, in midterm elections. The State Auditor is annually required to make a complete audit of the financial accounts of every department of the Government of Iowa.[2] The office supervised by the Auditor of State includes three divisions: Administration, Financial Audit, and Performance Investigation.[3]

List of auditors

No.	Name	Took office	Left office	Party
1	Joseph T. Fales	1846	1849	Democratic
2	William Pattee	1850	1854	Democratic
3	Andrew J. Stevens	1854	1855	Whig
4	John Pattee	1855	1859	Republican
5	Jonathan W. Battell	1859	1865	Republican
6	John A. Elliott	1865	1871	Republican
7	John Russell	1871	1875	Republican
8	Buren R. Sherman	1875	1881	Republican
9	William V. Lucas	1881	1883	Republican
10	John L. Brown	1883	1885	Republican
11	Jonathan W. Battell	1885	1886	Republican
12	John L. Brown	1886	1886	Republican
13	Charles Beardsley	1886	1886	Republican
14	John L. Brown	1886	1887	Republican
15	Hames A. Lyons	1887	1893	Republican
16	Cornelius G. McCarthy	1893	1899	Republican
17	Frank F. Merriam	1899	1903	Republican
18	Beryl F. Carroll	1903	1909	Republican
19	John L. Bleakly	1909	1915	Republican
20	Frank S. Shaw	1915	1921	Republican
21	Glenn C. Haynes	1921	1924	Republican
22	James E. Thomas	1924	1925	Republican
23	J. C. McClune	1925	1927	Republican
24	J. W. Long	1927	1932	Republican
25	C. Fred Porter	1932	1933	Republican
26	Charles W. Storms	1933	1939	Democratic
27	C. B. Akers	1939	1965	Republican
28	Lorne R. Worthington	1965	1966	Democratic
29	Lloyd R. Smith	1967	1978	Republican
30	Richard D. Johnson	1979	2002	Republican
31	David Vaudt	2003	2013	Republican
32	Mary Mosiman	2013	2019	Republican
33	Rob Sand	2019	Incumbent	Democratic

References

1. "State of Iowa - Auditor of State". auditor.iowa.gov. Retrieved 2017-07-03.
2. "Iowa Auditor of State - Ballotpedia". Retrieved 2017-07-03.
3. ?, ? (n.d.). "?". ?. Archived from the original on February 7, 2012. Retrieved July 3, 2017.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)