For Iowans born after 1974 (including myself), Terry Branstad has run Iowa for more than half our lives. Now his record for longest-serving governor in US history is official.
On Monday, Terry Branstad will have been Iowa’s governor for one out of every eight days that Iowa has been a state according to calculations by a University of Minnesota political science professor. It’ll be a total of 7,642 days. It pushes him past record-holder George Clinton, a Revolutionary War hero who served as the governor of New York for nearly 21 years.
The Register’s Kyle Munson and Kathie Obradovich have written about the record too.