---
type: Person
title: "Paul Pate"
description: "IA Secretary Of State — State of Iowa"
role: "IA Secretary Of State"
party: "R"
level: "state"
branch: "executive"
state: "IA"
tenure:
  start: "2025-01-01"
  current: true
election:
  term_length: 4
ids:
  person: "5b954ef3-f451-44e0-bc40-e00c5eb2d003"
  office: "6d17be85-4ff9-4adb-862d-7a517cd7226b"
  tenure: "025f91ef-ee63-4db2-8c27-6a593045d1f0"
  jurisdiction: "6950178d-8f49-49c1-9e72-dd7d308751eb"
sources:
  - field: tenure
    source: "OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20"
  - field: jurisdiction
    source: "Derived from governor jurisdiction"
confidence: official
tags: [officeholder, state, executive, ia]
timestamp: "2026-07-04"
---

# Paul Pate

Current IA Secretary Of State (State of Iowa).

## Sources

- tenure: OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20
- jurisdiction: Derived from governor jurisdiction

Generated from the Atlas officeholders v3 export (2026-07-04).