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As Filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September _____, 2009

Registration No. 333-89772

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C.  20549

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

AMES NATIONAL CORPORATION
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Iowa
  
42-1039071
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)
  
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

405 Fifth Street
Ames, Iowa 50010
(Address of principal executive office, including zip code)

Ames National Corporation
Stock Purchase Plan
(Full title of the plan)

John P. Nelson
Ames National Corporation
405 Fifth Street
Ames, Iowa 50010
515) 232-6251
(Name, address and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)


Indicate by checkmark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an  accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer or a smaller reporting company.  See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

Large accelerated filer   
o
Accelerated filer  
x
Non accelerated filer     
¨
Smaller reporting company
¨
 
 
 
 
 
DE-REGISTRATON OF SHARES

On June 4, 2002, Ames National Corporation (the “Company”) filed a Registration Statement on Form S-8, File No. 333-89772 (the “Registration Statement”), under which 294,000 shares of the Company’s common stock (the “Common Stock”) were registered for issuance under the Ames National Corporation Stock Purchase Plan (the “Plan”).  The Plan was scheduled to continue through 2008 and has now been terminated.  Prior to termination of the Plan, an aggregate of 57,228 shares of Common Stock were issued under the Registration Statement, leaving an aggregate of 236,772 shares of Common Stock available for issuance.  In accordance with the undertaking made by the Company in the Registration Statement to de-register, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the securities which remain unsold at the termination of the offering pursuant to the Plan, the Company is hereby filing this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement to de-register the 236,772 shares of Common Stock which remain unsold as of the date of this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1.

 
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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Ames, State of Iowa, on October 14, 2009.

 
AMES NATIONAL CORPORATION
   
   
 
By:  /s/  Thomas H. Pohlman
 
Thomas H. Pohlman
 
President and Chief Executive Officer

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.


By:  /s/ Thomas H. Pohlman
October 14, 2009
Thomas H. Pohlman
  
President, Chief Executive Officer
  
and Director (Principal Executive Officer)
  

By:  /s/ John P. Nelson
October 14, 2009
John P. Nelson
  
Vice President and Chief Financial
  
Officer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
  

By: /s/ Daniel L. Krieger
October 14, 2009
Daniel L. Krieger, Director
  
   
By: /s/ Warren R. Madden
October 14, 2009
Warren R. Madden, Director
  
   
By: /s/ Charles D. Jons MD
October 14, 2009
Charles D. Jons MD, Director
  
   
By: /s/ James R. Larson, II
October 14, 2009
James R. Larson, II, Director
  
   
By: /s/ Marvin J. Walter
October 14, 2009
Marvin J. Walter, Director
  
   
By: /s/ Betty A. Baudler Horras
October 14, 2009
Betty A. Baudler Horras, Director
  
 
 
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