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Governors of Texas
1846 - Present
Source: The Texas State Library and Archives Commission

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Governor Name	Term	Lt. Governor	Term
J. Pinckney Henderson	01/19/1846 - 12/21/1847	Albert Clinton Horton	1846-1847
George T. Wood	12/21/1847 - 12/21/1849	John Alexander Greer	1847 - 1851
Peter Hansbrough Bell	12/21/1849 - 11/23/1853	John Alexander Greer James Wilson Henderson	1847 - 1851 1851 - 1853
James Wilson Henderson	11/23/1853 - 12/21/1853	David Catchings Dickson	1853 - 1855
Elisha M. Pease	12/21/1853 - 12/21/1857	David Catchings Dickson Hardin R. Runnels	1853 - 1855 1855 -1857
Hardin R. Runnels	12/21/1857 - 12/21/1859	Francis R. Lubbock	1857 - 1859
Sam Houston	12/21/1859 - 03/16/1861	Edward Clark	1859 - 1861
Edward Clark	03/16/1861 - 11/07/1861	Edward Clark	1859 - 1861
Francis R. Lubbock	11/07/1861 - 11/05/1863	John McClannahan Crockett	1861 - 1861
1Pendleton Murrah	11/05/1863 - 06/17/1865	Fletcher S. Stockdale	1863 - 1865
Andrew J. Hamilton	06/17/1865 - 08/09/1866	George Washinton Jones	1866 - 1867
James W. Throckmorton	08/09/1866 - 08/08/1867	George Washinton Jones	1866 - 1867
2Elisha M. Pease	08/08/1867 - 09/30/1869	**James W. Flanagan	1869
3Edmund J. Davis	01/08/1870 - 01/15/1874	Richard B. Hubbard	1873 - 1876
4Richard Coke	01/15/1874 - 12/01/1876	Richard B. Hubbard	1873 - 1876
5 Richard B. Hubbard	12/01/1876 - 01/21/1879	---	---
Oran M. Roberts	01/21/1879 - 01/16/1883	Joseph Draper Sayers Leonidas Jefferson Storey	1879 - 1881 1881 - 1883
John Ireland	01/16/1883 - 01/18/1887	Francis Marion Martin Barnett Gibbs	1883 - 1885 1885 - 1887
Lawrence Sullivan Ross	01/18/1887 - 01/21/1891	Thomas Benton Wheeler	1887 - 1891
James Stephen Hogg	01/21/1891 - 01/15/1895	George Cassety Pendleton Martin McNulty Crane	1891 - 1893 1893 - 1895
Charles A. Culberson	01/15/1895 - 01/17/1899	George Taylor Jester	1895 - 1899
Joseph D. Sayers	01/17/1899 - 01/20/1903	James Nathan Browning	1899 -1903
6S.W.T. Lanham	01/20/1903 - 01/15/1907	George D. Neal	1903 - 1907
Thomas Mitchell Campbell	01/15/1907 - 01/17/1911	Asbury Bascom Davidson	1907 - 1913
Oscar Branch Colquitt	01/17/1911 - 01/19/1915	Asbury Bascom Davidson William Harding Mayes	1907 - 1913 1913 - 1914
7James E. Ferguson	01/19/1915 - 08/25/1917	William Pettus Hobby	1915 - 1917
William Pettus Hobby	08/25/1917 - 01/18/1921	William Arnold Johnson	1919 - 1921
Pat Morris Neff	01/18/1921 - 01/20/1925	Lynch Davidson Thomas Whitfield Davidson	1921 - 1923 1923 - 1925
8Miriam A. Ferguson	01/20/1925 - 01/17/1927	Barney Miller	1925 - 1931
Dan Moody	01/17/1927 - 01/20/1931	Barney Miller	1925 - 1931
Ross S. Sterling	01/20/1931 - 01/17/1933	Edgar E. Witt	1931 - 1935
Miriam A. Ferguson	01/17/1933 - 01/15/1935	Edgar E. Witt	1931 - 1935
James V. Allred	01/15/1935 - 01/17/1939	Walter Frank Woodul	1935 - 1939
9Wilbert Lee O'Daniel	01/17/1939 - 08/04/1941	Coke R. Stevenson	1939 - 1941
10Coke R. Stevenson	08/04/1941 - 01/21/1947	John Lee Smith	1943 - 1947
Beauford H. Jester	01/21/1947 - 07/11/1949	Robert Allan Shivers	1947 - 1949
Allan Shivers	07/11/1949 - 01/15/1957	Ben Ramsey	1951 - 1963
Price Daniel	01/15/1957 - 01/15/1963	Ben Ramsey	1951 - 1963
John Conally	01/15/1963 - 01/21/1969	Preston E. Smith	1963 - 1969
Preston Smith	01/21/1969 - 01/16/1973	Ben Barnes	1969 - 1973
11Dolph Briscoe	01/16/1973 - 01/16/1979	William Pettus Hobby, Jr.	1973 - 1991
William P. Clements	01/16/1979 - 01/18/1983	William Pettus Hobby, Jr.
Mark White	01/18/1983 - 01/20/1987	William Pettus Hobby, Jr.
William P. Clements	01/20/1987 - 01/15/1991	William Pettus Hobby, Jr.
12Ann W. Richards	01/15/1991 - 01/17/1995	Robert D. Bullock	1991 - 1999
13George Walker Bush	01/17/1995 - 12/21/2000	Robert D. Bullock James Richard Perry	1991 - 1999 1999 -2000
James Richard Perry	12/21/2000 - Present	Bill Ratliff David Dewhurst	2000-2003 2003 - Present

Notes

¹ Pendleton Murrah was absent from 05/1865 - 06/1865, his Lt. Governor Fletcher S. Stockdale was
Interim Governor of Texas in his absence.
² Gen. Philip Sheridan removed Gov. Throckmorton and appointed Elisha M. Pease as the provisional
governor. Pease resigned on September 30, 1869 due to General J.J. Reynolds actions by wanting
Edmund J. Davis to win.. Pease wanted Andrew J. Hamilton to win the seat in the 1869 race.
³ Appointed provisional governor on January 8, 1870 and inaugurated on April 8, 1870 as the official
governor due to controversial 1869 election.
⁴ Gov. Edmund J. Davis refused to give up office to Richard Coke. Gov. Davis wanted troops brought in
to support him but President Ulysses S. Grant did not support Davis' fight and he conceded to Richard
Coke.
⁵ Three major disasters during his term: Huntsville Penitentiary fire - 1899, Brazos River flood - 1899;
and Galveston storm - 1900.
⁶ Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham only spent $20 dollars on his campaign in the governor race of 1904.
⁷ Controversy which led to his resignation on September 25, 1917; William Pettus Hobby took over as
interim governor on August 25, 1917 and elected governor on September 25, 1917. Also known as
"Pa" Ferguson.
⁸ First woman governor in Texas but second national wide after Nellie T. Ross (Wyoming); wife of
James E. "Pa" Ferguson. She ran after her husband, James, was denied from having his name on the
ballot. Her slogan, "Two governors for the price of one".
⁹ W.L. O'Daniel ran for Senate in a special election in 1941 where he defeated Lyndon Baines Johnson.
This election was one of the most controversial in Texas history.
¹⁰ Elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 1928 and was elected the Speaker of the House in
1933.
¹¹ First governor of Texas to be elected to a four year term.
¹² Full name is Dorothy Ann Willis Richards; fifty years went by before another woman, Richards, was
elected to a statewide office in 1982 as the Texas State Treasurer.
¹³ Left his term as Governor in 2000 because the GOP nominated him as a presidential candidate. On
January 21, 2001, George W. Bush was inaugurated as the United States President.
^** Never inaugurated as governor,but elected in 1869 then was appointed to U.S. Senate by Legislature.

All information from The Texas State Library and Archives Commission.