Chronological List

Early Statehood

J.Pinckney Henderson 1846-1847
George T. Wood 1847-1849
Peter Hansbrough Bell 1849-1853
James W. Henderson 1853
Elisha M. Pease 1853-1857
Hardin R. Runnels 1857-1859
Sam Houston 1859-1861

War, Ruin, and Reconstruction

Edward Clark 1861
Francis R. Lubbock 1861-1863
Pendleton Murrah 1863-1865
Andrew J. Hamilton 1865-1866
James W. Throckmorton 1866-1867
Elisha M. Pease 1867-1869
Edmund J. Davis 1870-1874

The Wild West

Richard Coke 1874-1876
Richard B. Hubbard 1876-1879
Oran M. Roberts 1879-1883
John Ireland 1883-1887

Texas Rising

Lawrence Sullivan Ross 1887-1891
James Stephen Hogg 1891-1895
Charles A. Culberson 1895-1899
Joseph D. Sayers 1899-1903
S.W.T. Lanham 1903-1907
Thomas Mitchell Campbell 1907-1911
Oscar Branch Colquitt 1911-1915

The Politics of Personality

James E. Ferguson 1915-1917
William Pettus Hobby 1917-1921
Pat Morris Neff 1921-1925
Miriam A. Ferguson 1925-1927
Dan Moody 1927-1931
Ross S. Sterling 1931-1933
Miriam A. Ferguson 1933-1935
James V Allred 1935-1939
W. Lee O'Daniel 1939-1941
Coke R. Stevenson 1941-1947
Beauford H. Jester 1947-1949

Modern Texas

Allan Shivers 1949-1957
Price Daniel 1957-1963
John Connally 1963-1969
Preston Smith 1969-1973
Dolph Briscoe 1973-1979
William P. Clements 1979-1983
Mark White 1983-1987
William P. Clements 1987-1991
Ann W. Richards 1991-1995
George W. Bush 1995-2000

James Richard Perry 2000-present

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