List of Governors of Texas

In politics, Governor of Texas is the title given to the chief executive of the state of Texas.

Governors of Texas

#	Name	Took Office	Left Office	Party	Texas County Named After
1	James Pinckney Henderson	19 February 1846	21 December 1847	Democrat	Henderson County
2	George T. Wood	21 December 1847	21 December 1849	Democrat	Wood County
3	Peter Hansborough Bell	21 December 1849	23 November 1853	Democrat	Bell County
4	J. W. Henderson	23 November 1853	21 December 1853	Democrat
5	Elisha M. Pease	21 December 1853	21 December 1857	Unionist
6	Hardin R. Runnels	21 December 1857	21 December 1859	Democrat
7	Sam Houston	21 December 1859	16 March 1861	Democrat	Houston County
8	Edward Clark	16 March 1861	7 November 1861	Democrat
9	Francis R. Lubbock	7 November 1861	5 November 1863	Democrat
10	Pendleton Murrah	5 November 1863	June 1865	Democrat
10	Fletcher Stockdale	June 1865	19 June 1865	Democrat
11	Andrew J. Hamilton	19 June 1865	9 August 1866	Democrat
12	James W. Throckmorton	9 August 1866	8 August 1867	Democrat
13	Elisha M. Pease	8 August 1867	30 September 1869	Republican
14	Edmund J. Davis	8 January 1870	15 January 1874	Republican
15	Richard Coke	15 January 1874	1 December 1876	Democrat	Coke County
16	Richard B. Hubbard	1 December 1876	21 January 1879	Democrat
17	Oran M. Roberts	21 January 1879	16 January 1883	Democrat	Roberts County (partially)
18	John Ireland	16 January 1883	18 January 1887	Democrat
19	Lawrence Sullivan Ross	18 January 1887	20 January 1891	Democrat
20	James Stephen Hogg	20 January 1891	15 January 1895	Democrat	Jim Hogg County
21	Charles A. Culberson	15 January 1895	17 January 1899	Democrat
22	Joseph D. Sayers	17 January 1899	20 January 1903	Democrat
23	S.W.T. Lanham	20 January 1903	15 January 1907	Democrat
24	Thomas Mitchell Campbell	15 January 1907	17 January 1911	Democrat
25	Oscar Branch Colquitt	17 January 1911	19 January 1915	Democrat
26	James E. Ferguson	19 January 1915	25 August 1917	Democrat
27	William Pettus Hobby Sr.	25 August 1917	18 January 1921	Democrat
28	Pat Morris Neff	18 January 1921	20 January 1925	Democrat
29	Miriam A. Ferguson	20 January 1925	17 January 1927	Democrat
30	Dan Moody	17 January 1927	20 January 1931	Democrat
31	Ross S. Sterling	20 January 1931	17 January 1933	Democrat
32	Miriam A. Ferguson	17 January 1933	15 January 1935	Democrat
33	James V. Allred	15 January 1935	17 January 1939	Democrat
34	W. Lee O'Daniel	17 January 1939	4 August 1941	Democrat
35	Coke R. Stevenson	4 August 1941	21 January 1947	Democrat
36	Beauford H. Jester	21 January 1947	11 July 1949	Democrat
37	Allan Shivers	11 July 1949	15 January 1957	Democrat
38	Price Daniel	15 January 1957	15 January 1963	Democrat
39	John B. Connally Jr.	15 January 1963	21 January 1969	Democrat
40	Preston Smith	21 January 1969	16 January 1973	Democrat
41	Dolph Briscoe	16 January 1973	16 January 1979	Democrat
42	William P. Clements	16 January 1979	18 January 1983	Republican
43	Mark White	18 January 1983	20 January 1987	Democrat
44	William P. Clements	20 January 1987	15 January 1991	Republican
45	Ann Richards	15 January 1991	17 January 1995	Democrat
46	George W. Bush	17 January 1995	21 December 2000	Republican
47	J. Richard Perry	21 December 2000	present	Republican

List of Governors of Texas

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