Last Update Sunday, July 26, 1997

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Order |
From - To |
Time In Office |
Governor |
Web Resource |
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Years |
Months |
Days |
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1st |
February 19, 1846 - December 21, 1847 |
1 |
10 |
2 |
James Pinckney Henderson
(1808 1858) |
Texas State Cemetary |
|
2nd |
December 21, 1847 - December 21, 1849 |
2 |
- |
- |
George
Thomas Wood
(1795 1858) |
Political Graveyard |
|
3rd |
December 21, 1849 - November 23, 1853 |
3 |
11 |
2 |
Peter Hansbrough Bell
(1812 1898) |
Texas State Cemetary |
|
4th |
November 23,1853 -December 21, 1853 |
- |
- |
28 |
James
Wilson Henderson
(1817 1880) |
Political Graveyard |
|
5th |
December 21, 1853 - December 21, 1857 |
6 |
- |
- |
Elisha Marshall Pease | Political Graveyard |
|
6th |
December 21, 1857 - December 21, 1859 |
2 |
- |
- |
Hardin Richard Runnels
(1820 1873) |
Texas State Cemetary |
|
7th |
December
21, 1859 - March 16, 1861
Resigned because of states sucession |
1 |
2 |
23 |
Samuel Houston
(1793 1863) |
PBS: People in The
West
Notable People of Planet Earth TAMU Press: The Personal Correspondence of Sam Houston Sam Houston Memorial
Museum Portraits: WPA: Mrs. W. M. Anderson, Mrs. Phoebe Arnett, J. B. Billingsley, S. H. Blalock, Aunt Mary Davenport, Mrs. R. L. Dunman, Roy Eddins, Mrs. Emma Falconer, E. F. Forsgard, Mrs. Lucinda Permien Holzel, E. A. Houston 1, 2, Mrs. Walter Emmett Hunnicutt, George Ogden, Mrs. William Price, John Raines, Robert E. Lee Tomilson, Nath F. Watkins, L. H. Williams, Jr., Mrs. Virginia S. W. Williamson |
|
8th |
March 16, 1861 - November 7, 1861 |
- |
7 |
22 |
Edward
Clark
(1815 1880) |
Political Graveyard |
|
9th |
November
7, 1861 - November 5, 1863
Resigned to enter Conferate Army |
1 |
11 |
29 |
Francis Richard Lubbock
(1815 1905) |
Texas State Cemetary |
|
10th |
November
5, 1863 - June 17, 1865
Admistration terminated by fall of Confederacy |
1 |
7 |
12 |
Pendleton
Murrah
(1824 1865) |
Political Graveyard |
|
11th |
June 17,
1865 - August
9, 1866
Provisional, appointed by President Johnson |
1 |
1 |
23 |
Andrew
Jackson Hamilton
(1815 1875) |
Political Graveyard |
|
12th |
August 9, 1866 - August 8, 1867 |
- |
11 |
30 |
James
Webb Throckmorton
(1825-1894) |
Political Graveyard |
|
13th |
August
8, 1867 - September
30, 1869
Appointed under martial law |
2 |
1 |
22 |
Elisha
Marshall Pease
(1812 1883) |
Political Graveyard |
|
14th |
January
8, 1870 - January
15, 1874
Appointed provisional governor after being elected |
4 |
- |
7 |
Edmund Jackson Davis
(1827 1883) |
Texas
State Cemetary
Notable People of Planet Earth WPA: Rollie C. Burns, Mrs. George Fowler, Robert E. Lee Tomilson |
|
15th |
January
15, 1874 - December 1, 1876
Resigned to enter U.S. Senate |
2 |
10 |
16 |
Richard
Coke
(1829 1897) |
Lone
Star Junction
Notable People of Planet Earth WPA: Mrs. George Fowler, Belle Little, Robert E. Lee Tomilson |
|
16th |
December 1, 1876 - January 21, 1879 |
2 |
1 |
20 |
Richard
Bennett Hubbard
(1832 1901) |
Political Graveyard |
|
17th |
January 21, 1879 - January 16, 1883 |
3 |
11 |
26 |
Oran Milo Roberts
(1815-1898) |
Lone
Star Junction
Notable People of Planet Earth WPA: Alexander Beaton |
|
18th |
January 16, 1883 - January 18, 1887 |
4 |
- |
2 |
John Ireland | Texas
State Cemetary
WPA: Rebecca Cobbs |
|
19th |
January 18, 1887 - January 20, 1891 |
4 |
- |
2 |
Lawrence Sullivan Ross
(1838-1898) |
Lone
Star Junction
Notable People of Planet Earth WPA: Dee Cook, Edwin Punchard, Margurite Rast |
|
20th |
January 20, 1891 - January 15, 1895 |
3 |
11 |
26 |
James Stephen Hogg
(1851 1906) |
Lone
Star Junction
Notable People of Planet Earth The Hogg Family |
|
21st |
January 15, 1895 - January 17, 1899 |
4 |
- |
2 |
Charles A. Culberson | Political Graveyard |
|
22nd |
January 17, 1899 - January 20, 1903 |
4 |
- |
3 |
Joseph
Draper Sayers
(1841 1929) |
Political Graveyard |
|
23rd |
January 20, 1903 - January 15, 1907 |
3 |
11 |
26 |
Samuel
Willis Tucker Lanham
(1846 1908) |
Political Graveyard |
|
24th |
January 15, 1907 - January 17, 1911 |
4 |
- |
2 |
Thomas
Mitchell Campbell
(1856 1923) |
Political Graveyard |
|
25th |
January 17, 1911 - January 19, 1915 |
4 |
- |
2 |
Oscar
Branch Colquitt
(1861 1940) |
Political Graveyard |
|
26th |
January 19, 1915 - August 25, 1917 |
2 |
7 |
6 |
James E. Ferguson, Jr. | Texas
State Cemetary
WPA: Tom Barker |
|
27th |
August 25, 1917 - January 18, 1921 |
3 |
4 |
24 |
William Pettus Hobby
(1878 1964) |
Political Graveyard |
|
28th |
January 18, 1921 - January 20, 1925 |
4 |
- |
2 |
Pat Morris Neff | Political
Graveyard
|
|
29th |
January 20, 1925 - January 17, 1927 |
1 |
11 |
28 |
Miriam Amanda Wallace Ferguson | Texas
State Cemetary
Quotes: King's English WPA: Tom Barker |
|
30th |
January 17, 1927 - January 20, 1931 |
4 |
- |
3 |
Daniel James Moody, Jr. | Texas State Cemetary |
|
31st |
January 20, 1931 - January 17, 1933 |
1 |
11 |
28 |
Ross Shaw
Sterling
(1875 1949) |
Political
Graveyard
Notable People of Planet Earth WPA: Belle Little |
|
32nd |
January 17, 1933 - January 15, 1935 |
1 |
11 |
29 |
Miriam Amanda Wallace Ferguson | See Above |
|
33rd |
January 15, 1935 - January 17, 1939 |
4 |
- |
2 |
James V. Allred | Political
Graveyard
WPA: Bones |
|
34th |
January
17, 1939 - August 4, 1941
Resigned to enter U.S. Senate |
2 |
6 |
18 |
Wilbert
Lee O'Daniel
(1890 1969) |
Political Graveyard |
|
35th |
August 4, 1941 - January 21, 1947 |
5 |
5 |
17 |
Coke Robert
Stevenson
(1888 1975) |
Political Graveyard |
|
36th |
January 21, 1947 - July 11, 1949 |
2 |
5 |
20 |
Beauford
Halbert Jester
(1893 1949) |
Political Graveyard |
|
37th |
July 11,
1949 - January
15, 1957
Lt. Governor succeeded on death of Governor Jester |
7 |
6 |
4 |
Robert Allan Shivers | Texas State Cemetary |
|
38th |
January 15, 1957 - January 15, 1963 |
6 |
- |
- |
Marion
Price Daniel
(1910 1988) |
Political Graveyard |
|
39th |
January 15, 1963 - January 21, 1969 |
6 |
- |
6 |
John Bowden Connally, Jr.
(1917 1993) |
Texas
State Cemetary
UT: John B. Connally Center for the Administration of Justice |
|
40th |
January 21, 1969 - January 16, 1973 |
3 |
11 |
26 |
Preston
Earnest Smith
(1912 - ) |
Political Graveyard |
|
41st |
January 16, 1973 - January 16, 1979 |
6 |
- |
- |
Dolph
Briscoe, Jr.
(1923 - ) |
Political
Graveyard
TAMU: Distinguished Texan Award PBS: Chicano! Worth: This Is Their Land |
|
42nd |
January 16, 1979 - January 18, 1983 |
4 |
- |
2 |
William
Perry Clements
(1917 - ) |
Political Graveyard |
|
43rd |
January 18, 1983 - January 20, 1987 |
4 |
- |
2 |
Mark Wells White, Jr. | Political Graveyard |
|
44th |
January 20, 1987 - January 15, 1991 |
3 |
11 |
26 |
William
Perry Clements
(1917 - ) |
See Above |
|
45th |
January 15, 1991 - January 17, 1995 |
4 |
- |
2 |
Dorothy Ann Willis Richards
(1933 - ) |
Political
Graveyard
Notable People of Planet Earth Mexican Center of the Institute of Latin American Studies: Keynote Address Quotes: Crackpots |
|
46th |
January 17, 1995 | George Walker Bush
(1946 - ) |
Office of the Governor | |||
The Governor's Mansion
circa
1920, circa 1930, circa
1997