Former Governors - Texas

Governor's Name State Time in Office Party
Gov. Rick Perry Texas 2000 - 2015
Republican
Gov. George W. Bush Texas 1995 - 2000
Republican
Gov. Dorothy Ann Willis Richards Texas 1991 - 1995
Democratic
Gov. William P. Clements Texas 1987 - 1991
1979 - 1983
Republican
Gov. Mark White Texas 1983 - 1987
Democratic
Gov. Dolph Briscoe Texas 1973 - 1979
Democratic
Gov. Preston Smith Texas 1969 - 1973
Democratic
Gov. John Bowden Connally Texas 1963 - 1969
Democratic
Gov. Price Daniel Texas 1957 - 1963
Democratic
Gov. Allan Shivers Texas 1949 - 1957
Democratic
Gov. Beauford Halbert Jester Texas 1947 - 1949
Democratic
Gov. Coke R. Stevenson Texas 1941 - 1947
Democratic
Gov. Wilbert Lee O’Daniel Texas 1939 - 1941
Democratic
Gov. James V. Allred Texas 1935 - 1939
Democratic
Gov. Miriam Amanda Ferguson Texas 1933 - 1935
1925 - 1927
Democratic
Gov. Ross S. Sterling Texas 1931 - 1933
Democratic
Gov. Daniel J. Moody Texas 1927 - 1931
Democratic
Gov. Pat Morris Neff Texas 1921 - 1925
Democratic
Gov. William Pettus Hobby Texas 1917 - 1921
Democratic
Gov. James Edward Ferguson Texas 1915 - 1917
Democratic
Gov. Oscar Branch Colquitt Texas 1911 - 1915
Democratic
Gov. Thomas Mitchell Campbell Texas 1907 - 1911
Democratic
Gov. Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham Texas 1903 - 1907
Democratic
Gov. Joseph Draper Sayers Texas 1899 - 1903
Democratic
Gov. Charles Allen Culberson Texas 1895 - 1899
Democratic
Gov. James Stephen Hogg Texas 1891 - 1895
Democratic
Gov. Lawrence Sullivan Ross Texas 1887 - 1891
Democratic
Gov. John Ireland Texas 1883 - 1887
Democratic
Gov. Oran Milo Roberts Texas 1879 - 1883
Democratic
Gov. Richard Bennett Hubbard Texas 1876 - 1879
Democratic
Gov. Richard Coke Texas 1874 - 1876
Democratic
Gov. Edmund Jackson Davis Texas 1870 - 1874
Republican
Gov. Elisha Marshall Pease Texas 1867 - 1869
1853 - 1857
Republican
Gov. James Webb Throckmorton Texas 1866 - 1867
Conservative
Gov. Andrew Jackson Hamilton Texas 1865 - 1866
Conservative Republican
Gov. Fletcher Summerfield Stockdale Texas 1865 - 1865
Democratic
Gov. Pendleton Murrah Texas 1863 - 1865
Democratic
Gov. Francis Richard Lubbock Texas 1861 - 1863
Democratic
Gov. Edward Clark Texas 1861 - 1861
Democratic
Gov. Samuel Houston Texas 1859 - 1861
Union Democratic
Gov. Hardin Richard Runnels Texas 1857 - 1859
Democratic
Gov. Peter Hansborough Bell Texas 1849 - 1853
Democratic
Gov. George T. Wood Texas 1847 - 1849
Democratic
Gov. James Pinckney Henderson Texas 1846 - 1847
Democratic

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