Images of Governors are courtesy of the State Preservation Board, Austin, Texas

  • Elisha Marshall Pease, 1853-1857, 1867-1869
  • Hardin R. Runnels, 1857-1859
  • Sam Houston, 1859-1861
  • Edward Clark, March – Nov. 1861
  • Francis R. Lubbock, 1861-1863
  • Pendleton Murrah, 1863-1865
  • Andrew J. Hamilton, 1865-1866
  • James Webb Throckmorton, 1866-1867
  • Edmund Jackson Davis, 1870-1874
  • Richard Coke, 1874-1876
  • Richard B. Hubbard, 1876-1879
  • Oran M. Roberts, 1879-1883
  • John Ireland, 1883-1887
  • Lawrence Sullivan Ross, 1887-1891
  • James Stephen Hogg, 1891-1895
  • Charles A. Culberson, 1895-1899
  • Joseph Draper Sayers, 1899-1903
  • Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham, 1903-1907
  • Thomas Mitchell Campbell, 1907-1911
  • Oscar Branch Colquitt, 1911-1915
  • James E. Ferguson, 1915-1917
  • William Pettus Hobby, 1917-1921
  • Pat Morris Neff, 1921-1925
  • Miriam A. Ferguson, 1925-27 & 33-35
  • Dan Moody, 1927-1931
  • Ross S. Sterling, 1931-1933
  • James V. Allred, 1935-1939
  • W. Lee O’Daniel, 1939-1941
  • Coke R. Stevenson, 1941-1947
  • Beauford Halbert Jester, 1947-1949
  • Allan Shivers, 1949-1957
  • Price Daniel, 1957-1963
  • John B. Connally, 1963-1969
  • Preston Smith, 1969-1973
  • Dolph Briscoe, Jr., 1973-1979
  • William P. Clements, Jr., 1979-83 & 87-91
  • Mark Wells White, 1983-1987
  • Ann Willis Richards, 1991-1995
  • George W. Bush, 1995-2000
  • Rick Perry, 2000-2015