List of Alabama Governors

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Kay Ivey, the current Governor of Alabama

This list includes all governors of the US state of Alabama and the pre-existing Alabama Territory .

Alabama Territory

Surname Term of office Political party
William Wyatt Bibb 1817-1819

State of Alabama

Surname Term of office Political party
William Wyatt Bibb 1819-1820 Democratic Republican
Thomas Bibb 1820-1821 Democratic Republican
Israel Pickens 1821-1825 Democratic Republican
John Murphy 1825-1829 Democratic Republican
Gabriel Moore 1829-1831 democrat
Samuel B. Moore 1831 democrat
John Gayle 1831-1835 democrat
Clement Comer Clay 1835-1837 democrat
Hugh McVay 1837 democrat
Arthur Pendleton Bagby 1837-1841 democrat
Benjamin Fitzpatrick 1841-1845 democrat
Joshua Lanier Martin 1845-1847 democrat
Reuben Chapman 1847-1849 democrat
Henry Watkins Collier 1849-1853 democrat
John Anthony Winston 1853-1857 democrat
Andrew Barry Moore 1857-1861 democrat
John Gill Shorter 1861-1863 democrat
Thomas Hill Watts 1863-1865 democrat
Lewis Eliphalet Parsons 1865 democrat
Robert Miller Patton 1865-1867 Whig
Wager Swayne 1867-1868 military
William Hugh Smith 1868-1870 republican
Robert Burns Lindsay 1870-1872 democrat
David Peter Lewis 1872-1874 republican
George Smith Houston 1874-1878 democrat
Rufus Willis Cobb 1878-1882 democrat
Edward Asbury O'Neal 1882-1886 democrat
Thomas Seay 1886-1890 democrat
Thomas Goode Jones 1890-1894 democrat
William Calvin Oates 1894-1896 democrat
Joseph Forney Johnston 1896-1900 democrat
William Dorsey Jelks 1900 democrat
William James Samford 1900-1901 democrat
William Dorsey Jelks 1901-1904 democrat
Russell McWhortor Cunningham 1904-1905 democrat
William Dorsey Jelks 1905-1907 democrat
Braxton Bragg Comer 1907-1911 democrat
Emmet O'Neal 1911-1915 democrat
Charles Henderson 1915-1919 democrat
Thomas Erby Kilby 1919-1923 democrat
William Woodward Brandon 1923-1927 democrat
David Bibb Graves 1927-1931 democrat
Benjamin Meek Miller 1931-1935 democrat
David Bibb Graves 1935-1939 democrat
Frank Murray Dixon 1939-1943 democrat
Chauncey Sparks 1943-1947 democrat
James Elisha Folsom Sr. 1947-1951 democrat
Seth Gordon Persons 1951-1955 democrat
James Elisha Folsom Sr. 1955-1959 democrat
John Malcolm Patterson 1959-1963 democrat
George Corley Wallace 1963-1967 democrat
Lurleen Burns Wallace 1967-1968 democrat
Albert Preston Brewer 1968-1971 democrat
George Corley Wallace 1971-1979 democrat
Forrest Hood James 1979-1983 democrat
George Corley Wallace 1983-1987 democrat
Harold Guy Hunt 1987-1993 republican
James Elisha Folsom Jr. 1993-1995 democrat
Forrest Hood James 1995-1999 republican
Donald Eugene Siegelman 1999-2003 democrat
Robert Renfroe Riley 2003-2011 republican
Robert Julian Bentley 2011-2017 republican
Kay Ellen Ivey since 2017 republican

See also