List of Kansas Governors
This list includes all of the governors of the US state of Kansas and the pre-existing Kansas Territory .
Kansas Territory
Surname | Term of office | Political party |
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Andrew Horatio Shipowner | 1854-1855 | democrat |
Daniel Woodson | 1855 | democrat |
Wilson Shannon | 1855-1856 | democrat |
Daniel Woodson | 1856 | democrat |
John White Geary | 1856-1857 | democrat |
Daniel Woodson | 1857 | democrat |
Frederick Perry Stanton | 1857 | democrat |
Robert James Walker | 1857 | democrat |
Frederick Perry Stanton | 1857 | democrat |
James William Denver | 1857-1858 | democrat |
Hugh Sleight Walsh | 1858 | democrat |
Samuel Medary | 1858-1860 | democrat |
George Monroe Beebe | 1860-1861 | democrat |
State of Kansas
Surname | Term of office | Political party |
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Charles Lawrence Robinson | 1861-1863 | republican |
Thomas Carney | 1863-1865 | republican |
Samuel Johnson Crawford | 1865-1868 | republican |
Nehemiah Green | 1868-1869 | republican |
James Madison Harvey | 1869-1873 | republican |
Thomas Andrew Osborn | 1873-1877 | republican |
George Tobey Anthony | 1877-1879 | republican |
John Pierce St. John | 1879-1883 | republican |
George Washington Glick | 1883-1885 | democrat |
John Alexander Martin | 1885-1889 | republican |
Lyman Underwood Humphrey | 1889-1893 | republican |
Lorenzo Dow Lewelling | 1893-1895 | democrat |
Edmund Needham Morrill | 1895-1897 | republican |
John Whitnah Leedy | 1897-1899 | democrat |
William Eugene Stanley | 1899-1903 | republican |
Willis Joshua Bailey | 1903-1905 | republican |
Edward Wallis up | 1905-1909 | republican |
Walter Roscoe Stubbs | 1909-1913 | republican |
George Hartshorn Hodges | 1913-1915 | democrat |
Arthur Capper | 1915-1919 | republican |
Henry Justin Allen | 1919-1923 | republican |
Jonathan McMillan Davis | 1923-1925 | democrat |
Benjamin Sanford Paulen | 1925-1929 | republican |
Clyde Martin Reed | 1929-1931 | republican |
Harry Hines Woodring | 1931-1933 | democrat |
Alfred Mossman Landon | 1933-1937 | republican |
Walter Augustus Huxman | 1937-1939 | democrat |
Payne Harry Ratner | 1939-1943 | republican |
Andrew Frank Schoeppel | 1943-1947 | republican |
Frank Carlson | 1947-1950 | republican |
Frank Leslie Hagaman | 1950-1951 | republican |
Edward Ferdinand Arn | 1951-1955 | republican |
Frederick Lee Hall | 1955-1957 | republican |
John Berridge McCuish | 1957-1957 | republican |
George Docking | 1957-1961 | democrat |
John Anderson | 1961-1965 | republican |
William Henry Avery | 1965-1967 | republican |
Robert Blackwell Docking | 1967-1975 | democrat |
Robert Frederick Bennett | 1975-1979 | republican |
John William Carlin | 1979-1987 | democrat |
John Michael Hayden | 1987-1991 | republican |
Joan Finney | 1991-1995 | democrat |
William Preston Graves | 1995-2003 | republican |
Kathleen Gilligan Sebelius | 2003-2009 | democrat |
Mark Vincent Parkinson | 2009-2011 | democrat |
Samuel Dale Brownback | 2011-2018 | republican |
Jeffrey William Colyer | 2018-2019 | republican |
Laura Kelly | since 2019 | democrat |