List of Kansas Governors

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Laura Kelly, the current governor of Kansas

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
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
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

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