List of Nebraska Governors

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Pete Ricketts, the current governor of Nebraska

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

Nebraska Territory

Surname Term of office Political party
Francis Burt 1854 democrat
Thomas Barney Cuming 1854-1855 democrat
Mark Whitaker Izard 1855-1857 democrat
Thomas Barney Cuming 1857-1858 democrat
William Alexander Richardson 1858 democrat
Julius Sterling Morton 1858-1859 democrat
Samuel Watson Black 1859-1861 democrat
Julius Sterling Morton 1861 democrat
Algernon Sidney Paddock 1861 republican
Alvin Saunders 1861-1867 republican

State of Nebraska

Surname Term of office Political party
David Butler 1867-1871 republican
William Hartford James 1871-1873 republican
Robert Wilkinson Furnas 1873-1875 republican
Silas Garber 1875-1879 republican
Albinus Nance 1879-1883 republican
James William Dawes 1883-1887 republican
John Milton Thayer 1887-1892 republican
James E. Boyd 1892-1893 democrat
Lorenzo Crounse 1893-1895 republican
Silas Alexander Holcomb 1895-1899 Populist party
William Amos Poynter 1899-1901 Populist party
Charles Henry Dietrich 1901-1901 republican
Ezra Perin Savage 1901-1903 republican
John Hopwood Mickey 1903-1907 republican
George Lawson Sheldon 1907-1909 republican
Ashton Cokayne Shallenberger 1909-1911 democrat
Chester Hardy Aldrich 1911-1913 republican
John Henry Morehead 1913-1917 democrat
M. Keith Neville 1917-1919 democrat
Samuel Roy McKelvie 1919-1923 republican
Charles Wayland Bryan 1923-1925 democrat
Adam McMullen 1925-1929 republican
Arthur Jerard Weaver 1929-1931 republican
Charles Wayland Bryan 1931-1935 democrat
Robert Leroy Cochran 1935-1941 democrat
Dwight Palmer Griswold 1941-1947 republican
Frederick Valdemar Erastus Peterson 1947-1953 republican
Robert Berkey Crosby 1953-1955 republican
Victor Emanuel Anderson 1955-1959 republican
Ralph Gilmour Brooks 1959-1960 democrat
Dwight Willard Burney 1960-1961 republican
Frank Brenner Morrison 1961-1967 democrat
Norbert Theodore Tiemann 1967-1971 republican
John James Exon 1971-1979 democrat
Charles Thone 1979-1983 republican
Joseph Robert Kerrey 1983-1987 democrat
Kay Auonne Orr 1987-1991 republican
Earl Benjamin Nelson 1991-1999 democrat
Michael Owen Johanns 1999-2005 republican
David Eugene Heineman 2005-2015 republican
John Peter Ricketts since 2015 republican

See also