List of Texas governors

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Seal of the Governor of Texas
Greg Abbott, the current governor of Texas

The governor of Texas is the chief executive of the US state of Texas and the commander in chief of the state military forces (Texas National Guard). The governor has a right of veto over the passage of laws and a pardon. Texas' first constitution (1845) gave the governor a term of between two and four years. The constitution of 1866 extended the term of office to four years. The constitution of 1869 limited the term of office to two terms. The 1876 constitution limited the term of office to two years, but an amendment from 1972 extended it again to four years. The incumbent lives with his family in the Texas Governor's Mansion in Austin .

This list includes all of the governors of the US state of Texas and the pre-existing Republic of Texas .

President of the Republic of Texas

president Term of office
Samuel Houston 1836-1838
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar 1838-1841
Samuel Houston 1841-1844
Anson Jones 1844-1846

Texas state governors

Surname Term of office Political party
James Pinckney Henderson 1846-1847 democrat
George Tyler Wood 1847-1849 democrat
Peter Hansborough Bell 1849-1853 democrat
James Wilson Henderson 1853-1853 democrat
Elisha Marshall Pease 1853-1857 unionist
Hardin Richard Runnels 1857-1859 democrat
Samuel Houston 1859-1861 More independent
Edward Clark 1861-1861 democrat
Francis Richard Lubbock 1861-1863 democrat
Pendleton Murrah 1863-1865 democrat
Fletcher Summerfield Stockdale 1865 democrat
Andrew Jackson Hamilton 1865-1866 democrat
James Webb Throckmorton 1866-1867 democrat
Elisha Marshall Pease 1867-1869 republican
Edmund Jackson Davis 1870-1874 republican
Richard Coke 1874-1876 democrat
Richard Bennett Hubbard 1876-1879 democrat
Oran Milo Roberts 1879-1883 democrat
John Ireland 1883-1887 democrat
Lawrence Sullivan Ross 1887-1891 democrat
James Stephen Hogg 1891-1895 democrat
Charles Allen Culberson 1895-1899 democrat
Joseph Draper Sayers 1899-1903 democrat
Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham 1903-1907 democrat
Thomas Mitchell Campbell 1907-1911 democrat
Oscar Branch Colquitt 1911-1915 democrat
James Edward Ferguson 1915-1917 democrat
William Pettu's hobby 1917-1921 democrat
Pat Morris Neff 1921-1925 democrat
Miriam Amanda Wallace Ferguson 1925-1927 democrat
Daniel James Moody 1927-1931 democrat
Ross Shaw Sterling 1931-1933 democrat
Miriam Amanda Wallace Ferguson 1933-1935 democrat
James V. Allred 1935-1939 democrat
Wilbert Lee O'Daniel 1939-1941 democrat
Coke Robert Stevenson 1941-1947 democrat
Beauford Halbert Jester 1947-1949 democrat
Robert Allan Shivers 1949-1957 democrat
Marion Price Daniel 1957-1963 democrat
John Bowden Connally 1963-1969 democrat
Preston Earnest Smith 1969-1973 democrat
Dolph Briscoe 1973-1979 democrat
William Perry Clements 1979-1983 republican
Mark Wells White 1983-1987 democrat
William Perry Clements 1987-1991 republican
Dorothy Ann Richards 1991-1995 democrat
George Walker Bush 1995-2000 republican
James Richard Perry 2000-2015 republican
Greg Abbott since 2015 republican

See also

literature

  • Brian McCall: The Power of the Texas Governor: Connally to Bush. University of Texas Press, Austin 2009, ISBN 978-0-292-71898-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1845 Const. Art V sec 4
  2. ↑ 1866 Const. Art V sec 4
  3. ↑ 1869 Const. Art IV sec 4
  4. ↑ TX Const. Art IV sec 4
  5. ↑ Texas Politics - The Executive Branch ( Memento of the original from February 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Texaspolitics.laits.utexas.edu. Retrieved July 15, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / texaspolitics.laits.utexas.edu