The Political Graveyard: Texas: Governors

The Political
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Texas: Governors

Governors of Texas, 1846-2003 (May be incomplete!)
J. Pinckney Henderson 1846-47 George Tyler Wood 1847-49 Peter Hansbrough Bell 1849-53 James Wilson Henderson 1853 Elisha Marshall Pease 1853-57 Hardin Richard Runnels 1857-59 Sam Houston 1859-61 Edward Clark 1861 Francis Richard Lubbock 1861-63 Pendleton Murrah 1863-65 Fletcher S. Stockdale 1865 Andrew Jackson Hamilton 1865-66 James Webb Throckmorton 1866-67 Elisha Marshall Pease 1867-69 Edmund J. Davis 1870-74 Richard Coke 1874-76 Richard B. Hubbard 1876-79 Oran Milo Roberts 1879-83 John Ireland 1883-87 Lawrence Sullivan Ross 1887-91 James Stephen Hogg 1891-95 Charles A. Culberson 1895-99 Joseph D. Sayers 1899-1903 Samuel W. T. Lanham 1903-07 Thomas Mitchell Campbell 1907-11 Oscar Branch Colquitt 1911-15 James Edward Ferguson 1915-17 William Pettus Hobby 1917-21 Pat Morris Neff 1921-25 Miriam Amanda Wallace Ferguson 1925-27 Daniel J. Moody, Jr. 1927-31 Ross Shaw Sterling 1931-33 Miriam Amanda Wallace Ferguson 1933-35 James V. Allred 1935-39 W. Lee O'Daniel 1939-41 Coke R. Stevenson 1941-47 Beauford Jester 1947-49 Allan Shivers 1949-57 Price Daniel 1957-63 John B. Connally 1963-69 Preston Smith 1969-73 Dolph Briscoe, Jr. 1973-79 William P. Clements, Jr. 1979-83 Mark White 1983-87 William P. Clements, Jr. 1987-91 Ann Richards 1991-95 George W. Bush 1995-2000 Rick Perry 2001-

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

1849: George Tyler Wood, defeated.

1851: Middleton Tate Johnson, defeated.

1853: George Tyler Wood, defeated; Middleton Tate Johnson, defeated.

1855: Middleton Tate Johnson, defeated.

1857: Middleton Tate Johnson, defeated.

1866: Elisha Marshall Pease, defeated.

1873: Edmund J. Davis (Rep), defeated.

1880: Edmund J. Davis, defeated.

1888: Francis Marion Martin (Prohibition), defeated.

1898: Barnett Gibbs, defeated.

1902: George W. Carroll (Prohibition), defeated.

1906: Oscar Branch Colquitt, defeated; Charles K. Bell, defeated.

1908: Cone Johnson, defeated.

1910: Oscar Branch Colquitt, elected.

1912: William F. Ramsey (Dem), defeated in primary.

1912: Oscar Branch Colquitt, elected; C. W. Johnson (Rep), defeated.

1914: Thomas Henry Ball, defeated.

1918: Charles A. Boynton (Rep), defeated.

1920: William H. Atwell (Rep), defeated; Joseph W. Bailey, defeated.

1930: James Young, defeated; Thomas B. Love, defeated.

1942: C. K. McDowell (Rep), defeated.

1946: John Lee Smith, defeated.

1949 Jul 11: Beauford Jester, died in office.

1952: Ralph W. Yarborough (Dem), defeated in primary.

1954: Ralph W. Yarborough (Dem), defeated in primary.

1956: Ralph W. Yarborough (Dem), defeated in primary.

1958: Henry B. Gonzalez (Dem), defeated in primary.

1968: Waggoner Carr, defeated.

1986: Kent Hance (Rep), defeated in primary.

1990: Kent Hance (Rep), defeated in primary.

1990: Clayton Williams (Rep), defeated.

"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard."
Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872

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