The Political Graveyard: Texas: Governors

1912 Nov 5: Oscar B. Colquitt (Dem), elected; Reddin Andrews (Socialist), defeated; C. W. Johnson (Rep), defeated; Ed C. Lasater (Progressive), defeated; Andrew Jackson Houston (Prohibition), defeated; K. E. Choate (Socialist Labor), defeated.

1914: Thomas H. Ball (Dem), defeated in primary.

1914 Nov 3: James E. Ferguson (Dem), elected; E. R. Meitzen (Socialist), defeated; John W. Philp (Rep), defeated; F. M. Etheridge (Progressive), defeated; K. E. Choate (Socialist Labor), defeated.

1916 Nov 7: James E. Ferguson (Dem), elected; R. B. Creager (Rep), defeated; E. R. Meitzen (Socialist), defeated; H. W. Lewis (Prohibition), defeated.

1918 Nov 5: William P. Hobby (Dem), elected; Charles A. Boynton (Rep), defeated; William D. Simpson (Socialist), defeated.

1920: Joseph W. Bailey (Dem), defeated in primary.

1920 Nov 2: Pat Morris Neff (Dem), elected; John G. Culbertson (Rep), defeated; T. H. McGregor (American), defeated; H. Capers (Black and Tan Republican), defeated; L. L. Rhodes (Socialist), defeated.

1922 Nov 7: Pat Morris Neff (Dem), elected; William H. Atwell (Rep), defeated.

1924 Jul 26: Lynch Davidson (Dem), defeated in primary.

1924 Nov 4: Miriam Amanda Wallace Ferguson (Dem), elected; George C. Butte (Rep), defeated.

1926 Jul 24: Dan Moody (Dem), advanced to runoff; Miriam Amanda Wallace Ferguson (Dem), advanced to runoff; Lynch Davidson (Dem), defeated in primary; O. F. Zimmerman (Dem), defeated in primary; Edith Wilmans (Dem), defeated in primary; Kate M. Johnston (Dem), defeated in primary.

1926 Jul 24: Harvey H. Haines (Rep), nominated; E. P. Scott (Rep), defeated in primary.

1926 Aug 28: Dan Moody (Dem), nominated; Miriam Amanda Wallace Ferguson (Dem), defeated in primary.

1926 Nov 2: Dan Moody (Dem), elected; Harvey H. Haines (Rep), defeated; M. A. Smith (Socialist), defeated.

1928 Jul 28: Edith Wilmans (Dem), defeated in primary.

1928 Nov 6: Dan Moody (Dem), elected; W. H. Holmes (Rep), defeated; L. L. Rhodes (Socialist), defeated; J. Stedman (Communist), defeated.

1930: James Young (Dem), defeated in primary; Thomas B. Love (Dem), defeated in primary.

1930 Nov 4: Ross S. Sterling (Dem), elected; W. E. Talbot (Rep), defeated; L. L. Rhodes (Socialist), defeated; J. Stedman (Communist), defeated.

1932 Nov 8: Orville Bullington (Rep), defeated.

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

1946: John Lee Smith, defeated.

1946 Jul 27: Walter S. McNutt (Dem), defeated in primary.

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.

1962: Marshall Formby (Dem), defeated in primary.

1968: Waggoner Carr, defeated.

1968 May 4: Eugene M. Locke (Dem), defeated in primary.

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

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

1990: Clayton Williams (Rep), defeated.

1994 Mar 8: Ann Richards (Dem), nominated; Gary Espinosa (Dem), defeated in primary.

1994 Mar 8: George W. Bush (Rep), nominated; Ray Hollis (Rep), defeated in primary.

1994 Nov 8: George W. Bush (Rep), elected; Ann Richards (Dem), defeated; Keary Ehlers (Libertarian), defeated.

1998 Mar 10: Garry Mauro (Dem), nominated unopposed.

1998 Mar 10: George W. Bush (Rep), nominated; R. C. Crawford (Rep), defeated in primary.

1998 Nov 3: George W. Bush (Rep), elected; Garry Mauro (Dem), defeated; Lester R. Turlington, Jr. (Libertarian), defeated; Susan Lee Solar, defeated.

2002 Mar 12: Tony Sanchez (Dem), nominated; Dan Morales (Dem), defeated in primary; Bill Lyon (Dem), defeated in primary; John Worldpeace (Dem), defeated in primary.

2002 Mar 12: Rick Perry (Rep), nominated unopposed.

2002 Nov 5: Rick Perry (Rep), elected; Tony Sanchez (Dem), defeated; Jeff Daiell (Libertarian), defeated; Rahul Mahajan (Green), defeated; Elaine Eure Henderson, defeated; Earl W. O'Neil, defeated.

2006 Nov 7: Rick Perry (Rep), elected; Chris Bell (Dem), defeated; Carole Keeton Strayhorn (Ind), defeated; Richard Friedman (Ind), defeated; James Werner (Libertarian), defeated; James Dillon, defeated.

2010 Nov 2: Rick Perry (Rep), elected; Bill White (Dem), defeated; Kathie Glass (Libertarian), defeated; Deb Shafto (Green), defeated; Andy Barron, defeated.

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

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