List of Governors of Missouri

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Following is a list of the Governors of Missouri since its statehood in 1820 that are recognized by the Union as official governors. During the American Civil War the elected governor Claiborne Jackson was evicted and went on to set up a government in exile in the Missouri secession. Jackson died in office in 1862 and was replaced by Thomas Caute Reynolds (who had been elected lieutenant governor of Missouri in the 1860 state-wide election.

# Name Took Office Left Office Party
1 Alexander McNair 1820 1824 Democratic-Republican
2 Frederick Bates 1824 1825 Democratic-Republican
3 Abraham J. Williams 1825 1826 Democratic-Republican
4 John Miller 1826 1832 Democrat
5 Daniel Dunklin 1832 1836 Democrat
6 Lilburn Wycliffe Boggs 1836 1840 Democrat
7 Thomas Reynolds 1840 1844 Democrat
8 Meredith Miles Marmaduke 1844 1844 Democrat
9 John Cummins Edwards 1844 1848 Democrat
10 Augstin Augustus King 1848 1853 Democrat
11 Sterling Price 1853 1857 Democrat
12 Trusten Polk 1857 1857 Democrat
13 Hancock Lee Jackson 1857 1857 Democrat
14 Robert Marcellus Stewart 1857 1861 Democrat
15 Claiborne Fox Jackson 1861 1861 Democrat
16 Hamilton Rowan Gamble 1861 1864 Republican
17 Willard Preble Hall 1864 1865 Republican
18 Thomas Clement Fletcher 1865 1869 Republican
19 Joseph Washington McClurg 1869 1871 Republican
20 Benjamin Gratz Brown 1871 1873 Liberal Republican
21 Silas Woodson 1873 1875 Democrat
22 Charles Henry Hardin 1875 1877 Democrat
23 John Smith Phelps 1877 1881 Democrat
24 Thomas Theodore Crittenden 1881 1885 Democrat
25 John Sappington Marmaduke 1885 1887 Democrat
26 Albert Pickett Morehouse 1887 1889 Democrat
27 David Rowland Francis 1889 1893 Democrat
28 William Joel Stone 1893 1897 Democrat
29 Lawrence Vest Stephens 1897 1901 Democrat
30 Alexander Monroe Dockery 1901 1905 Democrat
31 Joseph Wingate Folk 1905 1909 Democrat
32 Herbert Spencer Hadley 1909 1913 Republican
33 Elliot Woolfolk Major 1913 1917 Democrat
34 Frederick Dozier Gardner 1917 1921 Democrat
35 Arthur Mastick Hyde 1921 1925 Republican
36 Samuel Aaron Baker 1925 1929 Republican
37 Henry Stewart Caulfield 1929 1933 Republican
38 Guy Brasfield Park 1933 1937 Democrat
39 Lloyd Crow Stark 1937 1941 Democrat
40 Forrest C. Donnell 1941 1945 Republican
41 Phillip Matthew "Phil" Donnelly 1945 1949 Democrat
42 Forrest Smith 1949 1953 Democrat
43 Phillip Matthew "Phil" Donnelly 1953 1957 Democrat
44 James Thomas Blair, Jr. 1957 1961 Democrat
45 John Montgomery Dalton 1961 1965 Democrat
46 Warren Eastman Hearnes 1965 1973 Democrat
47 Christopher Samuel "Kit" Bond 1973 1977 Republican
48 Joseph Patrick Teasdale 1977 1981 Democrat
49 Christopher Samuel "Kit" Bond 1981 1985 Republican
50 John David Ashcroft 1985 1993 Republican
51 Melvin Eugene "Mel" Carnahan 1993 2000 Democrat
52 Roger B. Wilson 2000 2001 Democrat
53 Robert Lee "Bob" Holden, Jr. 2001 2005 Democrat
54 Matthew Roy "Matt" Blunt 2005 - Republican
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