List of Governors of Indiana

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[edit] List of Indiana Territory Governors

#	Name	Took office	Left office
1	William Henry Harrison	1800	1812
2	John Gibson¹	1801	1813
3	Thomas Posey	1813	1816

Notes
¹John Gibson is sometimes known as Indiana's second territorial governor. In actuality he only served as acting governor of the Indiana Territory during the absences of Governor William Henry Harrison.

[edit] List of Indiana Governors

#	Name	Took office	Left office	Party
1	Jonathan Jennings	1816	1822	Democratic-Republican
2	Ratliff Boon	1822	1822	Democratic-Republican
3	William Hendricks	1822	1825	Democratic-Republican
4	James B. Ray	1825	1831	Independent
5	Noah Noble	1831	1837	Whig
6	David Wallace	1837	1840	Whig
7	Samuel Bigger	1840	1843	Whig
8	James Whitcomb	1843	1848	Democratic
9	Paris C. Dunning	1848	1849	Democratic
10	Joseph A. Wright	1849	1857	Democratic
11	Ashbel P. Willard	1857	1860	Democratic
12	Abram A. Hammond	1860	1861	Democratic
13	Henry Smith Lane	1861	1861	Republican
14	Oliver P. Morton	1861	1867	Republican
15	Conrad Baker	1867	1873	Republican
16	Thomas A. Hendricks	1873	1877	Democratic
17	James D. Williams	1877	1880	Democratic
18	Isaac P. Gray	1880	1881	Democratic
19	Albert G. Porter	1881	1885	Republican
20	Isaac P. Gray	1885	1889	Democratic
21	Alvin P. Hovey	1889	1891	Republican
22	Ira Joy Chase	1891	1893	Republican
23	Claude Matthews	1893	1897	Democratic
24	James A. Mount	1897	1901	Republican
25	Winfield T. Durbin	1901	1905	Republican
26	J. Frank Hanly	1905	1909	Republican
27	Thomas R. Marshall	1909	1913	Democratic
28	Samuel M. Ralston	1913	1917	Democratic
29	James P. Goodrich	1917	1921	Republican
30	Warren T. McCray	1921	1924	Republican
31	Emmett Forrest Branch	1924	1925	Republican
32	Ed Jackson	1925	1929	Republican
33	Harry G. Leslie	1929	1933	Republican
34	Paul V. McNutt	1933	1937	Democratic
35	M. Clifford Townsend	1937	1941	Democratic
36	Henry F. Schricker	1941	1945	Democratic
37	Ralph F. Gates	1945	1949	Republican
38	Henry F. Schricker	1949	1953	Democratic
39	George N. Craig	1953	1957	Republican
40	Harold W. Handley	1957	1961	Republican
41	Matthew E. Welsh	1961	1965	Democratic
42	Roger D. Branigin	1965	1969	Democratic
43	Edgar D. Whitcomb	1969	1973	Republican
44	Otis R. Bowen	1973	1981	Republican
45	Robert D. Orr	1981	1989	Republican
46	B. Evans "Evan" Bayh III	1989	1997	Democratic
47	Frank L. O'Bannon	1997	2003	Democratic
48	Joe Kernan	2003	2005	Democratic
49	Mitch Daniels	2005	Present	Republican

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