List of Governors of Missouri

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Following is a list of Governors of Missouri since its territory became part of the United States.

Missouri was part of the Louisiana Purchase in which the United States purchased from France in 1803. In its first year it was part of Louisiana. In 1804 all of the territory above what is modern day Louisiana was broken off and administered by a governor based in St. Louis, Missouri until statehood.

Prior to the purchase both France and Spain administered the territory in a similar manner. France initially had a commandant in charge of Upper Louisiana. Spain around 1770 began having a lieutenant governor in St. Louis and governor in New Orleans, Louisiana ruling the whole territory . For a list of governors under Spanish and French rule see Louisiana Governor. For a list of lieutenant governors ruling Upper Louisiana under French and Spanish control see List of commandants of the Illinois Country.

Contents 1 District of Louisiana 2 Indiana Territory 3 Louisiana Territory 4 Missouri Territory 5 State of Missouri 6 Missouri secession (Confederate) 7 Missouri Provisional Government (Union) 8 State of Missouri

[edit] District of Louisiana

• 1804 - Amos Stoddard (commandant)

[edit] Indiana Territory

• 1804-1805 - William Henry Harrison

[edit] Louisiana Territory

• 1805-1807 - James Wilkinson
• 1807-1809 - Meriwether Lewis
• 1809-1812 - Benjamin Howard (Missouri)

[edit] Missouri Territory

• 1812 - Benjamin Howard
• 1813-1820 - William Clark

[edit] State of Missouri

#	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

[edit] Missouri secession (Confederate)

• 1861-1862 - Claiborne Fox Jackson
• 1862-1865 - Thomas Caute Reynolds

[edit] Missouri Provisional Government (Union)

• 1861-62 - Hamilton Rowan Gamble

[edit] State of Missouri

16	Hamilton Rowan Gamble	1862	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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