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.
Since the state capitol moved to Jefferson City in 1826 the governor has lived on the same block in the Missouri Governor's Mansion a block east of the Missouri State Capitol (although the current mansion is the third one).

Contents

Territory

State of Missouri

Civil War

★ 1861-62 - Hamilton Rowan Gamble

Notes

Other high offices held

Living former governors

Notes

Territory

=== District of Louisiana ===

★ 1804 - Amos Stoddard (commandant)
=== Indiana Territory ===

★ 1804-1805 - William Henry Harrison
=== Louisiana Territory ===

★ 1805-1807 - James Wilkinson

★ 1807-1809 - Meriwether Lewis

★ 1809-1812 - Benjamin Howard (Missouri)
=== Missouri Territory ===

★ 1812 - Benjamin Howard

★ 1813-1820 - William Clark

State of Missouri

#	Name	Took office	Left office	Party	Notes
1	Alexander McNair	September 18 1820	November 15 1824	Democratic-Republican
2	Frederick Bates	November 15 1824	August 4 1825	Democratic-Republican	Died in office.
3	Abraham J. Williams	August 4 1825	January 20 1826	Democratic-Republican	As president of the state senate, filled term until special election.
4	John Miller	January 20 1826	November 19 1832	Democratic	Elected in a special election.
5	Daniel Dunklin	November 19 1832	September 30 1836	Democratic	[1]
6	Lilburn W. Boggs	September 30 1836	November 16 1840	Democratic	As lieutenant governor, filled unexpired term, and was later elected in his own right.
7	Thomas Reynolds	November 16 1840	February 9 1844	Democratic	[2]
8	Meredith Miles Marmaduke	February 9 1844	November 20 1844	Democratic	As lieutenant governor, filled unexpired term.
9	John C. Edwards	November 20 1844	November 20 1848	Democratic
10	Austin Augustus King	November 20 1848	January 3 1853	Democratic
11	Sterling Price	January 3 1853	January 5 1857	Democratic
12	Trusten Polk	January 5 1857	February 27 1857	Democratic	Resigned to take an elected seat in the United States Senate.
13	Hancock Lee Jackson	February 27 1857	October 22 1857	Democratic	As lieutenant governor, filled term until special election.
14	Robert Marcellus Stewart	October 22 1857	January 3 1861	Democratic
15	Claiborne Fox Jackson	January 3 1861	June 30 1861	Democratic	[3]

Civil War

===Missouri secession (Confederate)===

★ 1861-1862 - Claiborne Fox Jackson

★ 1862-1865 - Thomas Caute Reynolds
===Missouri Provisional Government (Union)=

★ 1861-62 - Hamilton Rowan Gamble

State of Missouri==

#	Name	Took office	Left office	Party	Notes
16	Hamilton Rowan Gamble	June 30 1861	January 31 1864	Republican	[4]
17	Willard Preble Hall	January 31 1864	January 2 1865	Republican
18	Thomas Clement Fletcher	January 2 1865	January 12 1869	Republican
19	Joseph W. McClurg	January 12 1869	January 4 1871	Republican
20	B. Gratz Brown	January 4 1871	January 3 1873	Liberal Republican
21	Silas Woodson	January 3 1873	January 12 1875	Democratic
22	Charles Henry Hardin	January 12 1875	January 8 1877	Democratic
23	John Smith Phelps	January 8 1877	January 10 1881	Democratic
24	Thomas Theodore Crittenden	January 10 1881	January 12 1885	Democratic
25	John S. Marmaduke	January 12 1885	December 28 1887	Democratic
26	Albert P. Morehouse	December 28 1887	January 14 1889	Democratic
27	David R. Francis	January 14 1889	January 9 1893	Democratic
28	William Joel Stone	January 9 1893	January 11 1897	Democratic
29	Lawrence Vest Stephens	January 11 1897	January 14 1901	Democratic
30	Alexander Monroe Dockery	January 14 1901	January 9 1905	Democratic
31	Joseph W. Folk	January 9 1905	January 11 1909	Democratic
32	Herbert S. Hadley	January 9 1909	January 13 1913	Republican
33	Elliot Woolfolk Major	January 13 1913	January 8 1917	Democratic
34	Frederick D. Gardner	January 8 1917	January 10 1921	Democratic
35	Arthur M. Hyde	January 10 1921	January 12 1925	Republican
36	Samuel Aaron Baker	January 12 1925	January 14 1929	Republican
37	Henry S. Caulfield	January 14 1929	January 9 1933	Republican
38	Guy Brasfield Park	January 9 1933	January 11 1937	Democratic
39	Lloyd C. Stark	January 11 1937	February 26 1941	Democratic	[5]
40	Forrest C. Donnell	February 26 1941	January 8 1945	Republican	[6]
41	Phil M. Donnelly	January 8 1945	January 10 1949	Democratic
42	Forrest Smith	January 10 1949	January 12 1953	Democratic
43	Phil M. Donnelly	January 12 1953	January 14 1957	Democratic
44	James T. Blair, Jr.	January 14 1957	January 9 1961	Democratic
45	John M. Dalton	January 9 1961	January 11 1965	Democratic
46	Warren E. Hearnes	January 11 1965	January 8 1973	Democratic
47	Christopher "Kit" Bond	January 8 1973	January 10 1977	Republican
48	Joseph P. Teasdale	January 10 1977	January 12 1981	Democratic
49	Christopher "Kit" Bond	January 12 1981	January 14 1985	Republican
50	John Ashcroft	January 14 1985	January 11 1993	Republican
51	Mel Carnahan	January 11 1993	October 16 2000	Democratic
52	Roger B. Wilson	October 17 2000	January 8 2001	Democratic	[7]
53	Bob Holden	January 8 2001	January 10 2005	Democratic
54	Matt Blunt	January 10 2005	''Incumbent''	Republican	[8]

Notes

1. Resigned to be Surveyor General of Missouri and Illinois.
2. Died in office; committed suicide.
3. Removed from office by the legislature after he denied President Abraham Lincoln's request to provide troops for the American Civil War.
4. Named provisional governor by the legislature.
5. Stark stayed on as governor beyond the scheduled January 16 departure because the election of Donnell was challenged by the Missouri House of Representative.
6. The Missouri House of Representatives refused to certify the election of Donnell on his schedule January 16 inauguration until being ordered to do so by the Missouri Supreme Court after the House challenged the election which Donnell won by 3,613 votes
7. Missouri Gov Mel Carnahan Killed In Plane Crash – Stateline.org – October 17, 2000 Wilson assumed office at 1:10 AM after Carnahan's body had been formally identified. The date is muddied by online resources which give the wrong dates including the National Governors Association biography which lists October 18 as the start date and The New York Times which in an article entitled "Pilot Sought Better Weather Before Crash" published on October 19 implied the swearing in was either the 18th or even 19th although it gives the 1:10 AM time and says it occurred immediately after Carnahan was identified.
8. Governor Blunt's first term expires in 2009; he is not yet term limited.
9. Congressional biography

Other high offices held

This is a table of congressional, other governorships, and other federal offices held by governors. All representatives and senators mentioned represented Mississippi except where noted.
★ denotes those offices which the governor resigned to take.

Name	Gubernatorial term	U.S. Congress		Other offices held
		House	Senate
Benjamin Howard	1809–1812 (territorial)			U.S. Representative from Kentucky
John Miller	1826–1832	H
John C. Edwards	1844–1848	H
Austin Augustus King	1848–1853	H
Sterling Price	1853–1857	H
Trusten Polk	1857		S ★
Willard Preble Hall	1864–1865	H
Joseph W. McClurg	1869–1871	H
B. Gratz Brown	1871–1873		S
John S. Phelps	1877–1881	H		Military Governor of Arkansas[9]
Thomas Theodore Crittenden	1881–1885	H
David R. Francis	1889–1893			Ambassador to Russia, U.S. Secretary of the Interior
William J. Stone	1893–1897	H	S
Alexander Monroe Dockery	1901–1905	H
Arthur M. Hyde	1921–1925			U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
Henry S. Caulfield	1929–1933	H
Forrest C. Donnell	1941–1945		S
Christopher "Kit" Bond	1973–1977, 1981–1985		S
John Ashcroft	1985–1993		S	U.S. Attorney General
Mel Carnahan	1993–2000			Posthumously elected U.S. Senator

Living former governors

As of August 2007, six former governors were alive, the oldest being Warren E. Hearnes (1965–1973, born 1923). The most recent governor to die was Mel Carnahan (1993–2000), in office on October 16 2000.

Name	Gubernatorial term	Date of birth
Warren E. Hearnes	1965–1973	July 24 1923
Christopher "Kit" Bond	1973–1977, 1981–1985	March 6 1939
Joseph P. Teasdale	1977–1981	March 29 1936
John Ashcroft	1985–1993	May 9 1942
Roger B. Wilson	2000–2001	October 10 1948
Bob Holden	2001–2005	August 24 1949

Notes

1. Resigned to be Surveyor General of Missouri and Illinois.
2. Died in office; committed suicide.
3. Removed from office by the legislature after he denied President Abraham Lincoln's request to provide troops for the American Civil War.
4. Named provisional governor by the legislature.
5. Stark stayed on as governor beyond the scheduled January 16 departure because the election of Donnell was challenged by the Missouri House of Representative.
6. The Missouri House of Representatives refused to certify the election of Donnell on his schedule January 16 inauguration until being ordered to do so by the Missouri Supreme Court after the House challenged the election which Donnell won by 3,613 votes
7. Missouri Gov Mel Carnahan Killed In Plane Crash – Stateline.org – October 17, 2000 Wilson assumed office at 1:10 AM after Carnahan's body had been formally identified. The date is muddied by online resources which give the wrong dates including the National Governors Association biography which lists October 18 as the start date and The New York Times which in an article entitled "Pilot Sought Better Weather Before Crash" published on October 19 implied the swearing in was either the 18th or even 19th although it gives the 1:10 AM time and says it occurred immediately after Carnahan was identified.
8. Governor Blunt's first term expires in 2009; he is not yet term limited.
9. Congressional biography