List of Governors of Kansas

Living former governors

As of August 2007, five former governors were alive, the oldest being William H. Avery (1965–1967, born 1911). The most recent governor to die was Joan Finney (1991–1995), on July 28 2001.

Alphabetical lists of governors

Years are actual terms in office.

=Territorial governors=

*Denver, James W., 1857-1859
*Geary, John White
*Medary, Samuel
*Reeder, Andrew Horatio
*Shannon, Wilson
*Walker, Robert J.

Acting territorial governors

*Beebe, George Monroe
*Stanton, Frederick Perry
*Walsh, Hugh Sleight
*Woodson, Daniel

Governors since statehood

*Allen, Henry Justin (R), 1919–1923
*Anderson, John, Jr. (R), 1961–1965
*Anthony, George Tobey (R), 1877–1879
*Arn, Edward F. (R), 1951–1955
*Avery, William H. (R), 1965–1967
*Bailey, Willis Joshua (R), 1903–1905
*Bennett, Robert Frederick (R), 1975–1979
*Capper, Arthur (R), 1915–1919
*Carlin, John W. (D), 1979–1987
*Carlson, Frank (R), 1947–1950
*Carney, Thomas (R), 1863–1865
*Crawford, Samuel Johnson (R), 1865–1868
*Davis, Jonathan M. (D), 1923–1925
*Docking,
*:George (D), 1957–1961
*:Robert (D), 1967–1975
*Finney, Joan (D), 1991–1995
*Glick, George Washington (D), 1883–1885
*Graves, Bill (R), 1995–2003
*Green, Nehemiah (R), 1868–1869
*Hagaman, Frank L. (R), 1950–1951
*Hall, Fred (R), 1955–1957
*Harvey, James Madison (R), 1869–1873
*Hayden, Mike (R), 1987–1991
*Hoch, Edward Wallis (R), 1905–1909
*Hodges, George Hartshorn (D), 1913–1915
*Humphrey, Lyman Underwood (R), 1889–1893
*Huxman, Walter A. (D), 1937–1939
*Landon, Alfred M. (R), 1933–1937
*Leedy, John W. (P), 1897–1899
*Lewelling, Lorenzo D. (P), 1893–1895
*Martin, John Alexander (R), 1885–1889
*McCuish, John (R), 1957–1957
*Morrill, Edmund Needham (R), 1895–1897
*Osborn, Thomas Andrew (R), 1873–1877
*Paulen, Ben S. (R), 1925–1929
*Ratner, Payne (R), 1939–1943
*Reed, Clyde M. (R), 1929–1931
*Robinson, Charles (R), 1861–1863
*St. John, John Pierce (R), 1879–1883
*Schoeppel, Andrew F. (R), 1943–1947
*Sebelius, Kathleen (D), 2003–present
*Stanley, William Eugene (R), 1899–1903
*Stubbs, Walter Roscoe (R), 1909–1913
*Woodring, Harry H. (D), 1931–1933

ee also

*Governor of Kansas
*Kansas gubernatorial election, 2006

Resources

*Cite web| url=http://www.kshs.org/genealogists/individuals/officials/| title=Kansas Officials, 1854 to present| accessdate=2006-08-26| publisher=Kansas State Historical Society|

External links

* [http://www.governor.ks.gov/ Office of the Governor] for the state of Kansas