List of governors of Wyoming

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Governor of Wyoming
Seal of the Governor
Incumbent
Matt Mead
since January 3, 2011
Style
Status
ResidenceWyoming Governor's Mansion
Term lengthFour years, renewable once (limited to eight years in a sixteen year period)
Inaugural holderFrancis E. Warren
FormationWyoming Constitution
Salary$105,000 (2013)[1]
Websitegovernor.wyo.gov/home

This is a list of the governors of Wyoming, beginning with Territorial Governors. Wyoming Territory was organized in 1868, and the state was admitted to the union on July 10, 1890.

List of Governors

Governors of Wyoming Territory

# Governor Picture Took office Left office Appointed by
1 style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color" |  John Allen Campbell 1869 March 1, 1875 Ulysses S. Grant
2 style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color" |  John Milton Thayer March 1, 1875 April 10, 1878 Ulysses S. Grant
3 style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color" |  John Wesley Hoyt April 10, 1878 August 22, 1882 [2] Rutherford B. Hayes
4 style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color" |  William Hale July 18, 1882 January 13, 1885 Chester A. Arthur
5 style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color" |  Elliot S. N. Morgan January 13, 1885 February 28, 1885 Chester A. Arthur
6 style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color" |  Francis E. Warren February 28, 1885 November 11, 1886 Chester A. Arthur
7 style="background: Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color" |  George White Baxter November 11, 1886 December 20, 1886 Grover Cleveland
8 style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color" |  Elliot S. N. Morgan December 20, 1886 January 24, 1887 Grover Cleveland
9 style="background: Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color" |  Thomas Moonlight January 24, 1887 April 9, 1889 Grover Cleveland
10 style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color" |  Francis E. Warren April 9, 1889 October 11, 1890 Benjamin Harrison

Governors of the State of Wyoming

  Republican       Democratic       Progressive

Governor Took office Left office Party Secretary of State Notes
1 rowspan="2" style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Francis E. Warren October 11, 1890 November 24, 1890 Republican style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  John W. Meldrum [3]
style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Amos W. Barber
2 style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Amos W. Barber November 24, 1890 January 2, 1893 Republican rowspan="2" style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Amos W. Barber [4]
3 style="background: Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  John E. Osborne January 2, 1893 January 7, 1895 Democratic
4 style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  William A. Richards January 7, 1895 January 2, 1899 Republican style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Charles W. Burdick
5 style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  DeForest Richards January 2, 1899 April 28, 1903 Republican rowspan="2" style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Fenimore Chatterton [5]
6 style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Fenimore Chatterton April 28, 1903 January 2, 1905 Republican [4]
7 rowspan="2" style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Bryant B. Brooks January 2, 1905 January 2, 1911 Republican style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Fenimore Chatterton
style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  William Schnitger
8 style="background: Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Joseph M. Carey January 2, 1911 January 4, 1915 Democratic rowspan="4" style="background: Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Frank L. Houx [6]
style="background: Template:Progressive Party (United States, 1912)/meta/color;"|  Progressive
9 style="background: Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  John B. Kendrick January 4, 1915 February 26, 1917 Democratic [3]
10 style="background: Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Frank L. Houx February 26, 1917 January 6, 1919 Democratic [4]
11 style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Robert D. Carey January 6, 1919 January 1, 1923 Republican style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  William E. Chaplin
12 style="background: Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  William B. Ross January 1, 1923 October 2, 1924 Democratic rowspan="3" style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Frank E. Lucas [5]
13 style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Frank E. Lucas October 2, 1924 January 5, 1925 Republican [4]
14 style="background: Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Nellie Tayloe Ross January 5, 1925 January 3, 1927 Democratic
15 style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Frank C. Emerson January 3, 1927 February 18, 1931 Republican rowspan="2" style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Alonzo M. Clark [5]
16 style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Alonzo M. Clark February 18, 1931 January 2, 1933 Republican [7]
17 rowspan="2" style="background: Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Leslie A. Miller January 2, 1933 January 2, 1939 Democratic style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Alonzo M. Clark
style="background: Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Lester C. Hunt
18 style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Nels H. Smith January 2, 1939 January 4, 1943 Republican style="background: Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Lester C. Hunt
19 rowspan="3" style="background: Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Lester C. Hunt January 4, 1943 January 3, 1949 Democratic style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Mart T. Christensen [3]
style="background: Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  William Jack
style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Arthur G. Crane
20 style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Arthur G. Crane January 3, 1949 January 1, 1951 Republican style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Arthur G. Crane [4]
21 style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Frank A. Barrett January 1, 1951 January 3, 1953 Republican rowspan="2" style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Clifford J. Rogers [3]
22 style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Clifford J. Rogers January 3, 1953 January 3, 1955 Republican [4]
23 style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Milward Simpson January 3, 1955 January 5, 1959 Republican style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Everett T. Copenhaver
24 style="background: Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  John J. Hickey January 5, 1959 January 2, 1961 Democratic rowspan="2" style="background: Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Jack R. Gage [8]
25 style="background: Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Jack R. Gage January 2, 1961 January 7, 1963 Democratic [4]
26 style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Clifford P. Hansen January 7, 1963 January 2, 1967 Republican rowspan="3" style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Thyra Thomson
27 style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Stanley K. Hathaway January 2, 1967 January 6, 1975 Republican
28 style="background: Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Edgar J. Herschler January 6, 1975 January 5, 1987 Democratic
29 style="background: Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Mike Sullivan January 5, 1987 January 2, 1995 Democratic style="background: Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Kathy Karpan
30 rowspan="2" style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Jim Geringer January 2, 1995 January 6, 2003 Republican style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Diana J. Ohman
style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Joseph Meyer
31 rowspan="2" style="background: Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Dave Freudenthal January 6, 2003 January 3, 2011 Democratic style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Joseph Meyer
style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Max Maxfield
32 rowspan="3" style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Matt Mead January 3, 2011 Incumbent Republican style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Max Maxfield [9]
style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Ed Murray
style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"|  Edward Buchanan

Notes

  1. ^ "CSG Releases 2013 Governor Salaries". The Council of State Governments. June 25, 2013. Retrieved November 23, 2014.
  2. ^ http://wyoarchives.state.wy.us/index.php/governors-of-wyoming
  3. ^ a b c d Resigned to take an elected seat in the United States Senate.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g As state secretary of state, acted as governor.
  5. ^ a b c Died in office.
  6. ^ Switched parties from Republican to Progressive in 1912.
  7. ^ As state secretary of state, acted as governor until replacement elected.
  8. ^ Resigned to take an appointed seat in the United States Senate.
  9. ^ Governor Mead's second term expires on January 7, 2019; he is term limited.

Other high offices held

This is a table of congressional seats, other federal offices, and other governorships held by governors. All representatives and senators mentioned represented Wyoming except where noted.

Governor Gubernatorial term U.S. Congress Other offices held
House Senate
John Milton Thayer 1875–1878 (territorial) U.S. Senator from Nebraska; Governor of Nebraska
Thomas Moonlight 1887-1889 (territorial) United States Minister to Bolivia
Francis E. Warren 1885–1886
1889–1890 (territorial)
1890 		S
John Eugene Osborne 1893–1895 H United States Assistant Secretary of State
William A. Richards 1895–1899 Commissioner of the General Land Office
Joseph M. Carey 1911–1915 H S
John B. Kendrick 1915–1917 S
Lester C. Hunt 1943–1949 S
Frank A. Barrett 1951–1953 H S
Milward L. Simpson 1955–1959 S
John J. Hickey 1959–1961 S
Clifford Hansen 1963–1967 S
Stanley K. Hathaway 1967–1975 United States Secretary of the Interior
Mike Sullivan 1987–1995 United States Ambassador to Ireland

Living former U.S. governors of Wyoming

As of January 2018, there are three former U.S. governors of Wyoming who are currently living at this time, the oldest U.S. governor of Wyoming being Mike Sullivan (served 1987–1995, born 1939). The most recent U.S. governor of Wyoming to die was Clifford P. Hansen (served 1963–1967, born 1912), on October 20, 2009. The most recently serving U.S. governor of Wyoming to die was Edgar J. Herschler (served 1975–1987, born 1918), on February 5, 1990.

Governor Gubernatorial term Date of birth (and age)
Mike Sullivan 1987–1995 (1939-09-22) September 22, 1939 (age 84)
Jim Geringer 1995–2003 (1944-04-24) April 24, 1944 (age 80)
Dave Freudenthal 2003–2011 (1950-10-12) October 12, 1950 (age 73)

Template:Years in Wyoming

Template:Wyoming statewide elected officials

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