List of governors of Wyoming

Governor of Wyoming
Governor of Wyoming
	Seal of the Governor
	Incumbent; Mark Gordon; since January 7, 2019
Style	Governor; (informal); The Honorable; (formal);
Status	Head of State; Head of Government;
Residence	Wyoming Governor's Mansion
Term length	Four years, renewable once (limited to eight years in a sixteen year period)
Inaugural holder	Francis E. Warren
Formation	Wyoming Constitution
Salary	$105,000 (2013)
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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		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 W. 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

Governor			Took office	Left office	Party	Secretary of State		Notes
Republican Democratic Progressive
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]
1	style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Francis E. Warren	October 11, 1890	November 24, 1890	Republican	Amos W. Barber		^[3]
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		Amos W. Barber
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]	Fenimore Chatterton
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
7	style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Bryant B. Brooks	January 2, 1905	January 2, 1911	Republican	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]
8	style="background: Template:Progressive Party (United States, 1912)/meta/color;"\|	Joseph M. Carey	January 2, 1911	January 4, 1915	Progressive			^[6]
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 Lucas	^[5]
13	style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Frank 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]	Alonzo M. Clark
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
17	style="background: Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Leslie A. Miller	January 2, 1933	January 2, 1939	Democratic	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]	Clifford J. Rogers
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]	Jack R. Gage
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
30	style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Jim Geringer	January 2, 1995	January 6, 2003	Republican	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
31	style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Dave Freudenthal	January 6, 2003	January 3, 2011	Democratic	Max Maxfield
32	rowspan="3" style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Matt Mead	January 3, 2011	January 7, 2019	Republican	style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Max Maxfield
	style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|					Ed Murray
	rowspan="4" style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|					Edward Buchanan
33	style="background: Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color;"\|	Mark Gordon	January 7, 2019	Incumbent	Republican	Edward Buchanan

Notes

^ "CSG Releases 2013 Governor Salaries". The Council of State Governments. June 25, 2013. Retrieved November 23, 2014.
^ http://wyoarchives.state.wy.us/index.php/governors-of-wyoming
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Resigned to take an elected seat in the United States Senate.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g As state secretary of state, acted as governor.
^ ^a ^b ^c Died in office.
^ Switched parties from Republican to Progressive in 1912.
^ As state secretary of state, acted as governor until replacement elected.
^ Resigned to take an appointed seat in the United States Senate.

Succession

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
Governor	Gubernatorial term	House	Senate	Other offices held
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 governors of Wyoming

As of January 2019^[update], there are four former governors of Wyoming who are currently living at this time, the oldest governor of Wyoming being Mike Sullivan (served 1987–1995, born 1939). The most recent governor of Wyoming to die was Clifford P. Hansen (served 1963–1967, born 1912), on October 20, 2009. The most recently serving 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 85)
Jim Geringer	1995–2003	(1944-04-24) April 24, 1944 (age 80)
Dave Freudenthal	2003–2011	(1950-10-12) October 12, 1950 (age 74)
Matt Mead	2011–2019	(1962-03-11) March 11, 1962 (age 62)

Template:Wyoming statewide elected officials

[1] "CSG Releases 2013 Governor Salaries". The Council of State Governments. June 25, 2013. Retrieved November 23, 2014.

[2] ttp://wyoarchives.state.wy.us/index.php/governors-of-wyoming

[res-senate-3] Resigned to take an elected seat in the United States Senate.

[ssacted-4] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g As state secretary of state, acted as governor.

[died-5] 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.

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