Governors of Oklahoma

A list of governors from the state of Oklahoma.

Governors of Oklahoma Territory

Name	Years
George Washington Steele	1890-1891
Robert Martin	1891-1892
Abraham Jefferson Seay	1892-1893
William Cary Renfrow	1893-1897
Cassius McDonald Barnes	1897-1901
William Miller Jenkins	1901
William C. Grimes	1901
Thompson Benton Ferguson	1901-1906
Frank Frantz	1906-1907

State Governors of Oklahoma

Name	Party	Years
Charles Nathaniel Haskell	Democrat	1907-1911
Lee Cruce	Democrat	1911-1915
Robert Lee Williams	Democrat	1915-1919
James Brooks Ayers Robertson	Democrat	1919-1923
Jack Callaway Walton	Democrat	1923
Martin Edwin Trapp	Democrat	1923-1927
Henry Simpson Johnston	Democrat	1927-1929
William Judson Holloway	Democrat	1929-1931
William Henry Murray	Democrat	1931-1935
Ernest Whitworth Marland	Democrat	1935-1939
Leon Chase Phillips	Democrat	1939-1943
Robert Samuel Kerr	Democrat	1943-1947
Roy Joseph Turner	Democrat	1947-1951
Johnston Murray	Democrat	1951-1955
Raymond Dancel Gary	Democrat	1955-1959
James Howard Edmondson	Democrat	1959-1963
Henry Louis Bellmon	First Oklahoma Republican governor since statehood	1963–1967, 1987-1991
Dewey Follett Bartlett	Republican	1967-1971
David Hall	Democrat	1971-1975
David Lyle Boren	Democrat	1975-1979
George Patterson Nigh	Democrat	1979-1987
David Lee Walters	Democrat	1991-1995
Francis Anthony Keating	Republican	1995-2003
Brad Henry	Democrat	2003-2011
Mary Fallin	Republican	2011–2019
Kevin Stitt	Republican	2019-Present

Further reading

• Fischer, LeRoy H., ed. Oklahoma's Governors, 1907-1929: Turbulent Politics. Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Hist. Soc., 1981. 208 pp.
• Fischer, LeRoy H., ed. Oklahoma's Governors, 1929-1955: Depression to Prosperity. Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Hist. Soc., 1983. 214 pp.
• Fischer, LeRoy H., ed. Oklahoma's Governors, 1955-1979: Growth and Reform. Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Historical Society, 1985. 294 pp.