A list of governors from the state of Indiana.[1]
Governors of Indiana Territory
Governors of the State of Indiana
| Name |
Party |
Years
|
| Jonathan Jennings
|
Democratic Republican
|
1816-1822
|
| Ratliff Boon
|
Democratic Republican
|
1822
|
| William Hendricks
|
Democratic Republican
|
1822-1825
|
| James Brown Ray
|
Democratic Republican
|
1825-1831
|
| Noah Noble
|
Whig
|
1831-1837
|
| David Wallace
|
Whig
|
1837-1840
|
| Samuel Bigger
|
Whig
|
1840-1843
|
| James Whitcomb
|
Democrat
|
1843-1848
|
| Paris Chipman Dunning
|
Democrat
|
1848-1849
|
| Joseph Albert Wright
|
Democrat
|
1849-1857
|
| Ashbel Parsons Willard
|
Democrat
|
1857-1860
|
| Abram Adams Hammond
|
Democrat
|
1860-1861
|
| Henry Smith Lane
|
Republican
|
1861
|
| Oliver Perry Morton
|
Republican
|
1861-1867
|
| Conrad Baker
|
Republican
|
1867-1873
|
| Thomas Andrews Hendricks
|
Democrat
|
1873-1877
|
| James Douglas Williams
|
Democrat
|
1877-1880
|
| Isaac Pusey Gray
|
Democrat
|
1880-1881, 1885-1889
|
| Albert Gallatin Porter
|
Republican
|
1881-1885
|
| Alvin Peterson Hovey
|
Republican
|
1889-1891
|
| Ira Joy Chase
|
Republican
|
1891-1893
|
| Claude Matthews
|
Democrat
|
1893-1897
|
| James Atwell Mount
|
Republican
|
1897-1901
|
| Winfield Taylor Durbin
|
Republican
|
1901-1905
|
| James Frank Hanly
|
Republican
|
1905-1909
|
| Thomas Riley Marshall
|
Democrat
|
1909-1913
|
| Samuel Moffett Ralston
|
Democrat
|
1913-1917
|
| James Putnam Goodrich
|
Republican
|
1917-1921
|
| Warren T. McCray
|
Republican
|
1921-1924
|
| Emmett Forrest Branch
|
Republican
|
1924-1925
|
| Edward L. Jackson
|
Republican
|
1925-1929
|
| Harry Guyer Leslie
|
Republican
|
1929-1933
|
| Paul Vories McNutt
|
Democrat
|
1933-1937
|
| Maurice Clifford Townsend
|
Democrat
|
1937-1941
|
| Henry Frederick Schricker
|
Democrat
|
1941-1945, 1949-1953
|
| Ralph Fesler Gates
|
Republican
|
1945-1949
|
| George N. Craig
|
Republican
|
1953-1957
|
| Harold Willis Handley
|
Republican
|
1957-1961
|
| Matthew Empson Welsh
|
Democrat
|
1961-1965
|
| Roger Douglas Branigin
|
Democrat
|
1965-1969
|
| Edgar Doud Whitcomb
|
Republican
|
1969-1973
|
| Otis Ray Brown
|
Republican
|
1973-1981
|
| Robert D. Orr
|
Republican
|
1981-1989
|
| Evan Bayh
|
Democrat
|
1989-1997
|
| Frank O’Bannon
|
Democrat
|
1997-2003
|
| Joseph E. Kernan
|
Democrat
|
2003-2005
|
| Mitch Daniels
|
Republican
|
2005–present
|
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