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Former State Governors

TERM NAME PARTY COMMENT
1907-1911 Charles Nathaniel Haskell Democrat Born in Ohio on March 13, 1860. Died in Muskogee, Oklahoma on July 5, 1933. Interment at Greenhill Cemetery, Muskogee. Haskell County is named for Oklahoma's first state governor.
1911-1915 Lee Cruce Democrat Born on July 8, 1863, near Marion Kentucky. Died on Januray 1, 1933, in Los Angeles, California. Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery in Ardmore, Oklahoma.
1915-1919 Robert Lee Williams Democrat Born on December 20, 1868, in Brundidge, Alabama. Died on April 10, 1948, in Durant, Oklahoma. Interment at Highland Cemetery, Durant, Oklahoma.
1919-1923 James Brooks Ayers Robertson Democrat Born in Keokuk County, Iowa, on March 15, 1871. Died in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on March 7, 1938. Interment in Oak Park Cemetery in Chandler.
1923 Jack Callaway Walton Democrat Born on a farm near Indianapolis, Indiana, on March 6, 1881. Died on November 25, 1949. Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery, in Oklahoma City. Served from January 8, 1923 to November 19, 1923. Impeached.
1923-1927 Martin Edwin Trapp Democrat Born on April 18, 1877, in Robinson, Kansas. Died on July 26, 1951, in Oklahoma City. Interment at Fairlawn Cemetery in Oklahoma City. Completed term of impeached Governor Walton.
1927-1929 Henry Simpson Johnston Democrat Born on December 30, 1867, near Evansville, Indiana. Died on January 7, 1965, in Perry, Oklahoma. Impeached.
1929-1931 William Judson Holloway Democrat Born on born December 15, 1888, in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. Died on January 28, 1970, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery in Oklahoma City. Completed term of impeached Governor Johnston.
1931-1935 William Henry Murray Democrat Born on November 21, 1869, in Collinsville, Texas. Died on October 15, 1956, and is buried in Tishomingo, Oklahoma.
1935-1939 Ernest Whitworth Marland Democrat Born on May 8, 1874, in Pittburgh, Pennsylvania. Died on October 3, 1941. He's buried in Ponca City, Oklahoma.
1939-1943 Leon Chase Phillips Democrat Born on December 9, 1890, in Worth County, Missouri. Died on March 27, 1958, in Okemah, Oklahoma. He is buried in Weleetka.
1943-1947 Robert Samuel Kerr Democrat Born near Ada, Indian Territory, on September 11, 1896. Died on January 1, 1963. He is buried at his birthplace near Ada, Oklahoma. Oklahoma's first native-born state governor.
1947-1951 Roy Joseph Turner Democrat Born on November 6, 1894, in Lincoln County, Oklahoma Territory. Died on June 11, 1973, in Oklahoma City. He is buried at Rose Hill Cemetery in Oklahoma City.
1951-1955 Johnston Murray Democrat Born in Oklahoma on July 21, 1902. Died on April 16, 1974, in Tishomingo, Oklahoma.
1955-1959 Raymond Dancel Gary Democrat Born on a farm between Madill and Kingston, Oklahoma, on January 21, 1908. Died on December 11, 1993, and is buried at Madill Cemetery in Madill, Oklahoma. First governor born in the state of Oklahoma.
1959-1963 James Howard Edmondson Democrat Born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, on September 27, 1925. Died on November 17, 1971, in Oklahoma City. Interment at Memorial Park Cemetery in Oklahoma City. Youngest governor in the history of the state. He resigned on January 6, 1963 and was appointed as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Robert S. Kerr.
1963 George Patterson Nigh Democrat Born on June 9, 1927, in McAlester, Oklahoma. Served the nine days, the remainder of Governor Edmondson's term.
1963-1967 Henry Louis Bellmon Republican Born in Tonkawa, Oklahoma, on September 3, 1921. First Republican governor of the state of Oklahoma.
1967-1971 Dewey Follett Bartlett Republican Born in Mariett, Ohio, on March 28, 1919. Died on March 1, 1979, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Interment at Calvary Cemetery in Tulsa.
1971-1975 David Hall Democrat Born on October 20, 1930, in Oklahoma City. Indicted on extortion and conspiracy charges, three days after he left office. Convicted and sentenced to three years in prison. Served 19 months.
1975-1979 David Lyle Boren Democrat Born in Washington, D.C., on April 21, 1941. Son of Congressman Lyle H. Boren.
1979-1987 George Patterson Nigh Democrat Born on June 9, 1927, in McAlester, Oklahoma. Served nine days, the remainder of Governor Edmondson's term, in 1963. Also served the remaining five days of Governor Boren's term. Began regular term on January 8, 1979.
1987-1991 Henry Louis Bellmon Republican Born in Tonkawa, Oklahoma, on September 3, 1921. First Republican governor of the state of Oklahoma for his first term in 1963.
1991-1995 David Lee Walters Democrat Born on November 20, 1951, near Canute, Oklahoma, in Washita County.
1994-2002 Francis Anthony Keating Republican Born in St. Louis, Missouri, on February 10, 1944.
2003-2011 Charles Bradford "Brad" Henry Democrat Born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, on July 10, 1963.
 

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Source: Oklahoma Department of Libraries, (http://www.odl.state.ok.us/), May 3, 2004
Source: The Political Graveyard, (http://www.politicalgraveyard.com), May 3, 2004



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