Colorado
Capital: Denver
Language: English
Religion: Protestant, Roman Catholic
State Anthem: "Where the Columbines Grow"
State Motto: Nothing Without Providence
State Emblem: Mount Elbert
1854-1859 Part of Kansas Territory
1859-1861 Territory of Jefferson
1861-1876 Territory of Colorado
1876 State of Colorado
Governors
1859-1861 Robert Wiliamson Steele
1861-1862 William Gilpin
1862-1865 John Evans
1865-1867 Alexander Cummings
1867-1869 Alexander Cameron Hunt
1869-1873 Edward Moody McCook
(1874-1875)
1873-1874 Samuel Hitt Elbert
1875-1879 John Long Routt
(1891-1893)
1879-1883 Frederick Walter Pitkin
1883-1885 James Benton Grant
1885-1887 Benjamin Harrison Eaton
1887-1889 Alva Adams
(1897-1899 1905)
1889-1891 Job Adaqms Cooper
1893-1895 David Hanson Waite
1895-1897 Albert Washington McIntire
1899-1901 Charles Spalding Thomas
1901-1903 James Bradley Orman
1903-1905 James Hamilton Peabody
1905-1907 Jesse Fuller McDonald
1907-1909 Henry Augustus Buchtel
1909-1913 John Franklin Shafroth
1913-1915 Elias Milton Ammos
1915-1917 George Alfred Carlson
1917-1919 Julius Caldeen Gunter
1919-1923 Oliver Herny Shoup
1923-1925 William Ellery Sweet
1925-1927 Clarence Joseph Morley
1927-1933 William Herbert Adams
1933-1937 Edwin Carl Johnson
(1955-1957)
1937 Raymond Herbert Talbot
1937-1939 Teller Ammons
1939-1943 Ralph Lawrence Carr
1943-1947 John Charles Vivian R i1887-1964
1947-1950 William Lee Knous D i1889-1959
1950-1951 Walter Walford Johnson D i1904-1987
1951-1955 Daniel Isaac J. Thornton R 1911-1976
1957-1963 Stephen L R McNichols D 1914-1997
1963-1973 John Arthur Love R i1916-2002
1973-1975 John David Vanderhoof R
1975-1987 Richard Douglas Lamm D
1987-1999 Roy R. Romer D
1999-2007 William Forrester Owens R
2007- August William Ritter D
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Illinois
1809-1818 Territory
1818- State of Illinois
Governors
1809-1818 Ninian Edwards
(1826-1830)
1818-1822 Shadrach Bond
1822-1826 Edward Coles
1830-1834 John Reynolds
1834-1838 Joseph Duncan
1838-1842 Thomas Carlin
1842-1846 Thomas Ford
1846-1853 Augustus Chaflin French
1853-1857 Joel Aldrich Matteson
1857-1860 William Harrison Bissell
1860-1861 John Wood
1861-1865 Richard Yates
1865-1869 Richard James Oglesby
(1873 1885-1889)
1869-1873 John McAuley Palmer
1873-1877 John Lourie Beveridge
1877-1883 Shelby Moore Cullon
1883-1885 John Marshall Hamilton
1889-1893 Joseph Wilson Fifer
1893-1897 John Peter Altgeld
1897-1901 John Reily Tanner
1901-1905 Richard Yates
1905-1913 Charles Samuel Deneen
1913-1917 Edward FitzSimmons Dunne
1917-1921 Frank Orren Lowden
1921-1929 Lennington Small
1929-1933 Louis Lincoln Emmerson
1933-1940 Henry Horner
1940-1941 John Henry Stelle
1941-1949 Dwight Herbert Green R i1897-1958
1949-1953 Adlai Ewing Stevenson D
1900-1965
1953-1961 William Grant Stratton R
1914-2001
1961-1968 Otto Kerner Jr D 1908-1976
1968-1969 Samuel Harvey Shapiro D
i1907-1987
1969-1973 Richard Buell Ogilvie R
1923-1988
1973-1977 Daniel Walker D
1977-1991 James Robert Thompson R
1991-1999 James R. Edgar R
1999-2003 George Homer Ryan R
2003-2009 Milorad Radisa Blagojevich D
2009- Patrick Joseph Quinn D
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Iowa
1838-1846 Iowa Territory
1846- State of Iowa
Capital: Des Moines
Language: English
Religion: Protestant, Roman Catholic
State Anthem: "The Song of Iowa"
State Motto: Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain
State Emblem: Bald Eagle
Governors
1838 William B Conway
1838-1841 Robert Lucas
1841-1845 John Chambers
1845-1846 James Clark
1846-1850 Ansel Briggs
1850-1854 Stephen P. Hempstead
1854-1858 James Wilson Grimes
1858-1860 Ralph Phillips Lowe
1860-1864 Samuel Jordan Kirkwood
(1876-1877)
1864-1868 William Milo Stone
1868-1872 Samuel Merrill
1872-1876 Cyrus Clay Carpenter
1877-1878 Joshua Giddings Newbold
1878-1882 John Henry Gear
1882-1886 Buren Robinson Sherman
1886-1890 Williams Larrebee
1890-1894 Horace Boies
1894-1896 Frank Darr Jackson
1896-1898 Francois Marion Drake
1898-1902 Leslie Mortimer Shaw
1902-1908 Albert Baird Cummins
1908-1909 Warren Garst
1909-1913 Beryl Franklin Carroll
1913-1917 George W Clark
1917-1921 William Lloyd Harding
1921-1925 Nathan Edward Kendell
1925-1931 John Hammill
1931-1933 Daniel Webster Turner
1933-1937 Clyde LaVerne Herring
1937-1939 Nelsen George Kraschel
1939-1943 George Allison Wilson
1943-1945 Bourke Blakemore Hickenlooper
1945-1949 Robert Donald Blue R 1898-1989
1949-1954 William Shane Beardsley R i1901-1954
1954-1955 Leo Ethon R
1898-1967
1955-1957 Leo Arthur Hoegh R 1908-2000
1957-1961 Herschel Cellel Loveless D i1911-1989
1961-1963 Norman Arthur Erbe R 1919-2000
1963-1969 Harold Everett Hughes D 1922-1996
1969 Robert David Fulton D
1969-1983 Robert Rudoph Ray R
1983-1999 Terry Edward Branstad R
1999-2007 Thomas James Vilsack D
2007- Chester John Culver D
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Kansas
1854-1861 Territory
1861 State of Kansas
Governors
1854-1855 Andrew Horatio Reeder
1855-1856 Wilson Shannon
1856-1857 John White Geary
1857 Robert James Walker
1857-1858 James William Denver
1858 Hugh Sleight Walsh
1858-1860 Samuel Medary
1860-1861 George Monroe Beebe
1861-1863 Charles L. Robinson
1863-1865 Thomas Carney
1865-1868 Samuel Johnson Crawford
1868-1869 Nehemiah Green
1869-1873 James Madison Harvey
1873-1877 Thomas Andrew Osborn
1877-1879 George Tobey Anthony
1879-1883 John Pierce St. John
1883-1885 George Washington Glick
1885-1889 John Alexander Martin
1889-1893 Lyman Underwood Humphrey
1893-1895 Lorenzo Dow Lewelling
1895-1899 John Weedham Leedy
1899-1903 William Eugene Stanley
1903-1905 Willis Joshua Bailey
1905-1909 Edward Wallis Hoch
1909-1913 Walter Roscoe Stubbs
1913-1915 George Hartshorn Hodges
1915-1919 Arthur Capper
1919-1923 Henry Justin Allen
1923-1925 Johathan McMillan Davis
1925-1929 Benjamin Sanford Paulin
1929-1931 Clyde Martin Reed
1931-1933 Harry Hines Woodring
1933-1937 Alfred Mossman Landon
1937-1939 Walter August Huxman
1939-1943 Payne Harry Ratner
1943-1947 Andrew Frank Schoeppel R i1894-1962
1947-1950 Frank Carlson R 1893-1987
1950-1951 Frank Lester Hagaman R i1894-1966
1951-1955 Edward Ferdinand Arn R i1906-1998
1955-1957 Frederick Lee Hall R
1916-1970
1957 John Berridge McGuish R i1906-1962
1957-1961 George Docking D i1904-1964
1961-1965 John A. Anderson Jr R
1965-1967 William Henry Avery R
1967-1975 Robert Blackwell Docking D 1925-1983
1975-1979 Robert Frederick Benett D
i1927-2000
1979-1987 John William Carlin D
1987-1991 John Michael Hayden R
1991-1995 Joan Finney D 1925-2001
1995-2003 William Preston Graves R
2003-2009 Kathleen Gillingan Sebelius D
2009- Mark V. Parkinson D
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Missouri
1812-1821 Missouri Territory
1821-1861 State of Missouri
1861-1865 Secession by part of the state to the Confederate States of America
1865- State of Missouri
Governors
1812-1813 Frederick Bates
(1824-1825)
1813-1820 William Clark
1820-1824 Alexander McNair
1825-1826 Abraham J. Williams
1826-1832 John Miller
1832-1836 Daniel Dunklin
1836-1840 Lilburn Wycliffe Boggs
1840-1844 Thomas Reynolds
1844 Meredith Miles Marmaduke
1844-1848 John Cummins Edwards
1848-1853 Austin Augustin King
1853-1857 Sterling Price
1857 Trusten Polk
1857 Hancock Lee Jackson
1857-1861 Robert Marcellus Stewart
1861 Claiborne Fox Jackson
1861-1864 Hamilton Rowan Gamble
1862-1865 Thomas Caute Reynolds (In Texas exile)
1864-1865 Willard Preble Hall
1865-1869 Thomas Clement Fletcher
1869-1871 Joseph Washington McClurg
1871-1873 Benjamin Gratz Brown
1873-1875 Silas Woodson
1875-1877 Charles Henry Hardin
1877-1881 John Sith Phelps
1881-1885 Thomas Theodore Crittenden
1885-1887 John Sappington Marmaduke
1887-1889 Albert Pickett Morehouse
1889-1893 David Rowland Francis
1893-1897 William Joel Stone
1897-1901 Lawrence Vest Stephens
1901-1905 Alexander Monroe Dockery
1905-1909 Joseph Wington Folk
1909-1913 Herbert Spencer Hadley
1913-1917 Elliot Woolfork Major
1917-1921 Frederick Dozier Gardner
1921-1925 Arthur Mastick Hyde
1925-1929 Samuel Aaron Baker
1929-1933 Henry Stewart Caulfield
1933-1937 Guy Brasfield Park
1937-1941 Lloyd Crow Stark
1941-1945 Forrest C. Donnell
1945-1949 Philip Matthew Donnelly D i1891-1961
(1953-1957)
1949-1953 Forrest Smith D 1886-1962
1957-1961 James Thomas Blair D 1902-1962
1961-1965 John Montgomery Dalton D 1900-1972
1965-1973 Warren Eastman Hearnes D
1973-1977 Christophe Samuel Bond R
(1981-1985)
1977-1981 Joseph Patrick Teasdale D
1985-1993 John David Ashcroft R
1993-2000 Melvin Eugene Carnahan D i1934-2000
2000-2001 Roger B. Wilson D
2001-2005 Robert Lee Holden D
2005-2009 Matthew Roy Blunt R
2009- Jeremiah Wilson Nixon D
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Nebraska
1854-1867 Nebraska Territory
1867- Nebraska State
Capital: Lincoln
Language: English
Religion: Protestant, Roman Catholic
State Anthem: "Beautiful Nebraska"
State Motto: Equality before the law
State Emblem:
Governors
1854 Francis Burt
1854-1855 Thomas Barney Cuming
(1857-1858)
1855-1857 Mark Whitaker Izard
1858 William Alexander Richardson
1858-1859 Julius Sterling Morton
1859-1861 Samuel Watson Black
1861-1867 Alvin Saunders
1867-1871 David Christy Butler
1871-1873 William Hartford James
1873-1875 Robert Wilkinson Furnas
1875-1879 Silas Garber
1879-1883 Albinus Nance
1883-1887 James William Dawes
1887-1891 John Milton Thayer
(1891-1892)
1891 James Edward Boyd
(1892-1893)
1893-1895 Lorenzo Crounse
1895-1899 Silas Alexander Holcomb
1899-1901 Williams Amos Poynter
1901 Charles Henry Dietrich
1901-1903 Ezra Perin Savage
1903-1907 John Hopwood Mickey
1907-1909 George Lawson Sheldon
1909-1911 Ashton Cokayne Shallenberger
1911-1913 Chester Hardy Aldrich
1913-1917 John Henry Morehead
1917-1919 M. Keith Neville
1919-1923 Samuel Roy McKelvie
1923-1925 Charles Wayland Bryan
(1931-1935)
1925-1929 Adam McMullen
1929-1931 Arthur Jerard Weaver
1935-1941 Robert LeRoy Cochran
1941-1947 Dwight Palmer Griswold R
1893-1954
1947-1953 Frederick Valdemar Erastus R i1903-1983
1953-1955 Robert Berkly Crosby R i1911-2000
1955-1959 Victor Emanuel Anderson R
1902-1962
1959-1960 Ralph Gilmour Brooks D
1898-1960
1960-1961 Dwight Willard Burney R i1892-1987
1961-1967 Frank Brenner Morrison D i1905-2004
1967-1971 Norbert Theodore Tiemann R
1924-
1971-1979 John James Exon D i1921-2005
1979-1983 Charles Thone R
1983-1987 Joseph Robert Kerrey R
1987-1991 Kay Avonne Stark Orr R
1991-1999 Earl Benjamin Nelson D
1999-2005 Michael Owen Johannes R
2005- David Eugene Heineman R
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Oklahoma
1830-1890 Indian Territory
1890-1907 Oklahoma Territory
1907- State of Oklahoma
Capital: Oklahoma City
Language: English
Religion: Protestant
State Anthem: "Oklahoma"
State Motto: Labour conquers all things
State Emblem:
Governors
1890-1891 George Washington Steele
1891-1892 Robert Martin
1892-1893 Abraham Jefferson Seay
1893-1897 William Cary Renfrow
1897-1901 Cassius McDonald Barnes
1901 William Miller Jenkins
1901 William C. Grimes
1901-1906 Thompson Benton Ferguson
1906-1907 Frank Frantz
1907-1911 Charles Nathaniel Haskell
1911-1915 Lee Cruce
1915-1919 Robert Lee Williams
1919-1923 James Brooks Ayers Robertson
1923 John Callaway Walton
1923-1927 Martin Edwin Trapp
1927-1929 Henry Simpson Johnston
1929-1931 William Judson Holloway
1931-1935 William Henry Murray
1935-1939 Ernest Whitworth Marland
1939-1943 Leon Chase Phillips
1943-1947 Robert Samuel Kerr D i1896-1963
1947-1951 Roy Joseph Turner D i1894-1973
1951-1955 Johnston Murray D 1902-1974
1955-1959 Raymond Dancel Gary D 1908-1993
1959-1963 James Howard Edmondson D 1925-1971
1963-1967 Henry Louis Bellmon R
(1987-1991)
1967-1971 Dewey Follett Bartlett R
1919-1979
1971-1975 David Hall D
1975-1979 David Lyle Boren D
1979-1987 George Patterson Nigh D
1991-1995 David Lee Walters D
1995-2003 Frank Anthony Keating R
2003- Charles Bradford Henry D
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South Dakota
Dakota Territory
1861-1889 Dakota Territory
Governors
1861-1863 William A. Jayne
1863-1866 Newton Edmunds
1866-1869 Andrew Jackson Faulk
1869-1874 John Albyne Burbank
1874-1878 John Lee Pennington
1878-1880 William Alanson Howard
1880 George H. Hand
1880-1884 Nehemiah George Ordway
1884-1887 Gilbert Ashville Pierce
1887-1889 Louis Kussuth Church
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1861-1889 Dakota Territory
1889- State of South Dakota
Capital: Pierre
Language: English
Religion: Protestant, Roman Catholic
State Anthem: "Hail! South Dakota!"
State Motto: Under God the People rule
State Emblem:
Governors
1889-1893 Arthur Calvin Mellette
1893-1897 Charles Henry Sheldon
1897-1901 Andrew Ericson Lee
1901-1905 Charles Nelson Herreid
1905-1907 Samuel Harrison Ford
1907-1909 Coe Isaac Crawford
1909-1913 Robert Scadden Vessey
1913-1917 Frank Michael Byrne
1917-1921 Peter Norbeck
1921-1925 William Henry McMaster
1925-1927 Carl Gunderson
1927-1931 William John Bulow
1931-1933 Warren Everett Green
1933-1937 Thomas Mathew Berry
1937-1939 Leslie Jensen
1939-1943 Harlan John Bushfield
1943-1947 Marrell Quentin Sharpe R 1883-1962
1947-1951 George Theodore Mickelson R 1903-1965
1951-1955 Sigurd Anderson R i1904-1990
1955-1959 Joseph Jacob Foss R i1915-2003
1959-1961 Ralph E. Herseth D 1909-1969
1961-1965 Archie M. Gubbard R 1910-1987
1965-1969 Nils Andreas Boe R 1913-1992
1969-1971 Frank Leroy Farrar R
1971-1978 Richard Francis Kneip D 1933-1987
1978-1979 Harvey L. Wollamn D
1979-1987 William John Janklow R
(1995-2003)
1987-1993 George Speaker Mickelson R i1941-1993
1993-1995 Walter Dale Miller R
2003- Marion Michael Rounds R
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Wyoming
1868-1890 Wyoming Territory
1890- State of Wyoming
Governors
1869-1875 John Allen Campbell
1875-1878 John Milton Thayer
1878-1882 John Wesley Hoyt
1882-1885 William Hale
1885 Elliot S.N Morgan
(1886-1887)
1885-1886 Francis Emroy Warren
(1889-1890)
1887-1889 Thomas Moonlight
1890-1893 Amos Walker Barber
1893-1895 John Eugene Osborne
1895-1899 William Alford Richards
1899-1903 DeForest Richards
1903-1905 Fenimore Chatterton
1905-1911 Bryant Butler Brooks
1911-1915 Joseph Maull Carey
1915-1917 John Benjamin Kendrick
1917-1919 Frank Lee Houx
1919-1923 Robert Davis Carey
1923-1925 Frank Earl Lucas
1925-1927 Nellie Tayloe Ross
1927-1931 Frank Collins Emerson
1931-1933 Alonso Monroe Clark
1933-1939 Leslie Andrew Miller
1939-1943 Nels Hanson Smith
1943-1949 Lester Callaway Hunt D
1892-1954
1949-1951 Arthur Griswold Crane R i1877-1955
1951-1953 Frank Aloysius Barrett R
1892-1962
1953-1955 Clifford Joy Rogers R i1897-1962
1955-1959 Milward Lee Simpson R
1897-1993
1959-1961 Joseph John Hickley D i1911-1970
1961-1963 Jack Robert Gage D 1899-1970
1963-1967 Clifford Peter Hansen R
1912-
1967-1975 Stanley Knapp Hathaway R 1924-2005
1975-1987 Edgar Jacob Herschler D 1918-1990
1987-1995 Michael John Sullivan D
1995-2003 James Edward Geringer R
2003- David Duane Freudenthal D
