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Early Statehood | War, Ruin, and Reconstruction | The Wild West | Texas Rising | The Politics of Personality | Modern Texas

List of Governors in Chronological and Alphabetical Order

Also view the online companion to our 2022-2023 lobby exhibit, Texas Governors and Their Times, 1846-1946, featuring a more in-depth look at several governors through documents, photographs, and other records from their offices and eras:

The Texas State Library and Archives Commission thanks the following institutions for their participation in the Portraits of Texas Governors online exhibit:

• The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum (Records of John Connally)
• The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library at Texas Tech University (Records of Preston Smith)
• The Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin (Records of Dolph Briscoe and Ann Richards)
• The Cushing Memorial Library at Texas A&M University (Records of William P. Clements)
• The George Bush Presidential Library and Museum (Records of George W. Bush)

Other online exhibits from the Texas State Library and Archives Commission.