List of governors of Oklahoma

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Standard of the governor of Oklahoma

The governor of Oklahoma is the head of government of the U.S. state of Oklahoma.

List of governors

Oklahoma Territory

Oklahoma Territory was organized on May 2, 1890.<ref>Template:Usstat</ref> It had seven governors appointed by the president of the United States.

Governors of the Territory of Oklahoma

Template:Abbr	Governor		Term in officeTemplate:Efn	Appointing president
1	File:GeorgeWashingtonSteele.jpg	George Washington Steele Template:Small Template:Sfn	Template:DtsTemplate:Efn – November 8, 1891 Template:SmallTemplate:Efn	Template:Sortname
2	File:Abraham Jefferson Seay.jpg	Abraham Jefferson Seay Template:Small Template:Sfn	Template:DtsTemplate:Efn – May 7, 1893 Template:SmallTemplate:Efn	Template:Sortname
3	File:William Cary Renfrow.jpg	William Cary Renfrow Template:Small Template:Sfn	Template:DtsTemplate:Efn – May 11, 1897 Template:SmallTemplate:Efn	Template:Sortname
4	File:Cassius McDonald Barnes.jpg	Cassius McDonald Barnes Template:Small Template:Sfn	Template:DtsTemplate:Efn – April 20, 1901 Template:Small	Template:Sortname
5	File:William Miller Jenkins.jpg	William Miller Jenkins Template:Small Template:Sfn	Template:DtsTemplate:Efn – November 30, 1901 Template:SmallTemplate:Efn	Template:Sortname
6	File:Thompson Benton Ferguson.jpg	Thompson Benton Ferguson Template:Small Template:Sfn	Template:DtsTemplate:Efn – January 13, 1906 Template:Small	Template:Sortname
7	File:Frank Frantz.jpg	Frank Frantz Template:Small Template:Sfn	Template:DtsTemplate:Efn – November 16, 1907 Template:Small	Template:Sortname

State of Oklahoma

Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory were combined and admitted to the Union as the State of Oklahoma on November 16, 1907.<ref>Template:USStat</ref>

The Constitution of Oklahoma calls for the election of a governor every four years, to take office on the second Monday in January after the election.<ref name="const-art1-sec4">OK Const. Art. I, § 4</ref> Originally, governors could not succeed themselves, with no limit on total terms;<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> a 1966 constitutional amendment allowed them to succeed themselves once.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> An amendment in 2010 limited them to eight years in total, retroactively applying to all living former governors.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Should the office become vacant because of a death, resignation or removal of the governor, the lieutenant governor immediately succeeds to the governorship.<ref>OK Const. Art. 4, § 16</ref> After Jack C. Walton was impeached and removed in 1923, Lieutenant Governor Martin E. Trapp served in the office for the remainder of the term. He styled himself "Acting Governor," as the constitution only specified that the powers of the office devolved upon the lieutenant governor, hoping that he would not be prevented from running in the next election. However, the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled in 1926 that, in the case of a vacancy in the office, the lieutenant governor becomes governor, and he was ineligible to run for a consecutive term.Template:Sfn<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> The governor and the lieutenant governor are not formally elected on the same ticket.

Governors of the State of Oklahoma

Template:Abbr	Governor			Term in office	Party	Election	Lt. GovernorTemplate:Efn
1	File:HASKELL, C.N. GOVERNOR LCCN2016858937 (cropped).jpg	rowspan="17" style="background: Template:Party color;"|	Charles N. Haskell Template:Small Template:Sfn<ref name="nga-haskell">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:Dts<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> – January 9, 1911 Template:SmallTemplate:Efn	DemocraticTemplate:Sfn	1907	rowspan="5" style="background: Template:Party color;"|	Template:Sortname
2	File:Lee Cruce.jpg	Lee Cruce Template:Small Template:Sfn<ref name="nga-cruce">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:Dts<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> – January 11, 1915 Template:SmallTemplate:Efn	DemocraticTemplate:Sfn	1910	Template:Sortname
3	File:RobertLWilliams.jpg	Robert L. Williams Template:Small Template:Sfn<ref name="nga-williams">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:Dts<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> – January 13, 1919 Template:SmallTemplate:Efn	DemocraticTemplate:Sfn	1914	Template:Sortname
4	Template:Css Image Crop	James B. A. Robertson Template:Small Template:Sfn<ref name="nga-robertson">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:Dts<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> – January 8, 1923 Template:SmallTemplate:Efn	DemocraticTemplate:Sfn	1918
5	File:Jack Walton.jpg	Jack C. Walton Template:Small Template:Sfn<ref name="nga-walton">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:Dts<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> – November 19, 1923 Template:SmallTemplate:Efn	DemocraticTemplate:Sfn	1922
6	File:MartinETrapp.jpg	Martin E. Trapp Template:Small Template:Sfn<ref name="nga-trapp">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:Dts<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> – January 10, 1927 Template:SmallTemplate:Efn	DemocraticTemplate:Sfn	Template:SmallTemplate:Efn	Vacant
7	File:Henry S. Johnston2.jpg	Henry S. Johnston Template:Small Template:Sfn<ref name="nga-johnston">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:Dts<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> – March 20, 1929 Template:SmallTemplate:Efn	DemocraticTemplate:Sfn	1926	style="color:inherit;background: Template:Party color;"|	Template:Sortname
8	File:Governor William Holloway.jpg	William J. Holloway Template:Small Template:Sfn<ref name="nga-holloway">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:Dts<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> – January 12, 1931 Template:SmallTemplate:Efn	DemocraticTemplate:Sfn	Template:SmallTemplate:Efn	Vacant
9	File:Alfalfa Bill.jpg	William H. Murray Template:Small Template:Sfn<ref name="nga-murray-william">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:Dts<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> – January 14, 1935 Template:SmallTemplate:Efn	DemocraticTemplate:Sfn	1930	rowspan="8" style="color:inherit;background: Template:Party color;"|	Template:Sortname
10	File:E. W. Marland (Oklahoma Governor).jpg	E. W. Marland Template:Small Template:Sfn<ref name="nga-marland">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:Dts<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> – January 9, 1939 Template:SmallTemplate:Efn	DemocraticTemplate:Sfn	1934	Template:Sortname
11	Template:Css Image Crop	Leon C. Phillips Template:Small Template:Sfn<ref name="nga-phillips">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:Dts<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> – January 11, 1943 Template:SmallTemplate:Efn	DemocraticTemplate:Sfn	1938
12	File:Robert S. Kerr (OK).png	Robert S. Kerr Template:Small Template:Sfn<ref name="nga-kerr">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:Dts<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> – January 13, 1947 Template:SmallTemplate:Efn	DemocraticTemplate:Sfn	1942
13	File:Roy J. Turner.jpg	Roy J. Turner Template:Small Template:Sfn<ref name="nga-turner">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:Dts<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> – January 8, 1951 Template:SmallTemplate:Efn	DemocraticTemplate:Sfn	1946
14	File:Gov Johnston Murray.jpg	Johnston Murray Template:Small Template:Sfn<ref name="nga-murray-johnston">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:Dts<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> – January 10, 1955 Template:SmallTemplate:Efn	DemocraticTemplate:Sfn	1950
15	File:Raymond Gary.jpg	Raymond D. Gary Template:Small Template:Sfn<ref name="nga-gary">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:Dts<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> – January 12, 1959 Template:SmallTemplate:Efn	DemocraticTemplate:Sfn	1954	Template:Sortname
16	File:J. Howard Edmondson (OK).png	J. Howard Edmondson Template:Small Template:Sfn<ref name="nga-edmondson">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:Dts<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> – January 6, 1963 Template:SmallTemplate:Efn	DemocraticTemplate:Sfn	1958	Template:Sortname
17	File:George Nigh 1972.jpg	George Nigh Template:Small Template:Sfn<ref name="nga-nigh">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:Dts<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> – January 14, 1963 Template:Small	DemocraticTemplate:Sfn	Template:Small	Vacant
18		rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background: Template:Party color;"|	Henry Bellmon Template:Small Template:Sfn<ref name="nga-bellmon">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:Dts<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> – January 9, 1967 Template:SmallTemplate:Efn	RepublicanTemplate:Sfn	1962	rowspan="9" style="color:inherit;background: Template:Party color;"|	Template:SortnameTemplate:Efn
19		Dewey F. Bartlett Template:Small Template:Sfn<ref name="nga-bartlett">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:Dts<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> – January 11, 1971 Template:Small	RepublicanTemplate:Sfn	1966	Template:SortnameTemplate:Efn
20		rowspan="5" style="color:inherit;background: Template:Party color;"|	David Hall Template:Small Template:Sfn<ref name="nga-hall">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:Dts<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> – January 13, 1975 Template:SmallTemplate:Sfn	DemocraticTemplate:Sfn		1970
21		David Boren Template:Small Template:Sfn<ref name="nga-boren">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:Dts<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> – January 2, 1979 Template:SmallTemplate:Efn	DemocraticTemplate:Sfn	1974
22		George Nigh Template:Small Template:Sfn<ref name="nga-nigh" />	Template:Dts<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> – January 12, 1987 Template:SmallTemplate:Efn	Democratic<ref name="nga-nigh" />	Template:Small	Template:Sortname
					1978
					1982
23		style="color:inherit;background: Template:Party color;"|	Henry Bellmon Template:Small Template:Sfn<ref name="nga-bellmon" />	Template:Dts<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> – January 14, 1991 Template:Small	Republican<ref name="nga-bellmon" />	1986	Template:SortnameTemplate:Efn
24		style="color:inherit;background: Template:Party color;"|	David Walters Template:Small <ref name="nga-walters">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:Dts<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> – January 9, 1995 Template:Small	Democratic<ref name="nga-walters" />	1990	Template:Sortname
25		rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background: Template:Party color;"|	Frank Keating Template:Small <ref name="nga-keating">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:Dts<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> – January 13, 2003 Template:SmallTemplate:Efn	Republican<ref name="nga-keating" />	1994	rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background: Template:Party color;"|	Template:SortnameTemplate:Efn
		1998
26		rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background: Template:Party color;"|	Brad Henry Template:Small <ref name="nga-henry">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:Dts<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> – January 10, 2011 Template:SmallTemplate:Efn	Democratic<ref name="nga-henry" />	2002
		2006		style="color:inherit;background: Template:Party color;"|			Template:Sortname
27		rowspan="4" style="color:inherit;background: Template:Party color;"|	Mary Fallin Template:Small <ref name="nga-fallin">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:Dts<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> – January 14, 2019 Template:SmallTemplate:Efn	Republican<ref name="nga-fallin" />	2010	rowspan="4" style="color:inherit;background: Template:Party color;"|	Template:Sortname
		2014
28	File:Kevin Stitt 2021.jpg	Kevin Stitt Template:Small <ref name="nga-stitt">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:Dts<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> – IncumbentTemplate:Efn	Republican<ref name="nga-stitt" />	2018	Template:Sortname
			2022

See also

• List of Oklahoma state legislatures

References

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External links

• Office of the Governor of Oklahoma