Lieutenant Governors of Texas

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Presidents and Vice Presidents of the Republic of Texas, 1836-1845

• Albert Clinton Horton
  1846 - 1847


• John Alexander Greer
  1847 - 1851


• James Wilson Henderson
  1851 - 1853


• David Catchings Dickson
  1853 - 1855


• Hardin Richard Runnels
  1855 - 1857


• Francis Richard Lubbock
  1857-1859


• Edward Clark
  1859 - 1861


• John McClannahan Crockett
  1861 - 1863


• Fletcher S. Stockdale
  1863 - 1865
  
  Texas was without an elected government from the fall of the Confederacy in June of 1865 until August of 1866.


• George Washington Jones
  1866 - 1867
  
  In March of 1867, the U.S. Congress passed the First Reconstruction Act, which divided the former Confederate states in to military districts, and declared the state and local governments provisional. In August of 1867, General Philip H. Sheridan, commander of the 5th military district, removed Governor Throckmorton, Lt. Governor Jones, and other Texas officials from office, labeling them "impediments to reconstruction." Elisha M. Pease was made the provisional governor, but during his term there was no lieutenant governor, and the legislature did not meet. James W. Flanagan was elected lieutenant governor in 1869, but in 1870, the Legislature appointed him to the U.S. Senate. He was never inaugurated as lieutenant governor. Donald Campbell served as acting president of the senate until his death in November of 1871, when he was succeeded by James Flanagan's son, Webster Flanagan. During the 1873 legislative session, Edward B. Pickett served as president of the senate.


• Richard Bennett Hubbard
  1873 - 1876
  
  Hubbard took a leave of absence from his duties as president of the senate on Aug. 9, 1876, and assumed the duties of the governor on December 1, 1876, when Governor Coke resigned. Wells Thompson served as president pro tempore of the Senate after Hubbard relinquished his duties.


• Joseph Draper Sayers
  1879 - 1881


• Leonidas Jefferson Storey
  1881 - 1883


• Francis Marion Martin
  1883 - 1885


• Barnett Gibbs
  1885 - 1887


• Thomas Benton Wheeler
  1887 - 1891


• George Cassety Pendleton
  1891 - 1893


• Martin McNulty Crane
  1893 - 1895


• George Taylor Jester
  1895 - 1899


• James Nathan Browning
  1899 - 1903


• George D. Neal
  1903 - 1907


• Asbury Bascom Davidson
  1907 - 1913


• William Harding Mayes
  1913 - 1914
  
  Mayes resigned on August 14, 1914.


• William Pettus Hobby, Sr.
  1915 - 1917
  
  Hobby became governor on August 25, 1917, when James Ferguson was removed from office.


• Willard Arnold Johnson
  1919 - 1921


• Lynch Davidson
  1921 - 1923


• Thomas Whitfield Davidson
  1923 - 1925


• Barry Miller
  1925 - 1931


• Edgar E. Witt
  1931 - 1935


• Walter Frank Woodul
  1935 - 1939


• Coke Robert Stevenson
  1939 - 1941
  
  Stevenson became governor on August 4, 1941, when W. Lee O'Daniel resigned to become a U.S. Senator.


• John Lee Smith
  1943 - 1947


• Robert Allan Shivers
  1947 - 1949
  
  Shivers became governor on July 11, 1949, when Beauford H. Jester died. President Pro Tempore G.C. Morris served as head of the Senate.


• Ben Ramsey
  1951 - 1961
  
  Ramsey resigned when appointed to the Texas Railroad Commission in September of 1961.


• Preston E. Smith
  1963 - 1969


• Ben Barnes
  1969 - 1973


• William Pettus Hobby, Jr.
  1973 - 1991


• Robert D. Bullock
  1991 - 1999


• James Richard Perry
  1999 - 2000
  
  Perry became governor on December 21, 2000, when George W. Bush resigned to become President of the United States.


• Bill Ratliff
  2000 - 2003
  
  On December 28, 2000 Bill Ratliff was chosen by the Senate to serve as lieutenant governor.


• David Dewhurst
  2003 - 2015

• Dan Patrick
  2015 - Present

Sources:

2000 - 2001 Texas Almanac. Dallas: Dallas Morning News, 1999.  

Handbook of Texas Online.
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/

Members of the Texas Legislature. Austin: Texas Senate Reproductions, 1992. 

Davis, J. William. There shall also be a Lieutenant Governor.
Austin, Texas: University of Texas, 1967.