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Governors of Kansas

Governor
Party
Term
Charles L. Robinson
Republican
1861 - 1863
Thomas Carney
Republican
1863 - 1865
Samuel J. Crawford
Republican
1865 - 1868
Nehemiah Green
Republican
1868 - 1869
James M. Harvey
Republican
1869 - 1873
Thomas A. Osborn
Republican
1873 - 1877
George T. Anthony
Republican
1877 - 1879
John St. John
Republican
1879 - 1883
George Washington Glick
Democratic
1883 - 1885
John Martin
Republican
1885 - 1889
Lyman U. Humphrey
Republican
1889 - 1893
Lorenzo D. Lewelling
Populist
1893 - 1895
Edmund Needham Morrill
Republican
1895 - 1897
John W. Leedy
Populist
1897 - 1899
William Eugene Stanley
Republican
1899 - 1903
Willis J. Bailey
Republican
1903 - 1905
Edward W. Hoch
Republican
1905 - 1909
Walter R. Stubbs
Republican
1909 - 1913
George H. Hodges
Democratic
1913 - 1915
Arthur Capper
Republican
1915 - 1919
Henry Justin Allen
Republican
1919 - 1923
Jonathan M. Davis
Democratic
1923 - 1925
Benjamin S. Paulen
Republican
1925 - 1929
Clyde M. Reed
Republican
1929 - 1931
Harry Hines Woodring
Democratic
1931 - 1933
Alf Landon
Republican
1933 - 1937
Walter A. Huxman
Democratic
1937 - 1939
Payne Ratner
Republican
1939 - 1943
Andrew Frank Schoeppel
Republican
1943 - 1947
Frank Carlson
Republican
1947 - 1950
Frank L. Hagaman
Republican
1950 - 1951
Edward F. Arn
Republican
1951 - 1955
Fred Hall
Republican
1955 - 1957
John McCuish
Republican
1957 - 1957
George Docking
Democratic
1957 - 1961
John Anderson Jr.
Republican
1961 - 1965
William H. Avery
Republican
1965 - 1967
Robert Docking
Democratic
1967 - 1975
Robert Frederick Bennett
Republican
1975 - 1979
John W. Carlin
Democratic
1979 - 1987
Mike Hayden
Republican
1987 - 1991
Joan Finney
Democratic
1991 - 1995
Bill Graves
Republican
1995 - 2003
Kathleen Sebelius
Democratic
2003 - 2009
Mark Parkinson
Democratic
2009 - 2011
Sam Brownback
Republican
2011 - 2018
Jeff Colyer
Republican
2018 - 2019
Laura Kelly
Democratic
2019 -
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