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The following is a list of the governors of the U.S. Territory and later State of Nebraska.

Governor of Nebraska
Seal of Nebraska
Incumbent Dave Heineman since January 20, 2005
Style	The Honorable
Inaugural holder	David Butler 1871
Formation	Constitution of Nebraska

• Prior to becoming a territory, Nebraska Territory was part of Louisiana Territory (renamed Missouri Territory) from 1805 to 1821; see List of Governors of Missouri for this period. Between 1821 and 1854, the land was unorganized territory.

Territorial Governors

Appointed, before statehood, to a four-year term by the President of the United States.

The Democratic Party and its allies elected Presidents Franklin Pierce (March 4, 1853, to March 3, 1857) and James Buchanan (March 4, 1857, to March 3, 1861). The Republican Party and its allies elected Presidents Abraham Lincoln (March 4, 1861, to April 15, 1865) and Andrew Johnson (April 15, 1865, to March 3, 1869), as well as a majority of the Senators and Representatives to the Congresses after 1860 that admitted Nebraska into the Union of states.

D = Democrat; R = Republican. Irregular ends of terms explained under "How".

State governors

Popularly-elected, beginning in 1866, to a two-year term. In 1962, the voters approved a constitutional amendment expanding terms beginning in 1966 to four years. In 1966, the voters limited the number of consecutive full terms that any one governor could serve to two (i.e. only one possible re-election while still in office after election to a full term.)

Notes

1. Elected, but not inaugurated, before Nebraska's statehood. Impeached and removed from office for misappropriation of state funds; the impeachment was expunged six years later.
2. As state secretary of state, acted as governor for unexpired term.
3. ^ James Boyd won the 1890 election, and was sworn in on January 8, 1891. However, due to a question of his U.S. citizenship and eligibility for the office, he did not take office until February 8, 1892.
4. Resigned to take an elected seat in the United States Senate.
5. ^ As lieutenant governor, became governor for unexpired term.
6. Died in office.
7. First and (as of May 2013) only female governor of Nebraska
8. Resigned to become United States Secretary of Agriculture.
9. As lieutenant governor, succeeded to the office of governor for Johann's unexpired term, and was later elected in his own right.
10. Governor Heineman's second term expires on January 1, 2015; he is term limited.

Other high offices held

This is a table of other governorships, congressional seats and other national public offices held by governors of Nebraska. All representatives and senators mentioned represented Nebraska except where noted.

* denotes those offices which the governor resigned to take.

p. = Political Party; D = Democrat ; R = Republican;

the footnotes , etc., indicate the presidential administration(s) under which an unelected Federal office was held (see Appointing presidents below the table).

Appointing presidents

1. Grover Cleveland (D, 1893-1897)
2. Ulysses Grant (R, 1869-1877) and Rutherford B. Hayes (R, 1877-1881)
3. Franklin Roosevelt (D, 1933-45) and Harry Truman (D, 1945-53)
4. Dwight Eisenhower (R, 1953-1961)
5. Richard Nixon (R, 1969-1974}
6. George W. Bush (R, 2001-2009)

Living former governors

As of June 2012, five former governors were alive, the oldest being Charles Thone (1979–1983, born 1924). The most recent governor to die was Norbert T. Tiemann (1967–1971) on June 19, 2012. The most recently-serving governor to die was J. James Exon (1971–1979), on June 10, 2005.

See also

• List of Lieutenant Governors of Nebraska
• Governors of Nebraska Territory
• United States congressional delegations from Nebraska
• Political party strength in Nebraska

References

1. 2012-13 Nebraska Blue Book (Nebraska State Government), page 418
2. 2012-13 Nebraska Blue Book, pages 418–419
3. Nebraska Governor Robert Leroy (Roy) Cochran at the National Governors Association web site, retrieved May 27, 2013.

External links

• Semi-Centennial History of Nebraska (1904)
• Nebraska Blue Book
  • specifically (in the 2012-13 Blue Book), State Executive Branch (PDF), page 421, "Nebraska Governors, 1854–2013"

v t e Governors of Nebraska
Territorial (1854–1867)	Walker (provisional; disputed) Butler (declined) Burt Cuming Izard Cuming Richardson Morton Black Morton Paddock Saunders
State (since 1867)	Butler James Hascall (disputed) Furnas Garber Nance Dawes Thayer Boyd Crounse Holcomb Poynter Dietrich Savage Mickey Sheldon Shallenberger Aldrich Morehead Neville McKelvie Bryan McMullen Weaver Bryan Cochran Griswold Peterson Crosby Anderson Brooks Burney Morrison Tiemann Exon Thone Kerrey Orr Nelson Johanns Heineman Ricketts Pillen
Italics indicate acting governors

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