The Governors of Missouri since its statehood in 1820 are:
  • Alexander McNair 1821-24
  • Frederick Bates 1824-25
  • Abraham J. Williams 1825-26
  • John Miller 1826-32
  • Daniel Dunklin 1832-36
  • Lilburn W. Boggs 1836-40
  • Thomas Reynolds 1840-44
  • Meredith Miles Marmaduke 1844
  • John C. Edwards 1844-48
  • Austin A. King 1848-53
  • Sterling Price 1853-57
  • Trusten Polk 1857
  • Hancock Lee Jackson 1857
  • Robert Marcellus Stewart 1857-61
Union GovernmentConfederate Government
  • Hamilton Rowan Gamble 1861-64
  • Willard P. Hall 1864-65
  • Claiborne Fox Jackson 1861-62
  • Thomas Caute Reynolds 1862-65
  • Thomas Clement Fletcher 1865-69
  • Joseph W. McClurg 1869-71
  • B. Gratz Brown 1871-73
  • Silas Woodson 1873-75
  • Charles Henry Hardin 1875-77
  • John Smith Phelps 1877-81
  • Thomas Theodore Crittenden 1881-85
  • John Sappington Marmaduke 1885-87
  • Albert P. Morehouse 1887-89
  • David R. Francis 1889-93
  • William Joel Stone 1893-97
  • Lon Vest Stephens 1897-1901
  • Alexander Monroe Dockery 1901-05
  • Joseph W. Folk 1905-09
  • Herbert S. Hadley 1909-13
  • Elliot Woolfolk Major 1913-17
  • Frederick D. Gardner 1917-21
  • Arthur M. Hyde 1921-25
  • Sam Aaron Baker 1925-29
  • Henry S. Caulfield 1929-33
  • Guy Brasfield Park 1933-37
  • Lloyd C. Stark 1937-41
  • Forrest C. Donnell 1941-45
  • Phil M. Donnelly 1945-49
  • Forrest Smith 1949-53
  • Phil M. Donnelly 1953-57
  • James T. Blair, Jr 1957-61
  • John M. Dalton 1961-65
  • Warren E. Hearnes 1965-73
  • Christopher S. Bond 1973-77
  • Joseph P. Teasdale 1977-81
  • Christopher S. Bond 1981-85
  • John Ashcroft 1985-93
  • Mel Carnahan 1993-2000
  • Roger B. Wilson 2000-01
  • Bob Holden 2001-