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 Government	Confederate 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-