Former Governors - Nebraska

Governor's Name State Time in Office Party
Gov. Pete Ricketts Nebraska 2019 - 2023
2015 - 2019
Republican
Gov. Dave Heineman Nebraska 2005 - 2015
Republican
Gov. Mike Johanns Nebraska 1999 - 2005
Republican
Gov. E. Benjamin Nelson Nebraska 1991 - 1999
Democratic
Gov. Kay A. Orr Nebraska 1987 - 1991
Republican
Gov. Joseph Robert (Bob) Kerrey Nebraska 1983 - 1987
Democratic
Gov. Charles Thone Nebraska 1979 - 1983
Republican
Gov. John James Exon Nebraska 1971 - 1979
Democratic
Gov. Norbert T. Tiemann Nebraska 1967 - 1971
Republican
Gov. Frank Brenner Morrison Nebraska 1961 - 1967
Democratic
Gov. Dwight Willard Burney Nebraska 1960 - 1961
Republican
Gov. Ralph Gilmour Brooks Nebraska 1959 - 1960
Democratic
Gov. Victor Emanuel Anderson Nebraska 1955 - 1959
Republican
Gov. Robert Berkey Crosby Nebraska 1953 - 1955
Republican
Gov. Frederick Valdemar Erastus (Val) Peterson Nebraska 1947 - 1953
Republican
Gov. Dwight Palmer Griswold Nebraska 1941 - 1947
Republican
Gov. Robert Leroy (Roy) Cochran Nebraska 1935 - 1941
Democratic
Gov. Charles Wayland Bryan Nebraska 1931 - 1935
1923 - 1925
Democratic
Gov. Arthur J. Weaver Nebraska 1929 - 1931
Republican
Gov. Adam McMullen Nebraska 1925 - 1929
Republican
Gov. Samuel Roy McKelvie Nebraska 1919 - 1923
Republican
Gov. Keith M. Neville Nebraska 1917 - 1919
Democratic
Gov. John Henry Morehead Nebraska 1913 - 1917
Democratic
Gov. Chester Hardy Aldrich Nebraska 1911 - 1913
Republican
Gov. Ashton Cockayne Shallenberger Nebraska 1909 - 1911
Democratic
Gov. George Lawson Sheldon Nebraska 1907 - 1909
Republican
Gov. John Hopwood Mickey Nebraska 1903 - 1907
Republican
Gov. Ezra Perin Savage Nebraska 1901 - 1903
Republican
Gov. Charles Henry Dietrich Nebraska 1901 - 1901
Republican
Gov. William Amos Poynter Nebraska 1899 - 1901
Populist
Gov. Silas Alexander Holcomb Nebraska 1895 - 1899
Populist
Gov. Lorenzo Crounse Nebraska 1893 - 1895
Republican
Gov. James E. Boyd Nebraska 1892 - 1893
Democratic
Gov. John Milton Thayer Nebraska 1887 - 1892
Republican
Gov. James William Dawes Nebraska 1883 - 1887
Republican
Gov. Albinus Nance Nebraska 1879 - 1883
Republican
Gov. Silas Garber Nebraska 1875 - 1879
Republican
Gov. Robert Wilkinson Furnas Nebraska 1873 - 1975
Republican
Gov. William Hartford James Nebraska 1871 - 1873
Republican
Gov. David Butler Nebraska 1867 - 1871
Republican

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