Capital: Austin

State Nickname: Lone Star State

State Bird: Mockingbird

State Flower: Bluebonnet

Admitted to the Union: December 29, 1845

February 19, 1846 to December 21, 1847:

James Pinckney Henderson

December 21, 1847 to December 21, 1849:

George T. Wood

December 21, 1849 to November 23, 1853:

Peter Hansbrough Bell*

* Resigned from office

November 23, 1853 to December 21, 1853:

James Wilson Henderson

December 21, 1853 to December 21, 1857:

Elisha M. Pease

December 21, 1857 to December 21, 1859:

Hardin Richard Runnels

December 21, 1959 to March 16, 1861:

Sam Houston*

* Resigned from office

March 16, 1861 to November 7, 1861:

Edward Clark

November 7, 1861 to November 5, 1863:

Francis Richard Lobbock*

November 5, 1863 to June 17, 1865:

Pendelton Murrah*

* Administration terminated due to fall of Confederacy

June 17, 1865 to August 9, 1866:

Andrew Jackson Hamilton*

* Provisional governor appointed by President Johnson

August 9, 1866 to August 8, 1867:

James Webb Throckmorton

August 8, 1867 to September 30, 1869:

Elisha Marshall Pease*

* Appointed under Marshall Law and vacated September 30, 1869. No governor until January 8, 1870

January 8, 1870 to January 15, 1874:

Edmund Jackson Davis

January 15, 1874 to December 1, 1876:

Richard Coke*

* Resigned from office

December 1, 1876 to January 21, 1879:

Richard Bennett Hubbard

January 21, 1879 to January 16, 1883:

Oran Milo Roberts

January 16, 1883 to January 18, 1887:

John Ireland

January 18, 1887 to January 20, 1891:

Lawrence Sullivan Ross

January 20, 1891 to January 15, 1895:

James Stephen Hogg

January 15, 1895 to January 17, 1899:

Charles A. Culberson

January 17, 1899 to January 20, 1903:

Joseph Draper Sayers

January 20, 1903 to January 15, 1907;

Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham

January 15, 1907 to January 17, 1911:

Thomas Mitchell Campbell

January 17, 1911 to January 19, 1915:

Oscar Branch Colquitt

January 19, 1915 to August 25, 1917:

James E. Ferguson*

* Resigned from office

August 25, 1917 to January 18, 1921:

William Pettus Hobby

Janiary 18, 1921 to January 20, 1925:

Pat Morris Neff

January 20, 1925 to January 18, 1927:

Miriam Amanda Ferguson

January 18, 1927 to January 20, 1931:

Dan James Moody

January 20, 1931 to January 17, 1933:

Ross Shaw Sterling

January 17, 1933 to January 15, 1935:

Miriam Amanda Ferguson

January 15, 1935 to January 17, 1939:

James V. Allred

January 17, 1939 to August 4, 1941:

Wilbert Lee O'Daniel*

* Resigned from office

August 4, 1941 to January 21, 1947:

Coke Robert Stevenson

January 21, 1947 to July 9, 1949:

Beauford Halbert Jester*

* Died in office

July 11, 1949 to January 15, 1957:

Alan Shivers

January 15, 1957 to January 15, 1963:

Price Daniel

January 15, 1963 to January 21, 1969:

John Bowden Connally, Jr.

January 21, 1969 to January 16, 1973:

Preston Earnest Smith

January 16, 1973 to January 16, 1979:

Dolph Briscoe, Jr.

January 16, 1979 to January 18, 1983:

William Perry Clements Jr.

January 18, 1983 to January 20, 1987:

Mark Wells White, Jr.

January 20, 1987 to January 15, 1991:

William Perry Clements Jr.

January 20, 1991 to January 15, 1995:

Dorothy Ann Willis Richards

January 17, 1995 to December 21, 2000:

George Walker Bush

December 21, 2000 --

James Richard Perry

1850: 212,592

1860: 604,215

1870: 818,579

1880: 1,542,359

1890: 2,235,523

1900: 3,048,710

1910: 3,896,542

1920: 4,663,228

1930: 5,824,715

1940: 6,414,824

1950: 7,711,194

1960: 9,579,677

1970: 11,198,655

1980: 14,229,191

1990: 16,986,510

2000: 20,851,790