Best Nicknames

James is the most common name of Texas Governors and Rick Perry is on that list because his given name is James. Other governors have been known by nicknames, like Pa Ferguson, or by middle names, like Price Daniels. Others, like Pat, Coke and Dolph, were just naturally born with their names. At birth, Coke Stevenson was named after Governor Richard Coke, although they are not related.

James – 7 Texas governors

• James Pinckney Henderson (1846-47)
• James Wilson Henderson (1853)
• James Webb Throckmorton (1866-67)
• James Stephen Hogg (1891-95)
• James Edward “Pa” Ferguson (1915-17 )
• James Burr V Allred (1935-39)
• James Richard “Rick” Perry (2000-14)

George: 2 Texas governors

• George Tyler Wood (1847-49)
• George Walker Bush (1995-2000)

William – 2 Texas governors

• William Pettus Hobby (1917-21)
• William P. Clements (1979-83 and 1987-91)

John: 2 Texas governors

• John Ireland (1883-87)
• John Connally (1963-69)

Samuel: 2 Texas governors

• Samuel “Sam” Houston (1859-61)
• Samuel Willis Tucker “SWT” Lanham (1903-07)

Richard: 2 Texas governors

• Richard Coke (1874-76)
• Richard Bennett Hubbard (1876-79)

Only one:

• Allan Shivers (1949-57)
• Andrew Jackson Hamilton (1865-66)
• Beauford Halbert Jester (1947-49)
• Charles Allen Culberson (1895-99)
• Coke Robert Stevenson (1941-47)
• Dan Moody (1927-31)
• Dolph Briscoe (1973-79)
• Edward Clark (1861)
• Edmund Jackson Davis (1870-74)
• Elisha Marshall Pease (1853-57 and 1867-69)
• Francis Richard Lubbock (1861-63)
• Gregory Wayne “Greg” Abbott (2014- )
• Hardin Richard Runnels (1857-59)
• Joseph Draper Sayers (1899-1903)
• Lawrence Sullivan Ross (1887-91)
• Mark White (1983-87)
• Marion Price Daniel (1957-63)
• Oran Milo Roberts (1879-83)
• Peter Hansbrough Bell (1849-53)
• Oscar Branch Colquitt (1911-15)
• Pat Morris Neff (1921-25)
• Pendleton Murrah (1863-65)
• Preston Smith (1969-73)
• Ross Shaw Sterling (1931-33)
• Thomas Mitchell Campbell (1907-11)
• Wilbert Lee “Pappy” O’Daniel (1939-41)

Lady Governors of Texas:

• Ann W. Richards born Dorothy Ann Willis (1991-95)
• Miriam Amanda Wallace “Ma” Ferguson (1925-27 and 1933-35)