1854-1854 Francis Burt
1854-1855 Thomas B. Cumning (Acting)
1855-1857 Mark W. Izard
1857-1858 Thomas B. Cumning (Acting)
1858-1858 William A. Richardson
1858-1859 J. Sterling Morton (Acting)
1859-1861 Samuel W. Black
1861-1861 J. Sterling Morton (Acting)
1861-1861 Algernon S. Paddock (Acting)
1861-1867 Alvin Saunders
State Governors
1867-1871 David Butler
1871-1873 William H. James (Acting)
1873-1875 Robert W. Furnas
1875-1879 Silas Garber
1879-1883 Albinus Nance
1883-1887 James W. Dawes
1887-1891 John M. Thayer
1891-1891 James E. Boyd
1891-1892 John M. Thayer
1892-1893 James E. Boyd
1893-1895 Lorenzo Crounse
1895-1899 Silas Holcomb
1899-1901 William A. Poynter
1901-1901 Charles H. Dietrich
1901-1903 Ezra P. Savage (Acting)
1903-1907 John H. Mickey
1907-1909 George L. Sheldon
1909-1911 Ashton C. Shallenberger
1911-1913 Chester H. Aldrich
1913-1917 John H. Morehead
1917-1919 Keith Neville
1919-1923 Samuel R. McKelvie
1923-1925 Charles W. Bryan
1925-1929 Adam McMullen
1929-1931 Arthur J. Weaver
1931-1935 Charles W. Bryan
1935-1941 Robert Leroy Cochran
1941-1947 Dwight Griswold
1947-1953 Val Peterson
1953-1955 Robert B. Crosby
1955-1959 Victor Anderson
1959-1960 Ralph G. Brooks
1960-1961 Dwight W. Burney (Acting)
1961-1967 Frank B. Morrison
1967-1971 Norbert Tiemann
1971-1979 J. James Exon
1979-1983 Charles Thone
1983-1987 J. Robert Kerrey
1987-1991 Kay A. Orr
1991-1999 Earl Benjamin Nelson
1999-2005 Mike Johanns
2005 now Dave Heineman
Reference
Nebraska Library Commission, Who were the former Governors of Nebraska?