List of Secretaries of State of Texas

The following is a list of Texas Secretaries of State for both the Republic of Texas and the State of Texas.

Secretaries of State of the Republic of Texas (1836–1846)

Name	Term	Appointed by
Samuel Price Carson	March 18, 1836 – April 29, 1836	David G. Burnet
James Collinsworth	April 29, 1836 – May 23, 1836
William Houston Jack	May 23, 1836 – October 22, 1836
Stephen F. Austin	October 22, 1836 – December 27, 1836	Sam Houston
J. Pinckney Henderson	1837
Robert A. Irion	1837–1838
T. H. Bowman	1838
Barnard Bee	December 16, 1838 – February 6, 1839	Mirabeau B. Lamar
James Webb	February 6, 1839 – May 31, 1839
David G. Burnet (acting)	May 31, 1839 – July 23, 1839
Nathaniel Amory (acting)	July 23, 1839 – August 5, 1839
David G. Burnet (acting)	August 5, 1839 – January 31, 1840
Abner Lipscomb	January 31, 1840 – January 22, 1841
Joseph Waples (acting)	January 23, 1841 – February 8, 1841
James S. Mayfield (acting)	February 8, 1841 – April 30, 1841
Joseph Waples	April 30, 1841 – May 25, 1841
Samuel A. Roberts (acting)	May 25, 1841 – December 13, 1841
Anson Jones	December 13, 1841 – December 10, 1844	Sam Houston
Ebenezer Allen	December 10, 1844 – February 5, 1845	Anson Jones
Ashbel Smith	February 5, 1845 – March 31, 1845
Ebenezer Allen	March 31, 1845 – February 19, 1846

Secretaries of State of the State of Texas (1846–present)

Jane Y. McCallum was the longest-serving secretary of state of Texas, holding the office 1927-1933.

Name	Term	Appointed by
Charles Mariner	February 20, 1846 – May 4, 1846	J. Pinckney Henderson
David G. Burnet	May 4, 1846 – January 1, 1848
Washington D. Miller	January 1, 1848 – January 2, 1850	George T. Wood
James Webb	January 2, 1850 – November 14, 1851	Peter Hansbrough Bell
Thomas H. Duval	November 14, 1851 – December 22, 1853
Edward Clark	December 22, 1853 – December 21, 1857	Elisha M. Pease
T. Scott Anderson	December 22, 1857 – December 27, 1859	Hardin R. Runnels
E. W. Cave	December 27, 1859 – March 16, 1861	Sam Houston
Bird Holland	March 16, 1861 – November 7, 1861	Edward Clark
Charles S. West	November 7, 1861 – September, 1862	Frank Lubbock
Robert W. Townes	September, 1862 – May 2, 1865	Pendleton Murrah
Charles R. Pryor	May 2, 1865 – August 9, 1865
James H. Bell	August 9, 1865 – August, 1866	James W. Throckmorton
John A. Green	August, 1866 – August 8, 1867
D.W.C. Phillips	August 8, 1867 – January 1, 1870	Pendleton Murrah
J. P. Newcomb	January 1, 1870 – January 17, 1874	Edmund J. Davis
George Clark	January 17, 1874 – January 27, 1874	Richard Coke
A. W. DeBerry	January 27, 1874 – December 7, 1876
A. J. Searcy	December 7, 1876 – January 23, 1879	Richard B. Hubbard
J. D. Templeton	January 23, 1879 – January 22, 1881	Oran M. Roberts
T. H. Bowman	January 22, 1881 – January 18, 1883
Joseph Wilson Baines	January 18, 1883 – January 21, 1887	John Ireland
John M. Moore	January 21, 1887 – January 22, 1891	Sul Ross
George W. Smith	January 22, 1891 – January 17, 1895	Jim Hogg
Allison Mayfield	January 18, 1895 – January 5, 1897	Charles A. Culberson
J. W. Madden	January 5, 1897 – January 18, 1899
D. H. Hardy	January 19, 1899 – January 19, 1901	Joseph D. Sayers
John G. Tod	January 19, 1901 – January 20, 1903
J. R. Curl	January 20, 1903 – April, 1905	S. W. T. Lanham
O. K. Shannon	April, 1905 – January 19, 1907
L. T. Dashiel	January 19, 1907 – February, 1908	Thomas Mitchell Campbell
W. R. Davie	February, 1908 – January 19, 1909
W. B. Townsend	January 19, 1909 – January 19, 1911
C. C. McDonald	January 19, 1911 – December, 1912	Oscar Branch Colquitt
J. T. Bowman	December, 1912 – January, 1913
John L. Wortham	January, 1913 – June, 1913
F. C. Weinert	June, 1913 – November, 1914
D. A. Gregg	November, 1914 – January, 1915
John G. McKay	January, 1915 – December, 1916	Jim "Pa" Ferguson
C.J. Bartlett	December, 1916 – November, 1917	William P. Hobby
George F. Howard	November, 1917 – November, 1920
C.D. Mims	November, 1920 – January 19, 1921
S. L. Staples	January 19, 1921 – August, 1924	Pat Neff
J. D. Strickland	September, 1924 – January 1, 1925
Henry Hutchings	January 1, 1925 – January 20, 1925
Emma G. Meharg	January 20, 1925 – January 17, 1927	Miriam "Ma" Ferguson
Jane Y. McCallum	January 17, 1927 – January 17, 1933	Dan Moody
W.W. Heath	January 17, 1933 – January 15, 1935	Miriam "Ma" Ferguson
Gerald C. Mann	January 15, 1935 – August 31, 1935	James V. Allred
R.B. Stanford	August 31, 1935 – August, 1936
B.P. Matocha	August, 1936 – January 17, 1937
Edward Aubrey Clark	January 17, 1937 – January 17, 1939
Tom L. Beauchamp	January 17, 1939 – October, 1939	W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel
M.O. Flowers	October, 1939 – January, 1941
William J. Lawson	January, 1941 – January, 1943	Coke R. Stevenson
Sidney Latham	January, 1943 – February, 1945
Claude Isbell	February, 1945 – January 21, 1947
Paul H. Brown	January 21, 1947 – January 19, 1949	Beauford H. Jester
Ben Ramsey	January 19, 1949 – February 9, 1950
John Ben Shepperd	February 9, 1950 – April 30, 1952	Allan Shivers
Jack Ross	April 30, 1952 – January 9, 1953
Howard A. Carney	January 9, 1953 – May 1, 1954
C.E. Fulgham	May 1, 1954 – January 21, 1955
Al Muldrow	January 21, 1955 – November 1, 1955
Tom Reavley	November 1, 1955 – January 16, 1957
Zollie Steakley	January 16, 1957 – January 2, 1962	Price Daniel
P. Frank Lake	January 2, 1962 – January 15, 1963
Crawford C. Martin	January 15, 1963 – March 12, 1966	John Connally
John L. Hill, Jr.	March 12, 1966 – January 22, 1968
Roy Barrerra, Sr.	March 7, 1968 – January 23, 1969
Martin Dies, III	January 23, 1969 – September 1, 1971	Preston Smith
Bob Bullock	September 1, 1971 – January 2, 1973
V. Larry Teaver, Jr.	January 2 – January 19, 1973
Mark White	January 19, 1973 – October 27, 1977	Dolph Briscoe
Steven C. Oaks	October 27, 1977 – January 16, 1979
George Strake, Jr.	January 16, 1979 – October 6, 1981	Bill Clements
David Dean	October 22, 1981 – January 18, 1983
John Fainter	January 18, 1983 – July 31, 1984	Mark White
Myra McDaniel	September 6, 1984 – January 26, 1987
Jack Rains	January 26, 1987 – June 15, 1989	Bill Clements
George Bayoud	June 15, 1989 – January 15, 1991
John Hannah, Jr.	April 15, 1991 – March, 1994	Ann Richards
Ron Kirk	April 4, 1994 – January 17, 1995
Antonio Garza, Jr.	January 17, 1995 – December 31, 1997	George W. Bush
Alberto Gonzales	January 1, 1998 – January 3, 1999
Elton Bomer	January 11, 1999 – December 31, 2000
Henry Cuellar	January 2, 2001 – January 7, 2002	Rick Perry
Geoff Connor acting	October 5, 2001 – January 7, 2002
Gwyn Shea	January 7, 2002 – August 4, 2003
Geoff Connor	September 26, 2003 – December, 2004
Roger Williams	January, 2005 – July 1, 2007
Phil Wilson	July 1, 2007 – July 6, 2008
Hope Andrade	July 23, 2008 – November 23, 2012
John T. Steen Jr.	November 27, 2012 – 2013
Nandita Berry	January 7, 2014 – January 20, 2015
Carlos Cascos	January 21, 2015 – January 6, 2017	Greg Abbott
Rolando Pablos	January 6, 2017 – December 15, 2018
David Whitley	December 17, 2018 – May 27, 2019
Ruth Ruggero Hughs	August 19, 2019 – present