List of Indiana Governors Jonathan Jennings Dem.-Rep. 1816-1822 Ratliff Boon Dem.-Rep. 1822-1822 William Hendricks Dem.-Rep. 1822-1825 James B. Ray Independent 1825-1831 Noah Noble Whig 1831-1837 David Wallace Whig 1837-1840 Samuel Bigger Whig 1840-1843 James Whitcomb Democratic 1843-1848 Paris C. Dunning Democratic 1848-1849 Joseph A. Wright Democratic 1849-1857 Ashbel P. Willard Democratic 1857-1860 Abram A. Hammond Democratic 1860-1861 Henry Smith Lane Republican 1861 Oliver P. Morton Republican 1861-1867 Conrad Baker Republican 1867-1873 Thomas A. Hendricks Democratic 1873-1877 James D. Williams Democratic 1877-1880 Isaac P. Gray Democratic 1880-1881 Albert G. Porter Republican 1881-1885 Isaac P. Gray Democratic 1885-1889 Alvin P. Hovey Republican 1889-1891 Ira Joy Chase Republican 1891-1893 Claude Matthews Democratic 1893-1897 James A. Mount Republican 1897-1901 Winfield T. Durbin Republican 1901-1905 J. Frank Hanly Republican 1905-1909 Thomas R. Marshall Democratic 1909-1913 Samuel M. Ralston Democratic 1913-1917 James P. Goodrich Republican 1917-1921 Warren T. McCray Republican 1921-1924 Emmett Forest Branch Republican 1924-1925 Ed Jackson Republican 1925-1929 Harry G. Leslie Republican 1929-1933 Paul V. McNutt Democratic 1933-1937 M. Clifford Townsend Democratic 1937-1941 Henry F. Schricker Democratic 1941-1945 Ralph F. Gates Republican 1945-1949 Henry F. Schricker Democratic 1949-1953 George N. Craig Republican 1953-1957 Harold W. Handley Republican 1957-1961 Matthew E. Welsh Democratic 1961-1965 Roger D. Branigin Democratic 1965-1969 Edgar D. Whitcomb Republican 1969-1973 Otis Ray Bowen Republican 1973-1981 Robert D. Orr Republican 1981-1989 B. Evans "Evan" Bayh III Democratic 1989-1997 Frank L. O'Bannon Democratic 1997-2003 Joe Kernan Democratic 2003-2005 Mitch Daniels Republican 2005-Present
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Joe Kernan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (484 words)
Joseph Eugene Kernan (born April 8, 1946), widely known as Joe Kernan , is an American politician who became the Governor of Indiana on September 13, 2003 upon the death of Frank O'Bannon .
Born in 1946 in Chicago, Illinois, prior to becoming the governor , he had served as the Lieutenant Governor of Indiana .
As lieutenant governor of Indiana , Kernan served as the president of the Indiana Senate, the director of the Indiana Department of Commerce, and as the commissioner of Agriculture.
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