STATEHOOD / ANTEBELLUM PERIOD (1812 - 1861)

1812-1816 William C. C. Claiborne - Democrat-Republican

1816-1820 Jaques Phillippe Villere - Democrat-Republican

1820-1824 Thomas Bolling Robertson - National Republican (He resigned to become a U.S. Judge.)

1824- Henry S. Thibodaux - National Republican (As President of the Senate, he served the remaining one month of Robertson's term.)

1824-1828 Henry S. Johnson - National Republican

1828-1829 Pierre Auguste Bourguigon Derbigny - Whig; National Republican (Governor Derbigny died in office.)

1829-1830 Armand Julie Beauvais - Whig (Beauvais succeeded Derbigny as an Acting Governor after Derbigny died in office. He resigned in January 1830 to run for an elected term as Governor, and lost.)

1830-1831 Jaques Dupre - Whig; (Anti-Jacksonian) (Dupre was elected President of the Senate, an office left vacant after Beauvais assumed the duties of Governor when Derbigny died in office. Upon his election as Senate President, Dupre then became Acting Governor because Beauvais had resigned.)

1831-1835 Andre Bienvenu Roman - Whig (Roman became Governor by appointment after Dupre resigned before completing the term left open by Derbigny's death in office, and Beauvais's resignation.)

1835-1839 Edward Douglass White - Whig

1839-1843 Andre Bienvenu Roman - Whig

1843-1846 Alexander Mouton - Democrat (His term was shortened by the Constitution of 1845.)

1846-1850 Isaac Johnson - Democrat

1850-1853 Joseph M. Walker - Democrat (His term was shortened by the Constitution of 1852.)

1853-1856 Paul O. Hebert - Democrat (He won an off-year election as provided for by the Constitution of 1852.)

1856-1860 Robert C. Wickliffe - Democrat

1860-1861 Thomas Overton Moore - Democrat

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