Edward Clark was the first ad interim governor of Confederate Texas.
Sam Houston -- First Governor of Tennessee, then President of Texas, then Governor of Texas
James Pickney Hinderson was the first elected governor of Texas
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Sam Houston
Edward Clark
The first elected confederate governor of tecas
James Pinckney Henderson was the first state governor of Texas in 1846.There were five presidents of the independent Texas Republic (1836-1846), including Sam Houston, the first elected after independence from Mexico.*(The first governor of Texas in New Spain was Domingo Terán de los Ríos in 1691. When Mexico achieved independence, the first governor of Mexican Texas was José Félix Trespalacios in 1821.)James Pinckney Henderson
Francis R. Lubbock
Texas secretary of state.
James Pinckney Henderson was the first governor of Texas after it became a state in 1846. He was elected in November, 1845 and served from February 19, 1846 to December 21, 1847.
He founded the first Spanish settlement in New Mexico.