TENNESSEE.  Joseph McMinn (d. 1824), fifth Governor (1815-21), was most probably of Scottish descent.  Samuel Houston, seventh Governor (1827-28), is noticed under Texas.  Neil S. Brown, fourteenth Governor (1847-49), was grandson of Angus Brown, a Scot who fought in the Revolutionary War under Gen. Francis Marion.  William Bowen Campbell (1807-67), sixteenth Governor (1851-53), was also of Scottish descent.  Benton McMillin (b. 1845), Governor (1899-1903), Envoy-Extraordinary and Minister-Plenipotentiary to Peru in 1913, of Ulster Scot descent.

KENTUCKY.  John Adair (1797-1840), eighth Governor (1820-24), was of Scottish parentage.  “His term was marked by great legislative activity for the promotion of education in the state, and by the abolition of imprisonment for debt.”  The state library was founded under his auspices.  Adair county was so named in his honor.  John Breathitt (1786-1834), Lieutenant-Governor (1828-32), and eleventh Governor (1832-34), was the son of a Scottish emigrant.  “A man of high character and his public career irreproachable.”  Breathitt county was named after him.  James Fisher Robinson (1800-92), twenty-second Governor, was of English and Scottish descent.

OHIO.  Duncan McArthur (1772-1840), an early Governor (1830-32), was of Scottish ancestry.  He also held the rank of General in the war of 1812.  Jeremiah Morrow (1770-1852), Governor (1822-26), and Allen Trimble (1783-1870), Governor (1826-30), were both Ulster Scot descent.  James E. Campbell (b. 1843), Governor (1890-92), was previously Member of Congress.  James M. Cox (b. 1870), forty-sixth Governor (1913-15) is of Scottish ancestry.

INDIANA.  Noah Noble, fifth Governor (1831-37), was grandson of a Scottish immigrant.  David Wallace (1799-1859), sixth Governor (1837-40), and Samuel Bigger (1802-46), were also of Scottish ancestry.  Thomas Andrews Hendricks, Governor from 1873 to 1877, is already noticed under Vice-Presidents.

MICHIGAN.  Robert McClelland (1807-80), Governor (1851-53), afterwards Secretary of the Interior; and Austin Blair (1814-94), war Governor, who sent over 83,000 soldiers from his state during the Civil War, were both of Scottish ancestry.

WISCONSIN.  The mother of Henry Dodge, first and fourth Governor (1836-41, 1845-48), was Anne Nancy Hunter, of Ulster Scot parentage.  William E. Smith (1824-83), thirteenth Governor (1878-82), was born in Scotland.

ILLINOIS.  William Lee Davidson Ewing (1795-1846), Senator and acting Governor (1834), was of Ulster Scot descent.  Joseph Duncan (1794-1844), fifth Governor (1834-38), who greatly encouraged education in his state, was of Scottish ancestry.  John Lourie Beveridge (b. 1824) fifteenth Governor, was grandson of a Scot who came to the United States about 1770.  His “administration was vigorous, just, and impartial.”

MISSISSIPPI.  John J. McRae (1815-68), nineteenth Governor (1854-58), was of Scottish descent.  William McWillie (1795-1869), twentieth Governor (1858-60), and Anselm Joseph McLaurin (b. 1848), thirty-second Governor (1896-1900), were-both grandsons of Scots.