LOUISIANA.  John McEnery (1833-91), nineteenth (unrecognized) Governor (1873), was of Scottish descent.  Samuel Douglas McEnery (b. 1837), brother of the preceding, was twenty-second Governor (1881-88).  John Newton Pharr (1829-1903), elected Governor in 1896 but not seated on account of the negro question, was descended from Walter Pharr who came from Scotland in 1765.

MISSOURI.  Alexander McNair (1774-1826), first state Governor (1820-24), most probably was of Scottish birth or descent.  Trusten Polk (1811-76), of same origin as President Polk, was eleventh Governor (1857).  Benjamin Gratz Brown (1826-85), also of Scottish descent, was Governor from 1871 to 1873, and unsuccessful candidate for Vice-President in 1872.

IOWA.  John Chambers (1780-1852), second Governor of the territory of Iowa was of Scottish descent on both sides.  James Wilson Grimes (1816-72), third Governor (1854-58), was of Ulster Scot descent.  Samuel Jordan Kirkwood (1813-94), three times Governor of his state (1860-64, 1876-77), was descended from a brother of Captain Robert Kirkwood, a Delaware soldier of the Revolution.  He was also Secretary of the Interior under Garfield.  John Henry Gear (1825-1900), eleventh Governor (1878-82), Assitsant Secretary of United States Treasury (1892-93), and Senator (1895-1900), was of Scottish ancestry.  Albert Baird Cummins, eighteenth Governor, of Ulster Scot ancestry.

MINNESOTA.  Alexander Ramsey, first territorial and second state Governor (1849-53, 1860-64), was grandson of an Ulster Scot who served in the Revolutionary War.

NEBRASKA.  James E. Boyd (b. 1834), eighth Governor (1891-92), was born in county Tyrone of Ulster Scot ancestry.

KANSAS.  John Alexander Martin (1839-89), ninth Governor (1885-89), was of Ulster Scot descent.

TEXAS.  Samuel Houston (1793-1863) was a descendant of John Houston who settled in Philadelphia in 1689.  He was Member of Congress from Tennessee (1823-27), Governor of Tennessee (1827-28), and as Commander-in-Chief of the Texans he defeated the Mexicans under Santa Anna in 1836 on the banks of the San Jacinto, and by this one blow achieved the independence of Texas.  He was elected first President of the new republic in the same year, was re-elected in 1841, and in 1859 was elected Governor of the state.  Houston, the capital of Harris County, Texas, was named in his honor.  Peter Hansborough Bell (1812-98), third Governor (1849-53), was of Ulster Scot ancestry, as was also James Edward Ferguson (b. 1871).  James Stephen Hogg, nineteenth Governor and Thomas Mitchell Campbell, twenty-third Governor, were of Scottish descent.

COLORADO.  Edward Moody McCook, fifth and seventh Governor (1869-73, 1874-75), was of Scottish descent.  He also served in the Civil War and attained the rank of Brigadier-General.  James Benton Grant, tenth Governor (1883-85), was grandson of a Scottish immigrant.  Jesse Fuller McDonald, twenty-third Governor (1905-07), a descendant of James McDonald who emigrated from Scotland early in the eighteenth century and settled in Maine.