Louisiana: Governors: 1812-1865
| Governor of the State of Louisiana [1][2] | |
| 28 Jul 1812 - 15 Dec 1816 | William Charles Cole Claiborne [3] |
| 16 Dec 1816 - 17 Dec 1820 | Jacques Phillippe Villeré [4] |
| 18 Dec 1820 - 15 Nov 1824 | Thomas Bolling Robertson |
| Acting Governor of the State of Louisiana [5] | |
| 15 Nov 1824 - 12 Dec 1824 | Henry Schuyler Thibodaux |
| Governor of the State of Louisiana [1][2] | |
| 13 Dec 1824 - 14 Dec 1828 | Henry Johnson |
| 15 Dec 1828 - 6 Oct 1829 | Pierre Derbigny [6] |
| Acting Governor of the State of Louisiana [7] | |
| 6 Oct 1829 - 14 Jan 1830 | Armand Julie Beauvais |
| 14 Jan 1830 - 30 Jan 1831 | Jacques Dupré |
| Governor of the State of Louisiana [1][2] | |
| 31 Jan 1831 - 1 Feb 1835 | André Bienvenue Roman |
| 2 Feb 1835 - 3 Feb 1839 | Edward Douglass White |
| 4 Feb 1839 - 29 Jan 1843 | André Bienvenue Roman |
| 30 Jan 1843 - 12 Feb 1846 | Alexandre Mouton |
| 12 Feb 1846 - 27 Jan 1850 | Isaac Johnson |
| 28 Jan 1850 - 21 Jan 1853 | Joseph Marshall Walker |
| 21 Jan 1853 - 27 Jan 1856 | Paul Octave Hébert |
| 28 Jan 1856 - 22 Jan 1860 | Robert Charles Wickliffe |
| 23 Jan 1860 - 24 Jan 1864 | Thomas Overton Moore [8] |
| 25 Jan 1864 - 2 Jun 1865 | Henry Watkins Allen [9] |
- Also in official use (French): Gouverneur de l'État de la Louisiane.
- Also in official use: Governor of the State of Louisiana and Commander-in-Chief of the Militia thereof (French: Gouverneur de l'État de la Louisiane et Commandant en chef de la milice).
- The first governor of the State of Louisiana enter upon the duties of office immediately after his election by the General Assembly on 28 Jul 1812, as required by Section 7 of the Schedule to the Constitution of 1812. Claiborne took the oath of office on 30 Jul 1812.
- The term of Villeré commenced on 16 Dec 1816, the fourth Monday following the day of his election. He took the oath of office on 17 Nov 1816.
- Also in official use (French): Gouverneur de l'État de la Louisiane pro tempore.
- Baptized (30 Jun 1769): Pierre-Augustin Bourguignon-D'Herbigny
- Also in official use (French): Remplissant les fonctions de Gouverneur de l'État de la Louisiane.
- The capital of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, was occupied by the naval forces of the United States on 9 May 1862 (liberated on 21 Aug 1862 and occupied again on 17 Dec 1862). The state government and legislature moved to Opelusas and subsequently to Shreveport in the northwestern Louisiana.
- The government of Louisiana effectively ceased to function following the surrender of the Trans-Mississippi Department, a geographical subdivision of the Confederate States Army, signed at Galveston, Texas, on 2 Jun 1865. Allen had sanctioned the surrender on 17 May 1865 and formally recognized the end of his administration in an address signed in Shreveport on the same day.