List of secretaries of state of Texas

Jane Y. McCallum served as Secretary of State of Texas from 1927 to 1933, the longest term of office.

The following is a list of secretaries of state of Texas for both the Republic of Texas and the State of Texas.

Secretaries of state of the Republic of Texas (1836–1846)

Name	Term	Appointed by
Samuel Price Carson	March 18, 1836 – April 29, 1836	David G. Burnet
James Collinsworth	April 29, 1836 – May 23, 1836
William Houston Jack	May 23, 1836 – October 22, 1836
Stephen F. Austin	October 22, 1836 – December 27, 1836	Sam Houston
James Pinckney Henderson	1837
Robert Anderson Irion	1837–1838
T. H. Bowman	1838
Barnard E. Bee Sr.	December 16, 1838 – February 6, 1839	Mirabeau B. Lamar
James Webb	February 6, 1839 – May 31, 1839
David G. Burnet (acting)	May 31, 1839 – July 23, 1839
Nathaniel Amory (acting)	July 23, 1839 – August 5, 1839
David G. Burnet (acting)	August 5, 1839 – January 31, 1840
Abner Smith Lipscomb	January 31, 1840 – January 22, 1841
Joseph Waples (acting)	January 23, 1841 – February 8, 1841
James S. Mayfield (acting)	February 8, 1841 – April 30, 1841
Joseph Waples	April 30, 1841 – May 25, 1841
Samuel A. Roberts (acting)	May 25, 1841 – December 13, 1841
Anson Jones	December 13, 1841 – December 10, 1844	Sam Houston
Ebenezer Allen	December 10, 1844 – February 5, 1845	Anson Jones
Ashbel Smith	February 5, 1845 – March 31, 1845
Ebenezer Allen	March 31, 1845 – February 19, 1846

Secretaries of state of the State of Texas (1846–present)

Image	Name	Term	Appointed by
	Charles Mariner	February 20, 1846 – May 4, 1846	James Pinckney Henderson
	David G. Burnet	May 4, 1846 – January 1, 1848
	Washington D. Miller	January 1, 1848 – January 2, 1850	George Tyler Wood
	James Webb	January 2, 1850 – November 14, 1851	Peter Hansborough Bell
	Thomas H. Duval	November 14, 1851 – December 22, 1853
	Edward Clark	December 22, 1853 – December 21, 1857	Elisha M. Pease
	Thomas Scott Anderson	December 22, 1857 – December 27, 1859	Hardin Richard Runnels
	Eber Worthington Cave	December 27, 1859 – March 16, 1861	Sam Houston
	Bird Holland	March 16, 1861 – November 7, 1861	Edward Clark
	Charles S. West	November 7, 1861 – September, 1862	Francis Lubbock
	Robert J. Townes	September, 1862 – May 2, 1865	Pendleton Murrah
	Charles R. Pryor	May 2, 1865 – August 9, 1865
	James H. Bell	August 9, 1865 – August, 1866	James W. Throckmorton
	John A. Green	August, 1866 – August 8, 1867
	D. W. C. Phillips	August 8, 1867 – January 1, 1870	Pendleton Murrah
	James Pearson Newcomb	January 1, 1870 – January 17, 1874	Edmund J. Davis
	George W. Clark	January 17, 1874 – January 27, 1874	Richard Coke
	Alfred Wesley DeBerry	January 27, 1874 – December 7, 1876
	A. J. Searcy	December 7, 1876 – January 23, 1879	Richard B. Hubbard
	John D. Templeton	January 23, 1879 – January 22, 1881	Oran Milo Roberts
	Thorton Hardie Bowman	January 22, 1881 – January 18, 1883
	Joseph Wilson Baines	January 18, 1883 – January 21, 1887	John Ireland
	John Marks Moore	January 21, 1887 – January 22, 1891	Sul Ross
	George W. Smith	January 22, 1891 – January 17, 1895	Jim Hogg
	Allison Mayfield	January 18, 1895 – January 5, 1897	Charles Allen Culberson
	J. W. Madden	January 5, 1897 – January 18, 1899
	D. H. Hardy	January 19, 1899 – January 19, 1901	Joseph D. Sayers
	John G. Tod	January 19, 1901 – January 20, 1903
	J. R. Curl	January 20, 1903 – April, 1905	S. W. T. Lanham
	O. K. Shannon	April, 1905 – January 19, 1907
	L. Travis Dashiell	January 19, 1907 – February, 1908	Thomas Mitchell Campbell
	William Richardson Davie	February, 1908 – January 19, 1909
	W. B. Townsend	January 19, 1909 – January 19, 1911
	C. C. McDonald	January 19, 1911 – December, 1912	Oscar Branch Colquitt
	John Tibaut Bowman	December, 1912 – January, 1913
	John L. Wortham	January, 1913 – June, 1913
	Ferdinand C. Weinert	June, 1913 – November, 1914
	D. A. Gregg	November, 1914 – January, 1915
	John G. McKay	January, 1915 – December, 1916	James E. Ferguson
	C. J. Bartlett	December, 1916 – November, 1917	William P. Hobby
	George F. Howard	November, 1917 – November, 1920
	Charles D. Mims	November, 1920 – January 19, 1921
	S. L. Staples	January 19, 1921 – August, 1924	Pat Morris Neff
	J. D. Strickland	September, 1924 – January 1, 1925
	Henry Hutchings	January 1, 1925 – January 20, 1925
	Emma Grigsby Meharg	January 20, 1925 – January 17, 1927	Miriam A. Ferguson
	Jane Y. McCallum	January 17, 1927 – January 17, 1933	Dan Moody
	W. W. Heath	January 17, 1933 – January 15, 1935	Miriam A. Ferguson
	Gerald Mann	January 15, 1935 – August 31, 1935	James V. Allred
	R. B. Stanford	August 31, 1935 – August, 1936
	Boles P. Matocha	August, 1936 – January 17, 1937
	Edward A. Clark	January 17, 1937 – January 17, 1939
	Tom Beauchamp	January 17, 1939 – October, 1939	W. Lee O'Daniel
	M. O. Flowers	October, 1939 – January, 1941
	William J. Lawson	January, 1941 – January, 1943	Coke R. Stevenson
	Sidney Latham	January, 1943 – February, 1945
	Claude M. Isbell	February, 1945 – January 21, 1947
	Paul H. Brown	January 21, 1947 – January 19, 1949	Beauford H. Jester
	Ben Ramsey	January 19, 1949 – February 9, 1950
	John Ben Shepperd	February 9, 1950 – April 30, 1952	Allan Shivers
	Andrew Jackson Ross	April 30, 1952 – January 9, 1953
	Howard A. Carney	January 9, 1953 – May 1, 1954
	C. E. Fulgham	May 1, 1954 – January 21, 1955
	Al Muldrow	January 21, 1955 – November 1, 1955
	Thomas Morrow Reavley	November 1, 1955 – January 16, 1957
	Zollie Steakley	January 16, 1957 – January 2, 1962	Price Daniel
	P. Frank Lake	January 2, 1962 – January 15, 1963
	Crawford Martin	January 15, 1963 – March 12, 1966	John Connally
	John Hill	March 12, 1966 – January 22, 1968
	Roy R. Barrera Sr.	March 7, 1968 – January 23, 1969
	Martin Dies Jr.	January 23, 1969 – September 1, 1971	Preston Smith
	Bob Bullock	September 1, 1971 – January 2, 1973
	V. Larry Teaver Jr.	January 2–19, 1973
	Mark White	January 19, 1973 – October 27, 1977	Dolph Briscoe
	Steven C. Oaks	October 27, 1977 – January 16, 1979
	George Strake Jr.	January 16, 1979 – October 6, 1981	Bill Clements
	David Dean	October 22, 1981 – January 18, 1983
	John Fainter	January 18, 1983 – July 31, 1984	Mark White
	Myra McDaniel	September 6, 1984 – January 26, 1987
	Jack Rains	January 26, 1987 – June 15, 1989	Bill Clements
	George Bayoud	June 15, 1989 – January 15, 1991
	John H. Hannah Jr.	April 15, 1991 – March, 1994	Ann Richards
	Ron Kirk	April 4, 1994 – January 17, 1995
	Tony Garza	January 17, 1995 – December 31, 1997	George W. Bush
	Alberto Gonzales	January 1, 1998 – January 3, 1999
	Elton Bomer	January 11, 1999 – December 31, 2000
	Henry Cuellar	January 2, 2001 – October 5, 2001	Rick Perry
	Geoff Connor acting	October 5, 2001 – January 7, 2002
	Gwyn Shea	January 7, 2002 – August 4, 2003
	Geoff Connor	September 26, 2003 – December, 2004
	Roger Williams	January, 2005 – July 1, 2007
	Phil Wilson	July 1, 2007 – July 6, 2008
	Esperanza Andrade	July 23, 2008 – November 23, 2012
	John Steen	November 27, 2012 – 2013
	Nandita Berry	January 7, 2014 – January 20, 2015
	Carlos Cascos	January 21, 2015 – January 6, 2017	Greg Abbott
	Rolando Pablos	January 6, 2017 – December 15, 2018
	David Whitley	December 17, 2018 – May 27, 2019
	Ruth R. Hughs	August 19, 2019 – May 31, 2021
	John B. Scott	October 21, 2021 – December 31, 2022
	Jane Nelson	January 5, 2023 – Present