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Henry G. Blasdel
Henry Goode Blasdel (January 29, 1825 – July 22, 1900) was the first Governor of Nevada, serving during the American Civil War and the first years of the Reconstruction era. He was a Republican.
Blasdel was born near Lawrenceburg, Indiana. He worked...
Date of birth:
- Jan 29, 1825
Date of death:
- Jul 22, 1900 (age 75 years)
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Lewis R. Bradley
Lewis Rice "Broadhorns" Bradley (February 15, 1805 – March 21, 1879) was Governor of Nevada in the United States between 1871 and 1879. Born in Virginia, he moved to Nevada in 1862 where he worked in the cattle business in Elko County before...
Date of birth:
- Feb 15, 1805
Date of death:
- Mar 21, 1879 (age 74 years)
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John Henry Kinkead
John Henry Kinkead (December 10, 1826–August 15, 1904) was an American Republican politician who was the Governor of Nevada from 1879 to 1883, and the first Governor of the District of Alaska from 1884 to 1885. He was also the treasurer of Nevada...
Date of birth:
- Dec 10, 1826
Date of death:
- Aug 15, 1904 (age 77 years)
Jewett W. Adams
Jewett William Adams (August 6, 1835 – June 18, 1920) was a Governor of Nevada. He was a Democrat.
Adams was born in South Hero, Vermont. He came west with the California Gold Rush. Adams worked in mines and later owned a general store, before...
Date of birth:
- Aug 6, 1835
Date of death:
- Jun 18, 1920 (age 84 years)
Charles C. Stevenson
Charles Clark Stevenson (February 20, 1826–September 21, 1890) was a Governor of Nevada. He was a Republican.
Stevenson was born in Phelps, New York, USA in 1826. In 1859 he came to Nevada, where he worked in mining, milling, and agriculture. He was...
Date of birth:
- Feb 20, 1826
Date of death:
- Sep 21, 1890 (age 64 years)
Frank Bell
Francis Jardine "Frank" Bell (January 28, 1840 – February 13, 1927) was a governor of Nevada. He was a Republican.
Bell was born in Toronto, Canada, making him Nevada's first foreign born Governor. He came to Nevada in 1858, to supervise the...
Date of birth:
- Jan 28, 1840
Date of death:
- Feb 13, 1927 (age 87 years)
Roswell K. Colcord
Roswell Keyes Colcord (April 25, 1839 – October 30, 1939) served as Governor of the U.S. state of Nevada from 1891 to 1895. Born in Searsport, Maine, Colcord immigrated to Nevada in the 1870s and became a successful mining engineer. He also set up a...
Date of birth:
- Apr 25, 1839
Date of death:
- Oct 30, 1939 (age 100 years)
John E. Jones
John Edward Jones (December 5, 1840-April 10, 1896) was a Governor of Nevada.
Jones was born in Montgomeryshire, Wales, however his family moved to Iowa in 1856. Jones came west while working on the Union Pacific Railroad, settling in Eureka, Nevada...
Date of birth:
- Dec 5, 1840
Date of death:
- Apr 10, 1896 (age 55 years)
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Reinhold Sadler
Reinhold Sadler (January 10, 1848 – January 30, 1906) was a governor of Nevada.
Sadler was born Czarnikau, Posen Province, Prussia. He later immigrated to America first moving to Virginia City, and later Eureka.
After two unsuccessful campaigns for...
Date of birth:
- Jan 10, 1848
Date of death:
- Jan 30, 1906 (age 58 years)
John Sparks
John T Sparks (August 30, 1843-May 22, 1908) was a two-term Governor of Nevada, and was nicknamed Honest John. Like his predecessor, Reinhold Sadler, Sparks was a cattleman and his rise to political power was evidence of the decline of the mining...
Date of birth:
- Aug 30, 1843
Date of death:
- May 22, 1908 (age 64 years)
Denver S. Dickerson
Denver Sylvester Dickerson (January 24, 1872 – November 28, 1925) was born in Millville, California.
He came to Nevada after serving in the Spanish American War. Dickerson served as a clerk and recorder for White Pine County, and later owned and...
Date of birth:
- Jan 24, 1872
Date of death:
- Nov 28, 1925 (age 53 years)
Tasker Oddie
Tasker Lowndes Oddie (October 20, 1870–February 17, 1950) was a Governor of Nevada and a United States Senator.
He was born in Brooklyn, New York, attended New York University Law School and came west to look after business interests of the wealthy...
Date of birth:
- Oct 20, 1870
Date of death:
- Feb 17, 1950 (age 79 years)
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Emmet D. Boyle
Emmet Derby Boyle (July 26, 1879 – January 3, 1926) was a Governor of Nevada. He was a Democrat.
Boyle was born in Virginia City, Nevada in 1879, making him the first governor of Nevada to be born in the state. He was a mining engineer, and was the...
Date of birth:
- Jul 26, 1879
Date of death:
- Jan 3, 1926 (age 46 years)
James G. Scrugham
James Graves Scrugham (January 19, 1880 – June 23, 1945) was a Representative, a Senator, and a Governor from the U.S. state of Nevada.
Scrugham was born in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1880. He graduated from the University of Kentucky at Lexington in...
Date of birth:
- Jan 19, 1880
Date of death:
- Jun 23, 1945 (age 65 years)
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Fred B. Balzar
Frederick Bennett Balzar (June 15, 1880 – March 21, 1934) was a Governor of Nevada. He was a Republican.
Balzar was born in Virginia City, Nevada. He was a member of Nevada state house of representatives in 1905. Then he became a member of Nevada...
Date of birth:
- Jun 15, 1880
Date of death:
- Mar 21, 1934 (age 53 years)
Morley Griswold
Morley Isaac Griswold (October 10, 1890 - October 3, 1951) was a Governor of Nevada. He was a Republican.
Griswold was born in Elko, Nevada in 1890. He served in the U.S. Army during World War I. He was the Lieutenant Governor of Nevada in 1926. He...
Date of birth:
- Oct 10, 1890
Date of death:
- Oct 3, 1951 (age 61 years)
Richard Kirman, Sr.
Richard Kirman, Sr. (January 14, 1877 – January 19, 1959) was the Governor of Nevada between 1935 and 1939. He was a Democrat.
Date of birth:
- Jan 14, 1877
Date of death:
- Jan 19, 1959 (age 82 years)
Edward P. Carville
Edward Peter Carville (May 14, 1885 - June 27, 1956) was a Governor and a Senator from Nevada. He was a Democrat.
Carville was born at Mound Valley in Elko County, Nevada in 1885. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana...
Date of birth:
- May 14, 1885
Date of death:
- Jun 27, 1956 (age 71 years)
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Vail M. Pittman
Vail Montgomery Pittman (September 17, 1880 - January 29, 1964) was a Democratic Governor of Nevada.
Pittman was elected Lieutenant Governor of Nevada in 1942. He was a candidate in the Democratic primary for United States Senate in 1944, but was...
Date of birth:
- Sep 17, 1880
Date of death:
- Jan 29, 1964 (age 83 years)
Party:
Charles H. Russell
Charles Hinton Russell (December 27, 1903 – September 13, 1989) was a Governor of Nevada. He was a Republican.
Russell was born in Lovelock, Nevada in 1903. He graduated from the University of Nevada in 1926. Later, He taught school.
Russell was a...
Date of birth:
- Dec 27, 1903
Date of death:
- Sep 13, 1989 (age 85 years)
Party:
Grant Sawyer
Frank Grant Sawyer (December 14, 1918 - February 19, 1996) was Governor of Nevada from 1959 to 1967. He was a Democrat.
Sawyer was born on December 14, 1918, in Twin Falls, Idaho. He was the son of two osteopaths, Doctors Harry W. and Buela Cameron...
Date of birth:
- Dec 14, 1918
Date of death:
- Feb 19, 1996 (age 77 years)
Party:
Paul Laxalt
Paul Dominique Laxalt (born August 2, 1922) was a Republican Governor and U.S. Senator from Nevada.
Paul Laxalt was born in Reno, Nevada, the son of a Basque shepherd, Dominique, and a Basque mother who had a restaurant in Carson City, the capital...
Date of birth:
- Aug 2, 1922 (age 87 years)
Party:
Mike O'Callaghan
Donal Neil "Mike" O'Callaghan (September 10, 1929 – March 5, 2004) was the governor of the U.S. state of Nevada from 1971 until 1979. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
Born in 1929 in La Crosse, Wisconsin, O'Callaghan lied about his age to...
Date of birth:
- Sep 10, 1929
Date of death:
- Mar 5, 2004 (age 74 years)
Party:
Robert List
Robert Frank List (born September 1, 1936 in Visalia, California) served as the Republican Governor of Nevada between 1979 and 1983. He was raised in Exeter, California. He served as the Carson City District Attorney and the Nevada Attorney General...
Date of birth:
- Sep 1, 1936 (age 73 years)
Party:
Richard Bryan
For the English rugby union player see Richard Bryan (rugby union)
Richard Hudson Bryan (born July 16, 1937) was Governor of the U.S. state of Nevada and a United States Senator from Nevada. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Bryan was born in...
Date of birth:
- Jul 16, 1937 (age 72 years)
Party:
Bob Miller
Robert Joseph "Bob" Miller (b. March 30, 1945, Chicago, Illinois) was a governor of the U.S. state of Nevada. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Bob Miller's family moved from Chicago to Las Vegas, and he graduated from Bishop Gorman High...
Date of birth:
- Mar 30, 1945 (age 64 years)
Party:
Kenny Guinn
Kenneth Carroll "Kenny" Guinn (born August 24, 1936) is an American educator and businessman who was a two-term Governor of Nevada from 1999 to 2007. Guinn is a member of the Republican party.
Guinn was born in Garland, Arkansas and grew up in...
Date of birth:
- Aug 24, 1936 (age 73 years)
Party:
Jim Gibbons
James Arthur "Jim" Gibbons (born December 16, 1944) is the 28th and current governor of the U.S. state of Nevada. A Republican, he is a former member of the United States House of Representatives, having served from 1997 to 2006.
Born in Sparks,...
Date of birth:
- Dec 16, 1944 (age 65 years)
