#   Name Took office Left office Party Governor Notes
1   Christopher Harrison November 7, 1816 December 17, 1818 Democratic-Republican Jonathan Jennings [N 1][N 2][N 3]
2   Ratliff Boon December 8, 1819 September 12, 1822 Democratic-Republican Jonathan Jennings [N 2][N 4]
3   Ratliff Boon September 12, 1822 January 30, 1824 Democratic-Republican William Hendricks [N 2][N 4]
4   John H. Thompson January 30, 1824 December 3, 1828 Democratic-Republican William Hendricks [N 5]
5 Milton Stapp December 3, 1828 December 7, 1831 Independent James B. Ray
6   David Wallace December 7, 1831 December 6, 1837 Whig Noah Noble
7   David Hillis December 6, 1837 December 9, 1840 Whig David Wallace
8   Samuel Hall December 9, 1840 December 6, 1843 Whig Samuel Bigger
9   Jesse D. Bright December 6, 1843 December 6, 1845 Democrat James Whitcomb [N 2][N 6][N 7]
10   Paris C. Dunning December 9, 1846 December 26, 1848 Democrat James Whitcomb [N 4][N 8]
11   James Henry Lane December 5, 1849 January 10, 1853 Democrat Joseph A. Wright
12   Ashbel P. Willard January 10, 1853 January 12, 1857 Democrat Joseph A. Wright
13   Abram A. Hammond January 12, 1857 October 3, 1860 Democrat Ashbel P. Willard [N 4][N 9]
14   Oliver P. Morton January 14, 1861 January 16, 1861 Republican Henry Smith Lane [N 4]
  John R. Cravens January 16, 1861 October 9, 1863 Republican Oliver P. Morton acting[N 10]
  Paris C. Dunning October 9, 1863 January 16, 1865 Democrat Oliver P. Morton acting[N 11]
15   Conrad Baker January 9, 1865 January 23, 1867 Republican Oliver P. Morton [N 4][N 1]
16   William Cumback January 11, 1869 January 13, 1873 Republican Conrad Baker [N 2][N 12][N 13]
17   Leonidas Sexton January 13, 1873 January 13, 1877 Republican Thomas A. Hendricks
18   Isaac P. Gray January 13, 1877 November 2, 1880 Democrat James D. Williams [N 4]
  Fredrick Vieche November 20, 1880 January 8, 1881 Democrat Isaac P. Gray acting[N 14]
19   Thomas Hanna January 10, 1881 November 12, 1885 Republican Albert G. Porter
20   Mahlon Dickerson Manson January 12, 1885 August 3, 1886 Democrat Isaac P. Gray [N 2]
21   Robert S. Robertson January 10, 1887 January 13, 1889 Republican Isaac P. Gray
  Alonzo G. Smith November 8, 1886 January 14, 1889 Democrat Isaac P. Gray acting[N 15]
22   Ira Joy Chase January 14, 1889 November 24, 1891 Republican Alvin Peterson Hovey acting[N 4][N 16]
  Francis M. Griffith November 23, 1891 January 9, 1893 Republican Ira Joy Chase acting[N 17]
23   Mortimer Nye January 9, 1893 January 11, 1897 Democrat Claude Matthews
24   William S. Haggard January 11, 1897 January 14, 1901 Republican James A. Mount
25   Newton W. Gilbert January 14, 1901 January 9, 1905 Republican Winfield T. Durbin
26   Hugh Thomas Miller January 9, 1905 January 11, 1909 Republican Frank Hanly
27   Frank J. Hall January 11, 1909 January 13, 1913 Democrat Thomas R. Marshall
28   William P. O'Neill January 13, 1913 January 8, 1917 Democrat Samuel M. Ralston
29   Edgar D. Bush January 8, 1917 January 10, 1921 Republican James P. Goodrich
30   Emmett Forrest Branch January 10, 1921 April 30, 1924 Republican Warren T. McCray [N 4]
  James J. Nejdl April 30, 1924 January 12, 1925 Republican Warren T. McCray acting[N 18]
31   F. Harold Van Orman January 12, 1925 January 14, 1929 Republican Edward L. Jackson
32   Edgar D. Bush January 14, 1929 January 9, 1933 Republican Harry G. Leslie
33   M. Clifford Townsend January 9, 1933 January 11, 1937 Democrat Paul V. McNutt
34   Henry F. Schricker January 11, 1937 January 13, 1941 Democrat M. Clifford Townsend
35   Charles M. Dawson January 13, 1941 January 8, 1945 Democrat Henry F. Schricker
36   Richard T. James January 8, 1945 January 10, 1948 Republican Ralph F. Gates
37   Rue J. Alexander April 14, 1948 January 2, 1949 Republican Henry F. Schricker [N 2]
38   John A. Watkins January 10, 1949 January 12, 1953 Democrat Henry F. Schricker
39   Harold W. Handley January 12, 1953 January 14, 1957 Republican George N. Craig
40   Crawford F. Parker January 14, 1957 January 9, 1961 Republican Harold W. Handley
41   Richard O. Ristine January 9, 1961 January 11, 1965 Republican Matthew E. Welsh
42   Robert L. Rock January 11, 1965 January 13, 1969 Democrat Roger D. Branigin
43   Richard E. Folz January 13, 1969 January 8, 1973 Republican Edgar Whitcomb
44   Robert D. Orr January 8, 1973 January 12, 1981 Republican Otis R. Bowen
45   John Mutz January 12, 1981 January 9, 1989 Republican Robert D. Orr
46   Frank O'Bannon January 9, 1989 January 13, 1997 Democrat Evan Bayh
47   Joe E. Kernan January 13, 1997 September 13, 2003 Democrat Frank O'Bannon [N 1][N 4]
48   Kathy Davis October 20, 2003 January 10, 2005 Democrat Joe E. Kernan
49   Becky Skillman January 10, 2005 January 14, 2013 Republican Mitch Daniels
50 Sue Ellspermann January 14, 2013 Incumbent Republican Mike Pence