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.
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