Other High Offices Held
This is a table of congressional seats, other federal offices, and other governorships held by governors. All representatives and senators mentioned represented Oklahoma except where noted. * denotes those offices which the governor resigned to take.
| Name | Gubernatorial term | U.S. Congress | Other offices held | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| House | Senate | |||
| George Washington Steele | 1890–1891 (territorial) | U.S. Representative from Indiana | ||
| William H. Murray | 1931–1935 | H | First Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives | |
| E. W. Marland | 1935–1939 | H | ||
| Robert S. Kerr | 1943–1947 | S | ||
| J. Howard Edmondson | 1959–1963 | S* | ||
| Henry Bellmon | 1963–1967; 1987–1991 | S | ||
| Dewey F. Bartlett | 1967–1971 | S | ||
| David Boren | 1975–1979 | S | President of the University of Oklahoma | |
| Frank Keating | 1995–2003 | United States Associate Attorney General; United States Deputy Secretary of Housing and Urban Development | ||
| Mary Fallin | 2011-Present | H | ||
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