Historical+Department

The Third State Legislature, 1895, provided for a Wyoming Historical Society, to be under the control of a board of trustees, composed of six citizens, of the State, appointed by the governor with the consent of the senate, together with the secretary of State, and State Librarian as ex-officio members; the State librarian was charged with full custody of all property belonging to the society, which was to be preserved within the State library.
 * State Historical Department **

The Fifteenth State Legislature, 1919, repealed the law creating the Wyoming Historical Society, of 1895, and established the State Historical Board, who appointed a State Historian, his term of office being subject to removal by said board; the Governor, Secretary of State, and State Librarian constituted the State Historical Board, the governor being president, the State Librarian, secretary, whose duty it was to keep a record of its transactions.

The Sixteenth State Legislature, 1921, repealed the 1919 law establishing a State Historical Board; created a State Historical Board, composed of the Governor, Secretary of State, and the State Librarian; provided for a State Historian, to be appointed by the State Historical Board, for a term of four years, and until his successor was appointed and qualified; an advisory board, appointed by the State Historian, with the approval of the historical board, to consist of not more than one member from each judicial district of the State; and a State Historical Society, whose constitution was to be drawn up by the State historian, under the direction of the State Historical Board. By this law, the State Historical Department became an independent and separate department.

The Twenty-second State Legislature, 1933, repealed section 2 of chapter 99 of the 1919 law providing for the State Historical Board to appoint a State Historian; the 1933 law provided for the State Librarian to be ex-officio State Historian, acting under the State Historical Board, his duties and other statutory provisions remaining the same. The department publishes the [|Annals of Wyoming], a quarterly historical bulletin and a biennial report.

By the Twenty-fourth State Legislature, 1937, the five elected State officials of Wyoming constitute the State Historical Board.

The State Historical Department was moved from the State Capitol to the Supreme Court State Library building March 1937.

=As of 1943=

Today the State Historical Department is an ex-officio office of the State Library.

**State Historians**
 * ~ Name ||~  ||~ Start Date ||~   ||~ End Date ||
 * Eunice G. Anderson ||  || January 8, 1919 ||   || May 1, 1923 ||
 * Mrs. Cyrus Beard ||  || May 1, 1923 ||   || March 25, 1933 ||
 * Margaret Burke ||  || June 1933 ||   || March 1938 ||
 * Marie H. Erwin ||  || March 1938 ||   || May 1939 ||
 * Inez B. Taylor ||  || May 1939 ||   || October 1941 ||
 * Lola M. Homsher ||  || October 1941 ||   || March 1943 ||
 * Marie H. Erwin ||  || April 1943 ||   ||   ||

=State Historians Ex-Officio=
 * ~ Name ||~  ||~ Start Date ||~   ||~ End Date ||
 * Ruth Harrington (ex-officio) ||  || March 25, 1933 ||   || January 6, 1934 ||
 * Alice Lyman (ex-officio) ||  || January 6, 1934 ||   || April 14, 1937 ||
 * Nina M.K. Moran (ex-officio) ||  || April 14, 1937 ||   || March 29, 1939 ||
 * Gladys Riley (ex-officio) ||  || March 29, 1939 ||   || March 31, 1943 ||