Here are the elected governors, and where they were from, for Hoosier Boys State since the program began:
| 1937 | Lloyd Wampler | Gosport |
| 1938 | Dick Urbine | Fort Wayne |
| 1939 | Dick Freeman | Crawfordsville |
| 1940 | Ed Langas | Fort Wayne |
| 1941 | Roy Grimmer Jr. | Fort Wayne |
| 1942 | Edward Madden | Gary |
| 1943 | James Garrison | Franklin |
| 1944 | Henry Hales | Gary |
| 1945 | N/A | N/A |
| 1946 | Don Bitsberger | Fort Wayne |
| 1947 | James R. Harris | Boonville |
| 1948 | James B. Little | Evansville |
| 1949 | Charles Lanham | Evansville |
| 1950 | Richard Fowler | Bloomington |
| 1951 | Ned Lampkin | Indianapolis |
| 1952 | Max Stackhouse | Warsaw |
| 1953 | Robert Smithson | Tipton |
| 1954 | Primus Johnson | East Chicago |
| 1955 | Stuart Holcomb | West Lafayette |
| 1956 | John Flannigan | LaGrange |
| 1957 | Reed Stewart | Brazil |
| 1958 | Benjamin Coleman | Gary |
| 1959 | Stephen K. Smith | Lafayette |
| 1960 | Victor Clark | Columbia City |
| 1961 | Thomas Cooper | Merom |
| 1962 | Mike Valentine | Warsaw |
| 1963 | Ron Clark | Indianapolis |
| 1964 | David Long | Indianapolis |
| 1965 | James Kiefer | Lafayette |
| 1966 | Terry Lester | Indianapolis |
| 1967 | Stephen Judah | Vincennes |
| 1968 | Bruce Hatton | Vincennes |
| 1969 | Gregory Gray | Gary |
| Elected President of Boys Nation | ||
| 1970 | Gerald Trotter | Indianapolis |
| 1971 | Harry McNaught | Logansport |
| 1972 | John Kendrick | Jerffersonville |
| 1973 | Mike McGraw | Monticello |
| 1974 | Fred Reese Jr. | Anderson |
| 1975 | David Shellito | Mishawaka |
| 1976 | Kevin Trewartha | Indianapolis |
| 1977 | David Newby | Plainfield |
| Elected President of Boys Nation | ||
| 1978 | Christopher Davis | Indianapolis |
| 1979 | John Brown | Lafayette |
| 1980 | Scott D. Himsel | Jasper |
| 1981 | Fred Brown | Indianapolis |
| 1982 | Mike Shaw II | Rushville |
| 1983 | Delray Brooks | Michigan City |
| 1984 | Brian Boykins | Indianapolis |
| 1985 | Joseph D. Howard | Converse |
| 1986 | Alfred Weems III | Hammond |
| 1987 | Gavin H. Inglis | Indianapolis |
| 1988 | Richard P. Church | Wabash |
| 1989 | James M. Seeney | Terra Haute |
| 1990 | Daniel “DJ” Sigler | |
| 1991 | Mark I. Recio | Plymouth |
| 1992 | Jerome P. McCluskey | Bloomington |
| 1993 | J. Nick Geimer | New Haven |
| 1994 | Wayne M. Lashua | Kingsford Heights |
| 1995 | Rinszer Williams III | Gary |
| 1996 | Kem Footman | Indianapolis |
| 1997 | Jason Parks | Merrillville |
| 1998 | Justin Jordan | Fort Wayne |
| 1999 | Napoleon Harrington | Indianapolis |
| 2000 | John Meyer | Greenwood |
| 2001 | Barry Tyler Jr. | Hammond |
| 2002 | Ivan Dremov | Indianapolis |
| 2003 | Robert A. Patton | Terra Haute |
| 2004 | Robert Bloss | Indianapolis |
| 2005 | Matthew Schrimper | Nashville |
| 2006 | Darrell Comer Jr. | Indianapolis |
| 2007 | Ivan Chemoskutov | Angola |
| 2008 | Ian Duncan | Bedford |
| 2009 | Seth Brown | Hammond |
| 2010 | Jeremy Washington | Hammond |
| 2011 | Fabian House | Muncie |