John Kevin Stitt (born December 28, 1972)[2][3] is an American businessman and politician serving as the 28th governor of Oklahoma. A member of the Republican Party, he began his term as governor in January 2019. As a member of the Cherokee Nation, Stitt is the first tribally enrolled Native American to serve as governor of a U.S. state,[4] and Oklahoma's second governor of Native descent after Johnston Murray.