Before Oklahoma was admitted to the union as a state in 1907, the Choctaw Nation was divided into three districts: Apukshunnubbee, Moshulatubbee, and Pushmataha. Each district had its own chief from 1834 to 1857; afterward, the three districts were put under the jurisdiction of one chief.
List of Chiefs

Thomas LeFlore
1834-1838 - Apukshunnubbee District
Moshulatubbee
1834-1836 - Moshulatubbee District
Nitakechi
1834-1838 Pushmataha District
Joseph Kincaid
1836-1838 - Moshulatubbee District
James Fletcher
1838-1842 - Apukshunnubbee District
John McKinney
1838-1842 - Moshulatubbee District
Pierre Juzan
1838-1841 - Pushmataha District
Isaac Folsom
1841-1846 - Pushmataha District
Thomas LeFlore
1842-1850 - Apukshunnubbee District
Nathaniel Folsom
1842-1846 - Moshulatubbee District
Peter Folsom
1846-1850 - Moshulatubbee District
Silas Fisher
1846-1850 - Pushmataha District
George W. Harkins
1850-1857 - Apukshunnubbee District
Cornelius McCurtain
1850-1854 - Moshulatubbee District
George Folsom
1850-1854 - Pushmataha District
David McCoy
1854-1857 - Moshulatubbee District
Nicholas Cochnauer
1854-1857 - Pushmataha District
Alfred Wade
1857-1858
Tandy Walker
1858-1859
Basil LeFlore
1859-1860
George Hudson
1860-1862
Samuel Garland
1862-1864
Peter Pitchlynn
1864-1866
Allen Wright
1866-1870
William Bryant
1870-1874
Coleman Cole
1874-1878
Isaac Levi Garvin
1878-1880
Jackson F. McCurtain
1880-1884
Edmund McCurtain
1884-1886
Thompson McKinney
1886-1888
Ben Smallwood
1888-1890
Wilson N. Jones
1890-1894
Jefferson Gardner
1894-1896
Green McCurtain
1896-1900
Gilbert Wesley Dukes
1900-1902
Green McCurtain
1902-1910
Victor Locke Jr.
1910-1918
William F. Semple
1918-1922
William H. Harrison
1922-1929
Ben Dwight
1929-1937
William Durant
1937-1948
Harry J. W. Belvin
1948-1975
Clark David Gardner
1975-1978
Hollis E. Roberts
1978-1997
Gregory E. Pyle
1997-2014