**EXHIBIT 31.1**

**Certification of Chief Executive Officer Under Section 302 of theSarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002**

          I, David L. Bradshaw, Chief Executive Officer of Tipperary Corporation, certify that:

          1.          I have reviewed this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of Tipperary Corporation, Inc.(“registrant”);

          2.          Based on my knowledge, this report does notcontain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by thisreport;

          3.          Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and otherfinancial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

          4.          The registrant’s other certifying officer and I are responsible for establishing andmaintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rule 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for the registrant and have:

|   |     (a)        Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures tobe designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report isbeing prepared;                              |
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|   |     (b)        Reserved;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
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|   |     (c)        Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in thisreport our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and                                                                                                                   |
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|   |     (d)        Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting thatoccurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internalcontrol over financial reporting; and |

          5.          Theregistrant’s other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors(or persons performing the equivalent functions):

|   |       (a)        All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design of operation ofinternal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely effect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and |
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      (b)        Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have asignificant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.