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A list of governors from the commonwealth of Virginia.[1]
Virginia Comany of London Governors
| Name | Years
|
| Edward Maria Wingfield
| 1607
|
| John Ratcliffe
| 1608
|
| Matthew Scrivener
| 1608
|
| John Smith
| 1608-1609
|
| George Percy
| 1609-1610, 1611
|
| Thomas Gates
| 1610, 1611-1614
|
| Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr
| 1610-1611
|
| Thomas Dale
| 1611, 1614-1616
|
| George Yeardley
| 1616-1617, 1619-1621
|
| Samuel Argall
| 1617-1619
|
| Francis Wyatt
| 1621-1624
|
Crown Governors of Virginia
| Name | Years
|
| Francis Wyatt
| 1624-1626, 1639-1642
|
| George Yeardley
| 1626-1627
|
| Francis West
| 1627-1629
|
| John Pott
| 1629-1630
|
| John Harvey
| 1630-1635, 1637-1639
|
| John West
| 1635-1637
|
| William Berkeley
| 1642-1644, 1645-1652, 1660-1677
|
| Richard Kemp
| 1644-1645
|
| Thomas Culpeper
| 1677-1683
|
| Francis Howard
| 1683-1692
|
| Edmund Andros
| 1692-1698
|
| Francis Nicholson
| 1698-1705
|
| Edward Nott
| 1705-1706
|
| Edmund Jenings
| 1706-1708
|
| Robert Hunter
| 1707-1709
|
| George Hamilton
| 1710-1737
|
| Willem Anne van Keppel
| 1737-1754
|
| John Campbell
| 1756-1759
|
| Jeffery Amherst
| 1759-1768
|
| Norborne Berkeley
| 1768-1770
|
| William Nelson
| 1770-1771
|
| John Murray
| 1771-1775
|
Commonwealth of England Governors
| Name | Years
|
| Richard Bennett
| 1652-1655
|
| Edward Digges
| 1655-1656
|
| Samuel Mathews
| 1656-1660
|
| Wiliam Berkeley
| 1660
|
President of the Committee for Public Safety
| Name | Years
|
| Edmund Pendleton
| 1775-1776
|
Governors of the Commonwealth of Virginia
| Name | Party | Years
|
| Patrick Henry
|
| 1776-1779, 1784-1786
|
| Thomas Jefferson
|
| 1779-1781
|
| William Fleming
|
| 1781
|
| David Jameson
|
| 1781
|
| Thomas Nelson, Jr.
|
| 1781
|
| Benjamin Harrison
|
| 1781-1784
|
| Edmund Randolph
|
| 1786-1788
|
| Beverley Randolph
|
| 1788-1791
|
| Henry Lee
| Federalist
| 1791-1794
|
| Robert Brooke
| Democratic Republican
| 1794-1796
|
| James Wood
| Federalist
| 1796-1799
|
| James Monroe
| Democratic Republican
| 1799-1802, 1811
|
| John Pendleton, Jr.
|
| 1799
|
| Hardin Burnley
|
| 1799
|
| John Page
| Democratic Republican
| 1802-1805
|
| William Henry Cabell
| Democratic Republican
| 1805-1808
|
| John Tyler
| Democratic Republican
| 1808-1811
|
| George William Smith
| Democratic Republican
| 1811, 1811[2]
|
| Peyton Randolph
| Democratic Republican
| 1811-1812
|
| James Barbour
| Democratic Republican
| 1812-1814
|
| Wilson Cary Nicholas
| Democratic Republican
| 1814-1816
|
| James Patton Preston
| Democratic Republican
| 1816-1819
|
| Thomas Mann Randolph
| Democratic Republican
| 1819-1822
|
| James Pleasants, Jr.
| Democratic Republican
| 1822-1825
|
| John Tyler, Jr.
| Democratic Republican
| 1825-1827
|
| William Branch Giles
| Anti Federalist
| 1827-1830
|
| John Floyd
| Democrat
| 1830-1834
|
| Littleton Waller Tazewell
| Whig
| 1834-1836
|
| Wyndham Robertson
| Whig
| 1836-1837
|
| David Campbell
| Democrat
| 1837-1840
|
| Thomas Walker Gilmer
| Whig
| 1840-1841
|
| John Mercer Patton
| Whig
| 1841
|
| John Rutherfoord
| Democrat
| 1841-1842
|
| John Munford Gregory
| Whig
| 1842-1843
|
| James McDowell
| Democrat
| 1843-1846
|
| William Smith
| Democrat
| 1846-1849, 1864-1865
|
| John Buchanan Floyd
| Democrat
| 1849-1852
|
| Joseph Johnson
| Democrat
| 1852-1856
|
| Henry Alexander Wise
| Democrat
| 1856-1860
|
| John Letcher
| Democrat
| 1860-1864
|
| Henry Horatio Wells
| Republican
| 1868-1869
|
| Gilbert Carlson Walker
| Republican
| 1869-1874
|
| James Lawson Kemper
| Conservative
| 1874-1878
|
| Frederick William Mackey Holliday
| Conservative
| 1878-1882
|
| William E. Cameron
| Readjuster
| 1882-1886
|
| Fitzhugh Lee
| Democrat
| 1886-1890
|
| Philip Watkins McKinney
| Democrat
| 1890-1894
|
| Charles Triplett O’Ferrall
| Democrat
| 1894-1898
|
| James Hodge Tyler
| Democrat
| 1898-1902
|
| Andrew Jackson Montague
| Democrat
| 1902-1906
|
| Claude Augustus Swanson
| Democrat
| 1906-1910
|
| William Hodges Mann
| Democrat
| 1910-1914
|
| Henry Carter Stuart
| Democrat
| 1914-1918
|
| Westmoreland Davis
| Democrat
| 1918-1922
|
| Elbert Lee Trinkle
| Democrat
| 1922-1926
|
| Harry Flood Byrd
| Democrat
| 1926-1930
|
| John Garland Pollard
| Democrat
| 1930-1934
|
| George Campbell Peery
| Democrat
| 1934-1938
|
| James Hubert Price
| Democrat
| 1938-1942
|
| Colgate Whitehead Darden
| Democrat
| 1942-1946
|
| William Munford Tuck
| Democrat
| 1946-1950
|
| John Stuart Battle
| Democrat
| 1950-1954
|
| Thomas Bahnson Stanley
| Democrat
| 1954-1958
|
| James Lindsay Almond
| Democrat
| 1958-1962
|
| Albertis S. Harrison, Jr.
| Democrat
| 1962-1966
|
| Mills Edwin Godwin, Jr.
| Democrat
| 1966-1970, 1974-1978
|
| Linwood Holton, Jr.
| Republican
| 1970-1974
|
| John Nichols Dalton
| Republican
| 1978-1982
|
| Charles Spittal Robb
| Democrat
| 1982-1986
|
| Gerald L. Baliles
| Democrat
| 1986-1990
|
| L. Douglas Wilder
| Democrat
| 1990-1994
|
| George Allen
| Republican
| 1994-1998
|
| James S. Gilmore III
| Republican
| 1998-2002
|
| Mark R. Warner
| Democrat
| 2002-2006
|
| Tim Kaine
| Democrat
| 2006-present
|
Further reading
- Younger, Edward and Moore, James T., eds. The Governors of Virginia, 1860-1978. Charlottesville: U. Press of Virginia, 1982. 428 pp.
Notes
- ↑ http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.8fd3d12ab65b304f8a278110501010a0?submit=Submit&State=VA
- ↑ Smith served two non-consecutive terms in 1811, one as acting governor for 4 days in January before James Monroe took office, and one after Monroe took the position of Secretary of State.
