A list of governors from the state of New Jersey.[1]
Name |
Party |
Years
|
William Livingston
|
Federalist
|
1776-1790
|
William Paterson
|
Federalist
|
1790-1793
|
Thomas Henderson
|
Federalist
|
1793
|
Richard Howell
|
Federalist
|
1793-1801
|
Joseph Bloomfield
|
Jeffersonian Republican
|
1801-1802, 1803-1812
|
John Lambert
|
Jeffersonian Republican
|
1802-1803
|
Aaron Ogden
|
Federalist
|
1812-1813
|
William Sanford Pennington
|
Jeffersonian Republican
|
1813-1815
|
Mahlon Dickerson
|
Jeffersonian Republican
|
1815-1817
|
Isaac Halsted Williamson
|
Jeffersonian Republican
|
1817-1829
|
Peter Dumont Vroom
|
Democrat
|
1829-1832, 1833-1836
|
Samuel Lewis Southard
|
Whig
|
1832-1833
|
Elias Pettit Seeley
|
Whig
|
1833
|
Philemon Dickerson
|
Democrat
|
1836-1837
|
William Pennington
|
Whig
|
1837-1843
|
Daniel Haines
|
Democrat
|
1843-1845, 1848-1851
|
Charles Creighton Stratton
|
Whig
|
1845-1848
|
George Franklin Fort
|
Democrat
|
1851-1854
|
Rodman McCauley Price
|
Democrat
|
1854-1857
|
William Augustus Newell
|
Republican
|
1857-1860
|
Charles Smith Olden
|
Republican
|
1860-1863
|
Joel Parker
|
Democrat
|
1863-1866, 1872-1875
|
Marcus Lawrence Ward
|
Republican
|
1866-1869
|
Theodore Fitz Randolph
|
Democrat
|
1869-1872
|
Joseph Dorsett Bedle
|
Democrat
|
1875-1878
|
George Brinton McClellan
|
Democrat
|
1878-1881
|
George Craig Ludlow
|
Democrat
|
1881-1884
|
Leon Abbett
|
Democrat
|
1884-1887, 1890-1893
|
Robert Stockton Green
|
Democrat
|
1887-1890
|
George Theodore Werts
|
Democrat
|
1893-1896
|
John William Griggs
|
Republican
|
1896-1898
|
Foster McGowan Voorhees
|
Republican
|
1898, 1899-1902
|
David Ogden Watkins
|
Republican
|
1898-1899
|
Franklin Murphy
|
Republican
|
1902-1905
|
Edward Casper Stokes
|
Republican
|
1905-1908
|
John Franklin Fort
|
Republican
|
1908-1911
|
Thomas Woodrow Wilson
|
Democrat
|
1911-1913
|
James Fairman Fielder
|
Democrat
|
1913, 1914-1917
|
Leon R. Taylor
|
Democrat
|
1913-1914
|
Walter Evans Edge
|
Republican
|
1917-1919, 1944-1947
|
William Nelson Runyon
|
Republican
|
1919-1920
|
Clarence Edwards Case
|
Republican
|
1920
|
Edward Irving Edwards
|
Democrat
|
1920-1923
|
George Sebastian Silzer
|
Democrat
|
1923-1926
|
Arthur Harry Moore
|
Democrat
|
1926-1929, 1932-1935, 1938-1941
|
Morgan Foster Larson
|
Republican
|
1929-1932
|
Horace Griggs Prall
|
Republican
|
1935
|
Harold Giles Hoffman
|
Republican
|
1935-1938
|
Charles Edison
|
Democrat
|
1941-1944
|
Alfred Eastlack Driscoll
|
|
1947-1954
|
Robert Baumie Meyner
|
Democrat
|
1954-1962
|
Richard Joseph Hughes
|
Democrat
|
1962-1970
|
William T. Cahill
|
Republican
|
1970-1974
|
Brendan Byrne
|
Democrat
|
1974-1982
|
Thomas H. Kean
|
Republican
|
1982-1990
|
Jim Florio
|
Democrat
|
1990-1994
|
Christine Todd Whitman
|
Republican
|
1994-2001
|
Donald T. DiFrancesco
|
Republican
|
2001-2002
|
John O. Bennett
|
Republican
|
2002
|
Richard J. Codey
|
Democrat
|
2002, 2002-2006
|
Jim McGreevey
|
Democrat
|
2002-2004
|
Jon Corzine
|
Democrat
|
2006-2010
|
Chris Christie
|
Republican
|
2010–2018
|
Phil Murphy
|
Democrat
|
2018-
|
See also
Notes
- ↑ http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.8fd3d12ab65b304f8a278110501010a0?submit=Submit&State=NJ