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Governors of New York

A list of governors from the state of New York.[1][2]

Colonial Governors of New York

Name Years
Richard Nicolls 1664-1668
Francis Lovelace 1668-1672
Edmund Andros 1675-1683
Thomas Dongan 1684-1688
Francis Nicholson 1689-1690
Henry Sloughter 1691-1692
Benjamin Fletcher 1692-1697
Earl of Bellomont 1698-1702
Viscount Cornbury 1702-1708
Robert Hunter 1710-1718
William Burnett 1720-1728
John Montgomerie 1728-1731
William Cosby 1732-1736
George Clarke 1736-1743
George Clinton 1743-1753
Danvers Osborn 1753
James DeLancey 1753–1755, 1758-1760
Charles Hardy 1755-1758
Cadwallader Colden 1760–1762, 1763–1765, 1769-1770
Robert Monckton 1762-1763
Henry Moore 1765-1769
John Murray 1770-1771
William Tryon 1771-1775

State Governors of New York

Name Party Years
George Clinton Democratic Republican 1777–1795, 1801-1804
John Jay Federalist 1795-1801
Morgan Lewis Democratic Republican 1804-1807
Daniel D. Tompkins Jeffersonian Republican 1807-1817
John Tayler Democratic Republican 1817
Dewitt Clinton Democratic Republican 1817–1823, 1825-1828
Joseph Christopher Yates Jeffersonian Republican 1823-1825
Nathaniel Pitcher Democratic Republican 1828-1829
Martin Van Buren Jeffersonian Republican 1829
Enos Thompson Throop Jeffersonian Republican 1829-1833
William Learned Marcy Jeffersonian Republican 1833-1839
William Henry Seward Whig 1839-1843
William C. Bouck Democrat 1843-1845
Silas Wright Democrat 1845-1847
John Young Whig 1847-1849
Hamilton Fish Whig 1849-1851
Washington Hunt Democrat 1851-1853
Horatio Seymour Democrat 1853–1855, 1863-1865
Myron Holley Clark Republican 1855-1857
John Alsop King Republican 1857-1859
Edwin Denison Morgan Republican 1859-1863
Reuben Eaton Fenton Unionist 1865-1869
John Thompson Hoffman Democrat 1869-1873
John Adams Dix Republican 1873-1875
Samuel Jones Tilden Democrat 1875-1877
Lucius Robinson Democrat 1877-1880
Alonzo Barton Cornell Republican 1880-1883
Steven Grover Cleveland Democrat 1883-1885
David Bennett Hill Democrat 1885-1892
Roswell Pettibone Flower Democrat 1892-1895
Frank Swett Black Republican 1897-1899
Theodore Roosevelt Republican 1899-1901
Benjamin Baker Odell Republican 1901-1905
Francis Wayland Higgins Republican 1905-1907
Charles Evans Hughes Republican 1907-1910
Horace White Republican 1910-1911
John Alden Dix Democrat 1911-1913
William Sulzer Democrat 1913
Martin Henry Glynn Democrat 1913-1915
Charles Seymour Whitman Republican 1915-1919
Alfred Emanuel Smith Democrat 1919–1921, 1923-1929
Nathan Lewis Miller Republican 1921-1923
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Democrat 1929-1933
Herbert Henry Lehman Democrat 1933-1942
Charles Poletti Democrat 1942-1943
Thomas Edmund Dewey Republican 1943-1955
William Averell Harriman Democrat 1955-1959
Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Republican 1959-1973
Malcolm Wilson Republican 1973-1975
Hugh Leo Carey Democrat 1975-1983
Mario Matthew Cuomo Democrat 1983-1995
George E. Pataki Republican 1995-2007
Eliot Spitzer Democrat 2007-2008
David A. Paterson Democrat 2008-2011
Andrew Cuomo Democrat 2011–present

See also

Notes

  1. http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.8fd3d12ab65b304f8a278110501010a0?submit=Submit&State=NY
  2. http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/List-of-Colonial-Governors-of-New-York