Governors of South Carolina
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A list of governors from the state of South Carolina.[1][2]
Proprietary Governors of South Carolina
| Name | Years |
|---|---|
| William Sayle | 1670-1671 |
| Joseph West | 1671-1672, 1674-1682, 1685 |
| John Yeamans | 1672-1674 |
| Joseph Morton | 1682-1684, 1685-1686 |
| Richard Kyrle | 1684 |
| Robert Quarry | 1684-1685 |
| James Colleton | 1686-1690 |
| Seth Sothell | 1690-1692 |
| Philip Ludwell | 1692-1693 |
| Thomas Smith | 1693-1694 |
| Joseph Blake | 1694, 1696-1700 |
| John Archdale | 1694-1696 |
| James Moore | 1700-1702 |
| Nathaniel Johnson | 1702-1703 |
| Edward Tynte | 1703-1709 |
| Robert Gibbes | 1710-1711 |
| Charles Craven | 1711-1716 |
| Robert Daniell | 1716-1717 |
| Robert Johnson | 1717-1719 |
Royal Governors of South Carolina
| Name | Years |
|---|---|
| James Moore | 1719-1721 |
| Francis Nicholson | 1721-1729 |
| Arthur Middleton | 1724-1729 |
| Robert Johnson | 1729-1735 |
| Thomas Broughton | 1735-1737 |
| William Bull | 1737-1743 |
| James Glen | 1743-1756 |
| William Henry Lyttleton | 1756-1760 |
| Thomas Boone | 1761-1764 |
| William Bull, II | 1764-1766, 1773-1775 |
| Charles Greville Montague | 1766-1773 |
| Henry Laurens | 1775-1776 |
State of South Carolina Governors
| Name | Party | Years |
|---|---|---|
| John Rutledge | 1776-1778, 1779-1782 | |
| Rawlins Lowndes | 1778-1779 | |
| John Mathews | 1782-1783 | |
| Benjamin Guerard | 1783-1785 | |
| William Moultrie | Federalist | 1785-1787, 1792-1794 |
| Thomas Pinckney | Federalist | 1787-1789 |
| Charles Pinckney | Democratic Republican | 1789-1792, 1796-1798, 1806â1808 |
| Arnoldus Vandershorst | Federalist | 1794-1796 |
| Edward Rutledge | Federalist | 1798-1800 |
| John Drayton | Democratic Republican | 1800-1802, 1808-1810 |
| James Burchill Richardson | Democratic Republican | 1802-1804 |
| Paul Hamilton | Democratic Republican | 1804-1806 |
| Henry Middleton | Democratic Republican | 1810-1812 |
| Joseph Alston | Democratic Republican | 1812-1814 |
| David Rogerson Williams | Democratic Republican | 1814-1816 |
| Andrew Pickens | Democratic Republican | 1816-1818 |
| Geddes John | Democratic Republican | 1818-1820 |
| Thomas Bennett | Democratic Republican | 1820-1822 |
| John Lyde Wilson | Democratic Republican | 1822-1824 |
| Richard Irvine Manning | Democratic Republican | 1824-1826 |
| John Taylor | Democratic Republican | 1826-1828 |
| Stephen Decatur Miller | Democrat | 1828-1830 |
| James Hamilton, Jr. | Democrat | 1830-1832 |
| Robert Young Hayne | Democrat | 1832-1834 |
| George McDuffie | Democrat | 1834-1836 |
| Pierce Mason Butler | Democrat | 1836-1838 |
| Patrick Noble | Democrat | 1838-1840 |
| Barnabas Kelet Henagan | Democrat | 1840 |
| John Peter Richardson II | Democrat | 1840-1842 |
| James Henry Hammond | Democrat | 1842-1844 |
| William Aiken | Democrat | 1844-1846 |
| David Johnson | Democrat | 1846-1848 |
| Whitemarsh Benjamin Seabrook | Democrat | 1848-1850 |
| John Hugh Means | Democrat | 1850-1852 |
| John Laurence Manning | Democrat | 1852-1854 |
| James Hopkins Adams | Democrat | 1854-1856 |
| Robert Francis Withers Allston | Democrat | 1856-1858 |
| William Henry Gist | Democrat | 1858-1860 |
| Francis Wilkinson Pickens | 1860-1862 | |
| Milledge Luke Bonham | Democrat | 1862-1864 |
| Andrew Gordon McGrath | Democrat | 1864-1865 |
| Benjamin Franklin Perry | Democrat | 1865 |
| James Lawrence Orr | Conservative | 1865-1868 |
| Edward R. S. Canby | 1868 | |
| Robert Kingston Scott | Republican | 1868-1872 |
| Franklin J. Moses | Republican | 1872-1874 |
| Daniel Henry Chamberlain | Republican | 1874-1876 |
| Wade Hampton, III | Democrat | 1876-1879 |
| William Dunlap Simpson | Democrat | 1879-1880 |
| Thomas Bothwell Jeter | Democrat | 1880 |
| Johnson Hagood | Democrat | 1880-1882 |
| Hugh Smith Thompson | Democrat | 1882-1886 |
| John Calhoun Sheppard | Democrat | 1886 |
| John Peter Richardson | Democrat | 1886-1890 |
| Benjamin Ryan Tillman | Democrat | 1890-1894 |
| John Gary Evans | Democrat | 1894-1897 |
| William Haselden Ellerbe | Democrat | 1897-1899 |
| Miles Benjamin McSweeney | Democrat | 1899-1903 |
| Duncan Clinch Heyward | Democrat | 1903-1907 |
| Martin Frederick Ansel | Democrat | 1907-1911 |
| Coleman Livingston Blease | Democrat | 1911-1915 |
| Charles A. Smith | Democrat | 1915 |
| Richard Irvine Manning III | Democrat | 1915-1919 |
| Robert Arthur Cooper | Democrat | 1919-1922 |
| Wilson Godfrey Harvey | Democrat | 1922-1923 |
| Thomas Gordon McLeod | Democrat | 1923-1927 |
| John Gardiner Richards | Democrat | 1927-1931 |
| Ibra Charles Blackwood | Democrat | 1931-1935 |
| Olin D. Johnston | Democrat | 1935-1939, 1943-1945 |
| Burnet Rhett Maybank | Democrat | 1939-1941 |
| Joseph Emile Harley | Democrat | 1941-1942 |
| Richard Manning Jeffries | Democrat | 1942-1943 |
| Ransome Judson Williams | Democrat | 1945-1947 |
| James Strom Thurmond | Democrat | 1947-1951 |
| James Francis "Jimmy" Byrnes | Democrat | 1951-1955 |
| George Bell Timmerman | Democrat | 1955-1959 |
| Ernest Hollings | Democrat | 1959-1963 |
| Donald Stuart Russell | Democrat | 1963-1965 |
| Robert Evander McNair | Democrat | 1965-1971 |
| John C. West | Democrat | 1971-1975 |
| James B. Edwards | Republican | 1975-1979 |
| Richard Wilson Riley | Democrat | 1979-1987 |
| Carroll Ashmore Campbell, Jr. | Republican | 1987-1995 |
| David Muldrow Beasley | Republican | 1995-1999 |
| James Hovis "Jim" Hodges | Democrat | 1999-2003 |
| Mark Sanford | Republican | 2003-2011 |
| Nikki Haley | Republican | 2011â2017 |
| Henry McMaster | Republican | 2017- |