Governors of West Virginia

A list of governors from the state of West Virginia.^[1]

Name	Party	Years
Arthur Ingraham Boreman	Unionist Repblican	1863-1869
Francis Harrison Pierpont	Republican	1865-1868
Daniel Duane Tompkins Farnsworth	Republican	1869
William Erskine Stevenson	Republican	1869-1871
John Jeremiah Jacob	Democrat/Independent	1871-1877
Henry Mason Mathews	Democrat	1877-1881
Jacob Beeson Jackson	Democrat	1881-1885
Emanuel Willis Wilson	Democrat	1885-1890
Aretas Brooks Fleming	Democrat	1890-1893
William Alexander MacCorkle	Democrat	1893-1897
George Wesley Atkinson	Republican	1897-1901
Albert Blakeslee White	Republican	1901-1905
William M. O. Dawson	Republican	1905-1909
William E. Glasscock	Republican	1909-1913
Henry Drury Hatfield	Republican	1913-1917
John Jacob Cornwell	Democrat	1917-1921
Ephriam Franklin Morgan	Republican	1921-1925
Howard M. Gore	Republican	1925-1929
William Gustavu Conley	Republican	1929-1933
Herman Guy Kump	Democrat	1933-1937
Homer Adams Holt	Democrat	1937-1941
Matthew Mansfield Neely	Democrat	1941-1945
Clarence W. Meadows	Democrat	1945-1949
Okey Leonidas Patteson	Democrat	1949-1953
William Casey Marland	Democrat	1953-1957
Cecil H. Underwood	Republican	1957-1961, 1997-2001
William W. Barron	Democrat	1961-1965
Hulett Carlson Smith	Democrat	1965-1969
Arch Moore	Republican	1969-1977, 1985-1989
John Davison Rockefeller	Democrat	1977-1985
Gaston Caperton	Democrat	1989-1993
Bob Wise	Democrat	2001-2005
Joe Manchin III	Democrat	2005-2010
Earl Ray Tomblin	Democrat	2010–2017
James Conley "Jim" Justice	Democrat-turned-Republican	2017-
Patrick Morrisey	Republican	2025-

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