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Revision as of 18:50, October 8, 2021
A list of governors from the commonwealth of Virginia.[1]
Virginia Company of London Governors
| Name | Years |
|---|---|
| Edward Maria Wingfield | 1607 |
| John Ratcliffe (Governor) | 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, Sr. | 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 | |||
| A. 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 | 2006-2010 | |||
| Bob McDonnell | Republican | 2010–2014 | Terry McAuliffe | Democrat | 2014-2018 |
| Ralph Northam | Democrat | 2018=2022 |
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.
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