Governors of Oregon

A list of governors from the state of Oregon.

Provisional Governors of Oregon

Name	Years
George Abernathy	1845-1848

Territiorial Governors of Oregon

Name	Party	Years
Joseph Lane	Democrat	1848-1850, 1853
Kintzing Prichette	Democrat	1850
John P. Gaines	Whig	1850-1853
George Law Curry	Democrat	1853, 1854-1859
John W. Davis	Democrat	1853-1854

State Governors of Oregon

Name	Party	Years
John Whiteaker	Democrat	1859-1862
A. C. Gibbs	Republican	1862-1866
George L. Woods	Republican	1866-1870
Lafayette Grover	Democrat	1870-1877
Stephen F. Chadwick	Democrat	1877-1878
W. W.Thayer	Democrat	1878-1882
Z. F. Moody	Republican	1882-1887
Sylvester Pennoyer	Populist Democrat	1887-1895
William Payne Lord	Republican	1895-1899
T. T. Geer	Republican	1899-1903
George E. Chamberlain	Democrat	1903-1909
Frank W. Benson	Republican	1909-1910
Jay Bowerman	Republican	1910-1911
Oswald D. West	Democrat	1911-1915
James Withycombe	Republican	1915-1919
Ben W. Olcott	Republican	1919-1923
Walter M. Pierce	Democrat	1923-1927
I. L. Patterson	Republican	1927-1929
A. W. Norblad	Republican	1929-1931
Julius L. Meier	Independent	1931-1935
Charles H. Martin	Democrat	1935-1939
Charles A. Sprague	Republican	1939-1943
Earl Snell	Republican	1943-1947
John H. Hall	Republican	1947-1949
Douglas McKay	Republican	1949-1952
Paul L. Patterson	Repubican	1952-1956
Elmo Smith	Republican	1956-1957
Robert D. Holmes	Democrat	1957-1959
Mark O. Hatfield	Republican	1959-1967
Tom McCall	Republican	1967-1975
Robert W. Straub	Democrat	1975-1979
Victor Atiyeh	Republican	1979-1987
Neil Goldschmidt	Democrat	1987-1991
Barbara Roberts	Democrat	1991-1995
John Kitzhaber	Democrat	1995-2003
Ted Kulongoski	Democrat	2003-2011
John Kitzhaber	Democrat	2011-2015
Kate Brown	Democrat	2015–2023
Tina Kotek	Democrat	2023–present