Governors of California

A list of governors from the state of California.

Spanish Military Governors of California Nueva

Name	Years
Gaspar de Portola	1769–1770
Pedro Fages	1770–1774
Fernando Rivera y Moncada	1774–1777

Spanish Governors of Las Californias

Name	Years
Felipe de Neve	1777–1782
Pedro Fages	1782–1791
Jose Antonio Romeu	1791–1792
Jose Joaquin de Arrillaga	1792–1794, 1800–1804
Diego de Borica	1794–1800
Pere d'Alberni i Teixidor	1800

Spanish Governors of Alta California

Name	Years
Jose Joaquin de Arillaga	1804–1814
Jose Dario Arguello	1814–1815
Pablo Vicente de Sola	1815–1822

Mexican Governors of Alta California

Name	Years
Luis Antonio Arguello	1822–1825
Jose Maria de Echeandia	1825–1831
Manuel Victoria	1831–1832
Pio Pico	1832, 1845–1846
Agustin V. Zamorano	1832-1833 (North)
Jose Maria de Echeandia	1832-1833 (South)
Jose Figueroa	1833–1835
Jose Castro	1835
Nicolas Gutierrez	1836
Mariano Chico	1836
Juan Bautista Alvarado	1836–1837, 1838–1842
Carlos Antonio Carillo	1837–1838
Manuel Micheltorina	1842–1845
Jose Maria Flores	1846–1847
Andres Pico	1847

President of the Republic of California

Name	Years
William B. Ide	1846

United States Military Governors of California

Name	Years
John Drake Sloat	1846
Robert Field Stockton	1846–1847
John C. Fremont	1847
Stephen W. Kearny	1847
Richard Barnes Mason	1847–1849
Persifor Frazer Smith	1849
Bennett C. Riley	1849

State Governors of California

Name	Party	Years
Peter Burnett	Democrat	1849–1851
John McDougall	Independent Democrat	1851–1852
John Bigler	Democrat	1852–1856
J. Neeley Johnson	Know Nothing	1856–1858
John Weller	Democrat	1858–1860
Milton Latham	Lecompton Democrat	1860
John Downey	Lecompton Democrat	1860–1862
Leland Stanford	Republican	1862–1863
Frederick Low	Unionist	1863–1867
Henry Haight	Democrat	1867–1871
Newton Booth	Republican	1871–1875
Romualdo Pacheco	Republican	1875
William Irwin	Democrat	1875–1880
George Perkins	Republican	1880–1883
George Stoneman	Democrat	1883–1887
Washington Bartlett	Democrat	1887
Robert Waterman	Republican	1887–1891
Henry Markham	Republican	1891–1895
James Budd	Democrat	1895–1899
Henry Gage	Republican	1899–1903
George Pardee	Republican	1903–1907
James Gillett	Republican	1907–1911
Hiram Johnson	Republican	1911–1917
William Stevens	Republican	1917–1923
Friend Richardson	Republican	1923–1927
C. C. Young	Republican	1927–1931
James Rolph	Republican	1931–1934
Frank Merriam	Republican	1934–1939
Culbert Olson	Democrat	1939–1943
Earl Warren	Republican	1943–1953
Goodwin Knight	Republican	1953–1959
Edmund G. "Pat" Brown	Democrat	1959–1967
Ronald Reagan	Republican	1967–1975
Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown, Jr.	Democrat	1975–1983
George Deukmejian	Republican	1983–1991
Pete Wilson	Republican	1991–1999
Gray Davis	Democrat	1999–2003
Arnold Schwarzenegger	Republican	2003–2011
Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown, Jr.	Democrat	2011–2019
Gavin Newsom	Democrat	2019–present

External links

• http://gov.ca.gov/

See also

• State Governors