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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