Governors of Washington

A list of the governors of the territory, then state of Washington.

Name	Party	Years
Isaac I. Stevens	Democrat	1853-1857
Fayette McMullin	Democrat	1857-1859
Richard Gholson	Democrat	1859-1861
William H. Wallace	Republican	1861
William Pickering	Republican	1862-1867
George E. Cole	Democrat	1862-1867
Marshall Moore	Republican	1867-1869
Alvan Flanders	Republican	1869-1870
Edward Salomon	Republican	1870-1872
Elisha Peyre Ferry	Republican	1872-1880, 1889-1893
William Newell	Republican	1880-1884
Watson C. Squire	Republican	1884-1887
Eugene Semple	Democrat	1887-1889
Miles Conway Moore	Republican	1889
John Harte McGraw	Republican	1893-1897
John Rankin Rodgers	Populist Democrat	1897-1901
Henry McBride	Republican	1901-1905
Albert Edward Mead	Republican	1905-1909
Samuel Goodlove Cosgrove	Republican	1909
Marion E. Hay	Republican	1909-1913
Ernest Lister	Democrat	1913-1919
Louis Folwell Hart	Republican	1919-1925
Roland Hill Hartley	Republican	1925-1933
Clarence Daniel Martin	Democrat	1933-1941
Arthur B. Langlie	Republican	1941-1945, 1949-1957
Monrad Charles Wallgren	Democrat	1945-1949
Albert Dean Rossellini	Democrat	1957-1965
Daniel J. Evans	Republican	1965-1977
Dixy Lee Ray	Democrat	1977-1981
John Spellman	Republican	1981-1985
Booth Gardner	Democrat	1985-1993
Michael Edward Lowry	Democrat	1993-1997
Gary Locke	Democrat	1997-2005
Christine Gregoire	Democrat	2005–2013
Jay Robert Inslee	Democrat	2013-2025
Bob Ferguson	Democrat	2025-present