A list of governors from the commonwealth of Pennsylvania.[1][2][3]
Proprietors of Pennsylvania
Note: The proprietors of Pennsylvania also managed the colony of Delaware.
| Name |
Years
|
| William Penn
|
1682-1718
|
| John, Thomas, and Richard Penn
|
1718-1746
|
| Thomas and Richard Penn
|
1746-1775
|
| John Penn
|
1775-1776
|
Presidents of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Governors
| Name |
Party |
Years
|
| Thomas Mifflin
|
None
|
1790-1799
|
| Thomas McKean
|
Democratic Republican
|
1799-1808
|
| Simon Snyder
|
Democratic Republican
|
1808-1817
|
| William Findlay
|
Democratic Republican
|
1817-1820
|
| Joseph Hiester
|
Democratic Republican
|
1820-1823
|
| John Andrew Shulze
|
Democratic Republican
|
1823-1829
|
| George Wolf
|
Democratic Republican
|
1829-1835
|
| Joseph Ritner
|
Anti-Mason
|
1835-1839
|
| David Rittenhouse Porter
|
Democratic Republican
|
1839-1845
|
| Francis Rawn Shunk
|
Democrat
|
1845-1848
|
| William Freame Johnston
|
Whig
|
1848-1852
|
| William Bigler
|
Democrat
|
1852-1855
|
| James Pollock
|
Whig
|
1855-1858
|
| William Fisher Packer
|
Democrat
|
1858-1861
|
| Andrew Gregg Curtin
|
Republican
|
1861-1867
|
| John White Geary
|
Republican
|
1867-1873
|
| John Frederick Hartranft
|
Republican
|
1873-1879
|
| Henry Martin Hoyt
|
Republican
|
1879-1883
|
| Robert Emory Pattison
|
Democrat
|
1883–1887, 1891-1895
|
| James Addams Beaver
|
Republican
|
1887-1891
|
| Daniel Hartman Hastings
|
Republican
|
1895-1899
|
| William Alexis Stone
|
Republican
|
1899-1903
|
| Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker
|
Republican
|
1903-1907
|
| Edwin Sydney Stuart
|
Republican
|
1907-1911
|
| John Kinley Tener
|
Republican
|
1911-1915
|
| Martin Grove Brumbaugh
|
Republican
|
1915-1919
|
| William Cameron Sproul
|
Republican
|
1919-1923
|
| Gifford Pinchot
|
Republican
|
1923–1927, 1931-1935
|
| John Stuchell Fisher
|
Republican
|
1927-1931
|
| George Howard Earle
|
Democrat
|
1935-1939
|
| Arthur Horace James
|
Republican
|
1939-1943
|
| Edward Martin
|
Republican
|
1943-1947
|
| John C. Bell
|
Republican
|
1947
|
| James H. Duff
|
Republican
|
1947-1951
|
| John S. Fine
|
Republican
|
1951-1955
|
| George Michael Leader
|
Democrat
|
1955-1959
|
| David Leo Lawrence
|
Democrat
|
1959-1963
|
| William Warren Scranton
|
Republican
|
1963-1967
|
| Raymond Philip Shafer
|
Republican
|
1967-1971
|
| Milton J. Shapp
|
Democrat
|
1971-1979
|
| Richard Thornburgh
|
Republican
|
1979-1987
|
| Robert P. Casey
|
Democrat
|
1987-1995
|
| Tom Ridge
|
Republican
|
1995-2001
|
| Mark S. Schweiker
|
Republican
|
2001-2003
|
| Edward G. Rendell
|
Democrat
|
2003-2011
|
| Tom Corbett
|
Republican
|
2011–2015
|
-
|
Tom Wolf
|
Democrat
|
2015–present
|
See also
Notes
- ↑ http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/governors/overview.asp?secid=31
- ↑ http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/List-of-colonial-governors-of-Pennsylvania
- ↑ http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/List-of-Governors-of-Pennsylvania
