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Governors of Washington

A list of the governors of the territory, then state of Washington.[1][2]

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-current

Notes

  1. http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1475.html
  2. http://www.secstate.wa.gov/history/govsignatures.aspx