Governor of Colorado
The Governor of Colorado is the chief executive of the U.S. state of Colorado. The governor is the head of the executive branch of Colorado's state government.
Governor of Colorado | |
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Style | The Honorable |
Residence | Colorado Governor's Mansion |
Term length | Four years, renewable once consecutively |
Inaugural holder | John Long Routt |
Formation | August 1, 1876 |
Deputy | Dianne Primavera |
Salary | $90,000 (2013)[1] |
Website | www.colorado.gov/governor |
The governor is charged with enforcing state laws. The governor has the power to either approve or veto bills passed by the Colorado General Assembly and to grant pardons, except in cases of treason or impeachment.[2] The governor is also the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces.
The current governor is Democrat Jared Polis, who took office on January 8, 2019.
List of governors
No. | Governor | Term in office | Party | Election | Lt. Governor[b] | |||
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1 | John Long Routt | November 3, 1876[c] – January 14, 1879 (not candidate for election) |
Republican | 1876 | Lafayette Head | |||
2 | Frederick Walker Pitkin | January 14, 1879 – January 9, 1883 (not candidate for election) |
Republican | 1878 | Horace Tabor | |||
1880 | ||||||||
3 | James Benton Grant | January 9, 1883 – January 13, 1885 (not candidate for election) |
Democratic | 1882 | William H. Meyer[d] | |||
4 | Benjamin Harrison Eaton | January 13, 1885 – January 11, 1887 (not candidate for election) |
Republican | 1884 | Peter W. Breene | |||
5 | Alva Adams | January 11, 1887 – January 8, 1889 (not candidate for election) |
Democratic | 1886 | Norman H. Meldrum | |||
6 | Job Adams Cooper | January 8, 1889 – January 13, 1891 (not candidate for election) |
Republican | 1888 | William Grover Smith | |||
7 | John Long Routt | January 13, 1891 – January 10, 1893 (not candidate for election) |
Republican | 1890 | William Story | |||
8 | Davis Hanson Waite | January 10, 1893 – January 8, 1895 (lost election) |
Populist | 1892 | David H. Nichols | |||
9 | Albert McIntire | January 8, 1895 – January 12, 1897 (not candidate for election) |
Republican | 1894 | Jared L. Brush[d] | |||
10 | Alva Adams | January 12, 1897 – January 10, 1899 (not candidate for election) |
Democratic | 1896 | ||||
11 | Charles S. Thomas | January 10, 1899 – January 8, 1901 (not candidate for election) |
Democratic | 1898 | Francis Patrick Carney[e] | |||
12 | James Bradley Orman | January 8, 1901 – January 13, 1903 (not candidate for election) |
Democratic | 1900 | David C. Coates[f] | |||
13 | James Hamilton Peabody | January 13, 1903 – January 10, 1905 (lost election)[g] |
Republican | 1902 | Warren A. Haggott[h] | |||
14 | Alva Adams | January 10, 1905 – March 16, 1905 (declared loser in election)[g] |
Democratic | 1904[g] | Arthur Cornforth | |||
15 | James Hamilton Peabody | March 16, 1905 – March 17, 1905 (resigned)[g] |
Republican | Jesse Fuller McDonald | ||||
16 | Jesse Fuller McDonald | March 17, 1905 – January 8, 1907 (did not run for election) |
Republican | Succeeded from Lieutenant Governor[g] |
Arthur Cornforth[i] (removed July 5, 1905) | |||
Fred W. Parks | ||||||||
17 | Henry Augustus Buchtel | January 8, 1907 – January 12, 1909 (not candidate for election) |
Republican | 1906 | Erastus Harper | |||
18 | John F. Shafroth | January 12, 1909 – January 14, 1913 (not candidate for election) |
Democratic | 1908 | Stephen R. Fitzgarrald | |||
1910 | ||||||||
19 | Elias M. Ammons | January 14, 1913 – January 12, 1915 (not candidate for election) |
Democratic | 1912 | ||||
20 | George Alfred Carlson | January 12, 1915 – January 9, 1917 (lost election) |
Republican | 1914 | Moses E. Lewis | |||
21 | Julius Caldeen Gunter | January 9, 1917 – January 14, 1919 (not candidate for election) |
Democratic | 1916 | James Pulliam | |||
22 | Oliver Henry Shoup | January 14, 1919 – January 9, 1923 (not candidate for election) |
Republican | 1918 | George Stephan | |||
1920 | Earl Cooley | |||||||
23 | William Ellery Sweet | January 9, 1923 – January 13, 1925 (lost election) |
Democratic | 1922 | Robert F. Rockwell[d] | |||
24 | Clarence Morley | January 13, 1925 – January 11, 1927 (not candidate for election) |
Republican | 1924 | Sterling Byrd Lacy[i] | |||
25 | Billy Adams | January 11, 1927 – January 10, 1933 (not candidate for election) |
Democratic | 1926 | George Milton Corlett[d] | |||
1928 | ||||||||
1930 | Edwin C. Johnson | |||||||
26 | Edwin C. Johnson | January 10, 1933 – January 1, 1937 (resigned)[j] |
Democratic | 1932 | Ray Herbert Talbot | |||
1934 | ||||||||
27 | Ray Herbert Talbot | January 1, 1937 – January 12, 1937 (successor took office) |
Democratic | Succeeded from Lieutenant Governor |
Vacant | |||
28 | Teller Ammons | January 12, 1937 – January 10, 1939 (lost election) |
Democratic | 1936 | Frank Hayes | |||
29 | Ralph Lawrence Carr | January 10, 1939 – January 12, 1943 (not candidate for election) |
Republican | 1938 | John Charles Vivian | |||
1940 | ||||||||
30 | John Charles Vivian | January 12, 1943 – January 14, 1947 (not candidate for election) |
Republican | 1942 | William Eugene Higby | |||
1944 | ||||||||
31 | William Lee Knous | January 14, 1947 – April 15, 1950 (resigned)[k] |
Democratic | 1946 | Homer L. Pearson | |||
1948 | Walter Walford Johnson | |||||||
32 | Walter Walford Johnson | April 15, 1950 – January 9, 1951 (lost election) |
Democratic | Succeeded from Lieutenant Governor |
Charles P. Murphy[d] | |||
33 | Daniel I. J. Thornton | January 9, 1951 – January 11, 1955 (not candidate for election) |
Republican | 1950 | Gordon Allott | |||
1952 | ||||||||
34 | Edwin C. Johnson | January 11, 1955 – January 8, 1957 (not candidate for election) |
Democratic | 1954 | Stephen McNichols | |||
35 | Stephen McNichols | January 8, 1957 – January 8, 1963 (lost election) |
Democratic | 1956 | Frank L. Hays[d] | |||
1958 [l] |
Robert Lee Knous | |||||||
36 | John Arthur Love | January 8, 1963 – July 16, 1973 (resigned)[m] |
Republican | 1962 | ||||
1966 | Mark Anthony Hogan[i] | |||||||
1970 | John D. Vanderhoof | |||||||
37 | John D. Vanderhoof | July 16, 1973 – January 14, 1975 (lost election)[12] |
Republican | Succeeded from Lieutenant Governor |
Ted L. Strickland | |||
38 | Richard Lamm | January 14, 1975 – January 13, 1987 (not candidate for election) |
Democratic | 1974 | George L. Brown | |||
1978 | Nancy E. Dick | |||||||
1982 | ||||||||
39 | Roy Romer | January 13, 1987 – January 12, 1999 (term limited) |
Democratic | 1986 | Mike Callihan (resigned May 10, 1994) | |||
1990 | ||||||||
Vacant | ||||||||
Samuel H. Cassidy (took office May 11, 1994) | ||||||||
1994 | Gail Schoettler | |||||||
40 | Bill Owens | January 12, 1999 – January 9, 2007 (term limited) |
Republican | 1998 | Joe Rogers | |||
2002 | Jane E. Norton | |||||||
41 | Bill Ritter | January 9, 2007 – January 11, 2011 (not candidate for election) |
Democratic | 2006 | Barbara O'Brien | |||
42 | John Hickenlooper | January 11, 2011 – January 8, 2019 (term limited) |
Democratic | 2010 | Joseph García (resigned May 12, 2016) | |||
2014 | ||||||||
Donna Lynne | ||||||||
43 | Jared Polis | January 8, 2019 – present[n] |
Democratic | 2018 | Dianne Primavera |
Governor Of Colorado Media
Notes
- ↑ Data is sourced from the National Governors Association, unless supplemental references are required.
- ↑ Lieutenant governors represented the same party as their governor unless noted.
- ↑ The state was admitted on August 1, but Routt was formally inaugurated as state governor on November 3.[3]
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Represented the Republican Party.
- ↑ Represented the Populist Party.
- ↑ The Colorado State Archives labels Coates a Democrat;[4] however, a contemporary New York Times article describes him as a Populist elected on a fusion ticket, and that he had renounced all other parties and become a Socialist.[5]
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 The 1904 election was rife with fraud and controversy. Alva Adams won election, but soon after he took office the Republican legislature declared James Peabody to be the actual winner, on the condition that Peabody immediately tender his resignation, postdated to the next day. Peabody's lieutenant governor, Jesse McDonald, then succeeded to the governorship.[6]
- ↑ The Colorado State Archives says Haggott served from 1902 to 1903; however, multiple sources say he served with Peabody[7] well into 1904,[8] so it is assumed the Archives are in error.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Represented the Democratic Party.
- ↑ Johnson resigned to take an elected seat in the United States Senate.[9]
- ↑ Knous resigned to take a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Colorado.[10]
- ↑ First term under a 1956 constitutional amendment, which lengthened terms to four years.
- ↑ Love resigned to be Director of the Office of Energy Policy.[11]
- ↑ Polis' first term expires on January 10, 2023.
References
- ↑ "CSG Releases 2013 Governor Salaries". The Council of State Governments. June 25, 2013. Archived from the original on October 22, 2014. Retrieved November 23, 2014.
- ↑ CO Const. art IV
- ↑ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. J. T. White Company. 1896. p. 450. Retrieved December 13, 2018.
- ↑ "Lieutenant Governors of Colorado". Colorado State Archives. Retrieved October 25, 2009.
- ↑ "General Notes". The New York Times. July 13, 1902. https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A04E1D9113BE733A25750C1A9619C946397D6CF. Retrieved October 25, 2009.
- ↑ Powe, Lucas A. (1992). The Fourth Estate and the Constitution: Freedom of the Press in America. University of California Press. pp. 2–3. ISBN 978-0-520-08038-6. Retrieved December 14, 2018.
- ↑ Goodspeed, Weston Arthur (1904). The Province and the States: Missouri, Kansas, Colorado. The Weston historical association. p. 481. Retrieved October 25, 2009.
- ↑ "Shots Fired from Windows". The New York Times. June 6, 1904. https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D0DE7DC1F3AE733A2575BC0A9609C946597D6CF. Retrieved October 25, 2009.
- ↑ "Edwin Carl Johnson". National Governors Association. Retrieved December 14, 2018.[dead link]
- ↑ "William Lee Knous". National Governors Association. Retrieved December 14, 2018.[dead link]
- ↑ "John Arthur Love". National Governors Association. Retrieved December 14, 2018.[dead link]
- ↑ "Former Colorado Gov. Vanderhoof dies at 91". [[The Gazette (Colorado Springs)|]] (Colorado Springs, Colorado). September 23, 2013. https://gazette.com/government/former-colorado-gov-vanderhoof-dies-at/article_ebf0c517-ccf6-52ba-bd07-edff8d041bc2.html. Retrieved December 14, 2018.