List of governors of New York
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The governor of New York is the head of the executive branch of New York's state government and the commander-in-chief of the state's National Guard.[1]
List
No. | Governor | Term in office | Time in office | Party | Election | Lieutenant Governor | |||
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1 | George Clinton | July 30, 1777 – June 30, 1795 |
17 years, 335 days | Democratic– Republican |
1777 | Pierre Van Cortlandt | |||
1780 | |||||||||
1783 | |||||||||
1786 | |||||||||
1789 | |||||||||
1792 | |||||||||
2 | rowspan="2" style="background-color:Template:United States political party color"| | John Jay | July 1, 1795 – June 30, 1801 |
5 years, 364 days | Federalist | 1795 | rowspan="2" style="background-color:Template:United States political party color"| | Stephen Van Rensselaer | |
1798 | |||||||||
1 | George Clinton | July 1, 1801 – June 30, 1804 |
2 years, 365 days | Democratic– Republican |
1801 | Jeremiah Van Rensselaer | |||
3 | Morgan Lewis | July 1, 1804 – June 30, 1807 |
2 years, 364 days | Democratic– Republican |
1804 | John Broome (died August 8, 1810) | |||
4 | Daniel D. Tompkins | July 1, 1807 – February 24, 1817 |
9 years, 238 days | Democratic– Republican |
1807 | ||||
1810 | |||||||||
Vacant | |||||||||
John Tayler (acting from January 29, 1811) | |||||||||
DeWitt Clinton (elected May 2, 1811) | |||||||||
1813 | John Tayler | ||||||||
1816 [a] | |||||||||
5 | John Tayler (Acting) |
February 24, 1817 – June 30, 1817 |
126 days | Democratic– Republican |
Philetus Swift (acting) | ||||
6 | DeWitt Clinton | July 1, 1817 – December 31, 1822 |
5 years, 183 days | Democratic– Republican |
1817 | John Tayler | |||
1820 | |||||||||
7 | Joseph C. Yates | January 1, 1823 – December 31, 1824 |
1 year, 365 days | Democratic– Republican |
1822 | Erastus Root | |||
6 | DeWitt Clinton | January 1, 1825 – February 11, 1828 |
3 years, 41 days | Democratic– Republican |
1824 | James Tallmadge Jr. | |||
1826 [b] |
Nathaniel Pitcher | ||||||||
8 | Nathaniel Pitcher | February 11, 1828 – December 31, 1828 |
324 days | Democratic– Republican |
Peter R. Livingston (acting) | ||||
Charles Dayan (acting from October 17, 1828) | |||||||||
9 | Martin Van Buren | January 1, 1829 – March 12, 1829 |
70 days | Democratic | 1828 [c] |
Enos T. Throop | |||
10 | Enos T. Throop | March 12, 1829 – December 31, 1832 |
3 years, 294 days | Democratic | Charles Stebbins (acting) | ||||
William M. Oliver (acting) | |||||||||
1830 | Edward Philip Livingston | ||||||||
11 | William L. Marcy | January 1, 1833 – December 31, 1838 |
5 years, 364 days | Democratic | 1832 | John Tracy | |||
1834 | |||||||||
1836 | |||||||||
12 | William H. Seward | January 1, 1839 – December 31, 1842 |
3 years, 364 days | Whig | 1838 | Luther Bradish | |||
1840 | |||||||||
13 | William C. Bouck | January 1, 1843 – December 31, 1844 |
1 year, 365 days | Democratic | 1842 | Daniel S. Dickinson | |||
14 | Silas Wright | January 1, 1845 – December 31, 1846 |
1 year, 364 days | Democratic | 1844 | Addison Gardiner | |||
15 | John Young | January 1, 1847 – December 31, 1848 |
1 year, 365 days | Whig | 1846 | ||||
Albert Lester (acting) | |||||||||
Hamilton Fish | |||||||||
16 | Hamilton Fish | January 1, 1849 – December 31, 1850 |
1 year, 364 days | Whig | 1848 | George W. Patterson | |||
17 | Washington Hunt | January 1, 1851 – December 31, 1852 |
1 year, 365 days | Whig | 1850 | Sanford E. Church | |||
18 | Horatio Seymour | January 1, 1853 – December 31, 1854 |
1 year, 364 days | Democratic | 1852 | ||||
19 | Myron H. Clark | January 1, 1855 – December 31, 1856 |
1 year, 365 days | Whig (fusion) |
1854 | Henry Jarvis Raymond | |||
20 | John A. King | January 1, 1857 – December 31, 1858 |
1 year, 364 days | Republican | 1856 | Henry R. Selden | |||
21 | Edwin D. Morgan | January 1, 1859 – December 31, 1862 |
3 years, 364 days | Republican | 1858 | Robert Campbell | |||
1860 | |||||||||
18 | Horatio Seymour | January 1, 1863 – December 31, 1864 |
1 year, 365 days | Democratic | 1862 | David R. Floyd-Jones | |||
22 | Reuben Fenton | January 1, 1865 – December 31, 1868 |
3 years, 365 days | Union | 1864 | Thomas G. Alvord | |||
1866 | Stewart L. Woodford | ||||||||
23 | John T. Hoffman | January 1, 1869 – December 31, 1872 |
3 years, 365 days | Democratic | 1868 | Allen C. Beach | |||
1870 | |||||||||
24 | John Adams Dix | January 1, 1873 – December 31, 1874 |
1 year, 364 days | Republican | 1872 | John C. Robinson | |||
25 | Samuel J. Tilden | January 1, 1875 – December 31, 1876 |
1 year, 365 days | Democratic | 1874 | William Dorsheimer | |||
26 | Lucius Robinson | January 1, 1877 – December 31, 1879 |
2 years, 364 days | Democratic | 1876 [d] | ||||
27 | Alonzo B. Cornell | January 1, 1880 – December 31, 1882 |
2 years, 364 days | Republican | 1879 | George Gilbert Hoskins | |||
28 | Grover Cleveland | January 1, 1883 – January 6, 1885 |
2 years, 5 days | Democratic | 1882 [e] |
David B. Hill | |||
29 | David B. Hill | January 6, 1885 – December 31, 1891 |
6 years, 359 days | Democratic | Dennis McCarthy (acting) | ||||
1885 | Edward F. Jones | ||||||||
1888 | |||||||||
30 | Roswell P. Flower | January 1, 1892 – December 31, 1894 |
2 years, 364 days | Democratic | 1891 | William F. Sheehan | |||
31 | Levi P. Morton | January 1, 1895 – December 31, 1896 |
1 year, 365 days | Republican | 1894 [f] |
Charles T. Saxton | |||
32 | Frank S. Black | January 1, 1897 – December 31, 1898 |
1 year, 364 days | Republican | 1896 | Timothy L. Woodruff | |||
33 | Theodore Roosevelt | January 1, 1899 – December 31, 1900 |
1 year, 364 days | Republican | 1898 | ||||
34 | Benjamin Odell | January 1, 1901 – December 31, 1904 |
3 years, 365 days | Republican | 1900 | ||||
1902 | Frank W. Higgins | ||||||||
35 | Frank W. Higgins | January 1, 1905 – December 31, 1906 |
1 year, 364 days | Republican | 1904 | Matthew Linn Bruce | |||
John Raines (acting) | |||||||||
36 | Charles Evans Hughes | January 1, 1907 – October 6, 1910 |
3 years, 278 days | Republican | 1906 | Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler | |||
1908 [g] |
Horace White | ||||||||
37 | Horace White | October 6, 1910 – December 31, 1910 |
86 days | Republican | George H. Cobb (acting) | ||||
38 | John Alden Dix | January 1, 1911 – December 31, 1912 |
1 year, 365 days | Democratic | 1910 | Thomas F. Conway | |||
39 | William Sulzer | January 1, 1913 – October 17, 1913 |
289 days | Democratic | 1912 [h] |
Martin H. Glynn | |||
40 | Martin H. Glynn | October 17, 1913 – December 31, 1914 |
75 days | Democratic | Robert F. Wagner (acting) | ||||
41 | Charles Seymour Whitman | January 1, 1915 – December 31, 1918 |
3 years, 364 days | Republican | 1914 | Edward Schoeneck | |||
1916 | |||||||||
42 | Al Smith | January 1, 1919 – December 31, 1920 |
1 year, 365 days | Democratic | 1918 | Harry C. Walker | |||
43 | Nathan L. Miller | January 1, 1921 – December 31, 1922 |
1 year, 364 days | Republican | 1920 | Jeremiah Wood | |||
Clayton R. Lusk (acting) | |||||||||
42 | Al Smith | January 1, 1923 – December 31, 1928 |
5 years, 365 days | Democratic | 1922 | George R. Lunn | |||
1924 | Seymour Lowman | ||||||||
1926 | Edwin Corning | ||||||||
44 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | January 1, 1929 – December 31, 1932 |
3 years, 365 days | Democratic | 1928 | Herbert H. Lehman | |||
1930 | |||||||||
45 | Herbert H. Lehman | January 1, 1933 – December 3, 1942 |
9 years, 336 days | Democratic | 1932 | M. William Bray | |||
1934 | |||||||||
1936 | |||||||||
1938 [i][j] |
Charles Poletti | ||||||||
46 | Charles Poletti | December 3, 1942 – December 31, 1942 |
28 days | Democratic | Joe R. Hanley (acting) | ||||
47 | Thomas E. Dewey | January 1, 1943 – December 31, 1954 |
11 years, 364 days | Republican | 1942 | Thomas W. Wallace | |||
1946 | Joe R. Hanley | ||||||||
1950 | Frank C. Moore | ||||||||
Arthur H. Wicks (acting) | |||||||||
Walter J. Mahoney (acting) | |||||||||
48 | W. Averell Harriman | January 1, 1955 – December 31, 1958 |
3 years, 364 days | Democratic | 1954 | George DeLuca | |||
49 | Nelson Rockefeller | January 1, 1959 – December 18, 1973 |
14 years, 351 days | Republican | 1958 | Malcolm Wilson | |||
1962 | |||||||||
1966 | |||||||||
1970 [k] | |||||||||
50 | Malcolm Wilson | December 18, 1973 – December 31, 1974 |
1 year, 13 days | Republican | Warren M. Anderson (acting) | ||||
51 | Hugh Carey | January 1, 1975 – December 31, 1982 |
7 years, 364 days | Democratic | 1974 | Mary Anne Krupsak | |||
1978 | Mario Cuomo | ||||||||
52 | Mario Cuomo | January 1, 1983 – December 31, 1994 |
11 years, 364 days | Democratic | 1982 | Alfred DelBello | |||
Warren M. Anderson (acting) | |||||||||
1986 | Stan Lundine | ||||||||
1990 | |||||||||
53 | George Pataki | January 1, 1995 – December 31, 2006 |
11 years, 364 days | Republican | 1994 | Betsy McCaughey Ross[l] | |||
1998 | Mary Donohue | ||||||||
2002 | |||||||||
54 | Eliot Spitzer | January 1, 2007 – March 17, 2008 |
1 year, 76 days | Democratic | 2006 [m] |
David Paterson | |||
55 | David Paterson | March 17, 2008 – December 31, 2010 |
2 years, 289 days | Democratic | Joseph Bruno (acting) | ||||
Dean Skelos (acting) | |||||||||
Malcolm Smith (acting) | |||||||||
Pedro Espada Jr. (acting)[n] | |||||||||
Richard Ravitch (Contested)[o] | |||||||||
Malcolm Smith (acting)[p] | |||||||||
Richard Ravitch[q] | |||||||||
56 | Andrew Cuomo | January 1, 2011 – Incumbent |
13 years, 241 days | Democratic | 2010 | Robert Duffy | |||
2014 | Kathy Hochul | ||||||||
2018 [r] |
Notes
- ↑ Tompkins resigned to be Vice President of the United States. As lieutenant governor, Tayler acted as governor until a successor was elected.
- ↑ Clinton died in office; as lieutenant governor, Pitcher succeeded him.
- ↑ Van Buren resigned to be United States Secretary of State; as lieutenant governor, Throop succeeded him.
- ↑ First term under an 1874 amendment to the constitution, which lengthened terms to three years.
- ↑ Cleveland resigned to be President of the United States; as lieutenant governor, Hill succeeded him.
- ↑ First term under the 1894 constitution, which shortened terms to two years.
- ↑ Hughes resigned to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; as lieutenant governor, White succeeded him.
- ↑ Sulzer was impeached and removed from office for campaign contribution fraud; as lieutenant governor, Glynn succeeded him.
- ↑ First term under the 1938 constitution, which lengthened terms to four years.
- ↑ Lehman resigned to be Director of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations at the U.S. Department of State; as lieutenant governor, Poletti succeeded him.
- ↑ Rockefeller resigned to devote himself to his Commission on Critical Choices for Americans; as lieutenant governor, Wilson succeeded him.
- ↑ Elected as Betsy McCaughey, but married and changed name in 1995.
- ↑ Spitzer resigned due to a prostitution scandal; as lieutenant governor, Paterson succeeded him.
- ↑ Espada was a Democrat, but combined with the Republicans in a change of leadership which triggered the 2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis.
- ↑ Ravitch was appointed on July 8, 2009, but the appointment was contested in the courts. On August 20, the Appellate Division rejected the appointment, and Ravitch vacated the office.
- ↑ Smith succeeded Espada on July 9 as temporary President of the New York State Senate, and claimed to be Acting Lieutenant Governor under the provisions of the New York State Constitution while the appointment of Ravitch was contested.
- ↑ On September 22, the New York Court of Appeals reversed the Appellate Division's ruling, and thus re-instated Ravitch to the lieutenant governorship, beginning on July 8.
- ↑ Cuomo's third term began January 1, 2019, and will expire December 31, 2022.
References
- ↑ New York Constitution article IV, § 3.