List of governors of New York

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Andrew Cuomo, the 56th and current governor of New York

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

Governors of the State of New York
No. Governor Term in office Time in office Party Election Lieutenant Governor
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

  1. Tompkins resigned to be Vice President of the United States. As lieutenant governor, Tayler acted as governor until a successor was elected.
  2. Clinton died in office; as lieutenant governor, Pitcher succeeded him.
  3. Van Buren resigned to be United States Secretary of State; as lieutenant governor, Throop succeeded him.
  4. First term under an 1874 amendment to the constitution, which lengthened terms to three years.
  5. Cleveland resigned to be President of the United States; as lieutenant governor, Hill succeeded him.
  6. First term under the 1894 constitution, which shortened terms to two years.
  7. Hughes resigned to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; as lieutenant governor, White succeeded him.
  8. Sulzer was impeached and removed from office for campaign contribution fraud; as lieutenant governor, Glynn succeeded him.
  9. First term under the 1938 constitution, which lengthened terms to four years.
  10. Lehman resigned to be Director of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations at the U.S. Department of State; as lieutenant governor, Poletti succeeded him.
  11. Rockefeller resigned to devote himself to his Commission on Critical Choices for Americans; as lieutenant governor, Wilson succeeded him.
  12. Elected as Betsy McCaughey, but married and changed name in 1995.
  13. Spitzer resigned due to a prostitution scandal; as lieutenant governor, Paterson succeeded him.
  14. Espada was a Democrat, but combined with the Republicans in a change of leadership which triggered the 2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. Cuomo's third term began January 1, 2019, and will expire December 31, 2022.

References

  1. New York Constitution article IV, § 3.