List of governors of New York

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.			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
2	1798	John Jay	July 1, 1795 – June 30, 1801	5 years, 364 days	Federalist			Stephen Van Rensselaer
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]		John Tayler
5		John Tayler (Acting)	February 24, 1817 – June 30, 1817	126 days	Democratic– Republican	1816 ^[a]		Philetus Swift (acting)
6		DeWitt Clinton	July 1, 1817 – December 31, 1822	5 years, 183 days	Democratic– Republican	1817		John Tayler
6		DeWitt Clinton	July 1, 1817 – December 31, 1822	5 years, 183 days	Democratic– Republican	1820		John Tayler
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.
6		DeWitt Clinton	January 1, 1825 – February 11, 1828	3 years, 41 days	Democratic– Republican	1826 ^[b]		Nathaniel Pitcher
8		Nathaniel Pitcher	February 11, 1828 – December 31, 1828	324 days	Democratic– Republican			Peter R. Livingston (acting)
8		Nathaniel Pitcher	February 11, 1828 – December 31, 1828	324 days	Democratic– Republican			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
12		William H. Seward	January 1, 1839 – December 31, 1842	3 years, 364 days	Whig	1840		Luther Bradish
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		Addison Gardiner
								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		Sanford E. Church
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
21		Edwin D. Morgan	January 1, 1859 – December 31, 1862	3 years, 364 days	Republican	1860		Robert Campbell
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
22		Reuben Fenton	January 1, 1865 – December 31, 1868	3 years, 365 days	Union	1866		Stewart L. Woodford
23		John T. Hoffman	January 1, 1869 – December 31, 1872	3 years, 365 days	Democratic	1868		Allen C. Beach
23		John T. Hoffman	January 1, 1869 – December 31, 1872	3 years, 365 days	Democratic	1870		Allen C. Beach
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]		William Dorsheimer
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	1882 ^[e]		Dennis McCarthy (acting)
						1885		Edward F. Jones
						1888		Edward F. Jones
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
34		Benjamin Odell	January 1, 1901 – December 31, 1904	3 years, 365 days	Republican	1902		Frank W. Higgins
35		Frank W. Higgins	January 1, 1905 – December 31, 1906	1 year, 364 days	Republican	1904		Matthew Linn Bruce
35		Frank W. Higgins	January 1, 1905 – December 31, 1906	1 year, 364 days	Republican	1904		John Raines (acting)
36		Charles Evans Hughes	January 1, 1907 – October 6, 1910	3 years, 278 days	Republican	1906		Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler
36		Charles Evans Hughes	January 1, 1907 – October 6, 1910	3 years, 278 days	Republican	1908 ^[g]		Horace White
37		Horace White	October 6, 1910 – December 31, 1910	86 days	Republican	1908 ^[g]		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	1912 ^[h]		Robert F. Wagner (acting)
41		Charles Seymour Whitman	January 1, 1915 – December 31, 1918	3 years, 364 days	Republican	1914		Edward Schoeneck
41		Charles Seymour Whitman	January 1, 1915 – December 31, 1918	3 years, 364 days	Republican	1916		Edward Schoeneck
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
43		Nathan L. Miller	January 1, 1921 – December 31, 1922	1 year, 364 days	Republican	1920		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
44		Franklin D. Roosevelt	January 1, 1929 – December 31, 1932	3 years, 365 days	Democratic	1930		Herbert H. Lehman
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	1938 ^[i]^[j]		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	1970 ^[k]		Warren M. Anderson (acting)
51		Hugh Carey	January 1, 1975 – December 31, 1982	7 years, 364 days	Democratic	1974		Mary Anne Krupsak
51		Hugh Carey	January 1, 1975 – December 31, 1982	7 years, 364 days	Democratic	1978		Mario Cuomo
52		Mario Cuomo	January 1, 1983 – December 31, 1994	11 years, 364 days	Democratic	1982		Alfred DelBello
						1982		Warren M. Anderson (acting)
						1986		Stan Lundine
						1990		Stan Lundine
53		George Pataki	January 1, 1995 – December 31, 2006	11 years, 364 days	Republican	1994		Betsy McCaughey Ross^[l]
						1998		Mary Donohue
						2002		Mary Donohue
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]		Kathy Hochul

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.

[2] Tompkins resigned to be Vice President of the United States. As lieutenant governor, Tayler acted as governor until a successor was elected.

[3] Clinton died in office; as lieutenant governor, Pitcher succeeded him.

[4] Van Buren resigned to be United States Secretary of State; as lieutenant governor, Throop succeeded him.

[5] First term under an 1874 amendment to the constitution, which lengthened terms to three years.

[6] Cleveland resigned to be President of the United States; as lieutenant governor, Hill succeeded him.

[7] First term under the 1894 constitution, which shortened terms to two years.

[8] Hughes resigned to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; as lieutenant governor, White succeeded him.

[9] Sulzer was impeached and removed from office for campaign contribution fraud; as lieutenant governor, Glynn succeeded him.

[10] First term under the 1938 constitution, which lengthened terms to four years.

[11] Lehman resigned to be Director of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations at the U.S. Department of State; as lieutenant governor, Poletti succeeded him.

[12] Rockefeller resigned to devote himself to his Commission on Critical Choices for Americans; as lieutenant governor, Wilson succeeded him.

[13] Elected as Betsy McCaughey, but married and changed name in 1995.

[14] Spitzer resigned due to a prostitution scandal; as lieutenant governor, Paterson succeeded him.

[15] Espada was a Democrat, but combined with the Republicans in a change of leadership which triggered the 2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis.

[16] 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.

[17] 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.

[18] 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.

[19] Cuomo's third term began January 1, 2019, and will expire December 31, 2022.

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