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.	Governor			Term in office	Time in office	Party	Election	Lieutenant Governor
1	75px		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	75px		George Clinton	July 1, 1801 – June 30, 1804	2 years, 365 days	Democratic– Republican	1801		Jeremiah Van Rensselaer
3	75px		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	75px		John Tayler (Acting)	February 24, 1817 – June 30, 1817	126 days	Democratic– Republican	1816 ^[a]		Philetus Swift (acting)
6	File:DeWitt Clinton by Rembrandt Peale.jpg		DeWitt Clinton	July 1, 1817 – December 31, 1822	5 years, 183 days	Democratic– Republican	1817		John Tayler
6	File:DeWitt Clinton by Rembrandt Peale.jpg		DeWitt Clinton	July 1, 1817 – December 31, 1822	5 years, 183 days	Democratic– Republican	1820		John Tayler
7	75px		Joseph C. Yates	January 1, 1823 – December 31, 1824	1 year, 365 days	Democratic– Republican	1822		Erastus Root
6	File:DeWitt Clinton by Rembrandt Peale.jpg		DeWitt Clinton	January 1, 1825 – February 11, 1828	3 years, 41 days	Democratic– Republican	1824		James Tallmadge Jr.
6	File:DeWitt Clinton by Rembrandt Peale.jpg		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	75px		Martin Van Buren	January 1, 1829 – March 12, 1829	70 days	Democratic	1828 ^[c]		Enos T. Throop
10	File:EThroop.png		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	75px		William L. Marcy	January 1, 1833 – December 31, 1838	5 years, 364 days	Democratic	1832		John Tracy
							1834
							1836
12	75px		William H. Seward	January 1, 1839 – December 31, 1842	3 years, 364 days	Whig	1838		Luther Bradish
12	75px		William H. Seward	January 1, 1839 – December 31, 1842	3 years, 364 days	Whig	1840		Luther Bradish
13	75px		William C. Bouck	January 1, 1843 – December 31, 1844	1 year, 365 days	Democratic	1842		Daniel S. Dickinson
14	File:Silas Wright, Jr. (Engraved Portrait).jpg		Silas Wright	January 1, 1845 – December 31, 1846	1 year, 364 days	Democratic	1844		Addison Gardiner
15	75px		John Young	January 1, 1847 – December 31, 1848	1 year, 365 days	Whig	1846		Addison Gardiner
									Albert Lester (acting)
									Hamilton Fish
16	75px		Hamilton Fish	January 1, 1849 – December 31, 1850	1 year, 364 days	Whig	1848		George W. Patterson
17	75px		Washington Hunt	January 1, 1851 – December 31, 1852	1 year, 365 days	Whig	1850		Sanford E. Church
18	75px		Horatio Seymour	January 1, 1853 – December 31, 1854	1 year, 364 days	Democratic	1852		Sanford E. Church
19	75px		Myron H. Clark	January 1, 1855 – December 31, 1856	1 year, 365 days	Whig (fusion)	1854		Henry Jarvis Raymond
20	75px		John A. King	January 1, 1857 – December 31, 1858	1 year, 364 days	Republican	1856		Henry R. Selden
21	75px		Edwin D. Morgan	January 1, 1859 – December 31, 1862	3 years, 364 days	Republican	1858		Robert Campbell
21	75px		Edwin D. Morgan	January 1, 1859 – December 31, 1862	3 years, 364 days	Republican	1860		Robert Campbell
18	File:Horatio Seymour - Brady-Handysmall.png		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	File:John T. Hoffman (portrait by Jacob Lazarus).png		John T. Hoffman	January 1, 1869 – December 31, 1872	3 years, 365 days	Democratic	1868		Allen C. Beach
23	File:John T. Hoffman (portrait by Jacob Lazarus).png		John T. Hoffman	January 1, 1869 – December 31, 1872	3 years, 365 days	Democratic	1870		Allen C. Beach
24	75px		John Adams Dix	January 1, 1873 – December 31, 1874	1 year, 364 days	Republican	1872		John C. Robinson
25	File:SJTilden of NY.jpg		Samuel J. Tilden	January 1, 1875 – December 31, 1876	1 year, 365 days	Democratic	1874		William Dorsheimer
26	File:Lucius Robinson (portrait by George Waters).png		Lucius Robinson	January 1, 1877 – December 31, 1879	2 years, 364 days	Democratic	1876 ^[d]		William Dorsheimer
27	75px		Alonzo B. Cornell	January 1, 1880 – December 31, 1882	2 years, 364 days	Republican	1879		George Gilbert Hoskins
28	75px		Grover Cleveland	January 1, 1883 – January 6, 1885	2 years, 5 days	Democratic	1882 ^[e]		David B. Hill
29	75px		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	75px		Roswell P. Flower	January 1, 1892 – December 31, 1894	2 years, 364 days	Democratic	1891		William F. Sheehan
31	75px		Levi P. Morton	January 1, 1895 – December 31, 1896	1 year, 365 days	Republican	1894 ^[f]		Charles T. Saxton
32	75px		Frank S. Black	January 1, 1897 – December 31, 1898	1 year, 364 days	Republican	1896		Timothy L. Woodruff
33	75px		Theodore Roosevelt	January 1, 1899 – December 31, 1900	1 year, 364 days	Republican	1898
34	75px		Benjamin Odell	January 1, 1901 – December 31, 1904	3 years, 365 days	Republican	1900
34	75px		Benjamin Odell	January 1, 1901 – December 31, 1904	3 years, 365 days	Republican	1902		Frank W. Higgins
35	75px		Frank W. Higgins	January 1, 1905 – December 31, 1906	1 year, 364 days	Republican	1904		Matthew Linn Bruce
35	75px		Frank W. Higgins	January 1, 1905 – December 31, 1906	1 year, 364 days	Republican	1904		John Raines (acting)
36	75px		Charles Evans Hughes	January 1, 1907 – October 6, 1910	3 years, 278 days	Republican	1906		Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler
36	75px		Charles Evans Hughes	January 1, 1907 – October 6, 1910	3 years, 278 days	Republican	1908 ^[g]		Horace White
37	75px		Horace White	October 6, 1910 – December 31, 1910	86 days	Republican	1908 ^[g]		George H. Cobb (acting)
38	75px		John Alden Dix	January 1, 1911 – December 31, 1912	1 year, 365 days	Democratic	1910		Thomas F. Conway
39	File:SulzerTheBroadAx.PNG		William Sulzer	January 1, 1913 – October 17, 1913	289 days	Democratic	1912 ^[h]		Martin H. Glynn
40	75px		Martin H. Glynn	October 17, 1913 – December 31, 1914	75 days	Democratic	1912 ^[h]		Robert F. Wagner (acting)
41	75px		Charles Seymour Whitman	January 1, 1915 – December 31, 1918	3 years, 364 days	Republican	1914		Edward Schoeneck
41	75px		Charles Seymour Whitman	January 1, 1915 – December 31, 1918	3 years, 364 days	Republican	1916		Edward Schoeneck
42	75px		Al Smith	January 1, 1919 – December 31, 1920	1 year, 365 days	Democratic	1918		Harry C. Walker
43	File:NathanLMiller.jpg		Nathan L. Miller	January 1, 1921 – December 31, 1922	1 year, 364 days	Republican	1920		Jeremiah Wood
43	File:NathanLMiller.jpg		Nathan L. Miller	January 1, 1921 – December 31, 1922	1 year, 364 days	Republican	1920		Clayton R. Lusk (acting)
42	75px		Al Smith	January 1, 1923 – December 31, 1928	5 years, 365 days	Democratic	1922		George R. Lunn
							1924		Seymour Lowman
							1926		Edwin Corning
44	75px		Franklin D. Roosevelt	January 1, 1929 – December 31, 1932	3 years, 365 days	Democratic	1928		Herbert H. Lehman
44	75px		Franklin D. Roosevelt	January 1, 1929 – December 31, 1932	3 years, 365 days	Democratic	1930		Herbert H. Lehman
45	75px		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	File:Charles Poletti.jpg		Charles Poletti	December 3, 1942 – December 31, 1942	28 days	Democratic	1938 ^[i]^[j]		Joe R. Hanley (acting)
47	75px		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	75px		W. Averell Harriman	January 1, 1955 – December 31, 1958	3 years, 364 days	Democratic	1954		George DeLuca
49	75px		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	75px		Hugh Carey	January 1, 1975 – December 31, 1982	7 years, 364 days	Democratic	1974		Mary Anne Krupsak
51	75px		Hugh Carey	January 1, 1975 – December 31, 1982	7 years, 364 days	Democratic	1978		Mario Cuomo
52	File:Governor Mario Cuomo of NY in 1987 color (cropped).jpg		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	75px		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	75px		Eliot Spitzer	January 1, 2007 – March 17, 2008	1 year, 76 days	Democratic	2006 ^[m]		David Paterson
55	File:David Paterson 2 by David Shankbone.jpg		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	File:Andrew Cuomo 2019.jpg		Andrew Cuomo	January 1, 2011 – Incumbent	15 years, 13 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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