List of Georgia governors

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This list includes all of the governors of the U.S. state of Georgia since 1775.

Georgia

Surname Term of office
Archibald Bulloch 1776-1777
Button Gwinnett 1777
John Adam Treutlen 1777-1778
John Houstoun 1778-1779
John Wereat 1779-1780
George Walton 1779-1780
Richard Howly 1780-1780
Stephen Heard 1780-1780
Myrick Davies 1780-1781
Nathan Brownson 1781-1782
John Martin 1782-1783
Lyman Hall 1783-1784
John Houstoun 1784-1785
Samuel Elbert 1785-1786
Edward Telfair 1786-1787
George Mathews 1787-1788

State of Georgia

Surname Term of office Political party
George Handley 1788-1789 independent
George Walton 1789-1790 Democratic Republican
Edward Telfair 1790-1793 Democratic Republican
George Mathews 1793-1796 Democratic Republican
Jared Irwin 1796-1798 Democratic Republican
James Jackson 1798-1801 Democratic Republican
David Emanuel 1801-1801 Democratic Republican
Josiah Tattnall 1801-1802 Democratic Republican
John Milledge 1802-1806 Democratic Republican
Jared Irwin 1806-1809 Democratic Republican
David Brydie Mitchell 1809-1813 Democratic Republican
Peter Early 1813-1815 Democratic Republican
David Brydie Mitchell 1815-1817 Democratic Republican
William Rabun 1817-1819 Democratic Republican
Matthew Talbot 1819-1819 Democratic Republican
John Clark 1819-1823 Democratic Republican
George Michael Troup 1823-1827 Democratic Republican
John Forsyth 1827-1829 Democratic Republican
George Rockingham Gilmer 1829-1831 Whig
Wilson Lumpkin 1831-1835 democrat
William Schley 1835-1837 democrat
George Rockingham Gilmer 1837-1839 Whig
Charles James McDonald 1839-1843 democrat
George Walker Crawford 1843-1847 Whig
George Washington Bonaparte Towns 1847-1851 democrat
Howell Cobb 1851-1853 democrat
Herschel Vespasian Johnson 1853-1857 democrat
Joseph Emerson Brown 1857-1865 democrat
James Johnson 1865-1865 democrat
Charles Jones Jenkins 1865-1868 democrat
Thomas Howard Ruger 1868-1868
Rufus Brown Bullock 1868-1871 republican
Benjamin F. Conley 1871-1872 republican
James Milton Smith 1872-1877 democrat
Alfred Holt Colquitt 1877-1882 democrat
Alexander Hamilton Stephens 1882-1883 democrat
James S. Boynton 1883 democrat
Henry Dickerson McDaniel 1883-1886 democrat
John Brown Gordon 1886-1890 democrat
William Jonathan Northen 1890-1894 democrat
William Yates Atkinson 1894-1898 democrat
Allen Daniel Candler 1898-1902 democrat
Joseph Meriwether Terrell 1902-1907 democrat
Michael Hoke Smith 1907-1909 democrat
Joseph Mackey Brown 1909-1911 democrat
Michael Hoke Smith 1911-1911 democrat
John Marshall Slaton 1911-1912 democrat
Joseph Mackey Brown 1912-1913 democrat
John Marshall Slaton 1913-1915 democrat
Nathaniel Edwin Harris 1915-1917 democrat
Hugh Manson Dorsey 1917-1921 democrat
Thomas William Hardwick 1921-1923 democrat
Clifford Mitchell Walker 1923-1927 democrat
Lamartine Griffin Hardman 1927-1931 democrat
Richard Brevard Russell 1931-1933 democrat
Eugene Talmadge 1933-1937 democrat
Eurith Dickenson Rivers 1937-1941 democrat
Eugene Talmadge 1941-1943 democrat
Ellis Arnall 1943-1947 democrat
Melvin Ernest Thompson 1947-1948 democrat
Herman Eugene Talmadge 1948-1955 democrat
Marvin Griffin 1955-1959 democrat
Samuel Ernest Vandiver 1959-1963 democrat
Carl Edward Sanders 1963-1967 democrat
Lester Garfield Maddox 1967-1971 democrat
James Earl Carter 1971-1975 democrat
George Busbee 1975-1983 democrat
Joe Frank Harris 1983-1991 democrat
Cell Bryan Miller 1991-1999 democrat
Roy Barnes 1999-2003 democrat
George Ervin Perdue 2003-2011 republican
John Nathan Deal 2011-2019 republican
Brian Porter Kemp since 2019 republican

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