List of governors of Arizona

The following is a list of the governors of Arizona. The area that eventually became the U.S. state of Arizona was initially part of Mexico, ceded to the United States after the Mexican-American War; land was later added by the Gadsden Purchase. It was originally organized as part of New Mexico Territory; Arizona Territory was split from New Mexico Territory on February 24 1863, and lost some land to Nevada shortly thereafter. Arizona became a state on February 14 1912.

The governer's powers are established by Article 5 of the Arizona Constitution. He is elected for four year terms, but may not serve more than two consecutive terms (part of a term counts as a full term). He must be at least 25 years old, have been a US citizen for ten years and an Arizona citizen for five years. He has a line-item veto on money appropriations, but otherwise the veto power and procedure is the same as for the president of the United States. (However he can not veto emergency measures or bills that were voted for by the people in a referendum.) In the event of a vacancy in the office, the Arizona secretary of state, if elected, succeeds to the office (otherwise the next elected state officer succeeds).

Governors of Arizona Territory

Name	Term	Party
John Noble Goodwin	Republican	1863-1866
Richard Cunningham McCormick	Republican	1866-1868
James P.T. Carter	Republican, acting	1868-1869
Anson P.K. Safford	Republican	1869-1877
John Philo Hoyt	Republican	1877-1878
John Charles Frémont	Republican	1878-1881
John Jay Gosper	Republican, acting	1881-1882
Frederick Augustus Tritle	Republican	1882-1885
Conrad Meyer Zulick	Democrat	1885-1889
Lewis Wolfley	Republican	1889-1890
John Nichol Irwin	Republican	1890-1892
Nathan Oakes Murphy	Republican	1892-1893
Louis Cameron Hughes	Democrat	1893-1896
Charles Morelle Bruce	Democrat, acting	1896
Benjamin Joseph Franklin	Republican	1896-1897
Myron Hawley McCord	Republican	1897-1898
Nathan Oakes Murphy	Republican	1898-1902
Alexander Oswald Brodie	Republican	1902-1905
William Francis Nichols	Republican, acting	1905
Joseph Henry Kibbey	Republican	1905-1909
Richard Elihu Sloan	Republican	1909-1911
George W.P. Hunt	Democrat	1911-1912

Governors of Arizona

#	Name	Term	Party
1	George W.P. Hunt	Democratic	1912-1917
2	Thomas Edward Campbell	Republican	1917-1917
3	George W.P. Hunt	Democratic	1917-1919
4	Thomas Edward Campbell	Republican	1919-1923
5	George W.P. Hunt	Democratic	1923-1929
6	John Calhoun Phillips	Republican	1929-1931
7	George W.P. Hunt	Democratic	1931-1933
8	Benjamin Baker Moeur	Democratic	1933-1937
9	Rawghlie Clement Stanford	Democratic	1937-1939
10	Robert Taylor Jones	Democratic	1939-1941
11	Sidney Preston Osborn	Democratic	1941-1948
12	Dan Edward Garvey	Democratic	1948-1951
13	John Howard Pyle	Republican	1951-1955
14	Ernest W. McFarland	Democratic	1955-1959
15	Paul Jones Fannin	Republican	1959-1965
16	Samuel Pearson Goddard, Jr.	Democratic	1965-1967
17	Jack Richard Williams	Republican	1967-1975
18	Raul Hector Castro	Democratic	1975-1977
19	Wesley Bolin	Democratic	1977-1978
20	Bruce Babbitt	Democratic	1978-1987
21	Evan Mecham	Republican	1987-1988
22	Rose Perica Mofford	Democratic	1988-1991
23	Fife Symington	Republican	1991-1997
24	Jane Dee Hull	Republican	1997-2003
25	Janet Napolitano	Democratic	2003—

Earlier governors

• New Mexico Territory from 1850 to 1863, see List of Governors of New Mexico.
• Prior to the Mexican Cession, the land that became Arizona was part of the Mexican state of Sonora (see Governor of Sonora) and the Mexican territory of Alta California (see List of pre-statehood governors of California).
• The Confederate States of America created their own Arizona Territory in the southern halves of modern-day Arizona and New Mexico; its only governors were Lewis Owings and John Baylor.