List of Connecticut Governors

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List of Connecticut Governors

Colony of Connecticut

Surname Term of office
John Haynes 1639-1640
Edward Hopkins 1640-1641
John Haynes 1641-1642
George Wyllys 1642-1643
John Haynes 1643-1644
Edward Hopkins 1644-1645
John Haynes 1645-1646
Edward Hopkins 1646-1647
John Haynes 1647-1648
Edward Hopkins 1648-1649
John Haynes 1649-1650
Edward Hopkins 1650-1651
John Haynes 1651-1652
Edward Hopkins 1652-1653
John Haynes 1653-1654
Edward Hopkins 1654-1655
Thomas Welles 1655-1656
John Webster 1656-1657
John Winthrop 1657-1658
Thomas Welles 1658-1659
John Winthrop 1659-1662

New Haven Colony

Surname Term of office
Theophilus Eaton 1639-1658
Francis Newman 1658-1660
William Leete 1661-1664

In 1662, New Haven Colony was incorporated into Connecticut Colony.

Colony of Connecticut

Surname Term of office
John Winthrop 1662-1676
William Leete 1676-1683
Robert Treat 1683-1687
Edmund Andros * 1687-1689
Robert Treat 1689-1698
Fitz-John Winthrop 1698-1707
Gurdon Saltonstall 1707-1724
Joseph Talcott 1724-1741
Jonathan Law 1741-1750
Roger Wolcott 1750-1754
Thomas Fitch 1754-1766
William Pitkin 1766-1769
Jonathan Trumbull 1769-1776

* From 1687 to 1689 Connecticut was part of the Dominion of New England

State of Connecticut

Surname Term of office Political party
Jonathan Trumbull 1776-1784
Matthew Griswold 1784-1786 Federalist Party
Samuel Huntington 1786-1788 Federalist Party

State of Connecticut

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Surname Term of office Political party
Samuel Huntington 1788-1796 Federalist Party
Oliver Wolcott 1796-1797 Federalist Party
Jonathan Trumbull Jr. 1797-1809 Federalist Party
John Treadwell 1809-1811 Federalist Party
Roger Griswold 1811-1812 Federalist Party
John Cotton Smith 1812-1817 Federalist Party
Oliver Wolcott Jr. 1817-1827 Toleration party
Gideon Tomlinson 1827-1831 Democratic Republican
John Samuel Peters 1831-1833 National Republican Party
Henry Waggaman Edwards 1833-1834 democrat
Samuel Augustus Foot 1834-1835 Whig
Henry Waggaman Edwards 1835-1838 democrat
William Wolcott Ellsworth 1838-1842 Whig
Chauncey Fitch Cleveland 1842-1844 democrat
Roger Sherman Baldwin 1844-1846 Whig
Isaac Toucey 1846-1847 democrat
Clark Bissell 1847-1849 Whig
Joseph Trumbull 1849-1850 Whig
Thomas H. Seymour 1850-1853 democrat
Charles Hobby Pond 1853-1854 democrat
Henry Dutton 1854-1855 Whig
William Thomas Minor 1855-1857 Know-nothing party
Alexander Hamilton Holley 1857-1858 Whig
William Alfred Buckingham 1858-1866 republican
Joseph Roswell Hawley 1866-1867 republican
James Edward English 1867-1869 democrat
Marshall Jewell 1869-1870 republican
James Edward English 1870-1871 democrat
Marshall Jewell 1871-1872 republican
Charles Roberts Ingersoll 1873-1877 democrat
Richard Dudley Hubbard 1877-1879 democrat
Charles Bartlett Andrews 1879-1881 republican
Hobart Baldwin Bigelow 1881-1883 republican
Thomas MacDonald Waller 1883-1885 democrat
Henry Baldwin Harrison 1885-1887 republican
Phineas Chapman Lounsbury 1887-1889 republican
Morgan Gardner Bulkeley 1889-1893 republican
Luzon Burritt Morris 1893-1895 democrat
Owen Vincent Coffin 1895-1897 republican
Lorrin Alamson Cooke 1897-1899 republican
George Edward Lounsbury 1899-1901 republican
George Payne McLean 1901-1903 republican
Abiram Chamberlain 1903-1905 republican
Henry Roberts 1905-1907 republican
Rollin Simmons Woodruff 1907-1909 republican
George Leavens Lilley 1909 republican
Frank Bentley Weeks 1909-1911 republican
Simeon Eben Baldwin 1911-1915 democrat
Marcus Hensey Holcomb 1915-1921 republican
Everett John Lake 1921-1923 republican
Charles Augustus Templeton 1923-1925 republican
Hiram Bingham III 1925 republican
John Harper Trumbull 1925-1931 republican
Wilbur Lucius Cross 1931-1939 democrat
Raymond Earl Baldwin 1939-1941 republican
Robert Augustine Hurley 1941-1943 democrat
Raymond Earl Baldwin 1943-1946 republican
Charles Wilbert Snow 1946-1947 democrat
James Lukens McConaughy 1947-1948 republican
James Coughlin Shannon 1948-1949 republican
Chester Bliss Bowles 1949-1951 democrat
John Davis Lodge 1951-1955 republican
Abraham Alexander Ribicoff 1955-1961 democrat
John Noel Dempsey 1961-1971 democrat
Thomas Joseph Meskill 1971-1975 republican
Ella Tambussi Grasso 1975-1980 democrat
William Atchison O'Neill 1980-1991 democrat
Lowell Palmer Weicker 1991-1995 A Connecticut Party
John Grosvenor Rowland 1995-2004 republican
Mary Jodi Rell 2004-2011 Republican
Dannel Patrick Malloy 2011-2019 democrat
Edward Miner Lamont since 2019 democrat

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