List of California governors

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Gavin Newsom, current Governor of California

This list includes all of the governors of the US state of California . The incumbents prior to the incorporation of the state can be found on the list of governors of Upper California .

list

number Surname Term of office Political party
1 Peter Hardeman Burnett December 20, 1849 -
January 9, 1851 		democrat
2 John McDougal January 9, 1851 -
January 8, 1852 		democrat
3 John Bigler January 8, 1852 -
January 9, 1856 		democrat
4th John Neely Johnson January 9, 1856 -
January 8, 1858 		Know-nothing party
5 John B. Weller January 8, 1858 -
January 9, 1860 		democrat
6th Milton Slocum Latham January 9, 1860 -
January 14, 1860 		democrat
7th John Gately Downey January 14, 1860 -
January 10, 1862 		democrat
8th Leland Stanford January 10, 1862 -
December 10, 1863 		republican
9 Frederick Ferdinand Low December 10, 1863 -
December 5, 1867 		unionist
10 Henry Huntly Haight December 5, 1867 -
December 8, 1871 		democrat
11 Newton Booth December 8, 1871 -
February 27, 1875 		republican
12 Romualdo Pacheco February 27, 1875 -
December 9, 1875 		republican
13 William Irwin December 9, 1875 -
January 8, 1880 		democrat
14th George Clement Perkins January 8, 1880 -
January 10, 1883 		republican
15th George Stoneman January 10, 1883 -
January 8, 1887 		democrat
16 Washington Montgomery Bartlett January 8, 1887 -
September 12, 1887 		democrat
17th Robert Whitney Waterman September 12, 1887 -
January 8, 1891 		republican
18th Henry Harrison Markham January 8, 1891 -
January 11, 1895 		republican
19th James Herbert Budd January 11, 1895 -
January 4, 1899 		democrat
20th Henry meets Gage January 4, 1899 -
January 6, 1903 		republican
21st George Cooper Pardee January 6, 1903 -
January 9, 1907 		republican
22nd James Norris Gillett January 9, 1907 -
January 3, 1911 		republican
23 Hiram Warren Johnson January 3, 1911 -
March 15, 1917 		republican
24 William Dennison Stephens March 15, 1917 -
January 9, 1923 		republican
25th Friend William Richardson January 9, 1923 -
January 4, 1927 		republican
26th Clement Calhoun Young January 4, 1927 -
January 6, 1931 		republican
27 James Rolph Jr. January 6, 1931 -
June 2, 1934 		republican
28 Frank Finley Merriam June 2, 1934 -
January 2, 1939 		republican
29 Culbert Levy Olson January 2, 1939 -
January 4, 1943 		democrat
30th Earl Warren January 4, 1943 -
October 5, 1953 		republican
31 Goodwin Jess Knight October 5, 1953 -
January 5, 1959 		republican
32 Edmund Gerald Brown Sr. Jan. 5, 1959 -
January 2, 1967 		democrat
33 Ronald Wilson Reagan Jan. 2, 1967 -
January 6, 1975 		republican
34 Edmund Brown Jr. January 6, 1975 -
January 3, 1983 		democrat
35 Courken George Deukmejian January 3, 1983 -
January 7, 1991 		republican
36 Peter Barton Wilson January 7, 1991 -
January 4, 1999 		republican
37 Joseph Graham Davis January 4, 1999 -
November 17, 2003 		democrat
38 Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger November 17, 2003 -
January 3, 2011 		republican
39 Edmund Brown Jr. January 3, 2011 -
January 7, 2019 		democrat
40 Gavin Newsom since January 7, 2019 democrat

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