List of New Mexico governors

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Michelle Lujan Grisham, the current Governor of New Mexico

This list includes all governors of the US state of New Mexico and the pre-existing New Mexico Territory, as well as the military governors serving from 1846 to 1851.

Military governors

Surname Term of office
Stephen Watts Kearny August 18, 1846–26. September 1846
Alexander William Doniphan September 26, 1846-14. December 1846
Sterling Price December 14, 1846-1848
John MacRae Washington 1848-1849
John Munroe 1849-1851

New Mexico Territory

Surname Term of office Political party
Charles Bent 1846-1847
Donaciano Vigil 1847-1848
James S. Calhoun 1851-1852
Edwin Vose Sumner (interim) 1852
William Carr Lane 1852-1853
David Meriwether 1853-1857 democrat
Abraham Rencher 1857-1861 democrat
Henry Connelly 1861-1865
William Frederick Milton Arny 1865-1866 republican
Robert Byington Mitchell 1866-1869
William Anderson Pile 1869-1871 republican
Marsh Giddings 1871-1875 republican
William Gillet Ritch 1875
Samuel Beach Axtell 1875-1878 republican
Lewis Wallace 1878-1881
Lionel Allen Sheldon 1881-1885 republican
Edmund Gibson Ross 1885-1889 republican
LeBaron Bradford Prince 1889-1893 republican
William Taylor Thornton 1893-1897 democrat
Miguel Antonio Otero 1897-1906 republican
Herbert James Hagerman 1906-1907
George Curry 1907-1910 republican
William J. Mills 1910-1912 republican

State of New Mexico

Surname Term of office Political party
William Calhoun McDonald 1912-1917 democrat
Ezequiel Cabeza de Baca 1917 democrat
Washington Ellsworth Lindsey 1917-1919 republican
Octaviano Ambrosio Larrazolo 1919-1921 republican
Merritt Cramer Mechem 1921-1923 republican
James Fielding Hinkle 1923-1925 democrat
Arthur Thomas Hannett 1925-1927 democrat
Richard Charles Dillon 1927-1931 republican
Arthur Seligman 1931-1933 democrat
Andrew W. Hockenhull 1933-1935 republican
Clyde K. Tingley 1935-1939 democrat
John Esten Miles 1939-1943 democrat
John Joseph Dempsey 1943-1947 democrat
Thomas Jewett Mabry 1947-1951 democrat
Edwin Leard Mechem 1951-1955 republican
John Field Simms 1955-1957 democrat
Edwin Leard Mechem 1957-1959 republican
John Burroughs 1959-1961 democrat
Edwin Leard Mechem 1961–1962 republican
Thomas Felix Bolack 1962-1963 republican
Jack M. Campbell 1963-1967 democrat
David Francis Cargo 1967-1971 republican
Bruce King 1971-1975 democrat
Raymond S. Apodaca 1975-1979 democrat
Bruce King 1979-1983 democrat
Toney Anaya 1983-1987 democrat
Garrey Edward Carruthers 1987-1991 republican
Bruce King 1991-1995 democrat
Gary Earl Johnson 1995-2003 republican
William Blaine Richardson 2003-2010 democrat
Susana Martinez 2011-2019 Republican
Michelle Lujan Grisham 2019- Democrat

See also