List of New York Governors

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Andrew Cuomo, the current governor of New York

The governor of New York is the highest incumbent in the US state of New York. The office has existed since the first New York Constitution came into effect in 1777.

Surname Term of office Political party
George Clinton 1777-1795 from 1789 Democratic Republican
John Jay 1795-1801 federalist
George Clinton 1801-1804 Democratic Republican
Morgan Lewis 1804-1807 Democratic Republican
Daniel D. Tompkins 1807-1817 Democratic Republican
John Tayler 1817 Democratic Republican
DeWitt Clinton 1817-1822 Democratic Republican
Joseph Christopher Yates 1823-1824 Democratic Republican
DeWitt Clinton 1825-1828 Democratic Republican
Nathaniel Pitcher 1828 Democratic Republican
Martin Van Buren 1829 democrat
Enos Thompson Throop 1829-1832 democrat
William Learned Marcy 1833-1838 democrat
William Henry Seward 1839-1842 Whig
William Christian Bouck 1843-1844 democrat
Silas Wright 1845-1846 democrat
John Young 1847-1848 Whig
Hamilton Fish 1849-1850 Whig
Washington Hunt 1851-1852 Whig
Horatio Seymour 1853-1854 democrat
Myron Holley Clark 1855-1856 Whig
John Alsop King 1857-1858 republican
Edwin Denison Morgan 1859-1862 republican
Horatio Seymour 1863-1864 democrat
Reuben Eaton Fenton 1865-1868 republican
John Thompson Hoffman 1869-1872 democrat
John Adams Dix 1873-1874 republican
Samuel Jones Tilden 1875-1876 democrat
Lucius Robinson 1877-1879 democrat
Alonzo Barton Cornell 1880-1882 republican
Stephen Grover Cleveland 1883-1885 democrat
David Bennett Hill 1885-1891 democrat
Roswell Pettibone Flower 1892-1894 democrat
Levi Parsons Morton 1895-1896 republican
Frank Swett Black 1897-1898 republican
Theodore Roosevelt 1899-1900 republican
Benjamin Barker Odell 1901-1904 republican
Frank Wayland Higgins 1905-1906 republican
Charles Evans Hughes 1907-1910 republican
Horace White 1910 republican
John Alden Dix 1911-1912 democrat
William Sulzer 1913 democrat
Martin Henry Glynn 1913-1914 democrat
Charles Seymour Whitman 1915-1918 republican
Alfred Emanuel Smith 1919-1920 democrat
Nathan Lewis Miller 1921-1922 republican
Alfred Emanuel Smith 1923-1928 democrat
Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1929-1932 democrat
Herbert Henry Lehman 1933-1942 democrat
Charles Poletti 1942 democrat
Thomas Edmund Dewey 1943-1954 republican
William Averell Harriman 1955-1958 democrat
Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller 1959-1973 republican
Charles Malcolm Wilson 1973-1974 republican
Hugh Leo Carey 1975-1982 democrat
Mario Matthew Cuomo 1983-1994 democrat
George Elmer Pataki 1995-2006 republican
Eliot Laurence Spitzer 2007-2008 democrat
David Alexander Paterson 2008-2010 democrat
Andrew Mark Cuomo 2011– democrat

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