List of New York Governors
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 |
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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 |