List of North Carolina Governors

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Roy Cooper, the current governor of North Carolina

This list includes all of the governors of the US state of North Carolina .

North Carolina

Surname Term of office Political party
Richard Caswell 1776-1780
Abner Nash 1780-1781
Thomas Burke 1781-1782
Alexander Martin 1782-1784
Richard Caswell 1784-1787
Samuel Johnston 1787-1789

State of North Carolina

Surname Term of office Political party
Alexander Martin 1789-1792 Democratic Republican
Richard Dobbs Spaight 1792-1795 Democratic Republican
Samuel Ashe 1795-1798 Democratic Republican
William Richardson Davie 1798-1799 Federalist Party
Benjamin Williams 1799-1802 Democratic Republican
James Turner 1802-1805 Democratic Republican
Nathaniel Alexander 1805-1807 Democratic Republican
Benjamin Williams 1807-1808 Democratic Republican
David Stone 1808-1810 Democratic Republican
Benjamin Smith 1810-1811 Democratic Republican
William Hawkins 1811-1814 Democratic Republican
William Miller 1814-1817 Democratic Republican
John Branch 1817-1820 Democratic Republican
Jesse Franklin 1820-1821 Democratic Republican
Gabriel Holmes 1821-1824 Democratic Republican
Hutchins Gordon Burton 1824-1827 Democratic Republican
James Iredell 1827-1828 Democratic Republican
John Owen 1828-1830 Democratic Party
Montfort Stokes 1830-1832 Democratic Party
David Lowry Swain 1832-1835 Whig party
Richard Dobbs Spaight Jr. 1835-1836 Democratic Party
Edward Bishop Dudley 1836-1841 United States Whig Party | Whig Party
John Motley Morehead 1841-1845 Whig party
William Alexander Graham 1845-1849 Whig party
Charles Manly 1849-1851 Whig party
David Settle Reid 1851-1854 Democratic Party
Warren Winslow 1854-1855 Democratic Party
Thomas Bragg 1855-1859 Democratic Party
John Willis Ellis 1859-1861 Democratic Party
Henry Toole Clark 1861-1862 Whig party
Zebulon Baird Vance 1862-1865 Whig party
William Woods Holden 1865-1865
Jonathan Worth 1865-1868 Conservative party
William Woods Holden 1868-1871 Republican Party
Death of Robinson Caldwell 1871-1874 Republican Party
Curtis Hooks Brogden 1874-1877 Republican Party
Zebulon Baird Vance 1877-1879 Democratic Party
Thomas Jordan Jarvis 1879-1885 Democratic Party
Alfred Moore Scales 1885-1889 Democratic Party
Daniel Gould Fowle 1889-1891 Democratic Party
Thomas Michael Holt 1891-1893 Democratic Party
Elias Carr 1893-1897 Democratic Party
Daniel Lindsay Russell 1897-1901 Republican Party
Charles Brantley Aycock 1901-1905 Democratic Party
Robert Broadnax Glenn 1905-1909 Democratic Party
William Walton Kitchin 1909-1913 Democratic Party
Locke Craig 1913-1917 Democratic Party
Thomas Walter Bickett 1917-1921 Democratic Party
Cameron A. Morrison 1921-1925 Democratic Party
Angus Wilton McLean 1925-1929 Democratic Party
Oliver Max Gardner 1929-1933 Democratic Party
John Christoph Blucher Ehringhaus 1933-1937 Democratic Party
Clyde Roark Hoey 1937-1941 Democratic Party
Joseph Melville Broughton 1941-1945 Democratic Party
Robert Gregg Cherry 1945-1949 Democratic Party
William Kerr Scott 1949-1953 Democratic Party
William Bradley Umstead 1953-1954 Democratic Party
Luther Hartwell Hodges 1954-1961 Democratic Party
James Terry Sanford 1961-1965 Democratic Party
Daniel Killian Moore 1965-1969 Democratic Party
Robert Walter Scott 1969-1973 Democratic Party
James Eubert Holshouser 1973-1977 Democratic Party
James Baxter Hunt 1977-1985 Democratic Party
James Grubbs Martin 1985-1993 Republican Party
James Baxter Hunt 1993-2001 Democratic Party
Michael Francis Easley 2001-2009 Democratic Party
Beverly Eaves Perdue 2009-2013 Democratic Party
Patrick Lloyd McCrory 2013-2017 Republican Party
Roy Asberry Cooper 2017– Democratic Party

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