List of Governors of Oregon

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Kate Brown, the current Governor of Oregon

This list includes all governors of the US state of Oregon and the pre-existing Oregon Territory .

Oregon Territory

Surname Term of office Political party
Joseph Lane 1848-1850 democrat
Kintzing prichette 1850 democrat
John Pollard Gaines 1850-1853 Whig
Joseph Lane 1853 democrat
George Law Curry 1853 democrat
John Wesley Davis 1853-1854 democrat
George Law Curry 1854-1859 democrat

State of Oregon

Surname Term of office Political party
John Whiteaker 1859-1862 democrat
Addison Crandall Gibbs 1862-1866 republican
George Lemuel Woods 1866-1870 republican
La Fayette Grover 1870-1877 democrat
Stephen Fowler Chadwick 1877-1878 democrat
William Wallace Thayer 1878-1882 democrat
Zenas Ferry Moody 1882-1887 republican
Sylvester Pennoyer 1887-1895 democrat
William Paine Lord 1895-1899 republican
Theodore Thurston Geer 1899-1903 republican
George Earle Chamberlain 1903-1909 democrat
Frank W. Benson 1909-1910 republican
Jay Bowerman 1910-1911 republican
Oswald West 1911-1915 democrat
James Withycombe 1915-1919 republican
Ben W. Olcott 1919-1923 republican
Walter Marcus Pierce 1923-1927 democrat
Isaac Lee Patterson 1927-1929 republican
Albin Walter Norblad 1929-1931 republican
Julius L. Meier 1931-1935 More independent
Charles Henry Martin 1935-1939 democrat
Charles Arthur Sprague 1939-1943 republican
Earl Willcox Snell 1943-1947 republican
John Hubert Hall 1947-1949 republican
James Douglas McKay 1949-1952 republican
Paul Linton Patterson 1952-1956 republican
Elmo Everett Smith 1956-1957 republican
Robert Denison Holmes 1957-1959 democrat
Mark Odom Hatfield 1959-1967 republican
Thomas Lawson McCall 1967-1975 republican
Robert William Straub 1975-1979 democrat
Victor George Atiyeh 1979-1987 republican
Neil Edward Goldschmidt 1987-1991 democrat
Barbara K. Roberts 1991-1995 Democrat
John Albert Kitzhaber 1995-2003 democrat
Theodore R. Kulongoski 2003-2011 democrat
John Albert Kitzhaber 2011-2015 democrat
Katherine Brown since 2015 Democrat

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