List of Pennsylvania Governors

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Tom Wolf, the current Governor of Pennsylvania
Group picture of the last five governors (2015): Mark Schweiker , Tom Ridge , Tom Wolf , Tom Corbett and Ed Rendell (from left to right)

This list includes all politicians who held the office of governor in the state of Pennsylvania or held the post of president prior to its establishment.

President of Pennsylvania

Surname Term of office Political party
Thomas Wharton Jr. 1777-1778 independent
George Bryan 1778 independent
Joseph Reed 1778-1781 independent
William Moore 1781-1782 independent
John Dickinson 1782-1785 independent
Benjamin Franklin 1785-1788 independent
Thomas Mifflin 1789-1790 independent

Pennsylvania Governors *

* The official name is Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Surname Term of office Political party
Thomas Mifflin 1790-1799 Federalist Party
Thomas McKean 1799-1808 Democratic Republican
Simon Snyder 1808-1817 Democratic Republican
William Findlay 1817-1820 Democratic Republican
Joseph Hiester 1820-1823 Democratic Republican
John Andrew Shulze 1823-1829 Democratic Republican
George Wolf 1829-1835 democrat
Joseph Ritner 1835-1839 Anti-Masonic Party
David Rittenhouse Porter 1839-1845 democrat
Francis Rawn Shunk 1845-1848 democrat
William Freame Johnston 1848-1852 Whig
William Bigler 1852-1855 democrat
James Pollock 1855-1858 Whig
William Fisher Packer 1858-1861 democrat
Andrew Gregg Curtin 1861-1867 republican
John White Geary 1867-1873 republican
John Frederick Hartranft 1873-1879 republican
Henry Martin Hoyt 1879-1883 republican
Robert Emory Pattison 1883-1887 democrat
James Addams Beaver 1887-1891 republican
Robert Emory Pattison 1891-1895 democrat
Daniel Hartman Hastings 1895-1899 republican
William Alexis Stone 1899-1903 republican
Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker 1903-1907 republican
Edwin Sydney Stuart 1907-1911 republican
John Kinley Tenerife 1911-1915 republican
Martin Grove Brumbaugh 1915-1919 republican
William Cameron Sproul 1919-1923 republican
Gifford Pinchot 1923-1927 republican
John Stuchell Fisher 1927-1931 republican
Gifford Pinchot 1931-1935 republican
George Howard Earle 1935-1939 democrat
Arthur Horace James 1939-1943 republican
Edward Martin 1943-1947 republican
John Cromwell Bell Jr. 1947-1947 republican
James Henderson Duff 1947-1951 republican
John Sydney Fine 1951-1955 republican
George Michael Leader 1955-1959 republican
David Leo Lawrence 1959-1963 democrat
William Warren Scranton 1963-1967 republican
Raymond Philip Shafer 1967-1971 republican
Milton Jerrold Shapp 1971-1979 democrat
Richard Lewis Thornburgh 1979-1987 republican
Robert Patrick Casey 1987-1995 democrat
Mark Stephen Singel 1993-1994 democrat
Thomas Joseph Ridge 1995-2001 republican
Mark Steven Schweiker 2001-2003 republican
Edward Gene Rendell 2003-2011 democrat
Thomas W. Corbett 2011-2015 republican
Thomas W. Wolf since 2015 democrat

See also