List of South Carolina Governors

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Henry McMaster, current Governor of South Carolina

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

South carolina

Surname Term of office Political party
John Rutledge (as President) 1776-1778
Rawlins Lowndes (as President) 1778-1779
John Rutledge 1779-1782 independent
John Mathews 1782-1783 independent
Benjamin Guerard 1783-1785 independent
William Moultrie 1785-1787 independent
Thomas Pinckney 1787-1788 Federalist Party

State of South Carolina

Surname Term of office Political party
Thomas Pinckney 1788-1789 Federalist Party
Charles Pinckney 1789-1792 Federalist Party
William Moultrie 1792-1794 independent
Arnoldus Vanderhorst 1794-1796 Federalist Party
Charles Pinckney 1796-1798 Federalist Party
Edward Rutledge 1798-1800 Federalist Party
John Drayton 1800-1802 independent
James Burchill Richardson 1802-1804 independent
Paul Hamilton 1804-1806 Democratic Republican
Charles Pinckney 1806-1808 Democratic Republican
John Drayton 1808-1810 Democratic Republican
Henry Middleton 1810-1812 Democratic Republican
Joseph Alston 1812-1814 Democratic Republican
David Rogerson Williams 1814-1816 Democratic Republican
Andrew Pickens 1816-1818 Democratic Republican
John Geddes 1818-1820 Democratic Republican
Thomas Bennett 1820-1822 Democratic Republican
John Lyde Wilson 1822-1824 Democratic Republican
Richard Irvine Manning 1824-1826 Democratic Republican
John Taylor 1826-1828 Democratic Republican
Stephen Decatur Miller 1828-1830 democrat
James Hamilton 1830-1832 democrat
Robert Young Hayne 1832-1834 democrat
George McDuffie 1834-1836 democrat
Pierce Mason Butler 1836-1838 democrat
Patrick Noble 1838-1840 democrat
Barnabas Kelet Henagan 1840-1840 democrat
John Peter Richardson Sr. 1840-1842 democrat
James Henry Hammond 1842-1844 democrat
William Aiken 1844-1846 democrat
David Johnson 1846-1848 democrat
Whitemarsh Benjamin Seabrook 1848-1850 democrat
John Hugh Means 1850-1852 democrat
John Lawrence Manning 1852-1854 democrat
James Hopkins Adams 1854-1856 democrat
Robert Francis Withers Allston 1856-1858 democrat
William Henry Gist 1858-1860 democrat
Francis Wilkinson Pickens 1860-1862 democrat
Milledge Luke Bonham 1862-1864 democrat
Andrew Gordon Magrath 1864-1865 democrat
Benjamin Franklin Perry 1865-1865
James Lawrence Orr 1865-1868 Conservative party
Robert Kingston Scott 1868-1872 republican
Franklin Israel Moses 1872-1874 republican
Daniel Henry Chamberlain 1874-1877 republican
Wade Hampton III. 1877-1879 democrat
William Dunlap Simpson 1879-1880 democrat
Thomas Bothwell Jeter 1880-1880 democrat
Johnson Hagood 1880-1882 democrat
Hugh Smith Thompson 1882-1886 democrat
John Calhoun Sheppard 1886-1886 democrat
John Peter Richardson Jr. 1886-1890 democrat
Benjamin Ryan Tillman 1890-1894 democrat
John Gary Evans 1894-1897 democrat
William Haselden Ellerbe 1897-1899 democrat
Miles Benjamin McSweeney 1899-1903 democrat
Duncan Clinch Heyward 1903-1907 democrat
Martin Frederick Ansel 1907-1911 democrat
Coleman Livingston Blease 1911-1915 democrat
Charles Aurelius Smith 1915-1915 democrat
Richard Irvine Manning III 1915-1919 democrat
Robert Archer Cooper 1919-1922 democrat
Wilson Godfrey Harvey 1922-1923 democrat
Thomas Gordon McLeod 1923-1927 democrat
John Gardiner Richards 1927-1931 democrat
Ibra Charles Blackwood 1931-1935 democrat
Olin DeWitt Talmadge Johnston 1935-1939 democrat
Burnet Rhett Maybank 1939-1941 democrat
Joseph Emile Harley 1941-1942 democrat
Richard Manning Jefferies 1942-1943 democrat
Olin DeWitt Talmadge Johnston 1943-1945 democrat
Ransome Judson Williams 1945-1947 democrat
James Strom Thurmond 1947-1951 democrat
James Francis Byrnes 1951-1955 democrat
George Bell Timmerman 1955-1959 democrat
Ernest Frederick Hollings 1959-1963 democrat
Donald Stuart Russell 1963-1965 democrat
Robert Evander McNair 1965-1971 democrat
John Carl West 1971-1975 democrat
James Burrows Edwards 1975-1979 republican
Richard Wilson Riley 1979-1987 democrat
Carroll Ashmore Campbell Junior 1987-1995 republican
David Muldrow Beasley 1995-1999 republican
James Hovis Hodges 1999-2003 democrat
Marshall Clement Sanford 2003-2011 republican
Nimrata Randhawa Haley 2011-2017 republican
Henry Dargan McMaster since 2017 republican

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