List of governors of New York
This is a list of people who served as the governor of New York.
List of governors
changeNo. | Governor | Term in office | Time in office | Party | Election | Lieutenant Governor | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | George Clinton | July 30, 1777
– June 30, 1795 (not candidate for election) |
17 years, 336 days | Democratic– | 1777 | Pierre Van Cortlandt | |||
1780 | |||||||||
1783 | |||||||||
1786 | |||||||||
1789 | |||||||||
1792 | |||||||||
2 | John Jay | July 1, 1795
– June 30, 1801 (not candidate for election) |
6 years, 0 days | Federalist | 1795 | Stephen Van Rensselaer | |||
1798 | |||||||||
1 | George Clinton | July 1, 1801
– June 30, 1804 (not candidate for election)[a] |
3 years, 0 days | Democratic– | 1801 | Jeremiah Van Rensselaer | |||
3 | Morgan Lewis | July 1, 1804
– June 30, 1807 (lost election) |
3 years, 0 days | Democratic– | 1804 | John Broome
(died August 8, 1810) | |||
4 | Daniel D. Tompkins | July 1, 1807
– February 24, 1817 (resigned)[b] |
9 years, 238 days | Democratic– | 1807 | ||||
1810 | |||||||||
Vacant | |||||||||
John Tayler
(acting) (took office January 29, 1811)[c] | |||||||||
DeWitt Clinton
(elected May 2, 1811) | |||||||||
1813 | John Tayler | ||||||||
1816 | |||||||||
5 | John Tayler
(Acting) |
February 24, 1817
– June 30, 1817 (not candidate for election) |
127 days | Democratic– | Lieutenant
Governor acting as Governor |
Philetus Swift
(acting) | |||
6 | DeWitt Clinton | July 1, 1817
– December 31, 1822 (not candidate for election) |
5 years, 184 days | Democratic– | 1817 | John Tayler | |||
1820 | |||||||||
7 | Joseph C. Yates | January 1, 1823
– December 31, 1824 (not candidate for election) |
2 years, 0 days | Democratic– | 1822 | Erastus Root | |||
6 | DeWitt Clinton | January 1, 1825
– February 11, 1828 (died in office) |
3 years, 41 days | Democratic– | 1824 | James Tallmadge Jr. | |||
1826 | Nathaniel Pitcher | ||||||||
8 | Nathaniel Pitcher | February 11, 1828
– December 31, 1828 (not candidate for election) |
325 days | Democratic– | Succeeded from
Lieutenant Governor |
Peter R. Livingston
(acting) | |||
Charles Dayan
(acting from October 17, 1828) | |||||||||
9 | Martin Van Buren | January 1, 1829
– March 12, 1829 (resigned)[d] |
70 days | Democratic | 1828 | Enos T. Throop | |||
10 | Enos T. Throop | March 12, 1829
– December 31, 1832 (not candidate for election) |
3 years, 295 days | Democratic | Succeeded from
Lieutenant Governor |
Charles Stebbins
(acting) | |||
William M. Oliver
(acting) | |||||||||
1830 | Edward Philip Livingston | ||||||||
11 | William L. Marcy | January 1, 1833
– December 31, 1838 (lost election) |
6 years, 0 days | Democratic | 1832 | John Tracy | |||
1834 | |||||||||
1836 | |||||||||
12 | William H. Seward | January 1, 1839
– December 31, 1842 (not candidate for election) |
4 years, 0 days | Whig | 1838 | Luther Bradish | |||
1840 | |||||||||
13 | William C. Bouck | January 1, 1843
– December 31, 1844 (not candidate for election) |
2 years, 0 days | Democratic | 1842 | Daniel S. Dickinson | |||
14 | Silas Wright | January 1, 1845
– December 31, 1846 (lost election) |
2 years, 0 days | Democratic | 1844 | Addison Gardiner
(resigned July 5, 1847) | |||
15 | John Young | January 1, 1847
– December 31, 1848 (not candidate for election) |
2 years, 0 days | Whig | 1846 | ||||
Albert Lester
(acting) | |||||||||
Hamilton Fish
(took office January 1, 1848) | |||||||||
16 | Hamilton Fish | January 1, 1849
– December 31, 1850 (not candidate for election) |
2 years, 0 days | Whig | 1848 | George W. Patterson | |||
17 | Washington Hunt | January 1, 1851
– December 31, 1852 (lost election) |
2 years, 0 days | Whig | 1850 | Sanford E. Church | |||
18 | Horatio Seymour | January 1, 1853
– December 31, 1854 (lost election) |
2 years, 0 days | Democratic | 1852 | ||||
19 | Myron H. Clark | January 1, 1855
– December 31, 1856 (not candidate for election) |
2 years, 0 days | Whig
(fusion) |
1854 | Henry Jarvis Raymond | |||
20 | John A. King | January 1, 1857
– December 31, 1858 (not candidate for election) |
2 years, 0 days | Republican | 1856 | Henry R. Selden | |||
21 | Edwin D. Morgan | January 1, 1859
– December 31, 1862 (not candidate for election)[e] |
4 years, 0 days | Republican | 1858 | Robert Campbell | |||
1860 | |||||||||
18 | Horatio Seymour | January 1, 1863
– December 31, 1864 (lost election) |
2 years, 0 days | Democratic | 1862 | David R. Floyd-Jones | |||
22 | Reuben Fenton | January 1, 1865
– December 31, 1868 (not candidate for election) |
4 years, 0 days | Union | 1864 | Thomas G. Alvord | |||
1866 | Stewart L. Woodford | ||||||||
23 | John T. Hoffman | January 1, 1869
– December 31, 1872 (not candidate for election) |
4 years, 0 days | Democratic | 1868 | Allen C. Beach | |||
1870 | |||||||||
24 | John Adams Dix | January 1, 1873
– December 31, 1874 (lost election) |
2 years, 0 days | Republican | 1872 | John C. Robinson | |||
25 | Samuel J. Tilden | January 1, 1875
– December 31, 1876 (not candidate for election)[f] |
2 years, 0 days | Democratic | 1874 | William Dorsheimer | |||
26 | Lucius Robinson | January 1, 1877
– December 31, 1879 (lost election) |
3 years, 0 days | Democratic | 1876[g] | ||||
27 | Alonzo B. Cornell | January 1, 1880
– December 31, 1882 (not candidate for election) |
3 years, 0 days | Republican | 1879 | George Gilbert Hoskins | |||
28 | Grover Cleveland | January 1, 1883
– January 6, 1885 (resigned)[h] |
2 years, 5 days | Democratic | 1882 | David B. Hill | |||
29 | David B. Hill | January 6, 1885
– December 31, 1891 (not candidate for election)[i] |
6 years, 360 days | Democratic | Succeeded from
Lieutenant Governor |
Dennis McCarthy
(acting) | |||
1885 | Edward F. Jones | ||||||||
1888 | |||||||||
30 | Roswell P. Flower | January 1, 1892
– December 31, 1894 (not candidate for election) |
3 years, 0 days | Democratic | 1891 | William F. Sheehan | |||
31 | Levi P. Morton | January 1, 1895
– December 31, 1896 (not candidate for election) |
2 years, 0 days | Republican | 1894[j] | Charles T. Saxton | |||
32 | Frank S. Black | January 1, 1897
– December 31, 1898 (not candidate for election) |
2 years, 0 days | Republican | 1896 | Timothy L. Woodruff | |||
33 | Theodore Roosevelt | January 1, 1899
– December 31, 1900 (not candidate for election)[k] |
2 years, 0 days | Republican | 1898 | ||||
34 | Benjamin Odell | January 1, 1901
– December 31, 1904 (not candidate for election) |
4 years, 0 days | Republican | 1900 | ||||
1902 | Frank W. Higgins | ||||||||
35 | Frank W. Higgins | January 1, 1905
– December 31, 1906 (not candidate for election) |
2 years, 0 days | Republican | 1904 | Matthew Linn Bruce | |||
John Raines
(acting) | |||||||||
36 | Charles Evans Hughes | January 1, 1907
– October 6, 1910 (resigned)[l] |
3 years, 278 days | Republican | 1906 | Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler | |||
1908 | Horace White | ||||||||
37 | Horace White | October 6, 1910
– December 31, 1910 (not candidate for election) |
87 days | Republican | Succeeded from
Lieutenant Governor |
George H. Cobb
(acting) | |||
38 | John Alden Dix | January 1, 1911
– December 31, 1912 (not candidate for election) |
2 years, 0 days | Democratic | 1910 | Thomas F. Conway | |||
39 | William Sulzer | January 1, 1913
– October 17, 1913 (impeached and removed)[m] |
289 days | Democratic | 1912 | Martin H. Glynn | |||
40 | Martin H. Glynn | October 17, 1913
– December 31, 1914 (lost election) |
1 year, 76 days | Democratic | Succeeded from
Lieutenant Governor |
Robert F. Wagner
(acting) | |||
41 | Charles Seymour Whitman | January 1, 1915
– December 31, 1918 (lost election) |
4 years, 0 days | Republican | 1914 | Edward Schoeneck | |||
1916 | |||||||||
42 | Al Smith | January 1, 1919
– December 31, 1920 (lost election) |
2 years, 0 days | Democratic | 1918 | Harry C. Walker | |||
43 | Nathan L. Miller | January 1, 1921
– December 31, 1922 (lost election) |
2 years, 0 days | Republican | 1920 | Jeremiah Wood | |||
Clayton R. Lusk
(acting) | |||||||||
42 | Al Smith | January 1, 1923
– December 31, 1928 (not candidate for election)[n] |
6 years, 0 days | Democratic | 1922 | George R. Lunn | |||
1924 | Seymour Lowman | ||||||||
1926 | Edwin Corning | ||||||||
44 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | January 1, 1929
– December 31, 1932 (not candidate for election)[o] |
4 years, 0 days | Democratic | 1928 | Herbert H. Lehman | |||
1930 | |||||||||
45 | Herbert H. Lehman | January 1, 1933
– December 3, 1942 (resigned)[p] |
9 years, 336 days | Democratic | 1932 | M. William Bray | |||
1934 | |||||||||
1936 | |||||||||
1938[q] | Charles Poletti | ||||||||
46 | Charles Poletti | December 3, 1942
– December 31, 1942 (not candidate for election) |
29 days | Democratic | Succeeded from
Lieutenant Governor |
Joe R. Hanley
(acting) | |||
47 | Thomas E. Dewey | January 1, 1943
– December 31, 1954 (not candidate for election) |
12 years, 0 days | Republican | 1942 | Thomas W. Wallace | |||
1946 | Joe R. Hanley | ||||||||
1950 | Frank C. Moore
(resigned September 30, 1953) | ||||||||
Arthur H. Wicks
(acting) | |||||||||
Walter J. Mahoney
(acting) | |||||||||
48 | W. Averell Harriman | January 1, 1955
– December 31, 1958 (lost election) |
4 years, 0 days | Democratic | 1954 | George DeLuca | |||
49 | Nelson Rockefeller | January 1, 1959
– December 18, 1973 (resigned)[r] |
14 years, 351 days | Republican | 1958 | Malcolm Wilson | |||
1962 | |||||||||
1966 | |||||||||
1970 | |||||||||
50 | Malcolm Wilson | December 18, 1973
– December 31, 1974 (lost election) |
1 year, 14 days | Republican | Succeeded from
Lieutenant Governor |
Warren M. Anderson
(acting) | |||
51 | Hugh Carey | January 1, 1975
– December 31, 1982 (not candidate for election) |
8 years, 0 days | Democratic | 1974 | Mary Anne Krupsak | |||
1978 | Mario Cuomo | ||||||||
52 | Mario Cuomo | January 1, 1983
– December 31, 1994 (lost election) |
12 years, 0 days | Democratic | 1982 | Alfred DelBello | |||
Warren M. Anderson
(acting) | |||||||||
1986 | Stan Lundine | ||||||||
1990 | |||||||||
53 | George Pataki | January 1, 1995
– December 31, 2006 (not candidate for election) |
12 years, 0 days | Republican | 1994 | Betsy McCaughey Ross[s] | |||
1998 | Mary Donohue | ||||||||
2002 | |||||||||
54 | Eliot Spitzer | January 1, 2007
– March 17, 2008 (resigned)[t] |
1 year, 76 days | Democratic | 2006 | David Paterson | |||
55 | David Paterson | March 17, 2008
– December 31, 2010 (not candidate for election) |
2 years, 290 days | Democratic | Succeeded from
Lieutenant Governor |
Joseph Bruno
(acting) | |||
Dean Skelos
(acting) | |||||||||
Malcolm Smith
(acting) | |||||||||
Pedro Espada Jr.
(acting)[u] | |||||||||
Richard Ravitch
(contested)[v] | |||||||||
Malcolm Smith
(acting)[w] | |||||||||
Richard Ravitch[x] | |||||||||
56 | Andrew Cuomo | January 1, 2011
– August 23, 2021 (resigned)[y] |
10 years, 234 days | Democratic | 2010 | Robert Duffy | |||
2014 | Kathy Hochul | ||||||||
2018 | |||||||||
57 | Kathy Hochul | August 24, 2021
– Incumbent[z] |
3 years, 106 days | Democratic | Succeeded from the Lieutenant Goveror | Andrea Stewart-Cousins
(acting) | |||
Brian Benjamin[2] | |||||||||
Andrea Stewart-Cousins
(acting) | |||||||||
Antonio Delgado |
Notes
change- ↑ Clinton instead successfully ran for Vice President of the United States.
- ↑ Tompkins resigned to be Vice President of the United States.
- ↑ At the time, the position of president pro-tempore of the Senate was only filled during a vacancy in the office of lieutenant governor, so Tayler was not elected to fill the position until January 29, 1811.
- ↑ Van Buren resigned to be United States Secretary of State.
- ↑ Morgan instead successfully ran for United States Senate.
- ↑ Tilden instead unsuccessfully ran for President of the United States.
- ↑ First term under an 1874 amendment to the constitution, which lengthened terms to three years.
- ↑ Cleveland resigned to be President of the United States.
- ↑ Hill had been elected to the United States Senate for a term starting March 4, 1891, but did not take office until his gubernatorial term expired.
- ↑ First term under the 1894 constitution, which shortened terms to two years.
- ↑ Roosevelt instead successfully ran for Vice President of the United States.
- ↑ Hughes resigned to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
- ↑ Sulzer was impeached and removed from office for campaign contribution fraud.
- ↑ Smith instead unsuccessfully ran for President of the United States.
- ↑ Roosevelt instead successfully ran for President of the United States.
- ↑ Lehman resigned to be Director of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations at the United States Department of State.
- ↑ First term under the 1938 constitution, which lengthened terms to four years.
- ↑ Rockefeller resigned to devote himself to his Commission on Critical Choices for Americans.
- ↑ Elected as Betsy McCaughey, but married and changed name in 1995.
- ↑ Spitzer resigned due to a prostitution scandal.
- ↑ Espada was a Democrat, but combined with the Republicans in a change of leadership which triggered the 2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis.
- ↑ Ravitch was appointed on July 8, 2009, but the appointment was contested in the courts. On August 20, the Appellate Division rejected the appointment; Ravitch vacated the office.
- ↑ Smith succeeded Espada on July 9 as temporary President of the New York State Senate and claimed to be Acting Lieutenant Governor under the provisions of the New York State Constitution while the appointment of Ravitch was contested.
- ↑ On September 22, the New York Court of Appeals reversed the Appellate Division's ruling, thus re-instating Ravitch to the lieutenant governorship, beginning on July 8.
- ↑ Cuomo resigned due to sexual harassment allegations.[1]
- ↑ Hochul's first term expires at midnight on January 1, 2023.
References
change- ↑ "New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigns". NBC News. August 10, 2021. Retrieved August 10, 2021.
- ↑ Hogan, Bernadette (September 9, 2021). "Brian Benjamin sworn in to replace Hochul as NY's lieutenant governor".