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A list of governors from the state of Georgia.[1][2]
Colonial Governors of Georgia
| Name | Years
|
| James Oglethorpe
| 1733-1743
|
| William Stephens
| 1743-1751
|
| Henry Parker
| 1751-1752
|
| Patrick Graham
| 1752-1754
|
| John Reynolds
| 1754-1757
|
| Henry Ellis
| 1757-1760
|
| James Wright
| 1760-1776, 1779-1782[3]
|
State Governors of Georgia
| Name | Party | Years
|
| Archibald Bulloch
| Whig
| 1776-1777
|
| Button Gwinnett
| Whig
| 1777
|
| John Adam Treutlen
| Whig
| 1777-1778
|
| John Houstoun
| Whig
| 1778-1779, 1784-1785
|
| John Wereat
| Whig
| 1779
|
| George Walton
| Whig/Jeffersonian Republican
| 1779-1780, 1789
|
| Richard Howley
| Whig
| 1780
|
| Stephen Heard
| Whig
| 1780-1781
|
| Nathan Brownsen
| Whig
| 1781-1782
|
| John Martin
|
| 1782-1783
|
| Lyman Hall
|
| 1783-1784
|
| Samuel Elbert
| Whig
| 1785-1786
|
| Edward Telfair
| Jefersonian Republican
| 1786-1787, 1789-1793
|
| George Mathews
| Jeffersonian Republican
| 1787-1788, 1793-1796
|
| George Handley
|
| 1788-1789
|
| Jared Irwin
| Democratic Republican
| 1796-1798, 1806-1809
|
| James Jackson
| Democratic Republican
| 1798-1801
|
| David Emanuel
| Democratic Republican
| 1801
|
| Josiah Tattnall, Jr.
| Democratic Republican
| 1801-1802
|
| John Milledge
| Democratic Republican
| 1802-1806
|
| David Brydie Mitchell
| Democratic Republican
| 1809-1813, 1815-1817
|
| Peter Early
| Democratic Republican
| 1813-1815
|
| William Rabun
| Democratic Republican
| 1817-1819
|
| Matthew Talbot
| Democratic Republican
| 1819
|
| John Clark
| Democratic Republican
| 1819-1823
|
| George Michael Troup
| Democratic Republican
| 1823-1827
|
| John Forsyth
| Democratic Republican
| 1827-1829
|
| George Rockingham Gilmer
| Democrat/Whig
| 1829-1831, 1837-1839
|
| Wilson Lumpkin
| Union Democrat
| 1831-1835
|
| William Schley
| Union Democrat
| 1835-1837
|
| Charles James McDonald
| Democrat
| 1839-1843
|
| George Walker Crawford
| Whig
| 1843-1847
|
| George Washington Bonaparte Towns
| Democrat
| 1847-1851
|
| Howell Cobb
| Union Democrat
| 1851-1853
|
| Herschel Vespasian Johnson
| Democrat
| 1853-1857
|
| Joseph Emerson Brown
| Democrat
| 1857-1865
|
| James Johnson
| Democrat
| 1865
|
| Charles Jones Jenkins
| Union Democrat
| 1865-1868
|
| Thoms Howard Ruger
| Military
| 1868
|
| Rufus Brown Bullock
| Republican
| 1868-1871
|
| Benjamin F. Conley
| Republican
| 1871-1872
|
| James Milton Smith
| Democrat
| 1872-1877
|
| Alfred Holt Colquitt
| Democrat
| 1877-1882
|
| Alexander Hamilton Stephens
| Democrat/Whig
| 1882-1883
|
| James Boynton
| Democrat
| 1883
|
| Henry Dickerson McDaniel
| Democrat
| 1883-1886
|
| John Brown Gordon
| Democrat
| 1886-1890
|
| William Jonathan Northen
| Democrat
| 1890-1894
|
| William Yates Atkinson
| Democrat
| 1894-1898
|
| Allen D. Candler
| Democrat
| 1898-1902
|
| Joseph Meriwether Terrell
| Democrat
| 1902-1907
|
| Hoke Smith
| Democrat
| 1907-1909, 1911
|
| Joseph Mackey Brown
| Democrat
| 1909-1911, 1912-1913
|
| John Marshall Slaton
| Democrat
| 1911-1912, 1913-1915
|
| Nathaniel Edwin Harris
| Democrat
| 1915-1917
|
| Hugh Manson Dorsey
| Democrat
| 1917-1921
|
| Thomas William Hardwick
| Democrat
| 1921-1923
|
| Clifford Mitchell Walker
| Democrat
| 1923-1927
|
| Lamartine Griffon Hardman
| Democrat
| 1927-1931
|
| Richard Brevard Russell
| Democrat
| 1931-1933
|
| Eugene Talmadge
| Democrat
| 1933-1937, 1941-1943
|
| Eurith Dickinson Rivers
| Democrat
| 1937-1941
|
| Ellis Gibbs Arnall
| Democrat
| 1943-1947
|
| Herman Eugene Talmadge
| Democrat
| 1947, 1948-1955
|
| Melvin Ernest Thompson
| Democrat
| 1947-1948
|
| Samuel Marvin Griffin
| Democrat
| 1955-1959
|
| Samuel Ernest Vandiver, Jr.
| Democrat
| 1959-1963
|
| Carl Edward Sanders
| Democrat
| 1963-1967
|
| Lester Garfield Maddox
| Democrat
| 1967-1971
|
| Jimmy Earl Carter, Jr.
| Democrat
| 1971-1975
|
| George Dekle Busbee
| Democrat
| 1975-1983
|
| Joe Frank Harris
| Democrat
| 1983-1991
|
| Zell Miller
| Democrat
| 1991-1999
|
| Roy E. Barnes
| Democrat
| 1999-2003
|
| Sonny Perdue
| Republican
| 2003-2011
|
| Nathan Deal
| Republican
| 2011-present
|
Further reading
- Cook, James F. The Governors of Georgia. Huntsville, Ala.: Strode, 1979. 320 pp.
- Henderson, Harold P. and Roberts, Gary L., eds. Georgia Governors in an Age of Change: From Ellis Arnall to George Busbee. Athens: U. of Georgia Pr., 1988. 352 pp.
Notes
- ↑ http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.8fd3d12ab65b304f8a278110501010a0?submit=Submit&State=GA
- ↑ http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/List-of-governors-of-Georgia
- ↑ British troops retook a good bit of Georgia during the Revolutionary War, of which Wright governed from 1779-1782.
