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A list of governors from the state of South Carolina.[1][2]
Proprietary Governors of South Carolina
| Name | Years
|
| William Sayle
| 1670-1671
|
| Joseph West
| 1671-1672, 1674-1682, 1685
|
| John Yeamans
| 1672-1674
|
| Joseph Morton
| 1682-1684, 1685-1686
|
| Richard Kyrle
| 1684
|
| Robert Quarry
| 1684-1685
|
| James Colleton
| 1686-1690
|
| Seth Sothell
| 1690-1692
|
| Philip Ludwell
| 1692-1693
|
| Thomas Smith
| 1693-1694
|
| Joseph Blake
| 1694, 1696-1700
|
| John Archdale
| 1694-1696
|
| James Moore
| 1700-1702
|
| Nathaniel Johnson
| 1702-1703
|
| Edward Tynte
| 1703-1709
|
| Robert Gibbes
| 1710-1711
|
| Charles Craven
| 1711-1716
|
| Robert Daniell
| 1716-1717
|
| Robert Johnson
| 1717-1719
|
Royal Governors of South Carolina
| Name | Years
|
| James Moore
| 1719-1721
|
| Francis Nicholson
| 1721-1729
|
| Arthur Middleton
| 1724-1729
|
| Robert Johnson
| 1729-1735
|
| Thomas Broughton
| 1735-1737
|
| William Bull
| 1737-1743
|
| James Glen
| 1743-1756
|
| William Henry Lyttleton
| 1756-1760
|
| Thomas Boone
| 1761-1764
|
| William Bull II
| 1764-1766, 1773-1775
|
| Charles Greville Montague
| 1766-1773
|
| Henry Laurens
| 1775-1776
|
State of South Carolina Governors
| Name | Party | Years
|
| John Rutledge
|
| 1776-1778, 1779-1782
|
| Rawlins Lowndes
|
| 1778-1779
|
| John Mathews
|
| 1782-1783
|
| Benjamin Guerard
|
| 1783-1785
|
| William Moultrie
| Federalist
| 1785-1787, 1792-1794
|
| Thomas Pinckney
| Federalist
| 1787-1789
|
| Charles Pinckney
| Democratic Republican
| 1789-1792, 1796-1798, 1806-1808
|
| Arnoldus Vandershorst
| Federalist
| 1794-1796
|
| Edward Rutledge
| Federalist
| 1798-1800
|
| John Drayton
| Democratic Republican
| 1800-1802, 1808-1810
|
| James Burchill Richardson
| Democratic Republican
| 1802-1804
|
| Paul Hamilton
| Democratic Republican
| 1804-1806
|
| Henry Middleton
| Democratic Republican
| 1810-1812
|
| Joseph Alston
| Democratic Republican
| 1812-1814
|
| David Rogerson Williams
| Democratic Republican
| 1814-1816
|
| Andrew Pickens
| Democratic Republican
| 1816-1818
|
| Geddes John
| Democratic Republican
| 1818-1820
|
| Thomas Bennett
| Democratic Republican
| 1820-1822
|
| John Lyde Wilson
| Democratic Republican
| 1822-1824
|
| Richard Irvine Manning
| Democratic Republican
| 1824-1826
|
| John Taylor
| Democratic Republican
| 1826-1828
|
| Stephen Decatur Miller
| Democrat
| 1828-1830
|
| James Hamilton, Jr.
| Democrat
| 1830-1832
|
| Robert Young Hayne
| Democrat
| 1832-1834
|
| George McDuffie
| Democrat
| 1834-1836
|
| Pierce Mason Butler
| Democrat
| 1836-1838
|
| Patrick Noble
| Democrat
| 1838-1840
|
| Barnabas Kelet Henagan
| Democrat
| 1840
|
| John Peter Richardson II
| Democrat
| 1840-1842
|
| James Henry Hammond
| Democrat
| 1842-1844
|
| William Aiken
| Democrat
| 1844-1846
|
| David Johnson
| Democrat
| 1846-1848
|
| Whitemarsh Benjamin Seabrook
| Democrat
| 1848-1850
|
| John Hugh Means
| Democrat
| 1850-1852
|
| John Laurence Manning
| Democrat
| 1852-1854
|
| James Hopkins Adams
| Democrat
| 1854-1856
|
| Robert Francis Withers Allston
| Democrat
| 1856-1858
|
| William Henry Gist
| Democrat
| 1858-1860
|
| Francis Wilkinson Pickens
|
| 1860-1862
|
| Milledge Luke Bonham
| Democrat
| 1862-1864
|
| Andrew Gordon McGrath
| Democrat
| 1864-1865
|
| Benjamin Franklin Perry
| Democrat
| 1865
|
| James Lawrence Orr
| Conservative
| 1865-1868
|
| Edward R. S. Canby
|
| 1868
|
| Robert Kingston Scott
| Republican
| 1868-1872
|
| Franklin J. Moses
| Republican
| 1872-1874
|
| Daniel Henry Chamberlain
| Republican
| 1874-1876
|
| Wade Hampton III
| Democrat
| 1876-1879
|
| William Dunlap Simpson
| Democrat
| 1879-1880
|
| Thomas Bothwell Jeter
| Democrat
| 1880
|
| Johnson Hagood
| Democrat
| 1880-1882
|
| Hugh Smith Thompson
| Democrat
| 1882-1886
|
| John Calhoun Sheppard
| Democrat
| 1886
|
| John Peter Richardson
| Democrat
| 1886-1890
|
| Benjamin Ryan Tillman
| Democrat
| 1890-1894
|
| John Gary Evans
| Democrat
| 1894-1897
|
| William Haselden Ellerbe
| Democrat
| 1897-1899
|
| Miles Benjamin McSweeney
| Democrat
| 1899-1903
|
| Duncan Clinch Heyward
| Democrat
| 1903-1907
|
| Martin Frederick Ansel
| Democrat
| 1907-1911
|
| Coleman Livingston Blease
| Democrat
| 1911-1915
|
| Charles A. Smith
| Democrat
| 1915
|
| Richard Irvine Manning III
| Democrat
| 1915-1919
|
| Robert Arthur Cooper
| Democrat
| 1919-1922
|
| Wilson Godfrey Harvey
| Democrat
| 1922-1923
|
| Thomas Gordon McLeod
| Democrat
| 1923-1927
|
| John Gardiner Richards
| Democrat
| 1927-1931
|
| Ibra Charles Blackwood
| Democrat
| 1931-1935
|
| Olin DeWitt Talmadge Johnston
| Democrat
| 1935-1939, 1943-1945
|
| Burnet Rhett Maybank
| Democrat
| 1939-1941
|
| Joseph Emile Harley
| Democrat
| 1941-1942
|
| Richard Manning Jeffries
| Democrat
| 1942-1943
|
| Ransome Judson Williams
| Democrat
| 1945-1947
|
| James Strom Thurmond
| Democrat
| 1947-1951
|
| James Francis Byrnes
| Democrat
| 1951-1955
|
| George Bell Timmerman
| Democrat
| 1955-1959
|
| Ernest Frederick Hollings
| Democrat
| 1959-1963
|
| Donald Stuart Russell
| Democrat
| 1963-1965
|
| Robert Evander McNair
| Democrat
| 1965-1971
|
| John Carl West
| Democrat
| 1971-1975
|
| James Burrows Edwards
| Republican
| 1975-1979
|
| Richard Wilson Riley
| Democrat
| 1979-1987
|
| Carroll A. Campbell, Jr.
| Republican
| 1987-1995
|
| David M. Beasley
| Republican
| 1995-1999
|
| Jim Hodges
| Democrat
| 1999-2003
|
| Mark Sanford
| Republican
| 2003-2011
|
| Nikki Haley
| Republican
| 2011-present
|
Notes
- ↑ http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.8fd3d12ab65b304f8a278110501010a0?submit=Submit&State=SC
- ↑ http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/List-of-South-Carolina-Governors
