Governors of Colorado

A list of governors from the state of Colorado.

Governors of Colorado Territory

Name	Years
William Gilpin	1861-1862
John Evans	1862-1865
Alexander Cummings	1865-1867
Alexander Cameron Hunt	1867-1869
Edward Moody McCook	1869-1873
Samuel Hitt Elbert	1873-1874
John Long Routt	1875-1876

Colorado State Governors

Name	Party	Years
John Long Routt	Republican	1876-1879, 1891-1893
Frederick W. Pitkin	Republican	1879-1883
James Benton Grant	Democrat	1883-1885
Benjamin Harrison Eaton	Republican	1885-1887
Alva Adams	Democrat	1887-1889, 1897-1899, 1905
Job Adams Cooper	Republican	1889-1891
Davis H. Waite	Populist Democrat	1893-1895
Albert W. McIntyre	Republican	1895-1897
Charles S. Thomas	Democrat	1899-1901
James B. Orman	Democrat	1901-1903
James Hamilton Peabody	Republican	1903-1905, 1905
Jesse F. McDonald	Republican	1905-1907
Henry Augustus Buchtel	Republican	1907-1909
John F. Shafroth	Democrat	1909-1913
Elias M. Ammons	Democrat	1913-1915
George Alfred Carlson	Republican	1915-1917
Julius Caldeen Gunter	Democrat	1917-1919
Oliver H. Shoup	Republican	1919-1923
William E. Sweet	Democrat	1923-1925
Clarence J. Morley	Republican	1925-1927
William H. Adams	Democrat	1927-1933
Edwin Carl Johnson	Democrat	1933-1937, 195-1957
Raymond H. Talbot	Democrat	1937
Teller Ammons	Democrat	1937-1939
Ralph Lawrence Carr	Republican	1939-1943
John Charles Vivian	Republican	1943-1947
William Lee Knaus	Democrat	1957-1950
Walter Walfred Johnson	Democrat	1950-1951
Daniel I. J. Thornton	Republican	1951-1955
Stephen Lucid Robert McNichols	Democrat	1957-1963
John Arthur Love	Republican	1963-1973
John David Vanderhoof	Republican	1973-1975
Richard David Lamm	Democrat	1975-1987
Roy Romer	Democrat	1987-1999
William Forrester Owens	Republican	1999-2007
William Ritter Jr.	Democrat	2007-2011
John Hickenlooper	Democrat	2011–2019
Jared Polis	Democrat	2019-present

Further reading

• Lamm, Richard D. and Smith, Duane A. Pioneers and Politicians: 10 Colorado Governors in Profile. Boulder: Pruett, 1984.