A list of governors from the commonwealth of Massachusetts.[1][2]
Plymouth Colony Governors
| Name |
Years
|
| John Carver
|
1620-1621
|
| William Bradford
|
1621–1633, 1635–1636, 1637–1638, 1639–1644, 1645-1657
|
| Edward Winslow
|
1633–1634, 1636–1637, 1644-1645
|
| Thomas Prence
|
1634–1635, 1638–1639, 1657-1673
|
| Josiah Winslow
|
1673-1680
|
| Thomas Hinckley
|
1680–1686, 1689-1692
|
Massachusetts Bay Colony Governors
| Name |
Years
|
| John Endicott
|
1629–1630, 1644, 1649, 1651–1653, 1655-1664
|
| John Winthrop
|
1630–1633, 1637–1639, 1642–1643, 1646-1648
|
| Thomas Dudley
|
1634, 1640, 1645, 1650
|
| John Haynes
|
1635
|
| Henry Vane the Younger
|
1636
|
| Richard Bellingham
|
1641, 1654, 1665-1672
|
| John Leverett
|
1673-1678
|
| Simon Bradstreet
|
1678-1686
|
Dominion of New England Governors
| Name |
Years
|
| Joseph Dudley
|
1686
|
| Edmund Andros
|
1686-1689
|
Province of Massachusetts Bay Governors
| Name |
Years
|
| William Phips
|
1692-1694
|
| William Stoughton
|
1694–1699, 1700-1701
|
| Richard Coote
|
1699-1700
|
| Joseph Dudley
|
1702–1715, 1715
|
| William Tailer
|
1715–1716, 1730
|
| Samuel Shute
|
1716-1723
|
| William Dummer
|
1723–1728, 1729-1730
|
| William Burnet
|
1728-1729
|
| Jonathan Belcher
|
1730-1741
|
| William Shirley
|
1741–1749, 1753-1756
|
| Spencer Phips
|
1749–1753, 1756-1757
|
| Thomas Pownall
|
1757-1760
|
| Thomas Hutchinson
|
1760, 1769-1774
|
| Francis Bernard
|
1760-1769
|
| Thomas Gage
|
1774-1775
|
| William Howe
|
1775-1776
|
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Governors
| Name |
Party |
Years
|
| John Hancock
|
Federalist
|
1780–1785, 1787-1793
|
| Thomas Cushing
|
|
1785
|
| James Bowdoin
|
|
1785-1787
|
| Samuel Adams
|
Democratic Republican
|
1793-1797
|
| Increase Sumner
|
Federalist
|
1797-1799
|
| Moses Gill
|
|
1799-1800
|
| Caleb Strong
|
Federalist
|
1800–1807, 1812-1816
|
| James Sullivan
|
Democratic Republican
|
1807-1808
|
| Levi Lincoln
|
Democratic Republican
|
1808-1809
|
| Christopher Gore
|
Federalist
|
1809-1810
|
| Elbridge Gerry
|
Democratic Republican
|
1810-1812
|
| John Brooks
|
Federalist
|
1816-1823
|
| William Eustis
|
Democratic Republican
|
1823-1825
|
| Marcus Morton
|
Democratic Republican
|
1825, 1840–1841, 1843-1844
|
| Levi Lincoln, Jr.
|
Adams Republican
|
1825-1834
|
| John Davis
|
Republican/Whig
|
1834–1835, 1841-1843
|
| Samuel Turell Armstrong
|
Whig
|
1835-1836
|
| Edward Everett
|
Whig
|
1836-1840
|
| George Nixon Briggs
|
Whig
|
1844-1851
|
| George Sewall Boutwell
|
Democrat
|
1851-1853
|
| John Henry Clifford
|
Whig
|
1853-1854
|
| Emory Washburn
|
Whig
|
1854-1855
|
| Henry Joseph Gardner
|
American (Know Nothing)
|
1855-1858
|
| Nathaniel Prentice Banks
|
Republican
|
1858-1861
|
| John Albion Andrew
|
Republican
|
1861-1866
|
| Alexander Hamilton Bullock
|
Republican
|
1866-1869
|
| William Claflin
|
Republican
|
1869-1872
|
| William Barrett Washburn
|
Republican
|
1872-1874
|
| Thomas Talbot
|
Republican
|
1874–1875, 1879-1880
|
| William Gaston
|
Democrat
|
1875-1876
|
| Alexander Hamilton Rice
|
Republican
|
1876-1879
|
| John Davis Long
|
Republican
|
1880-1883
|
| Benjamin Franklin Butler
|
Democrat/National
|
1883-1884
|
| George Dexter Robinson
|
Republican
|
1884-1887
|
| Oliver Ames
|
Republican
|
1887-1890
|
| John Quincy Adams Brackett
|
Republican
|
1890-1891
|
| William Eustis Russell
|
Democrat
|
1891-1894
|
| Frederic Thomas Greenhalge
|
Republican
|
1894-1896
|
| Roger Wolcott
|
Republican
|
1896-1900
|
| Winthrop Murray Crane
|
Republican
|
1900-1903
|
| John Lewis Bates
|
Republican
|
1903-1905
|
| William Lewis Douglas
|
Democrat
|
1905-1906
|
| Curtis Guild, Jr.
|
Republican
|
1906-1909
|
| Ebenezer Sumner Draper
|
Republican
|
1909-1911
|
| Eugene Noble Ross
|
Democrat
|
1911-1914
|
| David Ignatius Walsh
|
Democrat
|
1914-1916
|
| Samuel Walker McCall
|
Republican
|
1916-1919
|
| John Calvin Coolidge
|
Republican
|
1919-1921
|
| Channing Harris Cox
|
Republican
|
1921-1925
|
| Alvan Tufts Fuller
|
Republican
|
1925-1929
|
| Frank G. Allen
|
Republican
|
1929-1931
|
| Joseph Buell Ely
|
Democrat
|
1931-1935
|
| James Michael Curley
|
Democrat
|
1935-1937
|
| Charles Francis Hurley
|
Democrat
|
1937-1939
|
| Leverett Saltonstall
|
Republican
|
1939-1945
|
| Maurice Tobin
|
Democrat
|
1945-1947
|
| Robert Fiske Bradford
|
Republican
|
1947-1949
|
| Paul Andrew Dever
|
Democrat
|
1949-1953
|
| Christian Archibald Herter
|
Republican
|
1953-1957
|
| Foster John Furcolo
|
Democrat
|
1957-1961
|
| John Anthony Volpe
|
Republican
|
1961–1963, 1965-1969
|
| Endicott Peabody
|
Democrat
|
1963-1965
|
| Francis William Sargent
|
Republican
|
1969-1975
|
| Michael Stanley Dukakis
|
Democrat
|
1975–1979, 1983-1991
|
| Edward Joseph King
|
Democrat
|
1979-1983
|
| William Floyd Weld
|
Republican
|
1991-1997
|
| Argeo Paul Cellucci
|
Republican
|
1997-2001
|
| Jane Maria Swift
|
Republican
|
2001-2003
|
| Mitt Romney
|
Republican
|
2003-2007
|
| Deval Patrick
|
Democrat
|
2007–2015
|
| Charlie Baker
|
Republican
|
2015-2023
|
| Maura Healy
|
Democrat
|
2023-present
|
See also
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