Governors of New Mexico

A list of governors from the state of New Mexico.

Territorial Governors of New Mexico

Name	Years
Charles Bent	1846-1851
James S. Calhoun	1851-1852
William Carr Lane	1852-1853
David Meriwether	1853-1857
Abraham Rencher	1857-1861
Henry Connelly	1861-1866
Robert Byington Mitchell	1866-1869
William Anderson Pyle	1869-1871
Marsh Giddings	1871-1875
Samuel Beach Axtell	1875-1878
Lew Wallace	1878-1881
Lionel Allen Sheldon	1881-1885
Edmund G. Ross	1885-1889
L. Bradford Privce	1889-1893
William Taylor Thornton	1893-1897
Miguel A. Otero	1897-1906
Herbert James Hagerman	1906-1907
George Curry	1907-1910
William J. Mills	1910-1912

State Governors of New Mexico

Name	Party	Years
William Calhoun McDonald	Democrat	1912-1917
Ezequiel Cabeza de Baca	Democrat	1917
Washington Ellsworth Lindsey	Republican	1917-1919
Octaviano Ambrozio Larrazolo	Republican	1919-1921
Merritt Cramer Mechem	Republican	1921-1923
James Fielding Hinkle	Democrat	1923-1925
Arthur Thomas Hannett	Democrat	1925-1927
Richard Charles Dillon	Republican	1927-1931
Arthur Seligman	Democrat	1931-1933
Andrew W. Hockenhull	Republican	1933-1935
Clyde Tingley	Democrat	1935-1939
John Esten Miles	Democrat	1939-1943
John Joseph Depmsey	Democrat	1943-1947
Thomas Jewett Mabry	Democrat	1947-1951
Edwin Leard Mechem	Republican	1951–1955, 1957–1959, 1961–1962, 1962-1963
John Field Simms, Jr.	Democrat	1955-1957
John Burroughs	Democrat	1959-1961
Thomas Felix Bolack	Republican	1962
Jack M. Campbell	Democrat	1963-1967
David Francis Cargo	Republican	1967-1971
Bruce King	Democrat	1971–1975, 1979–1983, 1991-1995
Raymond S. "Jerry" Apodaca	Democrat	1975-1979
Toney Anaya	Democrat	1983-1987
Garrey Edwards Carruthers	Republican	1987-1991
Gary Earl Johnson	Republican	1995-2003
Bill Richardson	Democrat	2003-2011
Susana Martinez	Republican	2011–2019
Michelle Lujan Grisham	Republican	2019-present