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 D. 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 "Jimmy" Byrnes
|
Democrat
|
1951-1955
|
| George Bell Timmerman
|
Democrat
|
1955-1959
|
| Ernest Hollings
|
Democrat
|
1959-1963
|
| Donald Stuart Russell
|
Democrat
|
1963-1965
|
| Robert Evander McNair
|
Democrat
|
1965-1971
|
| John C. West
|
Democrat
|
1971-1975
|
| James B. Edwards
|
Republican
|
1975-1979
|
| Richard Wilson Riley
|
Democrat
|
1979-1987
|
| Carroll Ashmore Campbell, Jr.
|
Republican
|
1987-1995
|
| David Muldrow Beasley
|
Republican
|
1995-1999
|
| James Hovis "Jim" Hodges
|
Democrat
|
1999-2003
|
| Mark Sanford
|
Republican
|
2003-2011
|
| Nikki Haley
|
Republican
|
2011–2017
|
| Henry McMaster
|
Republican
|
2017-
|
Notes
- ↑ http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.8fd3d12ab65b304f8a278110501010a0?submit=Submit&State=SC
- ↑ http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/List-of-South-Carolina-Governors
