A list of governors from the commonwealth of Virginia.[1]
Virginia Company of London Governors
| Name |
Years
|
| Edward Maria Wingfield
|
1607
|
| John Ratcliffe (Governor)
|
1608
|
| Matthew Scrivener
|
1608
|
| John Smith
|
1608-1609
|
| George Percy
|
1609-1610, 1611
|
| Thomas Gates
|
1610, 1611-1614
|
| Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr
|
1610-1611
|
| Thomas Dale
|
1611, 1614-1616
|
| George Yeardley
|
1616-1617, 1619-1621
|
| Samuel Argall
|
1617-1619
|
| Francis Wyatt
|
1621-1624
|
Crown Governors of Virginia
| Name |
Years
|
| Francis Wyatt
|
1624-1626, 1639-1642
|
| George Yeardley
|
1626-1627
|
| Francis West
|
1627-1629
|
| John Pott
|
1629-1630
|
| John Harvey
|
1630-1635, 1637-1639
|
| John West
|
1635-1637
|
| William Berkeley
|
1642-1644, 1645-1652, 1660-1677
|
| Richard Kemp
|
1644-1645
|
| Thomas Culpeper
|
1677-1683
|
| Francis Howard
|
1683-1692
|
| Edmund Andros
|
1692-1698
|
| Francis Nicholson
|
1698-1705
|
| Edward Nott
|
1705-1706
|
| Edmund Jenings
|
1706-1708
|
| Robert Hunter
|
1707-1709
|
| George Hamilton
|
1710-1737
|
| Willem Anne van Keppel
|
1737-1754
|
| John Campbell
|
1756-1759
|
| Jeffery Amherst
|
1759-1768
|
| Norborne Berkeley
|
1768-1770
|
| William Nelson
|
1770-1771
|
| John Murray
|
1771-1775
|
Commonwealth of England Governors
| Name |
Years
|
| Richard Bennett
|
1652-1655
|
| Edward Digges
|
1655-1656
|
| Samuel Mathews
|
1656-1660
|
| Wiliam Berkeley
|
1660
|
President of the Committee for Public Safety
| Name |
Years
|
| Edmund Pendleton
|
1775-1776
|
Governors of the Commonwealth of Virginia
| Name |
Party |
Years
|
| Patrick Henry
|
|
1776-1779, 1784-1786
|
| Thomas Jefferson
|
|
1779-1781
|
| William Fleming
|
|
1781
|
| David Jameson
|
|
1781
|
| Thomas Nelson, Jr.
|
|
1781
|
| Benjamin Harrison
|
|
1781-1784
|
| Edmund Randolph
|
|
1786-1788
|
| Beverley Randolph
|
|
1788-1791
|
| Henry Lee
|
Federalist
|
1791-1794
|
| Robert Brooke
|
Democratic Republican
|
1794-1796
|
| James Wood
|
Federalist
|
1796-1799
|
| James Monroe
|
Democratic Republican
|
1799-1802, 1811
|
| John Pendleton, Jr.
|
|
1799
|
| Hardin Burnley
|
|
1799
|
| John Page
|
Democratic Republican
|
1802-1805
|
| William Henry Cabell
|
Democratic Republican
|
1805-1808
|
| John Tyler
|
Democratic Republican
|
1808-1811
|
| George William Smith
|
Democratic Republican
|
1811, 1811[2]
|
| Peyton Randolph
|
Democratic Republican
|
1811-1812
|
| James Barbour
|
Democratic Republican
|
1812-1814
|
| Wilson Cary Nicholas
|
Democratic Republican
|
1814-1816
|
| James Patton Preston
|
Democratic Republican
|
1816-1819
|
| Thomas Mann Randolph
|
Democratic Republican
|
1819-1822
|
| James Pleasants, Jr.
|
Democratic Republican
|
1822-1825
|
| John Tyler, Jr.
|
Democratic Republican
|
1825-1827
|
| William Branch Giles
|
Anti Federalist
|
1827-1830
|
| John Floyd
|
Democrat
|
1830-1834
|
| Littleton Waller Tazewell
|
Whig
|
1834-1836
|
| Wyndham Robertson
|
Whig
|
1836-1837
|
| David Campbell
|
Democrat
|
1837-1840
|
| Thomas Walker Gilmer
|
Whig
|
1840-1841
|
| John Mercer Patton
|
Whig
|
1841
|
| John Rutherfoord
|
Democrat
|
1841-1842
|
| John Munford Gregory
|
Whig
|
1842-1843
|
| James McDowell
|
Democrat
|
1843-1846
|
| William Smith
|
Democrat
|
1846-1849, 1864-1865
|
| John Buchanan Floyd
|
Democrat
|
1849-1852
|
| Joseph Johnson
|
Democrat
|
1852-1856
|
| Henry Alexander Wise
|
Democrat
|
1856-1860
|
| John Letcher
|
Democrat
|
1860-1864
|
| Henry Horatio Wells
|
Republican
|
1868-1869
|
| Gilbert Carlson Walker
|
Republican
|
1869-1874
|
| James Lawson Kemper
|
Conservative
|
1874-1878
|
| Frederick William Mackey Holliday
|
Conservative
|
1878-1882
|
| William E. Cameron
|
Readjuster
|
1882-1886
|
| Fitzhugh Lee
|
Democrat
|
1886-1890
|
| Philip Watkins McKinney
|
Democrat
|
1890-1894
|
| Charles Triplett O’Ferrall
|
Democrat
|
1894-1898
|
| James Hodge Tyler
|
Democrat
|
1898-1902
|
| Andrew Jackson Montague
|
Democrat
|
1902-1906
|
| Claude Augustus Swanson
|
Democrat
|
1906-1910
|
| William Hodges Mann
|
Democrat
|
1910-1914
|
| Henry Carter Stuart
|
Democrat
|
1914-1918
|
| Westmoreland Davis
|
Democrat
|
1918-1922
|
| Elbert Lee Trinkle
|
Democrat
|
1922-1926
|
| Harry Flood Byrd, Sr.
|
Democrat
|
1926-1930
|
| John Garland Pollard
|
Democrat
|
1930-1934
|
| George Campbell Peery
|
Democrat
|
1934-1938
|
| James Hubert Price
|
Democrat
|
1938-1942
|
| Colgate Whitehead Darden
|
Democrat
|
1942-1946
|
| William Munford Tuck
|
Democrat
|
1946-1950
|
| John Stuart Battle
|
Democrat
|
1950-1954
|
| Thomas Bahnson Stanley
|
Democrat
|
1954-1958
|
| James Lindsay Almond
|
Democrat
|
1958-1962
|
| Albertis S. Harrison, Jr.
|
Democrat
|
1962-1966
|
| Mills Edwin Godwin, Jr.
|
Democrat/Republican
|
1966-1970, 1974-1978
|
| A. Linwood Holton, Jr.
|
Republican
|
1970-1974
|
| John Nichols Dalton
|
Republican
|
1978-1982
|
| Charles Spittal Robb
|
Democrat
|
1982-1986
|
| Gerald L. Baliles
|
Democrat
|
1986-1990
|
| L. Douglas Wilder
|
Democrat
|
1990-1994
|
| George Allen
|
Republican
|
1994-1998
|
| James S. Gilmore III
|
Republican
|
1998-2002
|
| Mark R. Warner
|
Democrat
|
2002-2006
|
| Tim Kaine
|
Democrat
|
2006-2010
|
| Bob McDonnell
|
Republican
|
2010–2014
|
| Terry McAuliffe
|
Democrat
|
2014-2018
|
| Ralph Shearer Northam
|
Democrat
|
2018-2022
|
| Glenn Youngkin
|
Republican
|
2022-
|
Further reading
- Younger, Edward and Moore, James T., eds. The Governors of Virginia, 1860-1978. Charlottesville: U. Press of Virginia, 1982. 428 pp.
Notes
- ↑ http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.8fd3d12ab65b304f8a278110501010a0?submit=Submit&State=VA
- ↑ Smith served two non-consecutive terms in 1811, one as acting governor for 4 days in January before James Monroe took office, and one after Monroe took the position of Secretary of State.
