List of Governors of Utah
Governors of the Territory of Utah
On September 9, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850, Utah Territory was organized, encompassing roughly the northern half of Deseret.

List of Governors of Utah

Section Title: Governors of the Territory of Utah
Table Section Text: On September 9, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850, Utah Territory was organized, encompassing roughly the northern half of Deseret.

Picture	Governor	Took office	Left office	Appointed by	Notes

Portrait of a well-dressed nineteenth-century man, sitting.	Brigham Young	February 3, 1851	April 12, 1858	Millard Fillmore

Franklin Pierce

Upper-body portrait of a mid-nineteenth-century man in a suit.	Alfred Cumming	April 12, 1858	May 17, 1861	James Buchanan

Upper-body portrait of a mid-nineteenth-century man in a suit.	John W. Dawson	December 7, 1861	December 31, 1861	Abraham Lincoln

Upper-body portrait of a mid-nineteenth-century man in a suit.	Stephen S. Harding	July 7, 1862	June 11, 1863	Abraham Lincoln

Upper-body portrait of a mid-nineteenth-century man in a suit.	James Duane Doty	June 22, 1863	June 13, 1865	Abraham Lincoln

Upper-body portrait of a mid-nineteenth-century man in a suit.	Charles Durkee	September 30, 1865	January 9, 1869	Andrew Johnson

Upper-body portrait of a mid-nineteenth-century man in a suit.	John Shaffer	March 20, 1870	October 31, 1870	Ulysses S. Grant

Upper-body portrait of a mid-nineteenth-century man in a suit.	Vernon H. Vaughan	October 31, 1870	February 1, 1871	Ulysses S. Grant

Upper-body portrait of a mid-nineteenth-century man in a suit.	George Lemuel Woods	March 10, 1871	October 13, 1874	Ulysses S. Grant

Upper-body portrait of a late-nineteenth-century man in a suit.	Samuel Beach Axtell	February 2, 1875	June 8, 1875	Ulysses S. Grant

Upper-body portrait of a late-nineteenth-century man in a suit.	George W. Emery	July 3, 1875	January 25, 1880	Ulysses S. Grant

Upper-body portrait of a late-nineteenth-century man in a suit.	Eli Houston Murray	February 28, 1880	March 16, 1886	Rutherford B. Hayes

Chester A. Arthur

Upper-body portrait of a late-nineteenth-century man in a suit.	Caleb Walton West	May 12, 1886	May 6, 1889	Grover Cleveland

Upper-body portrait of a late-nineteenth-century man in a suit.	Arthur Lloyd Thomas	May 6, 1889	May 9, 1893	Benjamin Harrison

Upper-body portrait of a late-nineteenth-century man in a suit.	Caleb Walton West	May 9, 1893	January 4, 1896	Grover Cleveland

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