List of Governors of South Carolina
Governors under the Constitution of 1790
The General Assembly chose the governor for a term of two years. Parties Democratic Federalist Democratic-Republican

List of Governors of South Carolina

Section Title: Governors under the Constitution of 1790
Table Section Text: The General Assembly chose the governor for a term of two years. Parties Democratic Federalist Democratic-Republican

#	Governor	Took Office	Left Office	Lt. Governor	Party	Notes

-	William Moultrie	December 5, 1792	December 17, 1794	James Ladson	Federalist	2nd time

38	-	Arnoldus Vanderhorst	December 17, 1794	December 8, 1796	Lewis Morris	Federalist

-	Charles Pinckney	December 8, 1796	December 18, 1798	Robert Anderson	Democratic-Republican	2nd time

39	-	Edward Rutledge	December 18, 1798	January 23, 1800	John Drayton	Federalist	Died in office

40	JohnDrayton.JPG	John Drayton	January 23, 1800	December 8, 1802	Richard Winn	Democratic-Republican	1st time

41	-	James Burchill Richardson	December 8, 1802	December 7, 1804	Ezekiel Pickens	Democratic-Republican

42	Paul Hamilton SecNavy.jpeg	Paul Hamilton	December 7, 1804	December 9, 1806	Thomas Sumter, Jr.	Democratic-Republican

-	Charles Pinckney	December 9, 1806	December 10, 1808	John Hopkins	Democratic-Republican	3rd time

JohnDrayton.JPG	John Drayton	December 10, 1808	December 8, 1810	Frederick Nance	Democratic-Republican	2nd time

43	-	Henry Middleton	December 8, 1810	December 10, 1812	Samuel Farrow	Democratic-Republican

44	-	Joseph Alston	December 10, 1812	December 10, 1814	Eldred Simkins	Democratic-Republican

45	-	David Rogerson Williams	December 10, 1814	December 5, 1816	Robert Creswell	Democratic-Republican

46	-	Andrew Pickens	December 5, 1816	December 8, 1818	John A. Cuthbert	Democratic-Republican

47	-	John Geddes	December 8, 1818	December 7, 1820	William Youngblood	Democratic-Republican

48	Thomas Bennett Jr.PNG	Thomas Bennett, Jr.	December 7, 1820	December 7, 1822	William Pinckney	Democratic-Republican

49	-	John Lyde Wilson	December 7, 1822	December 3, 1824	Henry Bradley	Democratic-Republican

50	-	Richard Irvine Manning I	December 3, 1824	December 9, 1826	William Bull	Democratic-Republican

51	-	John Taylor	December 9, 1826	December 10, 1828	James Witherspoon	Democratic-Republican

52	-	Stephen Decatur Miller	December 10, 1828	December 9, 1830	Thomas Williams	Democratic (Nullifier)

53	-	James Hamilton, Jr.	December 9, 1830	December 10, 1832	Patrick Noble	Democratic (Nullifier)

54	-	Robert Young Hayne	December 10, 1832	December 9, 1834	Charles Cotesworth Pinckney	Democratic (Nullifier)

55	-	George McDuffie	December 9, 1834	December 10, 1836	Whitemarsh B. Seabrook	Democratic

56	-	Pierce Mason Butler	December 10, 1836	December 7, 1838	William DuBose	Democratic

57	-	Patrick Noble	December 7, 1838	April 7, 1840	Barnabas Kelet Henagan	Democratic	Died in office

58	-	Barnabas Kelet Henagan	April 7, 1840	December 9, 1840	vacant	Democratic	Not elected

59	-	John Peter Richardson II	December 9, 1840	December 8, 1842	William K. Clowney	Democratic

60	-	James Henry Hammond	December 8, 1842	December 7, 1844	Isaac D. Witherspoon	Democratic

61	-	William Aiken, Jr.	December 7, 1844	December 8, 1846	J.F. Ervin	Democratic

62	-	David Johnson	December 8, 1846	December 12, 1848	William Cain	Democratic

63	-	Whitemarsh B. Seabrook	December 12, 1848	December 13, 1850	William Henry Gist	Democratic

64	JohnHughMeans.JPG	John Hugh Means	December 13, 1850	December 9, 1852	Joshua John Ward	Democratic

65	-	John Lawrence Manning	December 9, 1852	December 11, 1854	James Irby	Democratic

66	-	James Hopkins Adams	December 11, 1854	December 9, 1856	Richard de Treville	Democratic

67	-	Robert F.W. Allston	December 9, 1856	December 10, 1858	Gabriel Cannon	Democratic

68	-	William Henry Gist	December 10, 1858	December 14, 1860	M. E. Carn	Democratic

69	-	Francis Wilkinson Pickens	December 14, 1860	December 17, 1862	W.W. Harllee	Democratic

70	-	Milledge Luke Bonham	December 17, 1862	December 18, 1864	Plowden Weston	Democratic

71	-	Andrew Gordon Magrath	December 18, 1864	May 25, 1865	Robert McCaw	Democratic	Deposed by the Union Army

72	-	Benjamin Franklin Perry	June 30, 1865	November 29, 1865	vacant	Unionist Democrat	Appointed by President Andrew Johnson

Sentence(s)

George McDuffie was the 55th Governor of South Carolina.

final_sentence: George McDuffie was the 55th Governor of South Carolina.