List of Governors of New Jersey
Governors
New Jersey was one of the original thirteen colonies and was admitted as a state on December 18, 1787. Prior to declaring its independence, New Jersey was a colony of the Kingdom of Great Britain.

List of Governors of New Jersey

Section Title: Governors
Table Section Text: New Jersey was one of the original thirteen colonies and was admitted as a state on December 18, 1787. Prior to declaring its independence, New Jersey was a colony of the Kingdom of Great Britain.

No.	Governor	Term in office	Party	Election	Lt. Governor

1	-	William Livingston	August 31, 1776 – July 25, 1790	Federalist	1776	Office did not exist

1777

1778

1779

1780

1781

1782

1783

1784

1785

1786

1787

1788

1789

—	Elisha Lawrence	July 25, 1790 – October 29, 1790	Federalist

2	-	William Paterson	October 29, 1790 – March 30, 1793	Federalist	1790

1791

1792

—	Thomas Henderson	March 30, 1793 – June 3, 1793	Federalist

3	Richard Howell	June 3, 1793 – October 31, 1801	Federalist	1793

1794

1795

1796

1797

1798

1799

1800

4	-	Joseph Bloomfield	October 31, 1801 – October 28, 1802	Democratic- Republican	1801

—	-	John Lambert	October 28, 1802 – October 29, 1803	Democratic- Republican	1802

4	-	Joseph Bloomfield	October 29, 1803 – October 29, 1812	Democratic- Republican	1803

1804

1805

1806

1807

1808

1809

1810

1811

5	-	Aaron Ogden	October 29, 1812 – October 29, 1813	Federalist	1812

6	-	William Sanford Pennington	October 29, 1813 – June 19, 1815	Democratic- Republican	1813

1814

—	William Kennedy	June 19, 1815 – October 26, 1815	Democratic- Republican

7	-	Mahlon Dickerson	October 26, 1815 – February 1, 1817	Democratic- Republican	1815

1816

8	-	Isaac Halstead Williamson	February 6, 1817 – October 30, 1829	Federalist

1817

1818

1819

1820

1821

1822

1823

1824

1825

1826

1827

1828

—	-	Garret D. Wall	—	Democratic	1829

9	-	Peter Dumont Vroom	November 6, 1829 – October 26, 1832	Democratic

1830

1831

10	-	Samuel L. Southard	October 26, 1832 – February 27, 1833	Whig	1832

11	-	Elias P. Seeley	February 27, 1833 – October 25, 1833	Whig

9	-	Peter Dumont Vroom	October 25, 1833 – November 3, 1836	Democratic	1833

1834

1835

12	Philemon Dickerson	November 3, 1836 – October 27, 1837	Democratic	1836

13	-	William Pennington	October 27, 1837 – October 27, 1843	Whig	1837

1838

1839

1840

1841

1842

14	-	Daniel Haines	October 27, 1843 – January 21, 1845	Democratic	1843

15	-	Charles C. Stratton	January 21, 1845 – January 18, 1848	Whig	1844

14	-	Daniel Haines	January 18, 1848 – January 21, 1851	Democratic	1847

16	-	George Franklin Fort	January 21, 1851 – January 17, 1854	Democratic	1850

17	-	Rodman M. Price	January 17, 1854 – January 20, 1857	Democratic	1853

18	-	William A. Newell	January 20, 1857 – January 17, 1860	Republican	1856

19	-	Charles Smith Olden	January 17, 1860 – January 20, 1863	Republican	1859

20	-	Joel Parker	January 20, 1863 – January 16, 1866	Democratic	1862

21	-	Marcus Lawrence Ward	January 16, 1866 – January 19, 1869	Republican	1865

22	-	Theodore Fitz Randolph	January 19, 1869 – January 16, 1872	Democratic	1868

20	-	Joel Parker	January 16, 1872 – January 19, 1875	Democratic	1871

23	-	Joseph D. Bedle	January 19, 1875 – January 15, 1878	Democratic	1874

24	-	George B. McClellan	January 15, 1878 – January 18, 1881	Democratic	1877

25	-	George C. Ludlow	January 18, 1881 – January 15, 1884	Democratic	1880

26	-	Leon Abbett	January 15, 1884 – January 18, 1887	Democratic	1883

27	-	Robert Stockton Green	January 18, 1887 – January 21, 1890	Democratic	1886

26	-	Leon Abbett	January 21, 1890 – January 17, 1893	Democratic	1889

28	-	George Theodore Werts	January 17, 1893 – January 21, 1896	Democratic	1892

29	-	John W. Griggs	January 21, 1896 – January 31, 1898	Republican	1895

—	-	Foster McGowan Voorhees	January 31, 1898 – October 18, 1898	Republican

—	-	David Ogden Watkins	October 18, 1898 – January 17, 1899	Republican

30	-	Foster McGowan Voorhees	January 17, 1899 – January 21, 1902	Republican	1898

31	-	Franklin Murphy	January 21, 1902 – January 17, 1905	Republican	1901

32	-	Edward C. Stokes	January 17, 1905 – January 21, 1908	Republican	1904

33	-	John Franklin Fort	January 21, 1908 – January 17, 1911	Republican	1907

34	-	Woodrow Wilson	January 17, 1911 – March 1, 1913	Democratic	1910

—	-	James Fairman Fielder	March 1, 1913 – October 28, 1913	Democratic

—	-	Leon R. Taylor	October 28, 1913 – January 20, 1914	Democratic

35	-	James Fairman Fielder	January 20, 1914 – January 16, 1917	Democratic	1913

36	-	Walter Evans Edge	January 16, 1917 – May 16, 1919	Republican	1916

—	-	William Nelson Runyon	May 16, 1919 – January 13, 1920	Republican

—	-	Clarence E. Case	January 13, 1920 – January 20, 1920	Republican

37	-	Edward I. Edwards	January 20, 1920 – January 15, 1923	Democratic	1919

38	-	George Sebastian Silzer	January 15, 1923 – January 19, 1926	Democratic	1922

39	-	A. Harry Moore	January 19, 1926 – January 15, 1929	Democratic	1925

40	-	Morgan Foster Larson	January 15, 1929 – January 19, 1932	Republican	1928

39	-	A. Harry Moore	January 19, 1932 – January 3, 1935	Democratic	1931

—	Clifford Ross Powell	January 3, 1935 – January 8, 1935	Republican

—	Horace Griggs Prall	January 8, 1935 – January 15, 1935	Republican

41	-	Harold G. Hoffman	January 15, 1935 – January 18, 1938	Republican	1934

39	-	A. Harry Moore	January 18, 1938 – January 21, 1941	Democratic	1937

42	-	Charles Edison	January 21, 1941 – January 18, 1944	Democratic	1940

36	-	Walter Evans Edge	January 18, 1944 – January 21, 1947	Republican	1943

43	Alfred E. Driscoll	January 21, 1947 – January 19, 1954	Republican	1946

1949

44	Robert B. Meyner	January 19, 1954 – January 16, 1962	Democratic	1953

1957

45	-	Richard J. Hughes	January 16, 1962 – January 20, 1970	Democratic	1961

1965

46	-	William T. Cahill	January 20, 1970 – January 15, 1974	Republican	1969

47	-	Brendan Byrne	January 15, 1974 – January 19, 1982	Democratic	1973

1977

48	-	Thomas Kean	January 19, 1982 – January 16, 1990	Republican	1981

1985

49	-	James Florio	January 16, 1990 – January 18, 1994	Democratic	1989

50	-	Christine Todd Whitman	January 18, 1994 – January 31, 2001	Republican	1993

1997

51	-	Donald DiFrancesco	January 31, 2001 – January 8, 2002	Republican

—	-	John Farmer Jr.	January 8, 2002 – January 8, 2002	Republican

—	John O. Bennett	January 8, 2002 – January 12, 2002	Republican

—	-	Richard Codey	January 12, 2002 – January 15, 2002	Democratic

52	-	Jim McGreevey	January 15, 2002 – November 15, 2004	Democratic	2001

53	-	Richard Codey	November 15, 2004 – January 17, 2006	Democratic

54	-	Jon Corzine	January 17, 2006 – January 19, 2010	Democratic	2005

55	-	Chris Christie	January 19, 2010 – January 16, 2018	Republican	2009	Kim Guadagno

2013

56	-	Phil Murphy	January 16, 2018 – Present	Democratic	2017	Sheila Oliver

Sentence(s)

Joseph Dorsett Bedle was a Democratic politician, who served as the 23rd governor of New Jersey from 1875 to 1878.

final_sentence: Joseph Dorsett Bedle was a Democratic politician, who served as the 23rd governor of New Jersey from 1875 to 1878.