List of Governors of North Carolina
Governors of the State of North Carolina
After the current state constitution was ratified in 1971, North Carolina Governors are limited to two consecutive terms in office; they had previously been limited to one term.

List of Governors of North Carolina

Section Title: Governors of the State of North Carolina
Table Section Text: After the current state constitution was ratified in 1971, North Carolina Governors are limited to two consecutive terms in office; they had previously been limited to one term.

#	Governor	Portrait	Took office	Left office	Party	Notes

1	Richard Caswell	-	November 12, 1776	April 20, 1780	No party

2	Abner Nash	-	April 20, 1780	June 26, 1781	No party

3	Thomas Burke	-	June 26, 1781	April 22, 1782	No party

4	Alexander Martin	-	April 22, 1782	May 13, 1785	Anti-Federalist

5	Richard Caswell	-	May 13, 1785	December 20, 1787	No party

6	Samuel Johnston	Samuel Johnston Bust.JPG	December 20, 1787	December 17, 1789	Federalist

7	Alexander Martin	-	December 17, 1789	December 14, 1792	Anti-Federalist

8	Richard Dobbs Spaight	-	December 14, 1792	November 19, 1795	Federalist

9	Samuel Ashe	-	November 19, 1795	December 7, 1798	Anti-Federalist

10	William Richardson Davie	-	December 7, 1798	November 23, 1799	Federalist

11	Benjamin Williams	-	November 23, 1799	December 6, 1802	Federalist

12	James Turner	-	December 6, 1802	December 10, 1805	Democratic-Republican

13	Nathaniel Alexander	-	December 10, 1805	December 1, 1807	Democratic-Republican

14	Benjamin Williams	-	December 1, 1807	December 12, 1808	Federalist

15	David Stone	-	December 12, 1808	December 1, 1810	Democratic-Republican

16	Benjamin Smith	-	December 1, 1810	December 11, 1811	Democratic-Republican

17	William Hawkins	-	December 11, 1811	November 29, 1814	Democratic-Republican

18	William Miller	-	November 29, 1814	December 6, 1817	Democratic-Republican

19	John Branch	-	December 6, 1817	December 7, 1820	Democratic-Republican

20	Jesse Franklin	-	December 7, 1820	December 7, 1821	Democratic-Republican

21	Gabriel Holmes	-	December 7, 1821	December 7, 1824	Democratic-Republican

22	Hutchins Gordon Burton	-	December 7, 1824	December 8, 1827	No party

23	James Iredell Jr.	-	December 8, 1827	December 12, 1828	Democratic-Republican

24	John Owen	-	December 12, 1828	December 18, 1830	Democratic

25	Montfort Stokes	-	December 18, 1830	December 6, 1832	Democratic

26	David Lowry Swain	-	December 6, 1832	December 10, 1835	National Republican

27	Richard Dobbs Spaight Jr.	-	December 10, 1835	December 31, 1836	Democratic

28	Edward Bishop Dudley	-	December 31, 1836	January 1, 1841	Whig

29	John Motley Morehead	-	January 1, 1841	January 1, 1845	Whig

30	William Alexander Graham	-	January 1, 1845	January 1, 1849	Whig

31	Charles Manly	-	January 1, 1849	January 1, 1851	Whig

32	David Settle Reid	-	January 1, 1851	December 6, 1854	Democratic

33	Warren Winslow	-	December 6, 1854	January 1, 1855	Democratic

34	Thomas Bragg	-	January 1, 1855	January 1, 1859	Democratic

35	John Willis Ellis	-	January 1, 1859	July 7, 1861	Democratic

36	Henry Toole Clark	-	July 7, 1861	September 8, 1862	Democratic

37	Zebulon Baird Vance	-	September 8, 1862	May 29, 1865	Conservative

38	William Woods Holden	-	May 29, 1865	December 15, 1865	National Union

39	Jonathan Worth	-	December 15, 1865	July 1, 1868	Conservative

40	William Woods Holden	-	July 1, 1868	March 22, 1871	Republican

41	Tod Robinson Caldwell	-	March 22, 1871	July 11, 1874	Republican

42	Curtis Hooks Brogden	-	July 11, 1874	January 1, 1877	Republican

43	Zebulon Baird Vance	-	January 1, 1877	February 5, 1879	Democratic

44	Thomas Jordan Jarvis	-	February 5, 1879	January 21, 1885	Democratic

45	Alfred Moore Scales	-	January 21, 1885	January 17, 1889	Democratic

46	Daniel Gould Fowle	-	January 17, 1889	April 7, 1891	Democratic

47	Thomas Michael Holt	Thomas Michael Holt Governor of North Carolina.jpeg	April 7, 1891	January 18, 1893	Democratic

48	Elias Carr	-	January 18, 1893	January 12, 1897	Democratic

49	Daniel Lindsay Russell	-	January 12, 1897	January 15, 1901	Republican

50	Charles Brantley Aycock	-	January 15, 1901	January 11, 1905	Democratic

51	Robert Broadnax Glenn	-	January 11, 1905	January 12, 1909	Democratic

52	William Walton Kitchin	-	January 12, 1909	January 15, 1913	Democratic

53	Locke Craig	-	January 15, 1913	January 11, 1917	Democratic

54	Thomas Walter Bickett	-	January 11, 1917	January 12, 1921	Democratic

55	Cameron A. Morrison	-	January 12, 1921	January 14, 1925	Democratic

56	Angus Wilton McLean	-	January 14, 1925	January 11, 1929	Democratic

57	Oliver Max Gardner	-	January 11, 1929	January 5, 1933	Democratic

58	John C.B. Ehringhaus	-	January 5, 1933	January 7, 1937	Democratic

59	Clyde R. Hoey	-	January 7, 1937	January 9, 1941	Democratic

60	J. Melville Broughton	-	January 9, 1941	January 4, 1945	Democratic

61	R. Gregg Cherry	-	January 4, 1945	January 6, 1949	Democratic

62	W. Kerr Scott	-	January 6, 1949	January 8, 1953	Democratic

63	William B. Umstead	-	January 8, 1953	November 7, 1954	Democratic

64	Luther H. Hodges	-	November 7, 1954	January 5, 1961	Democratic

65	Terry Sanford	-	January 5, 1961	January 8, 1965	Democratic

66	Dan K. Moore	-	January 8, 1965	January 3, 1969	Democratic

67	Robert W. Scott	-	January 3, 1969	January 5, 1973	Democratic

68	James Holshouser	-	January 5, 1973	January 8, 1977	Republican

69	James B. Hunt Jr.	-	January 8, 1977	January 5, 1985	Democratic

70	James G. Martin	-	January 5, 1985	January 9, 1993	Republican

71	James B. Hunt Jr.	-	January 9, 1993	January 6, 2001	Democratic

72	Mike Easley	-	January 6, 2001	January 10, 2009	Democratic

73	Beverly Perdue	-	January 10, 2009	January 5, 2013	Democratic

74	Pat McCrory	-	January 5, 2013	January 1, 2017	Republican

75	Roy Cooper	-	January 1, 2017	Present	Democratic

Sentence(s)

Benjamin Smith was the 16th Governor of the state of North Carolina from 1810 to 1811.

final_sentence: Benjamin Smith was the 16th Governor of the state of North Carolina from 1810 to 1811.