List of Governors of Michigan
Governors of the State of Michigan
Michigan was admitted to the Union on January 26, 1837. The original 1835 Constitution of Michigan provided for the election of a governor and a lieutenant governor every 2 years.

List of Governors of Michigan

Section Title: Governors of the State of Michigan
Table Section Text: Michigan was admitted to the Union on January 26, 1837. The original 1835 Constitution of Michigan provided for the election of a governor and a lieutenant governor every 2 years.

No.	Governor	Term in office	Party	Election	Lt. Governor

1	-	Stevens T. Mason	November 3, 1835 – January 7, 1840	Democratic	1835	Edward Mundy

1837

2	-	William Woodbridge	January 7, 1840 – February 23, 1841	Whig	1839	James Wright Gordon

3	J Wright Gordon.JPG	James Wright Gordon	February 23, 1841 – January 3, 1842	Whig	Thomas J. Drake

4	-	John S. Barry	January 3, 1842 – January 5, 1846	Democratic	1841	Origen D. Richardson

1843

5	-	Alpheus Felch	January 5, 1846 – March 3, 1847	Democratic	1845	William L. Greenly

6	-	William L. Greenly	March 4, 1847 – January 3, 1848	Democratic	Charles P. Bush

7	-	Epaphroditus Ransom	January 3, 1848 – January 7, 1850	Democratic	1847	William M. Fenton

8	-	John S. Barry	January 7, 1850 – January 1, 1852	Democratic	1849

9	-	Robert McClelland	January 1, 1852 – March 7, 1853	Democratic	1851	Calvin Britain

1852	Andrew Parsons

10	-	Andrew Parsons	March 8, 1853 – January 3, 1855	Democratic	George Griswold

11	-	Kinsley S. Bingham	January 3, 1855 – January 5, 1859	Republican	1854	George Coe

1856

12	-	Moses Wisner	January 5, 1859 – January 2, 1861	Republican	1858	Edmund Burke Fairfield

13	-	Austin Blair	January 2, 1861 – January 3, 1865	Republican	1860	James M. Birney (resigned April 3, 1861)

Joseph R. Williams (died June 15, 1861)

Henry T. Backus

1862	Charles S. May

14	-	Henry H. Crapo	January 3, 1865 – January 6, 1869	Republican	1864	Ebenezer O. Grosvenor

1866	Dwight May

15	-	Henry P. Baldwin	January 6, 1869 – January 1, 1873	Republican	1868	Morgan Bates

1870

16	-	John J. Bagley	January 1, 1873 – January 3, 1877	Republican	1872	Henry H. Holt

1874

17	-	Charles Croswell	January 3, 1877 – January 1, 1881	Republican	1876	Alonzo Sessions

1878

18	-	David Jerome	January 1, 1881 – January 1, 1883	Republican	1880	Moreau S. Crosby

19	-	Josiah Begole	January 1, 1883 – January 1, 1885	Democratic	1882

20	-	Russell A. Alger	January 1, 1885 – January 1, 1887	Republican	1884	Archibald Buttars

21	-	Cyrus G. Luce	January 1, 1887 – January 1, 1891	Republican	1886	James H. MacDonald

1888	William Ball

22	-	Edwin B. Winans	January 1, 1891 – January 1, 1893	Democratic	1890	John Strong

23	John T Rich.JPG	John Treadway Rich	January 1, 1893 – January 1, 1897	Republican	1892	J. Wight Giddings

1894	Alfred Milnes (resigned June 1, 1895)

Joseph R. McLaughlin

24	-	Hazen S. Pingree	January 1, 1897 – January 1, 1901	Republican	1896	Thomas B. Dunstan

1898	Orrin W. Robinson

25	-	Aaron T. Bliss	January 1, 1901 – January 1, 1905	Republican	1900

1902	Alexander Maitland

26	-	Fred M. Warner	January 1, 1905 – January 2, 1911	Republican	1904

1906	Patrick H. Kelley

1908

27	-	Chase Osborn	January 2, 1911 – January 1, 1913	Republican	1910	John Q. Ross

28	-	Woodbridge Nathan Ferris	January 1, 1913 – January 1, 1917	Democratic	1912

1914	Luren Dickinson

29	-	Albert Sleeper	January 1, 1917 – January 1, 1921	Republican	1916

1918

30	-	Alex J. Groesbeck	January 1, 1921 – January 1, 1927	Republican	1920	Thomas Read

1922

1924	George W. Welsh

31	-	Fred W. Green	January 1, 1927 – January 1, 1931	Republican	1926	Luren Dickinson

1928

32	-	Wilber M. Brucker	January 1, 1931 – January 1, 1933	Republican	1930

33	-	William Comstock	January 1, 1933 – January 1, 1935	Democratic	1932	Allen E. Stebbins

34	-	Frank Fitzgerald	January 1, 1935 – January 1, 1937	Republican	1934	Thomas Read

35	-	Frank Murphy	January 1, 1937 – January 1, 1939	Democratic	1936	Leo J. Nowicki

36	-	Frank Fitzgerald	January 1, 1939 – March 16, 1939	Republican	1938	Luren Dickinson

37	-	Luren Dickinson	March 16, 1939 – January 1, 1941	Republican	Matilda Dodge Wilson

38	-	Murray Van Wagoner	January 1, 1941 – January 1, 1943	Democratic	1940	Frank Murphy

39	-	Harry Kelly	January 1, 1943 – January 1, 1947	Republican	1942	Eugene C. Keyes

1944	Vernon J. Brown

40	-	Kim Sigler	January 1, 1947 – January 1, 1949	Republican	1946	Eugene C. Keyes

41	-	G. Mennen Williams	January 1, 1949 – January 1, 1961	Democratic	1948	John W. Connolly

1950	William C. Vandenberg

1952	Clarence A. Reid

1954	Philip Hart

1956

1958	John Swainson

42	-	John Swainson	January 1, 1961 – January 1, 1963	Democratic	1960	T. John Lesinski

43	-	George W. Romney	January 1, 1963 – January 22, 1969	Republican	1962

1964

1966	William Milliken

44	-	William Milliken	January 22, 1969 – January 1, 1983	Republican	Thomas F. Schweigert

1970	James H. Brickley

1974	James Damman

1978	James H. Brickley

45	-	James Blanchard	January 1, 1983 – January 1, 1991	Democratic	1982	Martha Griffiths

1986

46	-	John Engler	January 1, 1991 – January 1, 2003	Republican	1990	Connie Binsfeld

1994

1998	Dick Posthumus

47	-	Jennifer Granholm	January 1, 2003 – January 1, 2011	Democratic	2002	John D. Cherry

2006

48	-	Rick Snyder	January 1, 2011 – January 1, 2019	Republican	2010	Brian Calley

2014

49	-	Gretchen Whitmer	January 1, 2019 – present	Democratic	2018	Garlin Gilchrist

Sentence(s)

William Woodbridge served as the second Governor of Michigan.

final_sentence: William Woodbridge served as the second Governor of Michigan.