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)

Pierce Mason Butler served as the 56th Governor of South Carolina from 1836 to 1838.

final_sentence: Pierce Mason Butler served as the 56th Governor of South Carolina from 1836 to 1838.