List of Governors of New York
Governors
New York was one of the original thirteen colonies on the east coast of North America, and was admitted as a state on July 26, 1788.

List of Governors of New York

Section Title: Governors
Table Section Text: New York was one of the original thirteen colonies on the east coast of North America, and was admitted as a state on July 26, 1788.

No.	Governor	Term in office	Party	Election	Lieutenant Governor

1	-	George Clinton	July 30, 1777 – June 30, 1795	Democratic– Republican	1777	Pierre Van Cortlandt

1780

1783

1786

1789

1792

2	-	John Jay	July 1, 1795 – June 30, 1801	Federalist	1795	Stephen Van Rensselaer

1798

1	-	George Clinton	July 1, 1801 – June 30, 1804	Democratic– Republican	1801	Jeremiah Van Rensselaer

3	-	Morgan Lewis	July 1, 1804 – June 30, 1807	Democratic– Republican	1804	John Broome (died August 8, 1810)

4	-	Daniel D. Tompkins	July 1, 1807 – February 24, 1817	Democratic– Republican	1807

1810

Vacant

John Tayler (acting from January 29, 1811)

DeWitt Clinton (elected May 2, 1811)

1813	John Tayler

1816

5	-	John Tayler (Acting)	February 24, 1817 – June 30, 1817	Democratic– Republican	Philetus Swift (acting)

6	-	DeWitt Clinton	July 1, 1817 – December 31, 1822	Democratic– Republican	1817	John Tayler

1820

7	-	Joseph C. Yates	January 1, 1823 – December 31, 1824	Democratic– Republican	1822	Erastus Root

6	-	DeWitt Clinton	January 1, 1825 – February 11, 1828	Democratic– Republican	1824	James Tallmadge Jr.

1826	Nathaniel Pitcher

8	Nathaniel Pitcher	February 11, 1828 – December 31, 1828	Democratic– Republican	Peter R. Livingston (acting)

Charles Dayan (acting from October 17, 1828)

9	-	Martin Van Buren	January 1, 1829 – March 12, 1829	Democratic	1828	Enos T. Throop

10	-	Enos T. Throop	March 12, 1829 – December 31, 1832	Democratic	Charles Stebbins (acting)

William M. Oliver (acting)

1830	Edward Philip Livingston

11	-	William L. Marcy	January 1, 1833 – December 31, 1838	Democratic	1832	John Tracy

1834

1836

12	-	William H. Seward	January 1, 1839 – December 31, 1842	Whig	1838	Luther Bradish

1840

13	-	William C. Bouck	January 1, 1843 – December 31, 1844	Democratic	1842	Daniel S. Dickinson

14	-	Silas Wright	January 1, 1845 – December 31, 1846	Democratic	1844	Addison Gardiner

15	-	John Young	January 1, 1847 – December 31, 1848	Whig	1846

Albert Lester (acting)

Hamilton Fish

16	-	Hamilton Fish	January 1, 1849 – December 31, 1850	Whig	1848	George W. Patterson

17	-	Washington Hunt	January 1, 1851 – December 31, 1852	Whig	1850	Sanford E. Church

18	-	Horatio Seymour	January 1, 1853 – December 31, 1854	Democratic	1852

19	-	Myron H. Clark	January 1, 1855 – December 31, 1856	Whig (fusion)	1854	Henry Jarvis Raymond

20	-	John A. King	January 1, 1857 – December 31, 1858	Republican	1856	Henry R. Selden

21	-	Edwin D. Morgan	January 1, 1859 – December 31, 1862	Republican	1858	Robert Campbell

1860

18	-	Horatio Seymour	January 1, 1863 – December 31, 1864	Democratic	1862	David R. Floyd-Jones

22	-	Reuben Fenton	January 1, 1865 – December 31, 1868	Union	1864	Thomas G. Alvord

1866	Stewart L. Woodford

23	-	John T. Hoffman	January 1, 1869 – December 31, 1872	Democratic	1868	Allen C. Beach

1870

24	-	John Adams Dix	January 1, 1873 – December 31, 1874	Republican	1872	John C. Robinson

25	-	Samuel J. Tilden	January 1, 1875 – December 31, 1876	Democratic	1874	William Dorsheimer

26	-	Lucius Robinson	January 1, 1877 – December 31, 1879	Democratic	1876

27	-	Alonzo B. Cornell	January 1, 1880 – December 31, 1882	Republican	1879	George Gilbert Hoskins

28	-	Grover Cleveland	January 1, 1883 – January 6, 1885	Democratic	1882	David B. Hill

29	-	David B. Hill	January 6, 1885 – December 31, 1891	Democratic	Dennis McCarthy (acting)

1885	Edward F. Jones

1888

30	-	Roswell P. Flower	January 1, 1892 – December 31, 1894	Democratic	1891	William F. Sheehan

31	-	Levi P. Morton	January 1, 1895 – December 31, 1896	Republican	1894	Charles T. Saxton

32	-	Frank S. Black	January 1, 1897 – December 31, 1898	Republican	1896	Timothy L. Woodruff

33	-	Theodore Roosevelt	January 1, 1899 – December 31, 1900	Republican	1898

34	-	Benjamin Odell	January 1, 1901 – December 31, 1904	Republican	1900

1902	Frank W. Higgins

35	-	Frank W. Higgins	January 1, 1905 – December 31, 1906	Republican	1904	Matthew Linn Bruce

John Raines (acting)

36	-	Charles Evans Hughes	January 1, 1907 – October 6, 1910	Republican	1906	Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler

1908	Horace White

37	-	Horace White	October 6, 1910 – December 31, 1910	Republican	George H. Cobb (acting)

38	-	John Alden Dix	January 1, 1911 – December 31, 1912	Democratic	1910	Thomas F. Conway

39	SulzerTheBroadAx.PNG	William Sulzer	January 1, 1913 – October 17, 1913	Democratic	1912	Martin H. Glynn

40	-	Martin H. Glynn	October 17, 1913 – December 31, 1914	Democratic	Robert F. Wagner (acting)

41	-	Charles Seymour Whitman	January 1, 1915 – December 31, 1918	Republican	1914	Edward Schoeneck

1916

42	-	Al Smith	January 1, 1919 – December 31, 1920	Democratic	1918	Harry C. Walker

43	-	Nathan L. Miller	January 1, 1921 – December 31, 1922	Republican	1920	Jeremiah Wood

Clayton R. Lusk (acting)

42	-	Al Smith	January 1, 1923 – December 31, 1928	Democratic	1922	George R. Lunn

1924	Seymour Lowman

1926	Edwin Corning

44	-	Franklin D. Roosevelt	January 1, 1929 – December 31, 1932	Democratic	1928	Herbert H. Lehman

1930

45	-	Herbert H. Lehman	January 1, 1933 – December 3, 1942	Democratic	1932	M. William Bray

1934

1936

1938	Charles Poletti

46	-	Charles Poletti	December 3, 1942 – December 31, 1942	Democratic	Joe R. Hanley (acting)

47	-	Thomas E. Dewey	January 1, 1943 – December 31, 1954	Republican	1942	Thomas W. Wallace

1946	Joe R. Hanley

1950	Frank C. Moore

Arthur H. Wicks (acting)

Walter J. Mahoney (acting)

48	-	W. Averell Harriman	January 1, 1955 – December 31, 1958	Democratic	1954	George DeLuca

49	-	Nelson Rockefeller	January 1, 1959 – December 18, 1973	Republican	1958	Malcolm Wilson

1962

1966

1970

50	-	Malcolm Wilson	December 18, 1973 – December 31, 1974	Republican	Warren M. Anderson (acting)

51	-	Hugh Carey	January 1, 1975 – December 31, 1982	Democratic	1974	Mary Anne Krupsak

1978	Mario Cuomo

52	-	Mario Cuomo	January 1, 1983 – December 31, 1994	Democratic	1982	Alfred DelBello

Warren M. Anderson (acting)

1986	Stan Lundine

1990

53	Pataki cropped.JPG	George Pataki	January 1, 1995 – December 31, 2006	Republican	1994	Betsy McCaughey Ross

1998	Mary Donohue

2002

54	-	Eliot Spitzer	January 1, 2007 – March 17, 2008	Democratic	2006	David Paterson

55	-	David Paterson	March 17, 2008 – December 31, 2010	Democratic	Joseph Bruno (acting)

Dean Skelos (acting)

Malcolm Smith (acting)

Pedro Espada Jr. (acting)

Richard Ravitch (Contested)

Malcolm Smith (acting)

Richard Ravitch

56	-	Andrew Cuomo	January 1, 2011 – Incumbent	Democratic	2010	Robert Duffy

2014	Kathy Hochul

2018

Sentence(s)

Charles Poletti was the 46th Governor of New York in December 1942.

final_sentence: Charles Poletti was the 46th Governor of New York in December 1942.