page_title: List of Brown University people
section_title: Governors
hierarchical_section_title: List of Brown University people / Notable alumni and leaders of Brown / Government, law and public policy / Governors
caption_attribution_description: English: James Fenner (1771-1846) Deutsch: James Fenner, Gouverneur des Bundesstaates Rhode Island. Offizielle Porträt in der Rhode Island Kapitol.
context_page_description: The following is a partial list of notable Brown people, known as Brunonians. It includes alumni, professors, and others associated with Brown University and Pembroke College, the former women's college of Brown.
context_section_description: Philip Allen (A.B. 1803) – U.S. Senator, Rhode Island (1853–1859), Governor of Rhode Island (1851–1853)
  Henry B. Anthony (A.B. 1833) – U.S. Senator, R-Rhode Island (1859–1884), President pro tempore of the United States Senate, Governor of Rhode Island (1849–1851)
  Donald Carcieri (A.B. 1965) – Governor of Rhode Island–R (2003–2011); former CEO of Cookson America
  Lincoln Chafee (1975) – Governor of Rhode Island
  Samuel Cony (1829) – Governor of Maine (1864–1867)
  Elisha Dyer – Governor of Rhode Island (1857–1859)
  Elisha Dyer, Jr. – Governor of Rhode Island (1897–1900)
  James Fenner (A.B. 1789) – Governor of Rhode Island (1807–1811; 1824–1831; 1843–1845)
  Theodore Francis Green (1887) – Governor of Rhode Island (1933–1936); U.S. Senator, D–Rhode Island (1937–1961)
  Maggie Hassan – Governor of New Hampshire (2013–2017); U.S. Senator, D–New Hampshire (2017–)
  Charles Evans Hughes (A.B. 1881) – Governor of New York (1907–1910)
  Charles Jackson – Governor of Rhode Island (1845–46)
  Piyush "Bobby" Jindal (Sc.B. 1992) – Governor of Louisiana–R (2008–2016)
  Otto Kerner, Jr. (1930) – Governor of Illinois – (1961–1968)
  William L. Marcy (A.B. 1808) – Justice of New York State Supreme Court (1829); Governor of New York (1833–1839); U.S. Secretary of War (1845–1849); U.S. Senator from New York; U.S. Secretary of State (1853–1857)
  Jack A. Markell (1982) – Governor of Delaware–D (2009–2017)
  Marcus Morton (A.B. 1804, A.M 1807) – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1817–1821), Governor of Massachusetts (1825, 1840–1844)
  Pendleton Murrah (1848) – Governor of Texas during the American Civil War (1863–1865)
  Philip W. Noel (1954) – former Governor of Rhode Island
  Robert E. Quinn (1915) – Governor of Rhode Island and Judge for the Rhode Island Superior Court
  Edward C. Stokes (1883) – Governor of New Jersey (1905–1908)
  John Milton Thayer (1841) – Governor of Wyoming Territory and Governor of Nebraska
  William D. Williamson (1804) – second Governor of the U.S. state of Maine and one of the first congressmen from Maine in the United States House of Representatives
caption: Aaron Stough
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