List of governors of New York

This is a list of people who served as the governor of New York.

List of governors[change | change source]


No.		Term in office	Time in office	Party	Election	Lieutenant Governor
1	George Clinton	July 30, 1777 – June 30, 1795 (not candidate for election)	17 years, 336 days	Democratic– Republican	1777		Pierre Van Cortlandt
					1780
					1783
					1786
					1789
					1792
2	John Jay	July 1, 1795 – June 30, 1801 (not candidate for election)	6 years, 0 days	Federalist	1795		Stephen Van Rensselaer
2	John Jay	July 1, 1795 – June 30, 1801 (not candidate for election)	6 years, 0 days	Federalist	1798		Stephen Van Rensselaer
1	George Clinton	July 1, 1801 – June 30, 1804 (not candidate for election)^[a]	3 years, 0 days	Democratic– Republican	1801		Jeremiah Van Rensselaer
3	Morgan Lewis	July 1, 1804 – June 30, 1807 (lost election)	3 years, 0 days	Democratic– Republican	1804		John Broome (died August 8, 1810)
4	Daniel D. Tompkins	July 1, 1807 – February 24, 1817 (resigned)^[b]	9 years, 238 days	Democratic– Republican	1807
					1810
						Vacant
							John Tayler (acting) (took office January 29, 1811)^[c]
							DeWitt Clinton (elected May 2, 1811)
					1813		John Tayler
					1816		John Tayler
5	John Tayler (Acting)	February 24, 1817 – June 30, 1817 (not candidate for election)	127 days	Democratic– Republican	Lieutenant Governor acting as Governor		Philetus Swift (acting)
6	DeWitt Clinton	July 1, 1817 – December 31, 1822 (not candidate for election)	5 years, 184 days	Democratic– Republican	1817		John Tayler
6	DeWitt Clinton		5 years, 184 days	Democratic– Republican	1820		John Tayler
7	Joseph C. Yates	January 1, 1823 – December 31, 1824 (not candidate for election)	2 years, 0 days	Democratic– Republican	1822		Erastus Root
6	DeWitt Clinton	January 1, 1825 – February 11, 1828 (died in office)	3 years, 41 days	Democratic– Republican	1824		James Tallmadge Jr.
6	DeWitt Clinton	January 1, 1825 – February 11, 1828 (died in office)	3 years, 41 days	Democratic– Republican	1826		Nathaniel Pitcher
8	Nathaniel Pitcher	February 11, 1828 – December 31, 1828 (not candidate for election)	325 days	Democratic– Republican	Succeeded from Lieutenant Governor		Peter R. Livingston (acting)
8	Nathaniel Pitcher		325 days	Democratic– Republican	Succeeded from Lieutenant Governor		Charles Dayan (acting from October 17, 1828)
9	Martin Van Buren	January 1, 1829 – March 12, 1829 (resigned)^[d]	70 days	Democratic	1828		Enos T. Throop
10	Enos T. Throop	March 12, 1829 – December 31, 1832 (not candidate for election)	3 years, 295 days	Democratic	Succeeded from Lieutenant Governor		Charles Stebbins (acting)
					Succeeded from Lieutenant Governor		William M. Oliver (acting)
					1830		Edward Philip Livingston
11	William L. Marcy	January 1, 1833 – December 31, 1838 (lost election)	6 years, 0 days	Democratic	1832		John Tracy
					1834
					1836
12	William H. Seward	January 1, 1839 – December 31, 1842 (not candidate for election)	4 years, 0 days	Whig	1838		Luther Bradish
12	William H. Seward		4 years, 0 days	Whig	1840		Luther Bradish
13	William C. Bouck	January 1, 1843 – December 31, 1844 (not candidate for election)	2 years, 0 days	Democratic	1842		Daniel S. Dickinson
14	Silas Wright	January 1, 1845 – December 31, 1846 (lost election)	2 years, 0 days	Democratic	1844		Addison Gardiner (resigned July 5, 1847)
15	John Young	January 1, 1847 – December 31, 1848 (not candidate for election)	2 years, 0 days	Whig	1846		Addison Gardiner (resigned July 5, 1847)
							Albert Lester (acting)
							Hamilton Fish (took office January 1, 1848)
16	Hamilton Fish	January 1, 1849 – December 31, 1850 (not candidate for election)	2 years, 0 days	Whig	1848		George W. Patterson
17	Washington Hunt	January 1, 1851 – December 31, 1852 (lost election)	2 years, 0 days	Whig	1850		Sanford E. Church
18	Horatio Seymour	January 1, 1853 – December 31, 1854 (lost election)	2 years, 0 days	Democratic	1852		Sanford E. Church
19	Myron H. Clark	January 1, 1855 – December 31, 1856 (not candidate for election)	2 years, 0 days	Whig (fusion)	1854		Henry Jarvis Raymond
20	John A. King	January 1, 1857 – December 31, 1858 (not candidate for election)	2 years, 0 days	Republican	1856		Henry R. Selden
21	Edwin D. Morgan	January 1, 1859 – December 31, 1862 (not candidate for election)^[e]	4 years, 0 days	Republican	1858		Robert Campbell
21	Edwin D. Morgan		4 years, 0 days	Republican	1860		Robert Campbell
18	Horatio Seymour	January 1, 1863 – December 31, 1864 (lost election)	2 years, 0 days	Democratic	1862		David R. Floyd-Jones
22	Reuben Fenton	January 1, 1865 – December 31, 1868 (not candidate for election)	4 years, 0 days	Union	1864		Thomas G. Alvord
22	Reuben Fenton		4 years, 0 days	Union	1866		Stewart L. Woodford
23	John T. Hoffman	January 1, 1869 – December 31, 1872 (not candidate for election)	4 years, 0 days	Democratic	1868		Allen C. Beach
23	John T. Hoffman		4 years, 0 days	Democratic	1870		Allen C. Beach
24	John Adams Dix	January 1, 1873 – December 31, 1874 (lost election)	2 years, 0 days	Republican	1872		John C. Robinson
25	Samuel J. Tilden	January 1, 1875 – December 31, 1876 (not candidate for election)^[f]	2 years, 0 days	Democratic	1874		William Dorsheimer
26	Lucius Robinson	January 1, 1877 – December 31, 1879 (lost election)	3 years, 0 days	Democratic	1876^[g]		William Dorsheimer
27	Alonzo B. Cornell	January 1, 1880 – December 31, 1882 (not candidate for election)	3 years, 0 days	Republican	1879		George Gilbert Hoskins
28	Grover Cleveland	January 1, 1883 – January 6, 1885 (resigned)^[h]	2 years, 5 days	Democratic	1882		David B. Hill
29	David B. Hill	January 6, 1885 – December 31, 1891 (not candidate for election)^[i]	6 years, 360 days	Democratic	Succeeded from Lieutenant Governor		Dennis McCarthy (acting)
					1885		Edward F. Jones
					1888		Edward F. Jones
30	Roswell P. Flower	January 1, 1892 – December 31, 1894 (not candidate for election)	3 years, 0 days	Democratic	1891		William F. Sheehan
31	Levi P. Morton	January 1, 1895 – December 31, 1896 (not candidate for election)	2 years, 0 days	Republican	1894^[j]		Charles T. Saxton
32	Frank S. Black	January 1, 1897 – December 31, 1898 (not candidate for election)	2 years, 0 days	Republican	1896		Timothy L. Woodruff
33	Theodore Roosevelt	January 1, 1899 – December 31, 1900 (not candidate for election)^[k]	2 years, 0 days	Republican	1898
34	Benjamin Odell	January 1, 1901 – December 31, 1904 (not candidate for election)	4 years, 0 days	Republican	1900
34	Benjamin Odell		4 years, 0 days	Republican	1902		Frank W. Higgins
35	Frank W. Higgins	January 1, 1905 – December 31, 1906 (not candidate for election)	2 years, 0 days	Republican	1904		Matthew Linn Bruce
35	Frank W. Higgins		2 years, 0 days	Republican	1904		John Raines (acting)
36	Charles Evans Hughes	January 1, 1907 – October 6, 1910 (resigned)^[l]	3 years, 278 days	Republican	1906		Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler
36	Charles Evans Hughes	January 1, 1907 – October 6, 1910 (resigned)^[l]	3 years, 278 days	Republican	1908		Horace White
37	Horace White	October 6, 1910 – December 31, 1910 (not candidate for election)	87 days	Republican	Succeeded from Lieutenant Governor		George H. Cobb (acting)
38	John Alden Dix	January 1, 1911 – December 31, 1912 (not candidate for election)	2 years, 0 days	Democratic	1910		Thomas F. Conway
39	William Sulzer	January 1, 1913 – October 17, 1913 (impeached and removed)^[m]	289 days	Democratic	1912		Martin H. Glynn
40	Martin H. Glynn	October 17, 1913 – December 31, 1914 (lost election)	1 year, 76 days	Democratic	Succeeded from Lieutenant Governor		Robert F. Wagner (acting)
41	Charles Seymour Whitman	January 1, 1915 – December 31, 1918 (lost election)	4 years, 0 days	Republican	1914		Edward Schoeneck
41	Charles Seymour Whitman	January 1, 1915 – December 31, 1918 (lost election)	4 years, 0 days	Republican	1916		Edward Schoeneck
42	Al Smith	January 1, 1919 – December 31, 1920 (lost election)	2 years, 0 days	Democratic	1918		Harry C. Walker
43	Nathan L. Miller	January 1, 1921 – December 31, 1922 (lost election)	2 years, 0 days	Republican	1920		Jeremiah Wood
43	Nathan L. Miller	January 1, 1921 – December 31, 1922 (lost election)	2 years, 0 days	Republican	1920		Clayton R. Lusk (acting)
42	Al Smith	January 1, 1923 – December 31, 1928 (not candidate for election)^[n]	6 years, 0 days	Democratic	1922		George R. Lunn
					1924		Seymour Lowman
					1926		Edwin Corning
44	Franklin D. Roosevelt	January 1, 1929 – December 31, 1932 (not candidate for election)^[o]	4 years, 0 days	Democratic	1928		Herbert H. Lehman
44	Franklin D. Roosevelt		4 years, 0 days	Democratic	1930		Herbert H. Lehman
45	Herbert H. Lehman	January 1, 1933 – December 3, 1942 (resigned)^[p]	9 years, 336 days	Democratic	1932		M. William Bray
					1934
					1936
					1938^[q]		Charles Poletti
46	Charles Poletti	December 3, 1942 – December 31, 1942 (not candidate for election)	29 days	Democratic	Succeeded from Lieutenant Governor		Joe R. Hanley (acting)
47	Thomas E. Dewey	January 1, 1943 – December 31, 1954 (not candidate for election)	12 years, 0 days	Republican	1942		Thomas W. Wallace
					1946		Joe R. Hanley
					1950		Frank C. Moore (resigned September 30, 1953)
							Arthur H. Wicks (acting)
							Walter J. Mahoney (acting)
48	W. Averell Harriman	January 1, 1955 – December 31, 1958 (lost election)	4 years, 0 days	Democratic	1954		George DeLuca
49	Nelson Rockefeller	January 1, 1959 – December 18, 1973 (resigned)^[r]	14 years, 351 days	Republican	1958		Malcolm Wilson
					1962
					1966
					1970
50	Malcolm Wilson	December 18, 1973 – December 31, 1974 (lost election)	1 year, 14 days	Republican	Succeeded from Lieutenant Governor		Warren M. Anderson (acting)
51	Hugh Carey	January 1, 1975 – December 31, 1982 (not candidate for election)	8 years, 0 days	Democratic	1974		Mary Anne Krupsak
51	Hugh Carey		8 years, 0 days	Democratic	1978		Mario Cuomo
52	Mario Cuomo	January 1, 1983 – December 31, 1994 (lost election)	12 years, 0 days	Democratic	1982		Alfred DelBello
					1982		Warren M. Anderson (acting)
					1986		Stan Lundine
					1990		Stan Lundine
53	George Pataki	January 1, 1995 – December 31, 2006 (not candidate for election)	12 years, 0 days	Republican	1994		Betsy McCaughey Ross^[s]
					1998		Mary Donohue
					2002		Mary Donohue
54	Eliot Spitzer	January 1, 2007 – March 17, 2008 (resigned)^[t]	1 year, 76 days	Democratic	2006		David Paterson
55	David Paterson	March 17, 2008 – December 31, 2010 (not candidate for election)	2 years, 290 days	Democratic	Succeeded from Lieutenant Governor		Joseph Bruno (acting)
							Dean Skelos (acting)
							Malcolm Smith (acting)
							Pedro Espada Jr. (acting)^[u]
							Richard Ravitch (contested)^[v]
							Malcolm Smith (acting)^[w]
							Richard Ravitch^[x]
56	Andrew Cuomo	January 1, 2011 – August 23, 2021 (resigned)^[y]	10 years, 234 days	Democratic	2010		Robert Duffy
					2014		Kathy Hochul
					2018		Kathy Hochul
57	Kathy Hochul	August 24, 2021 – Incumbent^[z]	2 years, 216 days	Democratic	Succeeded from the Lieutenant Goveror 2022		Andrea Stewart-Cousins (acting)
							Brian Benjamin^[2]
							Andrea Stewart-Cousins (acting)
							Antonio Delgado

Notes[change | change source]

↑ Clinton instead successfully ran for Vice President of the United States.
↑ Tompkins resigned to be Vice President of the United States.
↑ At the time, the position of president pro-tempore of the Senate was only filled during a vacancy in the office of lieutenant governor, so Tayler was not elected to fill the position until January 29, 1811.
↑ Van Buren resigned to be United States Secretary of State.
↑ Morgan instead successfully ran for United States Senate.
↑ Tilden instead unsuccessfully ran for President of the United States.
↑ First term under an 1874 amendment to the constitution, which lengthened terms to three years.
↑ Cleveland resigned to be President of the United States.
↑ Hill had been elected to the United States Senate for a term starting March 4, 1891, but did not take office until his gubernatorial term expired.
↑ First term under the 1894 constitution, which shortened terms to two years.
↑ Roosevelt instead successfully ran for Vice President of the United States.
↑ Hughes resigned to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
↑ Sulzer was impeached and removed from office for campaign contribution fraud.
↑ Smith instead unsuccessfully ran for President of the United States.
↑ Roosevelt instead successfully ran for President of the United States.
↑ Lehman resigned to be Director of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations at the United States Department of State.
↑ First term under the 1938 constitution, which lengthened terms to four years.
↑ Rockefeller resigned to devote himself to his Commission on Critical Choices for Americans.
↑ Elected as Betsy McCaughey, but married and changed name in 1995.
↑ Spitzer resigned due to a prostitution scandal.
↑ Espada was a Democrat, but combined with the Republicans in a change of leadership which triggered the 2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis.
↑ Ravitch was appointed on July 8, 2009, but the appointment was contested in the courts. On August 20, the Appellate Division rejected the appointment; Ravitch vacated the office.
↑ Smith succeeded Espada on July 9 as temporary President of the New York State Senate and claimed to be Acting Lieutenant Governor under the provisions of the New York State Constitution while the appointment of Ravitch was contested.
↑ On September 22, the New York Court of Appeals reversed the Appellate Division's ruling, thus re-instating Ravitch to the lieutenant governorship, beginning on July 8.
↑ Cuomo resigned due to sexual harassment allegations.^[1]
↑ Hochul's first term expires at midnight on January 1, 2023.

References[change | change source]

↑ "New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigns". NBC News. August 10, 2021. Retrieved August 10, 2021.
↑ Hogan, Bernadette (September 9, 2021). "Brian Benjamin sworn in to replace Hochul as NY's lieutenant governor".

[1] Clinton instead successfully ran for Vice President of the United States.

[2] Tompkins resigned to be Vice President of the United States.

[3] At the time, the position of president pro-tempore of the Senate was only filled during a vacancy in the office of lieutenant governor, so Tayler was not elected to fill the position until January 29, 1811.

[4] Van Buren resigned to be United States Secretary of State.

[5] Morgan instead successfully ran for United States Senate.

[6] Tilden instead unsuccessfully ran for President of the United States.

[7] First term under an 1874 amendment to the constitution, which lengthened terms to three years.

[8] Cleveland resigned to be President of the United States.

[9] Hill had been elected to the United States Senate for a term starting March 4, 1891, but did not take office until his gubernatorial term expired.

[10] First term under the 1894 constitution, which shortened terms to two years.

[11] Roosevelt instead successfully ran for Vice President of the United States.

[12] Hughes resigned to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

[13] Sulzer was impeached and removed from office for campaign contribution fraud.

[14] Smith instead unsuccessfully ran for President of the United States.

[15] Roosevelt instead successfully ran for President of the United States.

[16] Lehman resigned to be Director of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations at the United States Department of State.

[17] First term under the 1938 constitution, which lengthened terms to four years.

[18] Rockefeller resigned to devote himself to his Commission on Critical Choices for Americans.

[19] Elected as Betsy McCaughey, but married and changed name in 1995.

[20] Spitzer resigned due to a prostitution scandal.

[21] Espada was a Democrat, but combined with the Republicans in a change of leadership which triggered the 2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis.

[22] Ravitch was appointed on July 8, 2009, but the appointment was contested in the courts. On August 20, the Appellate Division rejected the appointment; Ravitch vacated the office.

[23] Smith succeeded Espada on July 9 as temporary President of the New York State Senate and claimed to be Acting Lieutenant Governor under the provisions of the New York State Constitution while the appointment of Ravitch was contested.

[24] On September 22, the New York Court of Appeals reversed the Appellate Division's ruling, thus re-instating Ravitch to the lieutenant governorship, beginning on July 8.

[26] Cuomo resigned due to sexual harassment allegations.^[1]

[27] Hochul's first term expires at midnight on January 1, 2023.

[cuomo-resignation-25] "New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigns". NBC News. August 10, 2021. Retrieved August 10, 2021.

[28] Hogan, Bernadette (September 9, 2021). "Brian Benjamin sworn in to replace Hochul as NY's lieutenant governor".

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