List of governors of New York
This is a list of people who served as the governor of New York.
List of governors
| No. | Governor | Term in office | Time in office | Party | Election | Lieutenant Governor | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | .jpg) | George Clinton | July 30, 1777 –June 30, 1795(not candidate for election) | 17 years, 336 days | Democratic– | 1777 | Pierre Van Cortlandt | ||
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| 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 | ||
| 1798 | |||||||||
| 1 | | George Clinton | July 1, 1801 –June 30, 1804(not candidate for election)[a] | 3 years, 0 days | Democratic– | 1801 | Jeremiah Van Rensselaer | ||
| 3 | .png) | Morgan Lewis | July 1, 1804 –June 30, 1807(lost election) | 3 years, 0 days | Democratic– | 1804 | John Broome (died August 8, 1810) | ||
| 4 |  | Daniel D. Tompkins | July 1, 1807 –February 24, 1817(resigned)[b] | 9 years, 238 days | Democratic– | 1807 | |||
| 1810 | |||||||||
| Vacant | |||||||||
| John Tayler (acting)(took office January 29, 1811)[c] | |||||||||
| DeWitt Clinton (elected May 2, 1811) | |||||||||
| 1813 | John Tayler | ||||||||
| 1816 | |||||||||
| 5 | .png) | John Tayler (Acting) | February 24, 1817 –June 30, 1817(not candidate for election) | 127 days | Democratic– | Lieutenant Governoracting asGovernor | Philetus Swift (acting) | ||
| 6 |  | DeWitt Clinton | July 1, 1817 –December 31, 1822(not candidate for election) | 5 years, 184 days | Democratic– | 1817 | John Tayler | ||
| 1820 | |||||||||
| 7 |  | Joseph C. Yates | January 1, 1823 –December 31, 1824(not candidate for election) | 2 years, 0 days | Democratic– | 1822 | Erastus Root | ||
| 6 | | DeWitt Clinton | January 1, 1825 –February 11, 1828(died in office) | 3 years, 41 days | Democratic– | 1824 | James Tallmadge Jr. | ||
| 1826 | Nathaniel Pitcher | ||||||||
| 8 | Nathaniel Pitcher | February 11, 1828 –December 31, 1828(not candidate for election) | 325 days | Democratic– | Succeeded from LieutenantGovernor | Peter R. Livingston (acting) | |||
| 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 LieutenantGovernor | Charles Stebbins (acting) | ||
| 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 | ||
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| 1836 | |||||||||
| 12 |  | William H. Seward | January 1, 1839 –December 31, 1842(not candidate for election) | 4 years, 0 days | Whig | 1838 | Luther Bradish | ||
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| 13 |  | William C. Bouck | January 1, 1843 –December 31, 1844(not candidate for election) | 2 years, 0 days | Democratic | 1842 | Daniel S. Dickinson | ||
| 14 | .jpg) | 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 | |||
| Albert Lester (acting) | |||||||||
| Hamilton Fish (took office January 1, 1848) | |||||||||
| 16 | .png) | 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 | |||
| 19 | .png) | 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 | .png) | Edwin D. Morgan | January 1, 1859 –December 31, 1862(not candidate for election)[e] | 4 years, 0 days | Republican | 1858 | Robert Campbell | ||
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| 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 | ||
| 1866 | Stewart L. Woodford | ||||||||
| 23 | .png) | John T. Hoffman | January 1, 1869 –December 31, 1872(not candidate for election) | 4 years, 0 days | Democratic | 1868 | Allen C. Beach | ||
| 1870 | |||||||||
| 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 | .png) | Lucius Robinson | January 1, 1877 –December 31, 1879(lost election) | 3 years, 0 days | Democratic | 1876[g] | |||
| 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 LieutenantGovernor | Dennis McCarthy (acting) | ||
| 1885 | Edward F. Jones | ||||||||
| 1888 | |||||||||
| 30 | _(10506877665)_(1).jpg) | 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 | _(14759490491).jpg) | 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 | |||
| 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 | ||
| John Raines (acting) | |||||||||
| 36 |  | Charles Evans Hughes | January 1, 1907 –October 6, 1910(resigned)[l] | 3 years, 278 days | Republican | 1906 | Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler | ||
| 1908 | Horace White | ||||||||
| 37 |  | Horace White | October 6, 1910 –December 31, 1910(not candidate for election) | 87 days | Republican | Succeeded from LieutenantGovernor | 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 LieutenantGovernor | Robert F. Wagner (acting) | ||
| 41 |  | Charles Seymour Whitman | January 1, 1915 –December 31, 1918(lost election) | 4 years, 0 days | Republican | 1914 | Edward Schoeneck | ||
| 1916 | |||||||||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 1930 | |||||||||
| 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 LieutenantGovernor | 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 | ||
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| 50 | .png) | Malcolm Wilson | December 18, 1973 –December 31, 1974(lost election) | 1 year, 14 days | Republican | Succeeded from LieutenantGovernor | Warren M. Anderson (acting) | ||
| 51 | .png) | Hugh Carey | January 1, 1975 –December 31, 1982(not candidate for election) | 8 years, 0 days | Democratic | 1974 | Mary Anne Krupsak | ||
| 1978 | Mario Cuomo | ||||||||
| 52 | .jpg) | Mario Cuomo | January 1, 1983 –December 31, 1994(lost election) | 12 years, 0 days | Democratic | 1982 | Alfred DelBello | ||
| Warren M. Anderson (acting) | |||||||||
| 1986 | Stan Lundine | ||||||||
| 1990 | |||||||||
| 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 | |||||||||
| 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 LieutenantGovernor | 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 | |||||||||
| 57 |  | Kathy Hochul | August 24, 2021 –Incumbent[z] | 2 years, 269 days | Democratic | Succeeded from the Lieutenant Goveror 2022 | Andrea Stewart-Cousins (acting) | ||
| Brian Benjamin[2] | |||||||||
| Andrea Stewart-Cousins (acting) | |||||||||
| Antonio Delgado | |||||||||
