A list of governors from the state of New Hampshire.[1]
Colonial Governors of New Hampshire[edit]
Note:The lieutenant governor of Massachusetts headed the New Hampshire council during this time.
Name |
Years
|
John Cutt
|
1680-1681
|
Richard Waldron
|
1681-1682
|
Edward Cranfield
|
1682-1685
|
Walter Barefoote
|
1685-1686
|
Joseph Dudley
|
1686-1687
|
Edmund Andros
|
1687-1689
|
Simon Bradstreet
|
1689-1692
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John Usher
|
1692-1697, 1702-1715
|
William Partridge
|
1697-1698, 1699-1702
|
Samuel Allen
|
1698-1699
|
George Vaughan
|
1715-1716
|
John Wentworth
|
1717-1730
|
Daniel Dunbar
|
1731-1741
|
Royal Governors[edit]
Name |
Years
|
Benning Wentworth
|
1741-1766
|
John Wenworth
|
1767-1775
|
State of New Hampshire Governors[edit]
Name |
Party |
Years
|
Meshech Weare
|
|
1776-1785
|
John Langdon
|
Democratic Republican
|
1785-1786, 1788-1789, 1805–1809
|
John Sullivan
|
Federalist
|
1786-1788, 1789-1790
|
Josiah Bartlett
|
Democratic Republican
|
1790-1794
|
John Taylor Gilman
|
Federalist
|
1794-1805, 1813-1816
|
Jeremiah Smith
|
Federalist
|
1809-1810
|
William Plumer
|
Democratic Republican
|
1812-1813, 1816-1819
|
Samuel Bell
|
Democratic Republican
|
1819-1823
|
Levi Woodbury
|
Democratic Republican
|
1823-1824
|
David Lawrence Morril
|
Democratic Republican
|
1824-1827
|
Benjamin Pierce
|
Democratic Republican
|
1827-1828, 1829-1830
|
John Bell
|
National Republican
|
1828-1829
|
Matthew Harvey
|
Democrat
|
1830-1831
|
Joseph Morrill Harper
|
Democrat
|
1831
|
Samuel Dinsmoor
|
Democrat
|
1831-1834
|
William Badger
|
Democrat
|
1834-1836
|
Isaac Hill
|
Democrat
|
1836-1839
|
John Page
|
Democrat
|
1839-1842
|
Henry Hubbard
|
Democrat
|
1842-1844
|
John Hardy Steele
|
Democrat
|
1844-1846
|
Anthony Colby
|
Whig
|
1846-1847
|
Jared Warner Williams
|
Democrat
|
1847-1849
|
Samuel Dinsmoor, Jr.
|
Democrat
|
1849-1852
|
Noah Martin
|
Democrat
|
1852-1854
|
Nathaniel Bradley Baker
|
Democrat
|
1854-1855
|
Ralph Metcalf
|
Know Nothing
|
1855-1857
|
William Haile
|
Republican
|
1857-1859
|
Icabod Goodwin
|
Republican
|
1859-1861
|
Nathaniel Springer Berry
|
|
1861-1863
|
Joseph Albree Gilmore
|
Republican
|
1863-1865
|
Frederick Smyth
|
Republican
|
1865-1867
|
Walter Harriman
|
Republican
|
1867-1869
|
Onslow Stearns
|
Republican
|
1869-1871
|
James Adams Weston
|
Democrat
|
1871-1872, 1874-1875
|
Ezekiel Albert Straw
|
Republican
|
1872-1874
|
Person Colby Cheney
|
Republican
|
1875-1877
|
Benjamin Franklin Prescott
|
Republican
|
1877-1879
|
Nathaniel Head
|
Republican
|
1879-1881
|
Charles Henry Bell
|
Republican
|
1881-1883
|
Samuel Whitney Hale
|
Republican
|
1883-1885
|
Moody Currier
|
Republican
|
1885-1887
|
Charles Henry Sawyer
|
Republican
|
1887-1889
|
David Harvey Goodell
|
Republican
|
1889-1891
|
Hiram Americus Tuttle
|
Republican
|
1891-1893
|
John Butler Smith
|
Republican
|
1893-1895
|
Charles Albert Busiel
|
Republican
|
1895-1897
|
George Ramsdell
|
Republican
|
1897-1899
|
Frank West Rollins
|
Republican
|
1899-1901
|
Chester Bradley Jordan
|
Republican
|
1901-1903
|
Nahum Josiah Bachelder
|
Republican
|
1903-1905
|
John McLane
|
Republican
|
1905-1907
|
Charles Miller Floyd
|
Republican
|
1907-1909
|
Henry Brewer Quinby
|
Republican
|
1909-1911
|
Robert Perkins Bass
|
Republican
|
1911-1913
|
Samuel Demeritt Felker
|
Democrat
|
1913-1915
|
Rolland Harty Spaulding
|
Republican
|
1915-1917
|
Henry Wilder Keyes
|
Republican
|
1917-1919
|
John Henry Bartlett
|
Republican
|
1919-1921
|
Albert Oscar Brown
|
Republican
|
1921-1923
|
Fred Herbert Brown
|
Democrat
|
1923-1925
|
John Gilbert Winant
|
Republican
|
1925-1927, 1931-1935
|
Huntley Nowell Spaulding
|
Republican
|
1927-1929
|
Charles William Tobey
|
Republican
|
1929-1931
|
Henry Styles Bridges
|
Republican
|
1935-1937
|
Francis Purnell Murphy
|
Republican
|
1937-1941
|
Robert Oscar Blood
|
Republican
|
1941-1945
|
Charles Milby Dale
|
Republican
|
1945-1949
|
Llewelyn Sherman Adams
|
Republican
|
1949-1953
|
Hugh Gregg
|
Republican
|
1953-1955
|
Lane Dwinell
|
Republican
|
1955-1959
|
Wesley Powell
|
Republican
|
1959-1963
|
John William King
|
Democrat
|
1963-1969
|
Walter Peterson
|
Republican
|
1969-1973
|
Meldrim Thomson, Jr.
|
Republican
|
1973-1979
|
Hugh J. Gallen
|
Democrat
|
1979-1982
|
Vesta M. Roy
|
Republican
|
1982-1983
|
John H. Sununu
|
Republican
|
1983-1989
|
Judd Gregg
|
Republican
|
1989-1993
|
Stephen Merrill
|
Republican
|
1993-1997
|
Jeanne Shaheen
|
Democrat
|
1997-2003
|
Craig Benson
|
Republican
|
2003-2005
|
John Lynch
|
Democrat
|
2005–present
|
- ↑ http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.8fd3d12ab65b304f8a278110501010a0?submit=Submit&State=NH