A list of governors from the state of Rhode Island.[1][2]
Governors of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations[edit]
Note:The list is partial.
| Name |
Years
|
| William Brenton
|
1640-1647, 1660-1668
|
| John Coggeshall
|
1647
|
| Benedict Arnold
|
1668-1672, 1676-1678
|
| Nicholas Greene
|
1672-1674
|
| William Coddington
|
1674-1676, 1678
|
| William Greene
|
1746-1747, 1748-1755, 1757-1758
|
| Gideon Wanton
|
1747-1748
|
| Stephen Hopkins
|
1755-1757, 1758-1762, 1763-1765, 1767-1768
|
| Samuel Ward
|
1762-1763, 1765-1767
|
| Josias Lyndon
|
1768-1769
|
| Joseph Wanton
|
1769-1775
|
State Governors of Rhode Island[edit]
| Name |
Party |
Years
|
| Nicholas Cooke
|
|
1775-1778
|
| William Greene, Jr.
|
|
1778-1786
|
| John Collins
|
|
1786-1790
|
| Arthur Fenner
|
F-R
|
1790-1805
|
| Henry Smith
|
|
1805-1806
|
| Isaac Wilbour
|
|
1806-1807
|
| James Fenner
|
F-R, Whig
|
1807-1811, 1824-1831, 1843-1845
|
| William Jones
|
F-R
|
1811-1817
|
| Nehemiah Rice Knight
|
F-R
|
1817-1821
|
| Edward Cox
|
|
1821
|
| William Channing Gibbs
|
|
1821-1824
|
| Lemuel Hastings Arnold
|
|
1831-1833
|
| John Brown Francis
|
Democratic Repulican
|
1833-1838
|
| William Sprague
|
Whig
|
1838-1839
|
| Samuel King
|
Whig
|
1839-1843
|
| Charles Jackson
|
Whig
|
1845-1846
|
| Byron Diman
|
Whig
|
1846-1847
|
| Elisha Harris
|
Whig
|
1847-1849
|
| Henry Bowen Anthony
|
Whig
|
1849-1851
|
| Philip Allen
|
DFS
|
1851-1853
|
| Francis M. Dimon
|
|
1853-1854
|
| William Warner Hoppin
|
AP
|
1854-1857
|
| Elisha Dyer
|
Republican
|
1857-1859
|
| Thomas Goodwin Taylor
|
Republican
|
1859-1860
|
| William Sprague
|
Republican
|
1860-1863
|
| William Cole Cozzens
|
Democrat
|
1863
|
| James Youngs Smith
|
Republican
|
1863-1866
|
| Ambrose Everett Burnside
|
Republican
|
1866-1869
|
| Seth Padelford
|
Republican
|
1869-1873
|
| Henry Howard
|
Republican
|
1873-1875
|
| Henry Lippitt
|
Republican
|
1875-1877
|
| Charles Collins Van Zandt
|
Republican
|
1877-1880
|
| Alfred Henry Littlefield
|
Republican
|
1880-1883
|
| Augustus Osborn Bourn
|
Republican
|
1883-1885
|
| George Peabody Wetmore
|
Republican
|
1885-1887
|
| John William Davis
|
Democrat
|
1887-1888, 1890-1891
|
| Royal Chapin Taft
|
Republican
|
1888-1889
|
| Herbert Warren Ladd
|
Republican
|
1889-1890, 1891-1892
|
| Daniel Russell Brown
|
Republican
|
1892-1895
|
| Charles Warren Lippitt
|
Republican
|
1895-1897
|
| Elisha Dyer, Jr.
|
Republican
|
1897-1900
|
| William Gregory
|
Republican
|
1900-1901
|
| Charles Dean Kimball
|
Republican
|
1901-1903
|
| Lucius Fayette Clark Garvin
|
Democrat
|
1903-1905
|
| George Herbert Utter
|
Republican
|
1905-1907
|
| James Henry Higgins
|
Democrat
|
1907-1909
|
| Aram Pothier
|
Republican
|
1909-1915, 1925-1928
|
| Robert Livingston Beeckman
|
Republican
|
1915-1921
|
| Emery J. San Souci
|
Republican
|
1921-1923
|
| William Smith Flynn
|
Democrat
|
1923-1925
|
| Norman Stanley Case
|
Republican
|
1928-1933
|
| Theodore Francis Green
|
Democrat
|
1933-1937
|
| Robert Emmet Quinn
|
Democrat
|
1937-1939
|
| William Henry Vanderbilt
|
Republican
|
1939-1941
|
| James Howard McGrath
|
Democrat
|
1941-1945
|
| John Orlando Pastore
|
Democrat
|
1945-1950
|
| John Sammon McKiernan
|
|
1950-1951
|
| Dennis Joseph Roberts
|
|
1951-1959
|
| Christopher Del Sesto
|
Republican
|
1959-1961
|
| John A. Notte, Jr.
|
Democrat
|
1961-1963
|
| John Hubbard Chafee
|
Republican
|
1963-1969
|
| Frank Licht
|
Democrat
|
1969-1973
|
| Philip W. Noel
|
Democrat
|
1973-1977
|
| J. Joseph Garrahy
|
Democrat
|
1977-1985
|
| Edward D. DiPrete
|
Republican
|
1985-1991
|
| Bruce G. Sundlun
|
Democrat
|
1991-1995
|
| Lincoln Almond
|
Republican
|
1995-2003
|
| Don Carcieri
|
Republican
|
2003-2011
|
| Lincoln Chafee
|
Independent
|
2011–present
|
Notes[edit]
- ↑ http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.8fd3d12ab65b304f8a278110501010a0?submit=Submit&State=RI
- ↑ http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/List-of-Governors-of-Rhode-Island
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