Governors of Pennsylvania

A list of governors from the commonwealth of Pennsylvania.[1][2][3]

## Contents

* 1 Proprietors of Pennsylvania
* 2 Presidents of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania
* 3 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Governors
* 4 See also
* 5 Notes

## Proprietors of Pennsylvania[edit]

Note: The proprietors of Pennsylvania also managed the colony of Delaware.

Name  |  Years

|

William Penn |  1682-1718
John, Thomas, and Richard Penn  |  1718-1746
Thomas and Richard Penn  |  1746-1775
John Penn  |  1775-1776

## Presidents of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania[edit]

Name  |  Years

|

Thomas Wharton  |  1777-1778
George Bryan  |  1778
Joseph Reed |  1778-1781
William Moore  |  1781-1782
John Dickinson |  1782-1785
Benjamin Franklin |  1785-1790

## Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Governors[edit]

Name |  Party  |  Years

|
|

Thomas Mifflin |  None  |  1790-1799
Thomas McKean |  Democratic Republican  |  1799-1808
Simon Snyder  |  Democratic Republican  |  1808-1817
William Findlay  |  Democratic Republican  |  1817-1820
Joseph Hiester  |  Democratic Republican  |  1820-1823
John Andrew Shulze  |  Democratic Republican  |  1823-1829
George Wolf  |  Democratic Republican  |  1829-1835
Joseph Ritner  |  Anti-Mason  |  1835-1839
David Rittenhouse Porter  |  Democratic Republican  |  1839-1845
Francis Rawn Shunk  |  Democrat  |  1845-1848
William Freame Johnston  |  Whig  |  1848-1852
William Bigler  |  Democrat  |  1852-1855
James Pollock  |  Whig  |  1855-1858
William Fisher Packer  |  Democrat  |  1858-1861
Andrew Gregg Curtin  |  Republican  |  1861-1867
John White Geary  |  Republican  |  1867-1873
John Frederick Hartranft  |  Republican  |  1873-1879
Henry Martin Hoyt  |  Republican  |  1879-1883
Robert Emory Pattison  |  Democrat  |  1883–1887, 1891-1895
James Addams Beaver  |  Republican  |  1887-1891
Daniel Hartman Hastings |  Republican  |  1895-1899
William Alexis Stone  |  Republican  |  1899-1903
Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker  |  Republican  |  1903-1907
Edwin Sydney Stuart  |  Republican  |  1907-1911
John Kinley Tener  |  Republican  |  1911-1915
Martin Grove Brumbaugh  |  Republican  |  1915-1919
William Cameron Sproul  |  Republican  |  1919-1923
Gifford Pinchot  |  Republican  |  1923–1927, 1931-1935
John Stuchell Fisher  |  Republican  |  1927-1931
George Howard Earle  |  Democrat  |  1935-1939
Arthur Horace James  |  Republican  |  1939-1943
Edward Martin  |  Republican  |  1943-1947
John C. Bell  |  Republican  |  1947
James H. Duff  |  Republican  |  1947-1951
John S. Fine  |  Republican  |  1951-1955
George Michael Leader  |  Democrat  |  1955-1959
David Leo Lawrence  |  Democrat  |  1959-1963
William Warren Scranton |  Republican  |  1963-1967
Raymond Philip Shafer  |  Republican  |  1967-1971
Milton J. Shapp  |  Democrat  |  1971-1979
Richard Thornburgh |  Republican  |  1979-1987
Robert P. Casey |  Democrat  |  1987-1995
Tom Ridge |  Republican  |  1995-2001
Mark S. Schweiker  |  Republican  |  2001-2003
Edward G. Rendell |  Democrat  |  2003-2011
Tom Corbett |  Republican  |  2011–2015  |  \-  |  Tom Wolf  |  Democrat  |  2015–present

## See also[edit]

* State Governors

## Notes[edit]

1. ↑ http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/governors/overview.asp?secid=31
2. ↑ http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/List-of-colonial-governors-of-Pennsylvania
3. ↑ http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/List-of-Governors-of-Pennsylvania

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