Governors of Georgia

A list of governors from the state of Georgia.[1][2]

## Contents

* 1 Colonial Governors of Georgia
* 2 State Governors of Georgia
* 3 Further reading
* 4 Notes

## Colonial Governors of Georgia[edit]

Name  |  Years

|

James Oglethorpe |  1733-1743
William Stephens |  1743-1751
Henry Parker |  1751-1752
Patrick Graham |  1752-1754
John Reynolds |  1754-1757
Henry Ellis |  1757-1760
James Wright |  1760–1776, 1779-1782[3]

## State Governors of Georgia[edit]

Name |  Party  |  Years

|
|

Archibald Bulloch |  Whig  |  1776-1777
Button Gwinnett |  Whig  |  1777
John Adam Treutlen |  Whig  |  1777-1778
John Houstoun |  Whig  |  1778–1779, 1784-1785
John Wereat |  Whig  |  1779
George Walton |  Whig/Jeffersonian Republican  |  1779–1780, 1789
Richard Howley |  Whig  |  1780
Stephen Heard |  Whig  |  1780-1781
Nathan Brownsen |  Whig  |  1781-1782
John Martin |  |  1782-1783
Lyman Hall |  |  1783-1784
Samuel Elbert |  Whig  |  1785-1786
Edward Telfair |  Jefersonian Republican  |  1786–1787, 1789-1793
George Mathews |  Jeffersonian Republican  |  1787–1788, 1793-1796
George Handley |  |  1788-1789
Jared Irwin |  Democratic Republican  |  1796–1798, 1806-1809
James Jackson |  Democratic Republican  |  1798-1801
David Emanuel |  Democratic Republican  |  1801
Josiah Tattnall, Jr. |  Democratic Republican  |  1801-1802
John Milledge |  Democratic Republican  |  1802-1806
David Brydie Mitchell |  Democratic Republican  |  1809–1813, 1815-1817
Peter Early |  Democratic Republican  |  1813-1815
William Rabun |  Democratic Republican  |  1817-1819
Matthew Talbot |  Democratic Republican  |  1819
John Clark |  Democratic Republican  |  1819-1823
George Michael Troup |  Democratic Republican  |  1823-1827
John Forsyth |  Democratic Republican  |  1827-1829
George Rockingham Gilmer |  Democrat/Whig  |  1829–1831, 1837-1839
Wilson Lumpkin |  Union Democrat  |  1831-1835
William Schley |  Union Democrat  |  1835-1837
Charles James McDonald |  Democrat  |  1839-1843
George Walker Crawford |  Whig  |  1843-1847
George Washington Bonaparte Towns |  Democrat  |  1847-1851
Howell Cobb |  Union Democrat  |  1851-1853
Herschel Vespasian Johnson |  Democrat  |  1853-1857
Joseph Emerson Brown |  Democrat  |  1857-1865
James Johnson |  Democrat  |  1865
Charles Jones Jenkins |  Union Democrat  |  1865-1868
Thoms Howard Ruger |  Military  |  1868
Rufus Brown Bullock |  Republican  |  1868-1871
Benjamin F. Conley |  Republican  |  1871-1872
James Milton Smith |  Democrat  |  1872-1877
Alfred Holt Colquitt |  Democrat  |  1877-1882
Alexander Hamilton Stephens |  Democrat/Whig  |  1882-1883
James Boynton |  Democrat  |  1883
Henry Dickerson McDaniel |  Democrat  |  1883-1886
John Brown Gordon[4] |  Democrat  |  1886-1890
William Jonathan Northen |  Democrat  |  1890-1894
William Yates Atkinson |  Democrat  |  1894-1898
Allen D. Candler |  Democrat  |  1898-1902
Joseph Meriwether Terrell |  Democrat  |  1902-1907
Hoke Smith |  Democrat  |  1907–1909, 1911
Joseph Mackey Brown |  Democrat  |  1909–1911, 1912-1913
John Marshall Slaton |  Democrat  |  1911–1912, 1913-1915
Nathaniel Edwin Harris |  Democrat  |  1915-1917
Hugh Manson Dorsey |  Democrat  |  1917-1921
Thomas William Hardwick |  Democrat  |  1921-1923
Clifford Mitchell Walker |  Democrat  |  1923-1927
Lamartine Griffon Hardman |  Democrat  |  1927-1931
Richard Brevard Russell, Jr. |  Democrat  |  1931-1933
Eugene Talmadge |  Democrat  |  1933–1937, 1941-1943
Eurith Dickinson Rivers |  Democrat  |  1937-1941
Ellis Gibbs Arnall |  Democrat  |  1943-1947
Herman Eugene Talmadge |  Democrat  |  1947, 1948-1955
Melvin Ernest Thompson |  Democrat  |  1947-1948
Samuel Marvin Griffin |  Democrat  |  1955-1959
Samuel Ernest Vandiver, Jr. |  Democrat  |  1959-1963
Carl Edward Sanders |  Democrat  |  1963-1967
Lester Garfield Maddox |  Democrat  |  1967-1971
Jimmy Earl Carter, Jr. |  Democrat  |  1971-1975
George Dekle Busbee |  Democrat  |  1975-1983
Joe Frank Harris |  Democrat  |  1983-1991
Zell Miller |  Democrat  |  1991-1999
Roy E. Barnes |  Democrat  |  1999-2003
Sonny Perdue |  Republican  |  2003-2011
Nathan Deal |  Republican  |  2011–2019
Brian Kemp |  Republican  |  2019–present

## Further reading[edit]

* Cook, James F. The Governors of Georgia. Huntsville, Ala.: Strode, 1979. 320 pp.
* Henderson, Harold P. and Roberts, Gary L., eds. Georgia Governors in an Age of Change: From Ellis Arnall to George Busbee. Athens: U. of Georgia Pr., 1988. 352 pp.

## Notes[edit]

1. ↑ http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.8fd3d12ab65b304f8a278110501010a0?submit=Submit&State=GA
2. ↑ http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/List-of-governors-of-Georgia
3. ↑ British troops retook a good bit of Georgia during the Revolutionary War, of which Wright governed from 1779-1782.
4. ↑ John Brown Gordon was a member ofthe Ku Klux Klan.

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