Governors of West Virginia

A list of governors from the state of West Virginia.[1]

Name |  Party  |  Years

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Arthur Ingraham Boreman  |  Unionist Repblican  |  1863-1869
Francis Harrison Pierpont  |  Republican  |  1865-1868
Daniel Duane Tompkins Farnsworth  |  Republican  |  1869
William Erskine Stevenson  |  Republican  |  1869-1871
John Jeremiah Jacob  |  Democrat/Independent  |  1871-1877
Henry Mason Mathews  |  Democrat  |  1877-1881
Jacob Beeson Jackson  |  Democrat  |  1881-1885
Emanuel Willis Wilson  |  Democrat  |  1885-1890
Aretas Brooks Fleming  |  Democrat  |  1890-1893
William Alexander MacCorkle  |  Democrat  |  1893-1897
George Wesley Atkinson  |  Republican  |  1897-1901
Albert Blakeslee White  |  Republican  |  1901-1905
William M. O. Dawson  |  Republican  |  1905-1909
William E. Glasscock  |  Republican  |  1909-1913
Henry Drury Hatfield  |  Republican  |  1913-1917
John Jacob Cornwell  |  Democrat  |  1917-1921
Ephriam Franklin Morgan  |  Republican  |  1921-1925
Howard M. Gore  |  Republican  |  1925-1929
William Gustavu Conley  |  Republican  |  1929-1933
Herman Guy Kump  |  Democrat  |  1933-1937
Homer Adams Holt  |  Democrat  |  1937-1941
Matthew Mansfield Neely  |  Democrat  |  1941-1945
Clarence W. Meadows  |  Democrat  |  1945-1949
Okey Leonidas Patteson  |  Democrat  |  1949-1953
William Casey Marland  |  Democrat  |  1953-1957
Cecil H. Underwood  |  Republican  |  1957-1961, 1997-2001
William W. Barron  |  Democrat  |  1961-1965
Hulett Carlson Smith  |  Democrat  |  1965-1969
Arch Moore |  Republican  |  1969-1977, 1985-1989
John Davison Rockefeller |  Democrat  |  1977-1985
Gaston Caperton  |  Democrat  |  1989-1993
Bob Wise  |  Democrat  |  2001-2005
Joe Manchin III |  Democrat  |  2005-2010
Earl Ray Tomblin |  Democrat  |  2010–2017
James Conley "Jim" Justice |  Democrat-turned-Republican  |  2017-

## Further reading[edit]

* Morgan, John G. West Virginia Governors: 1863-1980. Charleston, W. Va.: Charleston Newspapers, 1980. 558 pp.

## Notes[edit]

1. ↑ http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.8fd3d12ab65b304f8a278110501010a0?submit=Submit&State=WV

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