Governors of North Carolina

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

## Contents

* 1 Roanoke Colony Governors
* 2 Proprietary Colony Governors
* 2.1 Governors of Albemarle
* 2.2 Deputy Governors of Carolina
* 2.3 North Carolina Colonial Governors
* 2.4 Royal Colony Governors
* 3 State of North Carolina Governors
* 4 Notes

## Roanoke Colony Governors[edit]

Name  |  Years

|

Ralph Lane  |  1585-1586
John White  |  1587

## Proprietary Colony Governors[edit]

### Governors of Albemarle[edit]

Name  |  Years

|

William Drummond  |  1664-1667
Samuel Stephens  |  1667-1669
Peter Carteret  |  1670-1672
John Jenkins  |  1672-1675, 1676-1677, 1680-1681
Thomas Eastchurch  |  1675-1676
Thomas Miller  |  1677
John Harvey  |  1679
Henry Wilkinson  |  1680
Seth Sothel  |  1682-1689

### Deputy Governors of Carolina[edit]

Name  |  Years

|

John Gibbs  |  1689-1690
Thomas Jarvis  |  1690-1694
Philip Ludwell  |  1690-1691, 1692-1693, 1693-1695
Thomas Harvey  |  1694-1699
John Archdale  |  1695-1696
Henderson Walker  |  1699-1703
Robert Daniel  |  1703-1705
Thomas Cary  |  1705-1711
William Glover  |  1706-1710

### North Carolina Colonial Governors[edit]

Name  |  Years

|

Edward Hyde  |  1710-1711
Thomas Pollock  |  1712-1714, 1722
Charles Eden  |  1715-1722
William Reed  |  1722-1724
George Burrington  |  1724-1725
Richard Everard  |  1725-1731

### Royal Colony Governors[edit]

Name  |  Years

|

George Burrington  |  1731-1734
Nathaniel Rice  |  1734, 1752-1753
Gabriel Johnston  |  1734-1752
Matthew Rowan  |  1753-1754
Arthur Dobbs  |  1753-1763
William Tryon  |  1765-1771
James Hasell  |  1771
Josiah Martin  |  1771-1775

## State of North Carolina Governors[edit]

Name |  Party  |  Years

|
|

Richard Caswell  |  |  1776-1780, 1785-1787
Abner Nash  |  |  1780-1781
Thomas Burke  |  |  1781-1782
Alexander Martin  |  Federalist  |  1782-1785, 1789-1792
Samuel Johnston  |  Federalist  |  1787-1789
Richard Dobbs Spraight  |  Anti Federalist  |  1792-1795
Samuel Ashe  |  Republican  |  1795-1798
William Richardson Davie  |  Federalist  |  1798-1799
Benjamin Williams  |  Democratic Republican  |  1799-1802, 1807-1808
James Turner  |  Democratic Republican  |  1802-1805
Nathaniel Alexander  |  Democratic Republican  |  1805-1807
David Stone  |  Democratic Republican  |  1808-1810
Benjamin Smith  |  Democratic Republican  |  1810-1811
William Hawkins  |  Democratic Republican  |  1811-1814
William Miller  |  Democratic Republican  |  1814-1817
John Branch  |  Democratic Republican  |  1817-1820
Jesse Franklin  |  Democratic Republican  |  1820-1821
Gabriel Holmes  |  Democratic Republican  |  1821-1824
Hutchins Gordon Burton  |  Federalist  |  1824-1827
James Iredell  |  Democratic Republican  |  1827-1828
John Owen  |  Democrat  |  1828-1830
Montfort Stokes  |  Democrat  |  1830-1832
David Lowry Swain  |  Whig  |  1832-1835
Richard Dobbs Spaight, Jr.  |  Democrat  |  1835-1836
Edward Bishop Dudley  |  Whig  |  1836-1841
John Motley Morehead  |  Whig  |  1841-1845
William Alexander Graham  |  Whig  |  1845-1849
Charles Manly  |  Whig  |  1849-1850
David Settle Reid  |  Democrat  |  1851-1854
Warren Winslow  |  Democrat  |  1854-1855
Thomas Bragg  |  Democrat  |  1855-1859
John Willis Ellis  |  Democrat  |  1859-1861
Henry Toole Clark  |  Democrat  |  1861-1862
Zebulon Baird Vance  |  Democrat  |  1862-1865, 1877-1879
Jonathan Worth  |  Democrat  |  1865-1868
William Woods Holden  |  Republican  |  1865, 1868-1870
Tod Robinson Caldwell  |  Republican  |  1870-1874
Curtis Hooks Brogden  |  Republican  |  1874-1877
Thomas Jordan Jarvis  |  Democrat  |  1879-1885
Alfred Moore Scales  |  Democrat  |  1885-1889
Daniel Gould Fowle  |  Democrat  |  1889-1891
Thomas Michael Holt  |  Democrat  |  1891-1893
Elias Carr  |  Democrat  |  1893-1897
Daniel Lindsay Russell  |  Republican  |  1897-1901
Charles Brantley Aycock  |  Democrat  |  1901-1905
Robert Broadnax Glenn  |  Democrat  |  1905-1909
William Walton Kitchin  |  Democrat  |  1909-1913
Locke Craig  |  Democrat  |  1913-1917
Thomas Walter Bickett  |  Democrat  |  1917-1921
Cameron A. Morrison  |  Democrat  |  1921-1925
Angus Wilton McLean  |  Democrat  |  1925-1929
Oliver Max Gardner  |  Baptist  |  1929-1933
John Christopher Blucher Ehringhaus  |  Democrat  |  1933-1937
Clyde Roark Hoey  |  Democrat  |  1937-1941
Joseph Melville Broughton  |  Democrat  |  1941-1945
Robert Gregg Cherry  |  Democrat  |  1945-1949
William Kerr Scott  |  Democrat  |  1949-1953
William Bradley Umstead  |  Democrat  |  1953-1954
Luther Hartwell Hodges  |  Democrat  |  1954-1961
James Terry Sanford  |  Democrat  |  1961-1965
Dan Killian Moore  |  Democrat  |  1965-1969
Robert Walter "Bob" Scott  |  Democrat  |  1969-1973
James E. Holshouser, Jr. |  Republican  |  1973-1977
James Baxter Hunt, Jr.  |  Democrat  |  1977-1985, 1993-2001
James Grubbs Martin |  Republican  |  1985-1993
Michael F. Easley  |  Democrat  |  2001-2009
Beverley Perdue |  Democrat  |  2009–2013
Pat McCrory |  Republican  |  2013-2017
Roy Cooper  |  Democrat  |  2017-

## Notes[edit]

1. ↑ http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.8fd3d12ab65b304f8a278110501010a0?submit=Submit&State=NC
2. ↑ http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/List-of-Governors-of-North-Carolina

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