Governors of Wisconsin

A list of governors from the state of Wisconsin.[1]

## Governors of Wisconsin Territory[edit]

Name  |  Years

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Henry Dodge  |  1836-1841, 1845-1848
James Duane Doty  |  1841-1844
Nathaniel P. Tallmadge  |  1844-1845
John Catlin  |  1848-1849

## State Governors of Wisconsin[edit]

Name |  Party  |  Years

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Nelson Dewey  |  Democrat  |  1848-1852
Leonard James Farwell  |  Whig  |  1852-1854
William Augustus Farwell  |  Democrat  |  1854-1856
MacArthur Arthur  |  Democrat  |  1856
Coles Bashford  |  Republican  |  1856-1858
Alexander Williams Randall  |  Republican  |  1858-1862
Louis Powell Harvey  |  Republican  |  1862
Edward Salomon  |  Republican  |  1862-1864
James Taylor Lewis  |  Republican  |  1864-1866
Lucius Fairchild  |  Republican  |  1866-1872
Cadwallader Colden Washburn  |  Republican  |  1872-1874
William R. Taylor  |  Democrat  |  1874-1876
Harrison Ludington  |  Republican  |  1876-1878
William E. Smith  |  Republican  |  1878-1882
Jeremiah M. Rusk  |  Republican  |  1882-1889
William Dempster Hoard  |  Republican  |  1889-1891
George W. Peck  |  Democrat  |  1891-1895
William H. Upham  |  Republican  |  1895-1897
Edward Scofield  |  Republican  |  1897-1901
Robert M. LaFollette, Sr.  |  Republican  |  1901-1906
James O. Davidson  |  Republican  |  1906-1911
Francis E. McGovern  |  Republican  |  1911-1915
Emanuel L. Philipp  |  Republican  |  1915-1921
John J. Blaine  |  Republican  |  1921-1927
Fred R. Zimmerman  |  Republican  |  1927-1929
Walter J. Kohler  |  |  1929-1931
Phillip F. LaFollette  |  Republican/Progressive[2] |  1931-1933, 1935-1939
Albert G. Schmedeman  |  Democrat  |  1933-1935
Julius Peter Heil  |  Republican  |  1939-1943
Walter S. Goodland  |  Republican  |  1943-1947
Oscar Rennebohm  |  Republican  |  1947-1951
Walter J. Kohler, Jr  |  Republican  |  1951-1957
Vernon W. Thomson  |  Republican  |  1957-1959
Gaylord Anton Nelson  |  Democrat  |  1959-1963
John W. Reynolds  |  Democrat  |  1963-1965
Warren P. Knowles  |  Republican  |  1965-1971
Patrick Joseph Lucey  |  Democrat/Independent  |  1971-1977
Martin James Schreiber  |  Democrat  |  1977-1979
Lee Sherman Dreyfus, Jr.  |  Republican  |  1979-1983
Anthony S. Earl  |  Democrat  |  1983-1987
Tommy G. Thompson |  Republican  |  1987-2001
Scott McCallum  |  Republican  |  2001-2003
Jim Doyle  |  Democrat  |  2003-2011
Scott Walker |  Republican  |  2011–present

## Notes[edit]

1. ↑ http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.8fd3d12ab65b304f8a278110501010a0?submit=Submit&State=WI
2. ↑ Republican first term, progressive for 2nd and 3rd

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