Governors of Virginia

A list of governors from the commonwealth of Virginia.[1]

## Contents

* 1 Virginia Company of London Governors
* 2 Crown Governors of Virginia
* 3 Commonwealth of England Governors
* 4 President of the Committee for Public Safety
* 5 Governors of the Commonwealth of Virginia
* 6 Further reading
* 7 Notes

## Virginia Company of London Governors[edit]

Name  |  Years

|

Edward Maria Wingfield  |  1607
John Ratcliffe (Governor)  |  1608
Matthew Scrivener  |  1608
John Smith |  1608-1609
George Percy  |  1609-1610, 1611
Thomas Gates  |  1610, 1611-1614
Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr  |  1610-1611
Thomas Dale  |  1611, 1614-1616
George Yeardley |  1616-1617, 1619-1621
Samuel Argall  |  1617-1619
Francis Wyatt  |  1621-1624

## Crown Governors of Virginia[edit]

Name  |  Years

|

Francis Wyatt  |  1624-1626, 1639-1642
George Yeardley  |  1626-1627
Francis West  |  1627-1629
John Pott  |  1629-1630
John Harvey  |  1630-1635, 1637-1639
John West  |  1635-1637
William Berkeley  |  1642-1644, 1645-1652, 1660-1677
Richard Kemp  |  1644-1645
Thomas Culpeper  |  1677-1683
Francis Howard  |  1683-1692
Edmund Andros  |  1692-1698
Francis Nicholson  |  1698-1705
Edward Nott  |  1705-1706
Edmund Jenings  |  1706-1708
Robert Hunter  |  1707-1709
George Hamilton  |  1710-1737
Willem Anne van Keppel  |  1737-1754
John Campbell  |  1756-1759
Jeffery Amherst  |  1759-1768
Norborne Berkeley  |  1768-1770
William Nelson  |  1770-1771
John Murray  |  1771-1775

## Commonwealth of England Governors[edit]

Name  |  Years

|

Richard Bennett  |  1652-1655
Edward Digges  |  1655-1656
Samuel Mathews  |  1656-1660
Wiliam Berkeley  |  1660

## President of the Committee for Public Safety[edit]

Name  |  Years

|

Edmund Pendleton  |  1775-1776

## Governors of the Commonwealth of Virginia[edit]

Name |  Party  |  Years

|
|

Patrick Henry |  |  1776-1779, 1784-1786
Thomas Jefferson |  |  1779-1781
William Fleming  |  |  1781
David Jameson  |  |  1781
Thomas Nelson, Jr.  |  |  1781
Benjamin Harrison  |  |  1781-1784
Edmund Randolph  |  |  1786-1788
Beverley Randolph  |  |  1788-1791
Henry Lee  |  Federalist  |  1791-1794
Robert Brooke  |  Democratic Republican  |  1794-1796
James Wood  |  Federalist  |  1796-1799
James Monroe |  Democratic Republican  |  1799-1802, 1811
John Pendleton, Jr.  |  |  1799
Hardin Burnley  |  |  1799
John Page  |  Democratic Republican  |  1802-1805
William Henry Cabell  |  Democratic Republican  |  1805-1808
John Tyler  |  Democratic Republican  |  1808-1811
George William Smith  |  Democratic Republican  |  1811, 1811[2]
Peyton Randolph  |  Democratic Republican  |  1811-1812
James Barbour  |  Democratic Republican  |  1812-1814
Wilson Cary Nicholas  |  Democratic Republican  |  1814-1816
James Patton Preston  |  Democratic Republican  |  1816-1819
Thomas Mann Randolph  |  Democratic Republican  |  1819-1822
James Pleasants, Jr.  |  Democratic Republican  |  1822-1825
John Tyler, Jr. |  Democratic Republican  |  1825-1827
William Branch Giles  |  Anti Federalist  |  1827-1830
John Floyd  |  Democrat  |  1830-1834
Littleton Waller Tazewell  |  Whig  |  1834-1836
Wyndham Robertson  |  Whig  |  1836-1837
David Campbell  |  Democrat  |  1837-1840
Thomas Walker Gilmer  |  Whig  |  1840-1841
John Mercer Patton  |  Whig  |  1841
John Rutherfoord  |  Democrat  |  1841-1842
John Munford Gregory  |  Whig  |  1842-1843
James McDowell  |  Democrat  |  1843-1846
William Smith  |  Democrat  |  1846-1849, 1864-1865
John Buchanan Floyd  |  Democrat  |  1849-1852
Joseph Johnson  |  Democrat  |  1852-1856
Henry Alexander Wise  |  Democrat  |  1856-1860
John Letcher  |  Democrat  |  1860-1864
Henry Horatio Wells  |  Republican  |  1868-1869
Gilbert Carlson Walker  |  Republican  |  1869-1874
James Lawson Kemper  |  Conservative  |  1874-1878
Frederick William Mackey Holliday  |  Conservative  |  1878-1882
William E. Cameron  |  Readjuster  |  1882-1886
Fitzhugh Lee  |  Democrat  |  1886-1890
Philip Watkins McKinney  |  Democrat  |  1890-1894
Charles Triplett O’Ferrall  |  Democrat  |  1894-1898
James Hodge Tyler  |  Democrat  |  1898-1902
Andrew Jackson Montague  |  Democrat  |  1902-1906
Claude Augustus Swanson  |  Democrat  |  1906-1910
William Hodges Mann  |  Democrat  |  1910-1914
Henry Carter Stuart  |  Democrat  |  1914-1918
Westmoreland Davis  |  Democrat  |  1918-1922
Elbert Lee Trinkle  |  Democrat  |  1922-1926
Harry Flood Byrd, Sr. |  Democrat  |  1926-1930
John Garland Pollard  |  Democrat  |  1930-1934
George Campbell Peery  |  Democrat  |  1934-1938
James Hubert Price  |  Democrat  |  1938-1942
Colgate Whitehead Darden  |  Democrat  |  1942-1946
William Munford Tuck  |  Democrat  |  1946-1950
John Stuart Battle  |  Democrat  |  1950-1954
Thomas Bahnson Stanley  |  Democrat  |  1954-1958
James Lindsay Almond  |  Democrat  |  1958-1962
Albertis S. Harrison, Jr.  |  Democrat  |  1962-1966
Mills Edwin Godwin, Jr. |  Democrat/Republican  |  1966-1970, 1974-1978
A. Linwood Holton, Jr. |  Republican  |  1970-1974
John Nichols Dalton |  Republican  |  1978-1982
Charles Spittal Robb  |  Democrat  |  1982-1986
Gerald L. Baliles  |  Democrat  |  1986-1990
L. Douglas Wilder |  Democrat  |  1990-1994
George Allen |  Republican  |  1994-1998
James S. Gilmore III |  Republican  |  1998-2002
Mark R. Warner |  Democrat  |  2002-2006
Tim Kaine |  Democrat  |  2006-2010
Bob McDonnell |  Republican  |  2010–2014
Terry McAuliffe |  Democrat  |  2014-2018
Ralph Shearer Northam |  Democrat  |  2018-2022
Glenn Youngkin |  Republican  |  2022-

## Further reading[edit]

* Younger, Edward and Moore, James T., eds. The Governors of Virginia, 1860-1978. Charlottesville: U. Press of Virginia, 1982. 428 pp.

## Notes[edit]

1. ↑ http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.8fd3d12ab65b304f8a278110501010a0?submit=Submit&State=VA
2. ↑ Smith served two non-consecutive terms in 1811, one as acting governor for 4 days in January before James Monroe took office, and one after Monroe took the position of Secretary of State.

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