Governors of South Carolina

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

## Contents

* 1 Proprietary Governors of South Carolina
* 2 Royal Governors of South Carolina
* 3 State of South Carolina Governors
* 4 Notes

## Proprietary Governors of South Carolina[edit]

Name  |  Years

|

William Sayle  |  1670-1671
Joseph West  |  1671-1672, 1674-1682, 1685
John Yeamans  |  1672-1674
Joseph Morton  |  1682-1684, 1685-1686
Richard Kyrle  |  1684
Robert Quarry  |  1684-1685
James Colleton  |  1686-1690
Seth Sothell  |  1690-1692
Philip Ludwell  |  1692-1693
Thomas Smith  |  1693-1694
Joseph Blake  |  1694, 1696-1700
John Archdale  |  1694-1696
James Moore  |  1700-1702
Nathaniel Johnson  |  1702-1703
Edward Tynte  |  1703-1709
Robert Gibbes  |  1710-1711
Charles Craven  |  1711-1716
Robert Daniell  |  1716-1717
Robert Johnson  |  1717-1719

## Royal Governors of South Carolina[edit]

Name  |  Years

|

James Moore  |  1719-1721
Francis Nicholson  |  1721-1729
Arthur Middleton  |  1724-1729
Robert Johnson  |  1729-1735
Thomas Broughton  |  1735-1737
William Bull  |  1737-1743
James Glen  |  1743-1756
William Henry Lyttleton  |  1756-1760
Thomas Boone  |  1761-1764
William Bull, II  |  1764-1766, 1773-1775
Charles Greville Montague  |  1766-1773
Henry Laurens  |  1775-1776

## State of South Carolina Governors[edit]

Name |  Party  |  Years

|
|

John Rutledge  |  |  1776-1778, 1779-1782
Rawlins Lowndes  |  |  1778-1779
John Mathews  |  |  1782-1783
Benjamin Guerard  |  |  1783-1785
William Moultrie  |  Federalist  |  1785-1787, 1792-1794
Thomas Pinckney  |  Federalist  |  1787-1789
Charles Pinckney |  Democratic Republican  |  1789-1792, 1796-1798, 1806–1808
Arnoldus Vandershorst  |  Federalist  |  1794-1796
Edward Rutledge  |  Federalist  |  1798-1800
John Drayton  |  Democratic Republican  |  1800-1802, 1808-1810
James Burchill Richardson  |  Democratic Republican  |  1802-1804
Paul Hamilton  |  Democratic Republican  |  1804-1806
Henry Middleton  |  Democratic Republican  |  1810-1812
Joseph Alston  |  Democratic Republican  |  1812-1814
David Rogerson Williams  |  Democratic Republican  |  1814-1816
Andrew Pickens  |  Democratic Republican  |  1816-1818
Geddes John  |  Democratic Republican  |  1818-1820
Thomas Bennett  |  Democratic Republican  |  1820-1822
John Lyde Wilson  |  Democratic Republican  |  1822-1824
Richard Irvine Manning  |  Democratic Republican  |  1824-1826
John Taylor  |  Democratic Republican  |  1826-1828
Stephen Decatur Miller  |  Democrat  |  1828-1830
James Hamilton, Jr.  |  Democrat  |  1830-1832
Robert Young Hayne  |  Democrat  |  1832-1834
George McDuffie  |  Democrat  |  1834-1836
Pierce Mason Butler  |  Democrat  |  1836-1838
Patrick Noble  |  Democrat  |  1838-1840
Barnabas Kelet Henagan  |  Democrat  |  1840
John Peter Richardson II  |  Democrat  |  1840-1842
James Henry Hammond  |  Democrat  |  1842-1844
William Aiken  |  Democrat  |  1844-1846
David Johnson  |  Democrat  |  1846-1848
Whitemarsh Benjamin Seabrook  |  Democrat  |  1848-1850
John Hugh Means  |  Democrat  |  1850-1852
John Laurence Manning  |  Democrat  |  1852-1854
James Hopkins Adams  |  Democrat  |  1854-1856
Robert Francis Withers Allston  |  Democrat  |  1856-1858
William Henry Gist  |  Democrat  |  1858-1860
Francis Wilkinson Pickens  |  |  1860-1862
Milledge Luke Bonham  |  Democrat  |  1862-1864
Andrew Gordon McGrath  |  Democrat  |  1864-1865
Benjamin Franklin Perry  |  Democrat  |  1865
James Lawrence Orr  |  Conservative  |  1865-1868
Edward R. S. Canby  |  |  1868
Robert Kingston Scott  |  Republican  |  1868-1872
Franklin J. Moses  |  Republican  |  1872-1874
Daniel Henry Chamberlain  |  Republican  |  1874-1876
Wade Hampton, III |  Democrat  |  1876-1879
William Dunlap Simpson  |  Democrat  |  1879-1880
Thomas Bothwell Jeter  |  Democrat  |  1880
Johnson Hagood  |  Democrat  |  1880-1882
Hugh Smith Thompson  |  Democrat  |  1882-1886
John Calhoun Sheppard  |  Democrat  |  1886
John Peter Richardson  |  Democrat  |  1886-1890
Benjamin Ryan Tillman |  Democrat  |  1890-1894
John Gary Evans  |  Democrat  |  1894-1897
William Haselden Ellerbe  |  Democrat  |  1897-1899
Miles Benjamin McSweeney  |  Democrat  |  1899-1903
Duncan Clinch Heyward  |  Democrat  |  1903-1907
Martin Frederick Ansel  |  Democrat  |  1907-1911
Coleman Livingston Blease  |  Democrat  |  1911-1915
Charles A. Smith  |  Democrat  |  1915
Richard Irvine Manning III  |  Democrat  |  1915-1919
Robert Arthur Cooper  |  Democrat  |  1919-1922
Wilson Godfrey Harvey  |  Democrat  |  1922-1923
Thomas Gordon McLeod  |  Democrat  |  1923-1927
John Gardiner Richards  |  Democrat  |  1927-1931
Ibra Charles Blackwood  |  Democrat  |  1931-1935
Olin D. Johnston |  Democrat  |  1935-1939, 1943-1945
Burnet Rhett Maybank  |  Democrat  |  1939-1941
Joseph Emile Harley  |  Democrat  |  1941-1942
Richard Manning Jeffries  |  Democrat  |  1942-1943
Ransome Judson Williams  |  Democrat  |  1945-1947
James Strom Thurmond |  Democrat  |  1947-1951
James Francis "Jimmy" Byrnes |  Democrat  |  1951-1955
George Bell Timmerman  |  Democrat  |  1955-1959
Ernest Hollings |  Democrat  |  1959-1963
Donald Stuart Russell  |  Democrat  |  1963-1965
Robert Evander McNair  |  Democrat  |  1965-1971
John C. West |  Democrat  |  1971-1975
James B. Edwards |  Republican  |  1975-1979
Richard Wilson Riley  |  Democrat  |  1979-1987
Carroll Ashmore Campbell, Jr. |  Republican  |  1987-1995
David Muldrow Beasley |  Republican  |  1995-1999
James Hovis "Jim" Hodges  |  Democrat  |  1999-2003
Mark Sanford |  Republican  |  2003-2011
Nikki Haley |  Republican  |  2011–2017
Henry McMaster |  Republican  |  2017-

## Notes[edit]

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

v • d • e

State Governors

Alabama • Alaska • Arizona • Arkansas • California • Colorado • Connecticut • Delaware • Florida • Georgia • Hawaii • Idaho • Illinois • Indiana • Iowa • Kansas • Kentucky • Louisiana • Maine • Maryland • Massachusetts • Michigan • Minnesota • Mississippi • Missouri • Montana • Nebraska • Nevada • New Hampshire • New Jersey • New Mexico • New York • N.Carolina • N.Dakota • Ohio • Oklahoma • Oregon • Pennsylvania • Rhode Island • S.Carolina • S.Dakota • Tennessee • Texas • Utah • Vermont • Virginia • Washington • W.Virginia • Wisconsin • Wyoming