Governors of New Hampshire

A list of governors from the state of New Hampshire.[1]

## Contents

* 1 Colonial Governors of New Hampshire
* 2 Royal Governors
* 3 State of New Hampshire Governors
* 4 Notes

## Colonial Governors of New Hampshire[edit]

Note:The lieutenant governor of Massachusetts headed the New Hampshire council during this time.

Name  |  Years

|

John Cutt  |  1680-1681
Richard Waldron  |  1681-1682
Edward Cranfield  |  1682-1685
Walter Barefoote  |  1685-1686
Joseph Dudley  |  1686-1687
Edmund Andros  |  1687-1689
Simon Bradstreet  |  1689-1692
John Usher  |  1692-1697, 1702-1715
William Partridge  |  1697-1698, 1699-1702
Samuel Allen  |  1698-1699
George Vaughan  |  1715-1716
John Wentworth  |  1717-1730
Daniel Dunbar  |  1731-1741

## Royal Governors[edit]

Name  |  Years

|

Benning Wentworth  |  1741-1766
John Wenworth  |  1767-1775

## State of New Hampshire Governors[edit]

Name |  Party  |  Years

|
|

Meshech Weare  |  |  1776-1785
John Langdon  |  Democratic Republican  |  1785-1786, 1788-1789, 1805–1809
John Sullivan  |  Federalist  |  1786-1788, 1789-1790
Josiah Bartlett  |  Democratic Republican  |  1790-1794
John Taylor Gilman  |  Federalist  |  1794-1805, 1813-1816
Jeremiah Smith  |  Federalist  |  1809-1810
William Plumer  |  Democratic Republican  |  1812-1813, 1816-1819
Samuel Bell  |  Democratic Republican  |  1819-1823
Levi Woodbury  |  Democratic Republican  |  1823-1824
David Lawrence Morril  |  Democratic Republican  |  1824-1827
Benjamin Pierce  |  Democratic Republican  |  1827-1828, 1829-1830
John Bell  |  National Republican  |  1828-1829
Matthew Harvey  |  Democrat  |  1830-1831
Joseph Morrill Harper  |  Democrat  |  1831
Samuel Dinsmoor  |  Democrat  |  1831-1834
William Badger  |  Democrat  |  1834-1836
Isaac Hill  |  Democrat  |  1836-1839
John Page  |  Democrat  |  1839-1842
Henry Hubbard  |  Democrat  |  1842-1844
John Hardy Steele  |  Democrat  |  1844-1846
Anthony Colby  |  Whig  |  1846-1847
Jared Warner Williams  |  Democrat  |  1847-1849
Samuel Dinsmoor, Jr.  |  Democrat  |  1849-1852
Noah Martin  |  Democrat  |  1852-1854
Nathaniel Bradley Baker  |  Democrat  |  1854-1855
Ralph Metcalf  |  Know Nothing  |  1855-1857
William Haile  |  Republican  |  1857-1859
Icabod Goodwin  |  Republican  |  1859-1861
Nathaniel Springer Berry  |  |  1861-1863
Joseph Albree Gilmore  |  Republican  |  1863-1865
Frederick Smyth  |  Republican  |  1865-1867
Walter Harriman  |  Republican  |  1867-1869
Onslow Stearns  |  Republican  |  1869-1871
James Adams Weston  |  Democrat  |  1871-1872, 1874-1875
Ezekiel Albert Straw  |  Republican  |  1872-1874
Person Colby Cheney  |  Republican  |  1875-1877
Benjamin Franklin Prescott  |  Republican  |  1877-1879
Nathaniel Head  |  Republican  |  1879-1881
Charles Henry Bell  |  Republican  |  1881-1883
Samuel Whitney Hale  |  Republican  |  1883-1885
Moody Currier  |  Republican  |  1885-1887
Charles Henry Sawyer  |  Republican  |  1887-1889
David Harvey Goodell  |  Republican  |  1889-1891
Hiram Americus Tuttle  |  Republican  |  1891-1893
John Butler Smith  |  Republican  |  1893-1895
Charles Albert Busiel  |  Republican  |  1895-1897
George Ramsdell  |  Republican  |  1897-1899
Frank West Rollins  |  Republican  |  1899-1901
Chester Bradley Jordan  |  Republican  |  1901-1903
Nahum Josiah Bachelder  |  Republican  |  1903-1905
John McLane  |  Republican  |  1905-1907
Charles Miller Floyd  |  Republican  |  1907-1909
Henry Brewer Quinby  |  Republican  |  1909-1911
Robert Perkins Bass  |  Republican  |  1911-1913
Samuel Demeritt Felker  |  Democrat  |  1913-1915
Rolland Harty Spaulding  |  Republican  |  1915-1917
Henry Wilder Keyes  |  Republican  |  1917-1919
John Henry Bartlett  |  Republican  |  1919-1921
Albert Oscar Brown  |  Republican  |  1921-1923
Fred Herbert Brown  |  Democrat  |  1923-1925
John Gilbert Winant  |  Republican  |  1925-1927, 1931-1935
Huntley Nowell Spaulding  |  Republican  |  1927-1929
Charles William Tobey  |  Republican  |  1929-1931
Henry Styles Bridges  |  Republican  |  1935-1937
Francis Purnell Murphy  |  Republican  |  1937-1941
Robert Oscar Blood  |  Republican  |  1941-1945
Charles Milby Dale  |  Republican  |  1945-1949
Llewelyn Sherman Adams  |  Republican  |  1949-1953
Hugh Gregg  |  Republican  |  1953-1955
Lane Dwinell  |  Republican  |  1955-1959
Wesley Powell  |  Republican  |  1959-1963
John William King  |  Democrat  |  1963-1969
Walter Peterson  |  Republican  |  1969-1973
Meldrim Thomson, Jr.  |  Republican  |  1973-1979
Hugh J. Gallen  |  Democrat  |  1979-1982
Vesta M. Roy  |  Republican  |  1982-1983
John H. Sununu |  Republican  |  1983-1989
Judd Gregg  |  Republican  |  1989-1993
Stephen Merrill  |  Republican  |  1993-1997
Jeanne Shaheen  |  Democrat  |  1997-2003
Craig Benson  |  Republican  |  2003-2005
John Lynch  |  Democrat  |  2005–present

## Notes[edit]

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

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