Governors of Massachusetts

A list of governors from the commonwealth of Massachusetts.[1][2]

## Contents

* 1 Plymouth Colony Governors
* 2 Massachusetts Bay Colony Governors
* 3 Dominion of New England Governors
* 4 Province of Massachusetts Bay Governors
* 5 Commonwealth of Massachusetts Governors
* 6 See also
* 7 Notes

## Plymouth Colony Governors[edit]

Name  |  Years

|

John Carver  |  1620-1621
William Bradford |  1621–1633, 1635–1636, 1637–1638, 1639–1644, 1645-1657
Edward Winslow  |  1633–1634, 1636–1637, 1644-1645
Thomas Prence  |  1634–1635, 1638–1639, 1657-1673
Josiah Winslow  |  1673-1680
Thomas Hinckley  |  1680–1686, 1689-1692

## Massachusetts Bay Colony Governors[edit]

Name  |  Years

|

John Endicott  |  1629–1630, 1644, 1649, 1651–1653, 1655-1664
John Winthrop  |  1630–1633, 1637–1639, 1642–1643, 1646-1648
Thomas Dudley  |  1634, 1640, 1645, 1650
John Haynes  |  1635
Henry Vane the Younger  |  1636
Richard Bellingham  |  1641, 1654, 1665-1672
John Leverett  |  1673-1678
Simon Bradstreet  |  1678-1686

## Dominion of New England Governors[edit]

Name  |  Years

|

Joseph Dudley  |  1686
Edmund Andros  |  1686-1689

## Province of Massachusetts Bay Governors[edit]

Name  |  Years

|

William Phips  |  1692-1694
William Stoughton  |  1694–1699, 1700-1701
Richard Coote  |  1699-1700
Joseph Dudley  |  1702–1715, 1715
William Tailer  |  1715–1716, 1730
Samuel Shute  |  1716-1723
William Dummer  |  1723–1728, 1729-1730
William Burnet  |  1728-1729
Jonathan Belcher  |  1730-1741
William Shirley  |  1741–1749, 1753-1756
Spencer Phips  |  1749–1753, 1756-1757
Thomas Pownall  |  1757-1760
Thomas Hutchinson  |  1760, 1769-1774
Francis Bernard  |  1760-1769
Thomas Gage  |  1774-1775
William Howe  |  1775-1776

## Commonwealth of Massachusetts Governors[edit]

Name |  Party  |  Years

|
|

John Hancock |  Federalist  |  1780–1785, 1787-1793
Thomas Cushing  |  |  1785
James Bowdoin  |  |  1785-1787
Samuel Adams |  Democratic Republican  |  1793-1797
Increase Sumner  |  Federalist  |  1797-1799
Moses Gill  |  |  1799-1800
Caleb Strong  |  Federalist  |  1800–1807, 1812-1816
James Sullivan  |  Democratic Republican  |  1807-1808
Levi Lincoln  |  Democratic Republican  |  1808-1809
Christopher Gore  |  Federalist  |  1809-1810
Elbridge Gerry |  Democratic Republican  |  1810-1812
John Brooks  |  Federalist  |  1816-1823
William Eustis  |  Democratic Republican  |  1823-1825
Marcus Morton  |  Democratic Republican  |  1825, 1840–1841, 1843-1844
Levi Lincoln, Jr.  |  Adams Republican  |  1825-1834
John Davis  |  Republican/Whig  |  1834–1835, 1841-1843
Samuel Turell Armstrong  |  Whig  |  1835-1836
Edward Everett  |  Whig  |  1836-1840
George Nixon Briggs  |  Whig  |  1844-1851
George Sewall Boutwell  |  Democrat  |  1851-1853
John Henry Clifford  |  Whig  |  1853-1854
Emory Washburn  |  Whig  |  1854-1855
Henry Joseph Gardner  |  American (Know Nothing)  |  1855-1858
Nathaniel Prentice Banks |  Republican  |  1858-1861
John Albion Andrew  |  Republican  |  1861-1866
Alexander Hamilton Bullock  |  Republican  |  1866-1869
William Claflin  |  Republican  |  1869-1872
William Barrett Washburn  |  Republican  |  1872-1874
Thomas Talbot  |  Republican  |  1874–1875, 1879-1880
William Gaston  |  Democrat  |  1875-1876
Alexander Hamilton Rice  |  Republican  |  1876-1879
John Davis Long |  Republican  |  1880-1883
Benjamin Franklin Butler  |  Democrat/National  |  1883-1884
George Dexter Robinson  |  Republican  |  1884-1887
Oliver Ames  |  Republican  |  1887-1890
John Quincy Adams Brackett  |  Republican  |  1890-1891
William Eustis Russell  |  Democrat  |  1891-1894
Frederic Thomas Greenhalge  |  Republican  |  1894-1896
Roger Wolcott  |  Republican  |  1896-1900
Winthrop Murray Crane  |  Republican  |  1900-1903
John Lewis Bates  |  Republican  |  1903-1905
William Lewis Douglas  |  Democrat  |  1905-1906
Curtis Guild, Jr.  |  Republican  |  1906-1909
Ebenezer Sumner Draper  |  Republican  |  1909-1911
Eugene Noble Ross  |  Democrat  |  1911-1914
David Ignatius Walsh  |  Democrat  |  1914-1916
Samuel Walker McCall  |  Republican  |  1916-1919
John Calvin Coolidge |  Republican  |  1919-1921
Channing Harris Cox  |  Republican  |  1921-1925
Alvan Tufts Fuller  |  Republican  |  1925-1929
Frank G. Allen  |  Republican  |  1929-1931
Joseph Buell Ely  |  Democrat  |  1931-1935
James Michael Curley  |  Democrat  |  1935-1937
Charles Francis Hurley  |  Democrat  |  1937-1939
Leverett Saltonstall |  Republican  |  1939-1945
Maurice Tobin  |  Democrat  |  1945-1947
Robert Fiske Bradford  |  Republican  |  1947-1949
Paul Andrew Dever  |  Democrat  |  1949-1953
Christian Archibald Herter  |  Republican  |  1953-1957
Foster John Furcolo  |  Democrat  |  1957-1961
John Anthony Volpe  |  Republican  |  1961–1963, 1965-1969
Endicott Peabody  |  Democrat  |  1963-1965
Francis William Sargent  |  Republican  |  1969-1975
Michael Stanley Dukakis |  Democrat  |  1975–1979, 1983-1991
Edward Joseph King  |  Democrat  |  1979-1983
William Floyd Weld  |  Republican  |  1991-1997
Argeo Paul Cellucci  |  Republican  |  1997-2001
Jane Maria Swift  |  Republican  |  2001-2003
Mitt Romney |  Republican  |  2003-2007
Deval Patrick |  Democrat  |  2007–present

## See also[edit]

* State Governors

## Notes[edit]

1. ↑ http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.8fd3d12ab65b304f8a278110501010a0?submit=Submit&State=MA
2. ↑ http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/List-of-colonial-governors-of-Massachusetts

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