Governors of Rhode Island

A list of governors from the state of Rhode Island.[1][2]

## Governors of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations[edit]

Note:The list is partial.

Name  |  Years

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William Brenton  |  1640-1647, 1660-1668
John Coggeshall  |  1647
Benedict Arnold |  1668-1672, 1676-1678
Nicholas Greene  |  1672-1674
William Coddington  |  1674-1676, 1678
William Greene  |  1746-1747, 1748-1755, 1757-1758
Gideon Wanton  |  1747-1748
Stephen Hopkins  |  1755-1757, 1758-1762, 1763-1765, 1767-1768
Samuel Ward  |  1762-1763, 1765-1767
Josias Lyndon  |  1768-1769
Joseph Wanton  |  1769-1775

## State Governors of Rhode Island[edit]

Name |  Party  |  Years

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Nicholas Cooke  |  |  1775-1778
William Greene, Jr.  |  |  1778-1786
John Collins  |  |  1786-1790
Arthur Fenner  |  F-R  |  1790-1805
Henry Smith  |  |  1805-1806
Isaac Wilbour  |  |  1806-1807
James Fenner  |  F-R, Whig  |  1807-1811, 1824-1831, 1843-1845
William Jones  |  F-R  |  1811-1817
Nehemiah Rice Knight  |  F-R  |  1817-1821
Edward Cox  |  |  1821
William Channing Gibbs  |  |  1821-1824
Lemuel Hastings Arnold  |  |  1831-1833
John Brown Francis  |  Democratic Repulican  |  1833-1838
William Sprague  |  Whig  |  1838-1839
Samuel King  |  Whig  |  1839-1843
Charles Jackson  |  Whig  |  1845-1846
Byron Diman  |  Whig  |  1846-1847
Elisha Harris  |  Whig  |  1847-1849
Henry Bowen Anthony  |  Whig  |  1849-1851
Philip Allen  |  DFS  |  1851-1853
Francis M. Dimon  |  |  1853-1854
William Warner Hoppin  |  AP  |  1854-1857
Elisha Dyer  |  Republican  |  1857-1859
Thomas Goodwin Taylor  |  Republican  |  1859-1860
William Sprague  |  Republican  |  1860-1863
William Cole Cozzens  |  Democrat  |  1863
James Youngs Smith  |  Republican  |  1863-1866
Ambrose Everett Burnside |  Republican  |  1866-1869
Seth Padelford  |  Republican  |  1869-1873
Henry Howard  |  Republican  |  1873-1875
Henry Lippitt  |  Republican  |  1875-1877
Charles Collins Van Zandt  |  Republican  |  1877-1880
Alfred Henry Littlefield  |  Republican  |  1880-1883
Augustus Osborn Bourn  |  Republican  |  1883-1885
George Peabody Wetmore  |  Republican  |  1885-1887
John William Davis  |  Democrat  |  1887-1888, 1890-1891
Royal Chapin Taft  |  Republican  |  1888-1889
Herbert Warren Ladd  |  Republican  |  1889-1890, 1891-1892
Daniel Russell Brown  |  Republican  |  1892-1895
Charles Warren Lippitt  |  Republican  |  1895-1897
Elisha Dyer, Jr.  |  Republican  |  1897-1900
William Gregory  |  Republican  |  1900-1901
Charles Dean Kimball  |  Republican  |  1901-1903
Lucius Fayette Clark Garvin  |  Democrat  |  1903-1905
George Herbert Utter  |  Republican  |  1905-1907
James Henry Higgins  |  Democrat  |  1907-1909
Aram Pothier  |  Republican  |  1909-1915, 1925-1928
Robert Livingston Beeckman  |  Republican  |  1915-1921
Emery J. San Souci  |  Republican  |  1921-1923
William Smith Flynn  |  Democrat  |  1923-1925
Norman Stanley Case  |  Republican  |  1928-1933
Theodore Francis Green  |  Democrat  |  1933-1937
Robert Emmet Quinn  |  Democrat  |  1937-1939
William Henry Vanderbilt  |  Republican  |  1939-1941
James Howard McGrath  |  Democrat  |  1941-1945
John Orlando Pastore  |  Democrat  |  1945-1950
John Sammon McKiernan  |  |  1950-1951
Dennis Joseph Roberts  |  |  1951-1959
Christopher Del Sesto  |  Republican  |  1959-1961
John A. Notte, Jr.  |  Democrat  |  1961-1963
John Hubbard Chafee  |  Republican  |  1963-1969
Frank Licht  |  Democrat  |  1969-1973
Philip W. Noel  |  Democrat  |  1973-1977
J. Joseph Garrahy  |  Democrat  |  1977-1985
Edward D. DiPrete  |  Republican  |  1985-1991
Bruce G. Sundlun  |  Democrat  |  1991-1995
Lincoln Almond  |  Republican  |  1995-2003
Don Carcieri |  Republican  |  2003-2011
Lincoln Chafee |  Independent  |  2011–present

## Notes[edit]

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

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