Governors of Pennsylvania

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A list of governors from the commonwealth of Pennsylvania.^[1][2][3]

Proprietors of Pennsylvania[edit]

Note: The proprietors of Pennsylvania also managed the colony of Delaware.

Name	Years
William Penn	1682-1718
John, Thomas, and Richard Penn	1718-1746
Thomas and Richard Penn	1746-1775
John Penn	1775-1776

Presidents of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania[edit]

Name	Years
Thomas Wharton	1777-1778
George Bryan	1778
Joseph Reed	1778-1781
William Moore	1781-1782
John Dickinson	1782-1785
Benjamin Franklin	1785-1790

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Governors[edit]

Name	Party	Years
Thomas Mifflin	None	1790-1799
Thomas McKean	Democratic Republican	1799-1808
Simon Snyder	Democratic Republican	1808-1817
William Findlay	Democratic Republican	1817-1820
Joseph Hiester	Democratic Republican	1820-1823
John Andrew Shulze	Democratic Republican	1823-1829
George Wolf	Democratic Republican	1829-1835
Joseph Ritner	Anti-Mason	1835-1839
David Rittenhouse Porter	Democratic Republican	1839-1845
Francis Rawn Shunk	Democrat	1845-1848
William Freame Johnston	Whig	1848-1852
William Bigler	Democrat	1852-1855
James Pollock	Whig	1855-1858
William Fisher Packer	Democrat	1858-1861
Andrew Gregg Curtin	Republican	1861-1867
John White Geary	Republican	1867-1873
John Frederick Hartranft	Republican	1873-1879
Henry Martin Hoyt	Republican	1879-1883
Robert Emory Pattison	Democrat	1883–1887, 1891-1895
James Addams Beaver	Republican	1887-1891
Daniel Hartman Hastings	Republican	1895-1899
William Alexis Stone	Republican	1899-1903
Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker	Republican	1903-1907
Edwin Sydney Stuart	Republican	1907-1911
John Kinley Tener	Republican	1911-1915
Martin Grove Brumbaugh	Republican	1915-1919
William Cameron Sproul	Republican	1919-1923
Gifford Pinchot	Republican	1923–1927, 1931-1935
John Stuchell Fisher	Republican	1927-1931
George Howard Earle	Democrat	1935-1939
Arthur Horace James	Republican	1939-1943
Edward Martin	Republican	1943-1947
John C. Bell	Republican	1947
James H. Duff	Republican	1947-1951
John S. Fine	Republican	1951-1955
George Michael Leader	Democrat	1955-1959
David Leo Lawrence	Democrat	1959-1963
William Warren Scranton	Republican	1963-1967
Raymond Philip Shafer	Republican	1967-1971
Milton J. Shapp	Democrat	1971-1979
Richard Thornburgh	Republican	1979-1987
Robert P. Casey	Democrat	1987-1995
Tom Ridge	Republican	1995-2001
Mark S. Schweiker	Republican	2001-2003
Edward G. Rendell	Democrat	2003-2011
Tom Corbett	Republican	2011–2015	-	Tom Wolf	Democrat	2015–present

See also[edit]

• State Governors

Notes[edit]

1. ↑ http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/governors/overview.asp?secid=31
2. ↑ http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/List-of-colonial-governors-of-Pennsylvania
3. ↑ http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/List-of-Governors-of-Pennsylvania

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