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List of Governors of New Jersey

This is a list of governors of New Jersey.

Table of contents

1 Governors under the Proprietors (1665-1674) 2 Governors of East Jersey and their Deputies (1674-1702) 3 Governors of West Jersey and their Deputies (1680-1702) 4 Governors under Royal Government (1703-1776) 4.1 Governors of New York and New Jersey (1703-1738) 4.2 Governors of New Jersey only (1738-1776) 5 Governors under representative government (1776-present) 5.3 Governors under the 1776 N.J. Constitution (1776-1844) 5.4 Governors under the 1844 N.J. Constitution (1844-1946) 5.5 Governors under the 1947 N.J. Constitution (1947-present) 6 External Links

Governors under the Proprietors (1665-1674)

• Philip Carteret 1665-1672
• John Berry 1672-1673
• Anthony Colve 1673-1674

Governors of East Jersey and their Deputies (1674-1702)

• Philip Carteret 1674-1682
• Robert Barclay 1682-1688
• Thomas Rudyard, Deputy 1682-1683
• Gawen Lawrie, Deputy 1683-1686
• Lord Neill Campbell, Deputy 1686-1687
• Andrew Hamilton, Deputy 1687-1690
• Edmund Andros 1688-1689
• Andrew Hamilton 1692-1697
• Jeremiah Basse 1698-1699
• Andrew Hamilton 1699-1702

Governors of West Jersey and their Deputies (1680-1702)

• Edward Byllynge 1680-1687
• Samuel Jennings, Deputy 1681-1684
• Thomas Olive, Deputy 1684-1685
• John Skene, Deputy 1685-1687
• Daniel Coxe 1687-1688
• Edmund Andros 1688-1689
• Edward Hunloke, Deputy 1690
• Andrew Hamilton 1692-1697
• Jeremiah Basse 1697-1699
• Andrew Hamilton 1699-1702 (again)

Governors under Royal Government (1703-1776)

Governors of New York and New Jersey (1703-1738)

• Edward Hyde, Lord Cornbury 1703-8
• John, Lord Lovelace 1708-9
• Richard Ingoldesby, Lieutenant and Governor 1709-10
• Robert Hunter 1710-20
• William Burnet 1720-28
• John Montgomerie 1728-31
• Lewis Morris, President Of Council 1731-1732
• William Cosby 1732-36
• John Anderson, President Of Council 1736
• John Hamilton, President Of Council 1736-1738

Governors of New Jersey only (1738-1776)

• Lewis Morris 1738-46
• John Hamilton, President Of Council 1746-1747
• John Reading, President Of Council 1747
• Jonathan Belcher 1747-57
• Thomas Pownall, Lieut. Governor 1757
• John Reading, President Of Council 1757-1758
• Francis Bernard 1758-60
• Thomas Boone 1760-61
• Josiah Hardy 1761-63
• William Franklin 1763-76

Governors under representative government (1776-present)

Governors under the 1776 N.J. Constitution (1776-1844)

• William Livingston 1776-90
• Elisha Lawrence 1790 (?)
• William Paterson 1790-93
• Thomas Henderson (Politician) 1793 (?)
• Richard Howell 1793-1801
• Joseph Bloomfield 1801-02
• John Lambert, Acting Governor 1802-03
• Joseph Bloomfield 1803-12
• Aaron Ogden 1812-13
• William S. Pennington 1813-15
• William Kennedy 1815 (?)
• Mahlon Dickerson 1815-17
• Isaac Halstead Williamson 1817-29
• Peter Dumont Vroom 1829-32
• Samuel Lewis Southard 1832-33
• Elias P. Seeley 1833
• Peter Dumont Vroom 1833-36
• Philemon Dickerson1836-37
• William Pennington 1837-43
• Daniel Haines 1843-45

Governors under the 1844 N.J. Constitution (1844-1946)

Charles C. Stratton	1845-1848	Whig	Elected Governor
Daniel Haines	1848-1851		Elected Governor
George F. Fort	1851-1854	Democratic	Elected Governor
Rodman M. Price	1854-1857	Democratic	Elected Governor
William A. Newell	1857-1860	Republican	Elected Governor
Charles S. Olden	1860-1863	Republican	Elected Governor
Joel Parker	1863-1866	Democratic	Elected Governor
Marcus L. Ward	1866-1869	Republican	Elected Governor
Theodore F. Randolph	1869-1872	Democratic	Elected Governor
Joel Parker	1872-1875	Democratic	Elected Governor
Joseph D. Bedle	1875-1878	Democratic	Elected Governor
George Brinton McClellan	1878-1881	Democratic	Elected Governor
George C. Ludlow	1881-1884	Democratic	Elected Governor
Leon Abbett	1884-1887	Democratic	Elected Governor
Robert Stockton Green	1887-1890	Democratic	Elected Governor
Leon Abbett	1890-1893	Democratic	Elected Governor
George T. Werts	1893-1896	Democratic	Elected Governor
John W. Griggs	1896-1898	Republican	Elected Governor
Foster M. Voorhees	1898	Republican	Acting Governor
David Ogden Watkins	1898-1899		Acting Governor
Foster M. Voorhees	1899-1902	Republican	Elected Governor
Franklin Murphy	1902-1905	Republican	Elected Governor
Edward C. Stokes	1905-1908	Republican	Elected Governor
John Franklin Fort	1908-1911	Republican	Elected Governor
Woodrow Wilson	1911-1913	Democratic	Elected Governor
James F. Fielder	1913	Democratic	Acting Governor
Leon R. Taylor	1913-1914		Acting Governor
James F. Fielder	1914-1917	Democratic	Elected Governor
Walter E. Edge	1917-1919	Republican	Elected Governor
William N. Runyon	1919-1920		Acting Governor
Clarence E. Case	1920		Acting Governor
Edward I. Edwards	1920-1923	Democratic	Elected Governor
George S. Silzer	1923-1926	Democratic	Elected Governor
A. Harry Moore	1926-1929	Democratic	Elected Governor
Morgan F. Larson	1929-1932	Republican	Elected Governor
A. Harry Moore	1932-1935	Democratic	Elected Governor
Harold G. Hoffman	1935-1938	Republican	Elected Governor
A. Harry Moore	1938-1941	Democratic	Elected Governor
Charles Edison	1941-1944	Democratic	Elected Governor
Walter E. Edge	1944-1947	Republican	Elected Governor

Governors under the 1947 N.J. Constitution (1947-present)

Alfred E. Driscoll	1947-1954	Republican	Elected Governor
Robert B. Meyner	1954-1962	Democratic	Elected Governor
Richard J. Hughes	1962-1970	Democratic	Elected Governor
William T. Cahill	1970-1974	Republican	Elected Governor
Brendan Byrne	1974-1982	Democratic	Elected Governor
Thomas Kean	1982-1990	Republican	Elected Governor
James Florio	1990-1994	Democratic	Elected Governor
Christine Todd Whitman	1994-2001	Republican	Elected Governor
Donald DiFrancesco	2001-2002	Republican	Acting Governor
John Bennett	2002	Republican	Acting Governor
Richard Codey	2002	Democratic	Acting Governor
James McGreevey	2002-present	Democratic	Elected Governor

External Links

• State of New Jersey website - List of Governors

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