List of Governors of South Carolina

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A list of South Carolina Governors.

Table of contents

1 Proprietary Period (1670-1719)
2 Royal Period (1719-1776)
3 Statehood Period (1776 to Present)

Proprietary Period (1670-1719)

William Sayle 1670-1671

Joseph West (chosen by the council) 1671-1672

Sir John Yeamans 1672 - 1674

Joseph West 1674 - 1682

Joseph Morton 1682 - 1684

Richard Kyrle 1684

Robert Quarry (chosen by the council) 1684 - 1685

Joseph West 1685

Joseph Morton 1685 - 1686

James Colleton 1686 - 1690

Seth Sothell 1690 - 1692

Philip Ludwell 1692 - 1693

Thomas Smith 1693 - 1694

Joseph Blake (chosen by the council) 1694

John Archdale 1694 - 1696

Joseph Blake 1696 - 1700

James Moore (chosen by the council) 1700 - 1702

Sir Nathaniel Johnson 1702 - 1703

Edward Tynte 1703 - 1709

Robert Gibbes (chosen by the council) 1710 - 1711

Charles Craven 1711 - 1716

Robert Daniell (deputy-governor) 1716 - 1717

Robert Johnson 1717 - 1719

Royal Period (1719-1776)

James Moore (elected by the people) 1719 - 1721

Sir Francis Nicholson 1721 - 1729

Arthur Middleton (president of the council and acting governor) 1724 - 1729
Robert Johnson 1729 - 1735
Thomas Broughton (lieutenant-governor) 1735 - 1737
William Bull (president of tile council, lieutenant-governor) 1737 - 1743
James Glen 1743 - 1756
William Henry Lyttleton 1756 - 1760
Thomas Boone 1761 - 1764
William Bull II (lieutenant-governor) 1764 - 1766
Lord Charles Greville Montague 1766 - 1773
William Bull II 1773 - 1775
Lord William Campbell 1775
Henry Laurens (president of the council of safety) 1775 - 1776

Statehood Period (1776 to Present)

1776-1778 : John Rutledge
1778-1779 : Rawlins Lowndes
1779-1782 : John Rutledge
1782-1783 : John Mathews
1783-1785 : Benjamin Guerard
1785-1787 : William Moultrie
1787-1789 : Thomas Pinckney
1789-1792 : Charles Pinckney
1792-1794 : William Moultrie
1794-1796 : Arnoldus Vander Horst
1796-1798 : Charles Pinckney
1798-1800 : Edward Rutledge
1800-1802 : John Drayton
1802-1804 : James Burchill Richardson
1804-1806 : Paul Hamilton
1806-1808 : Charles Pinckney
1808-1810 : John Drayton
1810-1812 : Henry Middleton
1812-1814 : Joseph Alston
1814-1816 : David Rogerson Williams
1816-1818 : Andrew Pickens
1818-1820 : John Geddes
1820-1822 : Thomas Bennett Jr
1822-1824 : John Lyde Wilson
1824-1826 : Richard Irvine Manning I
1826-1828 : John Taylor
1828-1830 : Stephen Decatur Miller
1830-1832 : James Hamilton Jr
1832-1834 : Robert Young Hayne
1834-1836 : George McDuffie
1836-1838 : Pierce Mason Butler
1838-1840 : Patrick Noble
1840-1840 : Barnabus Kelet Henagan
1840-1842 : John Peter Richardson
1842-1844 : James Henry Hammond
1844-1846 : William Aiken
1846-1848 : David Johnson
1848-1850 : Whitemarsh Benjamin Seabrook
1850-1852 : John Hugh Means
1852-1854 : John Lawrence Manning
1854-1856 : James Hopkins Adams
1856-1858 : Robert Francis Withers Allston
1858-1860 : William Henry Gist
1860-1862 : Francis Wilkinson Pickens
1862-1864 : Milledge Luke Bonham
1864-1865 : Andrew Gordon Magrath
1865-1865 : Benjamin Franklin Perry
1865-1868 : James Lawrence Orr
1868-1872 : Robert Kingston Scott
1872-1874 : Franklin J. Moses Jr
1874-1877 : Daniel Henry Chamberlain
1877-1879 : Wade Hampton III
1879-1880 : William Dunlap Simpson
1880-1880 : Thomas Bothwell Jeter
1880-1882 : Johnson Hagood
1882-1886 : Hugh Smith Thompson
1886-1886 : John Calhoun Sheppard
1886-1890 : John Peter Richardson
1890-1894 : Benjamin Ryan Tillman
1894-1897 : John Gary Evans
1897-1899 : William Haselden Ellerbe
1899-1903 : Miles Benjamin McSweeney
1903-1907 : Duncan Clinch Heyward
1907-1911 : Martin F. Ansel
1911-1915 : Coleman Livingston Blease
1915-1915 : Charles Aurelius Smith
1915-1919 : Richard Irvine Manning III
1919-1922 : Robert Archer Cooper
1922-1923 : Wilson Godfrey Harvey
1923-1927 : Thomas Gordon McLeod
1927-1931 : John Gardiner Richards
1931-1935 : Ibra Charles Blackwood
1935-1939 : Olin Dewitt Talmadge Johnston
1939-1941 : Burnett Rhett Maybank
1941-1942 : Joseph Emile Harley
1942-1943 : Richard Manning Jefferies
1943-1945 : Olin Dewitt Talmadge Johnston
1945-1947 : Ransome Judson Williams
1947-1951 : Strom Thurmond
1951-1955 : James Francis Byrnes
1955-1959 : George Bell Timmerman
1959-1963 : Fritz Hollings
1963-1965 : Donald Stuart Russell
1965-1971 : Robert Evander McNair
1971-1975 : John Carl West
1975-1979 : James Burrows Edwards
1979-1987 : Richard Wilson Riley
1987-1995 : Carroll Ashmore Campbell, Jr
1995-1999 : David Muldrow Beasley
1999-2003 : James Hovis Hodges
2003- : Mark Sanford