United S
tates:
Alabama - Georgia
Hawaii-Massachusetts
Michigan-New Mexico
New York-South Carolina
South Dakota-Wyoming
ALABAMA
Occupied mostly by Alabama..................... < 1540-c. 1770
The Cherokee (north)........................... < 1540-1830
Claimed by
Spain
..................................1540-1702
To France.........................................1702-1763
To
Great Britain
..................................1763-1783
To the United States (as part of Georgia).........1783-1798
To Mississippi Territory..........................1798-1817
Alabama Territory.................................1817-1819
Governors
William Wyatt Bibb...........................1817-1820
Admitted as the 22nd State........................1819-1861
Thomas Bibb..................................1820-1821
Israel Pickens...............................1821-1825
John Murphy..................................1825-1829
Gabriel Moore................................1829-1831
Samuel B. Moore...........................Mar-Nov 1831
John Gayle...................................1831-1835
Clement Corner Clay..........................1835-1837
Hugh McVay...............................July-Nov 1837
Arthur Pendleton Bagby.......................1837-1841
Benjamin Fitzpatrick.........................1841-1845
Joshua Lanier Martin.........................1845-1847
Reuben Chapman...............................1847-1849
Henry Watkins Collier........................1849-1853
John Anthony Winston.........................1853-1857
Andrew Barry Moore...........................1857-1861
Technically independent......................Jan.-Feb. 1861
4th Confederate State of America..................1861-1865
John Gill Shorter............................1861-1863
Thomas Hill Watts............................1863-1865
To the United States..............................1865-1868
Lewis Eliphalet Parsons (Provisional), May-Dec 1865
Robert Miller Patton.........................1865-1867
Wager Swayne (military governor), 1867-1868
Readmitted to the Union...........................1868-
William Hugh Smith...........................1868-1870
Robert Burns Lindsay.........................1870-1872
David Peter Lewis............................1872-1874
George Smith Houston.........................1874-1878
Rufus Wills Cobb.............................1878-1882
Edward Asbury O'Neal.........................1882-1886
Thomas Seay..................................1886-1890
Thomas Goode Jones...........................1890-1894
William Calvin Oates.........................1894-1896
Joseph Forney Johnston.......................1896-1900
William James Samford........................1900-1901
William Dorsey Jelks.........................1901-1907
Russell McWhorter Cunningham (acting), 1904-1905
Braxton Bragg Comer..........................1907-1911
Emmett O'Neal................................1911-1915
Charles Henderson............................1915-1919
Thomas Erby Kilby............................1919-1923
William Woodward Brandon.....................1923-1927
Bibb Graves..................................1927-1931
Benjamin Meek Miller.........................1931-1935
Bibb Graves (restored).......................1935-1939
Frank Murray Dixon...........................1939-1943
George Chauncey Sparks.......................1943-1947
James Elisha Folsom..........................1947-1951
Seth Gordon Persons..........................1951-1955
James Elisha Folsom (restored)...............1955-1959
John Patterson...............................1959-1963
George Corley Wallace........................1963-1967
Lurleen Burns Wallace (
fem.
)..................1967-1968
Albert Preston Brewer........................1968-1971
George Corley Wallace (restored).............1971-1979
Forrest Hood James, Jr. .....................1979-1983
George Corley Wallace (re-restored)..........1983-1987
Harold Guy Hunt..............................1987-1993
James Elisha Folsom, Jr. ....................1993-1995
Forrest Hood James, Jr. (restored)...........1995-1999
Don Siegelman................................1999-2003
Robert Riley.................................2003-2011
Robert Bentley...............................2011-2017
Kay Ivey.....................................2017-
ALASKA
Claimed and explored by Russia....................1741-1784
To Russia.........................................1784-1867
Governors of the Russian America Company
Aleksandr Andreyevich Baranov................1799-1818
Leonty Andreyanovich Gagemeister..........Jan-Oct 1818
Semyon Ivanovich Yanovsky....................1818-1820
Matvey Ivanovich Muravyev....................1820-1825
Pyotr Igorovich Chistyakov...................1825-1830
Baron Ferdinand Petrovich Wrangel............1830-1835
Ivan Antonovich Kyprianov....................1835-1840
Adolf Karlovich Etolin.......................1840-1845
Mikhail Dmitriyevich Tebenkov................1845-1850
Nikolay Yakovlevich Rozenberg................1850-1853
Aleksandr Ilich Rudakov......................1853-1854
Stepan Vasilyevich Voyevodsky................1854-1859
Ivan Vasilyevich Furugelm....................1859-1863
Prince Dmitry Petrovich Maksutov.............1863-1867
To the United States..............................1867-1912
Commander of the Military Department of Alaska
Jefferson Columbus Davis.....................1867-1870
Commanders of the Military District of Alaska
George K. Brady..............................Sept 1870
John C. Tidball..............................1870-1871
Harvey A. Allen..............................1871-1872
Joseph Steward...............................1872-1874
George B. Rodney..........................Apr-Aug 1874
Joseph B. Campbell...........................1874-1876
John Mendenhall..............................1876-1877
Naval commanders in charge of Alaska
Lester A. Beardslee..........................1879-1881
Henry Glass.......................................1881
Frederick Pearson............................1881-1882
Edgar C. Merriman............................1882-1883
Joseph B. Coghlan............................1883-1884
Henry E. Nichols..................................1884
Governors
John Henry Kinkead...........................1884-1885
Alfred P. Swineford..........................1885-1889
Lyman Enos Knapp.............................1889-1893
James Sheakley...............................1893-1897
John Green Brady.............................1897-1906
Wilford Bacon Hoggatt........................1906-1909
Walter Eli Clark.............................1909-1913
Alaska Territory..................................1912-1959
John Franklin Alexander Strong...............1913-1918
Thomas Riggs, Jr. ...........................1918-1921
Scott Cordelle Bone..........................1921-1925
George Alexander Parks.......................1925-1933
John Weir Troy...............................1933-1939
Ernest Gruening..............................1939-1953
Benjamin Franklin Heintzleman................1953-1957
Waino E. Hendrickson (acting), 1957
Michael Anthony Stepovich....................1957-1958
Waino E. Hendrickson (restored) (acting), 1958-1959
Admitted as the 49th State........................1959-
William Allen Egan...........................1959-1966
Walter Joseph Hickel.........................1966-1969
Keith Harvey Miller..........................1969-1970
William Allen Egan (restored)................1970-1974
Jay Sterner Hammond..........................1974-1982
William Sheffield............................1982-1986
Steve Cowper.................................1986-1990
Walter Joseph Hickel (restored)..............1990-1994
Tony Knowles.................................1994-2002
Frank Murkowski..............................2002-2006
Sarah Palin (
fem.
)............................2006-2009
Sean Parnell.................................2009-2014
Bill Walker..................................2014-2018
Mike Dunleavy................................2018-
ARIZONA
Mogollon Culture in the southeast...........c. BCE 300-1300 CE with...
Hohokam Culture in the south................c. BCE 100-1500 CE and...
Anasazi Culture in the northeast............c. BCE 100-1300 CE followed by...
Hopi (
probable Anasazi descent
) in the north...c. 1300-1863 and...
Apache (N'de) in the east and southeast........ < 1400-c. 1870 and...
Navaho (Dineh) in the north.................... < 1400-1864 and...
Yavapai in the west............................ < 1400-1872
Claimed by
Spain
..................................1540-1821
Claimed by Mexico.................................1821-1848
To Utah...........................................1848-1850
To the United States (as part of New Mexico)......1850-1863
Arizona Territory.................................1863-1912
John Noble Goodwin...........................1863-1866
Richard Cunningham McCormick.................1866-1869
Anson Peacely Killen Safford.................1869-1877
John Philo Hoyt (
Idaho 1878-1880
)............1877-1878
John Charles Frémont (
California 1847
).......1878-1881
Frederick Augustus Tritle....................1881-1885
Conrad Meyer Zulick..........................1885-1889
Lewis Wolfley................................1889-1890
John Nichol Irwin............................1890-1892
Nathan Oakes Murphy..........................1892-1893
Louis Cameron Hughes.........................1893-1896
Benjamin Joseph Franklin.....................1896-1897
Myron Hawley McCord..........................1897-1898
Nathan Oakes Murphy (restored)...............1898-1902
Alexander Oswald Brodie......................1902-1905
Joseph Henry Kibbey..........................1905-1909
Richard Elihu Sloan..........................1909-1911
George Wylie Paul Hunt.......................1911-1919
Admitted as the 48th State........................1912-
Thomas Edward Campbell.......................1919-1923
George Wylie Paul Hunt (restored)............1923-1929
John C. Phillips.............................1929-1931
George Wylie Paul Hunt (re-restored).........1931-1933
Benjamin Baker Moeur.........................1933-1937
Rawghlie Clement Stanford....................1937-1939
Robert Taylor Jones..........................1939-1941
Sidney Preston Osborn........................1941-1948
Dan E. Garvey................................1948-1951
John Howard Pyle.............................1951-1955
Ernest William McFarland.....................1955-1959
Paul Fannin..................................1959-1965
Samuel Pearson Goddard, Jr. .................1965-1967
Jack Williams................................1967-1975
Raul Hector Castro...........................1975-1977
Wesley Harvey Bolin..........................1977-1978
Bruce Babbitt................................1978-1987
Evan Mecham..................................1987-1988
Rose Mofford (acting to 5 Apr 1988) (
fem.
)....1988-1991
Fife Symington III...........................1991-1997
Jane Dee Hull (
fem.
)..........................1997-2003
Janet Napolitano (
fem.
).......................2003-2009
Jan Brewer
(
fem.
).............................2009-
ARKANSAS
Poverty Point Culture..........................c. 1800-500 BCE
Hopewell Culture................................c. 200-c. 700
Mississippian Culture...........................c. 700-c. 1550
Occupied mostly by Quapaw......................c. 1550-1824
Claimed by
Spain
..................................1540-1686
To France.........................................1686-1762
To
Spain
..,.......................................1762-1800
To France.........................................1800-1803
To the United States (as part of Louisiana).......1803-1812
To the Missouri Territory.........................1812-1819
Arkansas Territory................................1819-1836
James Miller.................................1819-1825
George Izard.................................1825-1828
John Pope....................................1829-1835
William Savin Fulton.........................1835-1836
Admitted as the 25th State........................1836-1861
James Sevier Conway..........................1836-1840
Archibald Yell...............................1840-1844
Samuel Adams (acting), Apr-Nov 1844
Thomas Stevenson Drew........................1844-1849
Richard C. Byrd (acting), Jan-Apr 1849
John Selden Roane............................1849-1852
Elias Nelson Conway..........................1852-1860
Henry Massey Rector..........................1860-1862
9th Confederate State of America..................1861-1863
Harris Flanagin..............................1862-1864
To the United States..............................1863-1868
Isaac Murphy.................................1864-1868
Readmitted to the Union...........................1868-
Powell Clayton...............................1868-1871
Ozra A. Hadley (acting), 1871-1873
Elisha Baxter................................1873-1874
Augustus Hill Garland........................1874-1877
William Read Miller..........................1877-1881
Thomas James Churchill.......................1881-1883
James Henderson Berry........................1883-1885
Simon P. Hughes..............................1885-1889
James Philip Eagle...........................1889-1893
William Meade Fishback.......................1893-1895
James Paul Clarke............................1895-1897
Daniel Webster Jones.........................1897-1901
Jeff Davis...................................1901-1907
John Sebastian Little.........................Feb 1907
John I. Moore (acting), Feb-May 1907
Xenophon Overton Pindall (acting), 1907-1909
George W. Donaghey...........................1909-1913
Joseph Taylor Robinson....................Jan-Mar 1913
William Kavanaugh Oldham (acting), 10-13 Mar 1913
Junius Marion Futrell (acting), Mar-July 1913
George Washington Hays.......................1913-1917
Charles Hillman Brough.......................1917-1921
Thomas Chipman McRae.........................1921-1925
Thomas Jefferson Terral......................1925-1927
John Ellis Martineau.........................1927-1928
Harvey Parnell...............................1928-1933
Junius Marion Futrell (restored).............1933-1937
Carl Edward Bailey...........................1937-1941
Homer Martin Adkins..........................1941-1945
Benjamin Travis Laney........................1945-1949
Sidney Sanders McMath........................1949-1953
Francis Adams Cherry.........................1953-1955
Orval Eugene Faubus..........................1955-1967
Winthrop Rockefeller.........................1967-1971
Dale Bumpers.................................1971-1975
Bob Cowley Riley..................................1975
David Hampton Pryor..........................1975-1979
Joe Edward Purcell................................1979
William Jefferson Clinton (
Pres. 1993-2001
)..1979-1981
Frank Durward White..........................1981-1983
William Jefferson Clinton (
Pr. 93-01
) (rst.).1983-1992
Jim Guy Tucker Jr. ..........................1992-1996
Mike Huckabee................................1996-2007
Mike Beebe...................................2007-
CALIFORNIA
To
Spain
..........................................1768-1821
Gaspar de Portolá............................1768-1769
Matías de Armona (acting), 1769-1770
Felipe de Barri..............................1770-1774
Fernando Rivera y Moncada....................1774-1777
Felipe de Neve...............................1777-1782
Pedro Fages..................................1782-1791
José Antonio de Roméu........................1791-1792
José Joaquín de Arillaga (acting), 1792-1794
Diego de Borica..............................1794-1800
Pedro de Alberni (acting), 1800
José Joaquín de Arillaga (act. to 1804) (r.).1800-1814
José Darío Argüello..........................1814-1815
Pablo Vicente Sola...........................1815-1822
To Mexico.........................................1821-1847 opposed by the...
Luis Antonio Argüello........................1822-1825
José María de Echeandía.....................1825-1831
Manuel Victoria..............................1831-1832
Pío Pico..........................................1832
Agustín V. Zamorano (in the north)...........1832-1833 and...
José María de Echeandía (rest.) (in south)..1832-1833
José Figueroa................................1833-1835
José Castro (acting), 1835-1836
Nicolás Gutiérrez (acting), 1836
Mariano Chico.....................................1836
Nicolás Gutiérrez (acting) (restored), 1836
Juan Bautista Alvarado.......................1836-1842
José Manuel Micheltorena.....................1842-1845
Pío Pico (restored)..........................1845-1846
José María Flores............................1846-1847
Andrés Pico.......................................1847
Republic of Sonoma................................1846-1847
President
William B. Ide....................................1846
To the United States..............................1847-1850
Military governors
John D. Sloat.....................................1846
Robert F. Stockton...........................1846-1847
John Charles Frémont (
Ariz. 1878-81
)......Jan-Mar 1847
Stephen W. Kearny.........................Mar-May 1847
Richard B. Mason (acting), 1847-1849
Persifor F. Smith.........................Feb-Apr 1849
Bennett Riley.....................................1849
Civilian Governors
Peter Hardeman Burnett.......................1849-1851
Admitted as the 31st State........................1850-
John McDougal (acting), 1851-1852
John Bigler..................................1852-1856
John Neely Johnson...........................1856-1858
John B. Weller...............................1858-1860
Milton Slocum Latham..............................1860
John G. Downey (acting), 1860-1862
Leland Stanford..............................1862-1863
Frederick Ferdinand Low......................1863-1867
Henry Huntly Haight..........................1867-1871
Newton Booth.................................1871-1875
Romualdo Pacheco (acting), Feb-Dec 1875
William Irwin................................1875-1880
George C. Perkins............................1880-1883
George Stoneman..............................1883-1887
Washington Bartlett......................Jan-Sept 1887
Robert W. Waterman (acting), 1887-1891
Henry Harrison Markham.......................1891-1895
James Herbert Budd...........................1895-1899
Henry Tifft Gage.............................1899-1903
George Cooper Pardee.........................1903-1907
James Norris Gillett.........................1907-1911
Hiram Warren Johnson.........................1911-1917
William Dennison Stephens....................1917-1923
Friend William Richardson....................1923-1927
Clement Calhoun Young........................1927-1931
James Rolph, Jr. ............................1931-1934
Frank Finley Merriam.........................1934-1939
Culbert Levy Olson...........................1939-1943
Earl Warren (Ch. Jst. Supreme Crt. 1953-69)..1943-1953
Goodwin Jess Knight..........................1953-1959
Edmund Gerald Brown, Sr. ....................1959-1967
Ronald Wilson Reagan (President 1981-1989)...1967-1975
Edmund Gerald Brown, Jr. ....................1975-1983
Courken George Deukmejian....................1983-1991
Peter Barton Wilson..........................1991-1999
Joseph Graham Davis..........................1999-2003
Arnold Schwarzenegger........................2003-2011
Edmund Gerald Brown, Jr. (restored)..........2011-
COLORADO
Occupied by Ute (west) & Arapahoe (east)....... < 1540-1859/69
Claimed by
Spain
and France.......................1540-1803
Claimed by the United States......................1803-1861
Jefferson Territory...............................1859-1861
Robert W. Steele (provisional)...............1859-1861
Colorado Territory................................1861-1876
William Gilpin...............................1861-1862
John Evans...................................1862-1865
Alexander Cummings...........................1865-1867
Alexander Cameron Hunt.......................1867-1869
Edward Moody McCook..........................1869-1873
Samuel Hitt Elbert...........................1873-1874
Edward Moody McCook (restored)...............1874-1875
John Long Routt..............................1875-1879
Admitted as the 38th State........................1876-
Frederick Walker Pitkin......................1879-1883
James Benton Grant...........................1883-1885
Benjamin Harrison Eaton......................1885-1887
Alva Adams...................................1887-1889
Job Adams Cooper.............................1889-1891
John Long Routt (restored)...................1891-1893
Davis Hanson Waite...........................1893-1895
Albert Wills McIntire........................1895-1897
Alva Adams (restored)........................1897-1899
Charles Spalding Thomas......................1899-1901
James Bradley Orman..........................1901-1903
James Hamilton Peabody.......................1903-1905
Alva Adams (re-restored)..........................1905
James Hamilton Peabody (restored).................1905
Jesse Fuller McDonald........................1905-1907
Henry Augustus Buchtel.......................1907-1909
John Franklin Shafroth.......................1909-1913
Elias Milton Ammons..........................1913-1915
George Alfred Carlson........................1915-1917
Julius Caldeen Gunter........................1917-1919
Oliver Henry Nelson Shoup....................1919-1923
William Ellery Sweet.........................1923-1925
Clarence J. Morley...........................1925-1927
William Herbert Adams........................1927-1933
Edwin Carl Johnson...........................1933-1937
Ray Herbert Talbot................................1937
Teller Ammons................................1937-1939
Ralph L. Carr................................1939-1943
John Charles Vivian..........................1943-1947
William Lee Knous............................1947-1950
Walter Walfred Johnson.......................1950-1951
Daniel Isaac J. Thornton.....................1951-1955
Edwin Carl Johnson (restored)................1955-1957
Stephen L. R. McNichols......................1957-1963
John A. Love.................................1963-1973
John David Vanderhoof........................1973-1975
Richard David Lamm...........................1975-1987
Roy Romer....................................1987-1999
Bill Owens...................................1999-2007
Bill Ritter..................................2007-2011
John Hickenlooper............................2011-
CONNECTICUT
Most to Massachusetts Colony......................1633-1662 but...
New Haven Colony
Colony of
Great Britain
...........................1639-1664
Theophilus Eaton.............................1639-1658
Francis Newman...............................1658-1660
William Leete (
Gov. Connecticut 1676-83
).....1661-1664
Absorbed by Connecticut...
Connecticut Colony
Crown Colony of
Great Britain
.....................1662-1687
John Haynes..................................1639-1640
Edward Hopkins...............................1640-1641
John Haynes (restored).......................1641-1642
George Wyllys................................1642-1643
John Haynes (re-restored)....................1643-1644
Edward Hopkins (restored)....................1644-1645
John Haynes (re-re-restored).................1645-1646
Edward Hopkins (re-restored).................1646-1647
John Haynes (re-re-re-restored)..............1647-1648
Edward Hopkins (re-re-restored)..............1648-1649
John Haynes (re-re-re-re-restored)...........1649-1650
Edward Hopkins (re-re-re-restored)...........1650-1651
John Haynes (re-re-re-re-re-restored)........1651-1652
Edward Hopkins (re-re-re-re-restored)........1652-1653
John Haynes (re-re-re-re-re-re-restored).....1653-1654
Edward Hopkins (re-re-re-re-re-restored).....1654-1655
Thomas Welles................................1655-1656
John Webster.................................1656-1657
John Winthrop, Jr. ..........................1657-1658
Thomas Welles (restored).....................1658-1659
John Winthrop, Jr. (restored)................1659-1676
William Leete................................1676-1683
Robert Treat.................................1683-1687
To Dominion of New England........................1687-1689
Crown Colony of
Great Britain
once again..........1689-1782
Robert Treat (restored)......................1689-1698
Fitz-John Winthrop...........................1698-1707
Gurdon Saltonstall...........................1707-1724
Joseph Talcott...............................1724-1741
Jonathan Law.................................1741-1750
Roger Wolcott................................1750-1754
Thomas Fitch.................................1754-1766
William Pitkin...............................1766-1769
Jonathan Trumbull............................1769-1784
Autonomous within the Articles of Confederation...1782-1788
Matthew Griswold.............................1784-1786
Samuel Huntington............................1786-1796
Admitted as the 5th State.........................1788-
Oliver Wolcott...............................1796-1797
Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. ......................1797-1809
John Treadwell...............................1809-1811
Roger Griswold...............................1811-1812
John Cotton Smith............................1812-1817
Oliver Wolcott (restored)....................1817-1827
Gideon Tomlinson.............................1827-1831
John Samuel Peters...........................1831-1833
Henry Waggaman Edwards.......................1833-1834
Samuel Augustus Foot.........................1834-1835
Henry Waggaman Edwards (restored)............1835-1838
William Wolcott Ellsworth....................1838-1842
Chauncey Fitch Cleveland.....................1842-1844
Roger Sherman Baldwin........................1844-1846
Isaac Toucey.................................1846-1847
Clark Bissell................................1847-1849
Joseph Trumbull..............................1849-1850
Thomas Henry Seymour.........................1850-1853
Charles Hobby Pond...........................1853-1854
Henry Dutton.................................1854-1855
William Thomas Minor.........................1855-1857
Alexander Hamilton Holley....................1857-1858
William Alfred Buckingham....................1858-1866
Joseph Roswell Hawley........................1866-1867
James Edward English.........................1867-1869
Marshall Jewell..............................1869-1870
James Edward English (restored)..............1870-1871
Marshall Jewell (restored)...................1871-1873
Charles Roberts Ingersoll....................1873-1877
Richard Dudley Hubbard.......................1877-1879
Charles Bartlett Andrews.....................1879-1881
Hobart B. Bigelow............................1881-1883
Thomas McDonald Waller.......................1883-1885
Henry Baldwin Harrison.......................1885-1887
Phineas Chapman Lounsbury....................1887-1889
Morgan Gardner Bulkeley......................1889-1893
Luzon Burritt Morris.........................1893-1895
Owen Vincent Coffin..........................1895-1897
Lorrin Alamson Cooke.........................1897-1899
George Edward Lounsbury......................1899-1901
George Payne McLean..........................1901-1903
Abiram Chamberlain...........................1903-1905
Henry Roberts................................1905-1907
Rollin Simmons Woodruff......................1907-1909
George Leavens Lilley.............................1909
Frank Bentley Weeks..........................1909-1911
Simeon Eben Baldwin..........................1911-1915
Marcus Hensey Holcomb........................1915-1921
Everett John Lake............................1921-1923
Charles Augustus Templeton...................1923-1925
Hiram Bingham.....................................1925
John Harper Trumbull.........................1925-1931
Wilbur Lucius Cross..........................1931-1939
Raymond Earl Baldwin.........................1939-1941
Robert Augustine Hurley......................1941-1943
Raymond Earl Baldwin (restored)..............1943-1946
Charles Wilbert Snow.........................1946-1947
James Lukens McConaughy......................1947-1948
James Coughlin Shannon.......................1948-1949
Chester Bowles...............................1949-1951
John Davis Lodge.............................1951-1955
Abraham Alexander Ribicoff...................1955-1961
John Noel Dempsey............................1961-1971
Thomas Joseph Meskill........................1971-1975
Ella Rose Tambussi Grasso (
fem.
)..............1975-1980
William Atchibson O'Neill....................1980-1991
Lowell Palmer Weicker, Jr. ..................1991-1995
John G. Rowland..............................1995-2004
M. Jodi Rell (
fem.
)...........................2004-2011
Dan Malloy...................................2011-
DELAWARE
Claimed by Virginia Colony........................1609-1631
Claimed by The Netherlands........................1631-1638
Peter Minuit (
in N. Amsterdam [N. York] 1626-32
)..1638
To Sweden.........................................1638-1655
Colony of Neu Sverige
Jost van Bogardt (acting), 1640
Peter Hollandaer Ridder......................1640-1643
Johan Björnsson Printz.......................1643-1653
Johan Papegoga...............................1653-1654
Johan Classon Rising.........................1654-1655
To The Netherlands................................1655-1664
To the Duke of York...............................1664-1673
To The Netherlands................................1673-1674
To the Duke of York...............................1674-1682
To Pennsylvania Colony............................1682-1704
Crown Colony of
Great Britain
.....................1704-1782
Autonomous within the Articles of Confederation...1782-1787
Presidents
John McKinly (British prisoner from 3 Sep 1777)...1776-1778 with...
George Read.......................................1776-21 Feb 1777
Thomas McKean (acting for McKinly), Sept-Oct 1777
George Read (restored, acting for McKinly), 1777-1778
Caesar Rodney.....................................1778-1781
John Dickinson....................................1781-1783
John Cook (acting), 1783
Nicholas Van Dyke.................................1783-1786
Thomas Collins....................................1786-1789
Admitted as the 1st State.........................1787-
Jehu Davis (acting), Mar-Jun 1789
Joshua Clayton....................................1789-1796
Governors (from 1793)
Gunning Bedford..............................1796-1797
Daniel Rogers (acting), 1797-1799
Richard Bassett..............................1799-1801
James Sykes (acting), 1801-1802
David Hall...................................1802-1805
Nathaniel Mitchell...........................1805-1808
George Truitt................................1808-1811
Joseph Haslet................................1811-1814
Daniel Rodney................................1814-1817
John Clark...................................1817-1820
Jacob Stout (acting), 1820-1821
John Collins.................................1821-1822
Caleb Rodney (acting), 1822-1823
Joseph Haslet (restored)..................Jan-Jun 1823
Charles Thomas (acting), 1823-1824
Samuel Paynter...............................1824-1827
Charles Polk.................................1827-1830
David Hazzard................................1830-1833
Caleb Prew Bennett...........................1833-1836
Charles Polk (restored)......................1836-1837
Cornelius Parsons Comegys....................1837-1841
William B. Cooper............................1841-1845
Thomas Stockton..............................1845-1846
Joseph Maull (acting), Mar-May 1846
William Temple (acting), 1846-1847
William Tharp................................1847-1851
William Henry Harrison Ross..................1851-1855
Peter Causey.................................1855-1859
William Burton...............................1859-1863
William Cannon...............................1863-1865
Gove Saulsbury (acting to Jan 1867)..........1865-1871
James Ponder.................................1871-1875
John Polk Cochran............................1875-1879
John Wood Hall...............................1879-1883
Charles Clark Stockley.......................1883-1887
Benjamin Thomas Biggs........................1887-1891
Robert John Reynolds.........................1891-1895
Joshua Hopkins Marvil.............................1895
William Tharp Watson (acting), 1895-1897
Ebe Walter Tunnell...........................1897-1901
John Hunn....................................1901-1905
Preston Lea..................................1905-1909
Simeon Selby Pennewill.......................1909-1913
Charles Robert Miller........................1913-1917
John Gillis Townsend, Jr. ...................1917-1921
William Du Hamel Denney......................1921-1925
Robert Pyle Robinson.........................1925-1929
Clayton Douglass Buck........................1929-1937
Richard Cann McMullen........................1937-1941
Walter Wolfkiel Bacon........................1941-1949
Elbert Nostrand Carvel.......................1949-1953
James Caleb Boggs............................1953-1960
David Penrose Buckson (acting), 1960-1961
Elbert Nostrand Carvel (restored)............1961-1965
Charles Laymen Terry, Jr. ...................1965-1969
Russell Wilbur Peterson......................1969-1973
Sherman Willard Tribbitt.....................1973-1977
Pierre Samuel du Pont IV.....................1977-1985
Michael Newbold Castle.......................1985-1992
Dale Edward Wolf.............................1992-1993
Thomas Richard Carper........................1993-2001
Ruth Ann Minner (
fem.
)........................2001-2009
Jack Markell.................................2009-
FLORIDA
To
Spain
..........................................1565-1763
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés.....................1565-1574
Hernando de Miranda..........................1575-1577
Pedro Menéndez de Márquez (acting to 1578)...1577-1589
Gutierre de Miranda..........................1589-1592
Rodrigo de Junco..................................1592
Domingo Martínez de Avendaño.................1594-1596
Gonzalo Méndez de Canço......................1596-1603
Pedro de Ibarra..............................1603-1609
Juan Fernández de Olivera....................1609-1613
Juan Treviño de Guillamas....................1613-1618
Juan de Salinas..............................1618-1624
Luis de Rojas y Borja........................1624-1630
Andrés Rodríguez de Villegas.................1630-1633
Luis Horruytiner.............................1633-1639
Damián de Vega Castro y Pardo................1639-1645
Benito Ruíz de Salazar Ballecilla............1645-1646
Pedro Horruytiner Benedit (acting), 1646-1647
Benito Ruíz de Salazar Ballecilla (rest.)....1647-1650
Nicolás Ponce de León........................1650-1654
Pedro Horruytiner Benedit (restored).........1654-1655
Diego de Rebolledo...........................1655-1659
Alonso de Aranguiz y Cortés..................1659-1664
Francisco de la Guerra y de la Vega..........1664-1670
Manuel de Çendoya............................1670-1675
Pablo de Hita y Salazar......................1675-1680
Juan Márquez Cabrera.........................1680-1687
Diego de Quiroga y Lozada....................1687-1693
Laureano José de Torres Ayala a Duadros Castellanos...1693-1699
José de Zúñiga y la Cerda....................1699-1706
Francisco de Córcoles y Martínez.............1706-1717
Juan de Ayala Escobar (acting), 1717-1718
Antonio de Benavides.........................1718-1734
Francisco del Moral y Sánchez................1734-1737
Manuel de Montiano...........................1737-1749
Melchor de Navarrete.........................1749-1752
Fulgencio García de Solís (acting), 1752-1755
Alonso Fernández de Heredia..................1755-1758
Lucas Fernando de Palacio y Valenzuela.......1758-1762
Melchor Feliú................................1762-1763
Colony of East Florida
To
Great Britain
..................................1763-1783
James Grant..................................1763-1770
John Moultrie................................1771-1774
Patrick Tonyn................................1774-1783
To
Spain
..........................................1783-1821
Vicente Manuel de Céspedes y Velasco.........1783-1790
Juan Nepomuceno de Quesada y Barnuevo........1790-1795
Bartolomé Morales.................................1795
Enrique White (
Gov. W. Florida 1783-96
)......1796-1811
Juan José de Estrada.........................1811-1812
Sebastián Kindelán y Oregón..................1812-1815
Juan José de Estrada (restored)..............1815-1816
José Coppinger...............................1816-1821
Colony of West Florida
To
Great Britain
..................................1763-1783
George Johnstone.............................1763-1767
Montfort Brown...............................1767-1769
John Eliot........................................1769
Elias Durnford...............................1769-1770
Peter Chester................................1770-1781
Arturo O'Neill y O'Kelly.....................1781-1783
To
Spain
..........................................1783-1821
Enrique White (
Gov. E. Florida 1796-1811
)....1783-1796
Francisco de Paula Celabert.......................1796
Vicente Folch y Juan.........................1796-1811 opposed by...
Republic of West Florida.....................Oct.-Dec. 1810 To Louisiana (Dec. 1810)
Francisco San Maxent.........................1811-1812
Mauricio de Zúñiga...........................1812-1813
Mateo González Manrique......................1813-1815
José de Soto.................................1815-1816
Mauricio de Zúñiga (restored).....................1816
Francisco Maximiliano de San Maxent...............1816
José Fascot..................................1816-1819
José María Callava...........................1819-1821
All of Florida once more...
To The United States..............................1821-1845
Commissioner
Andrew Jackson (
Pres. 1829-1837
)...........10 Mar-13 Nov 1821
Governor
William Pope Duval...........................1822-1834
John Henry Eaton.............................1834-1836
Richard Keith Call...........................1836-1839
Robert Raymond Reid..........................1839-1841
Richard Keith Call (restored)................1841-1844
John Branch..................................1844-1845
Admitted as the 27th State........................1845-1861
William Dunn Moseley.........................1845-1849
Thomas Brown.................................1849-1853
James E. Broome..............................1853-1857
Madison Stark Perry..........................1857-1861
Technically independent......................Jan.-Feb. 1861
3rd Confederate State of America..................1861-1865
John Milton..................................1861-1865
To the United States..............................1865-1868
Abraham K. Allison (acting), Apr-May 1865
William Marvin (provisional), 1865
David Shelby Walker..........................1865-1868
Readmitted to the Union...........................1868-
Harrison Reed................................1868-1873
Ossian Bingley Hart..........................1873-1874
Marcellus Lovejoy Stearns (acting), 1874-1877
George Franklin Drew.........................1877-1881
William Dunnington Bloxham...................1881-1885
Edward Alysworth Perry.......................1885-1889
Francis Philip Fleming.......................1889-1893
Henry Laurens Mitchell.......................1893-1897
William Dunnington Bloxham (restored)........1897-1901
William Sherman Jennings.....................1901-1905
Napoleon Bonaparte Broward...................1905-1909
Albert Waller Gilchrist......................1909-1913
Park Trammell................................1913-1917
Sidney Johnston Catts........................1917-1921
Cary Augustus Hardee.........................1921-1925
John Wellborn Martin.........................1925-1929
Doyle Elam Carlton...........................1929-1933
David Sholtz.................................1933-1937
Frederick Preston Cone.......................1937-1941
Spessard Lindsey Holland.....................1941-1945
Millard Fillmore Caldwell, Jr. ..............1945-1949
Fuller Warren................................1949-1953
Daniel Thomas McCarthy............................1953
Charley Eugene Johns (acting), 1953-1955
Thomas LeRoy Collins.........................1955-1961
Cecil Farris Bryant..........................1961-1965
William Haydon Burns.........................1965-1967
Claude Roy Kirk, Jr. ........................1967-1971
Reubin O'Donovan Askew.......................1971-1979
Robert Graham................................1979-1987
J. Wayne Mixson...................................1987
Robert Martinez..............................1987-1991
Lawton Mainor Chiles, Jr. ...................1991-1998
Kenneth Hood MacKay, Jr. ....................1998-1999
John Ellis Bush..............................1999-2007
Charlie Crist................................2007-2011
Rick Scott...................................2011-
GEORGIA
The Cherokee (north)........................... < 1540-1830
Crown Colony of
Great Britain
.....................1732-1783
Resident Trustee
James Oglethorpe.............................1733-1743
Presidents
William Stephens.............................1743-1751
Henry Parker.................................1751-1752
Patrick Graham...............................1752-1754
Governors
John Reynolds................................1754-1757
Henry Ellis..................................1757-1760
James Wright.................................1760-1782
Autonomous within the Articles of Confederation...1776-1788
Presidents
Archibald Bulloch............................1776-1777
Button Gwinnett (acting), Mar-May 1777
Governors
John Adam Treutlen...........................1777-1778
John Houstoun................................1778-1779
William Glascock (acting), Jan-Jul 1779
Seth John Cuthbert (acting), Jul-Aug 1779
John Wereat (acting), Aug-Nov 1779
George Walton.............................Nov-Dec 1779
Richard Howley (acting to 4 Jan 1780)........1779-1780
Stephen Heard................................1780-1781
Nathan Brownson..............................1781-1782
John Martin..................................1782-1783
Lyman Hall...................................1783-1784
John Houstoun (restored).....................1784-1785
Samuel Elbert................................1785-1786
Edward Telfair...............................1786-1787
George Mathews...............................1787-1788
Admitted as the 4th State.........................1788-1861
George Handley (acting to 26 Jan 1788).......1788-1789
George Walton (restored)..................Jan-Nov 1789
Edward Telfair (restored)....................1789-1793
George Mathews (restored)....................1793-1796
Jared Irwin..................................1796-1798
James Jackson................................1798-1801
David Emanuel (acting), Mar-Nov 1801
Josiah Tattnall, Jr. ........................1801-1802
John Milledge................................1802-1806
Jared Irwin (restored) (acting), 1806-1809
David Brydie Mitchell........................1809-1813
Peter Early..................................1813-1815
David Brydie Mitchell (restored).............1815-1817
William Rabun................................1817-1819
Matthew Talbot (acting), Oct-Nov 1819
John Clark...................................1819-1823
George Michael Troup.........................1823-1827
John Forsyth.................................1827-1829
George Rockingham Gilmer.....................1829-1831
Wilson Lumpkin...............................1831-1835
William Schley...............................1835-1837
George Rockingham Gilmer (restored)..........1837-1839
Charles James McDonald.......................1839-1843
George Walker Crawford.......................1843-1847
George Washingtom Nonaparte Towns............1847-1851
Howell Cobb..................................1851-1853
Herschel Vespasian Johnson...................1853-1857
Joseph Emerson Brown.........................1857-1865
Technically independent......................Jan.-Feb. 1861
5th Confederate State of America..................1861-1865
James Johnson.....................................1865
Charles Jones Jenkins.............................1865
To the United States..............................1865-1868
Thomas Howard Ruger (military governor), Jan-Jul 1868
Readmitted to the Union...........................1868-
Rufus Brown Bullock..........................1868-1871
Benjamin Conley (acting), 1871-1872
James Milton Smith...........................1872-1877
Alfred Holt Colquitt.........................1877-1882
Alexander Hamilton Stephens..................1882-1883
James Syoddard Boynton (acting), 4-10 May 1883
Henry Dickerson McDaniel.....................1883-1886
John Brown Gordon............................1886-1890
William Jonathan Northen.....................1890-1894
William Yates Atkinson.......................1894-1898
Allen Daniel Candler.........................1898-1902
Joseph Meriwether Terrell....................1902-1907
Hoke Smith...................................1907-1909
Joseph Mackey Brown..........................1909-1911
Hoke Smith (restored)....................July-Nov 1911
John Marshal Slaton..........................1911-1912
Joseph Mackey Brown (restored)...............1912-1913
John Marshal Slaton (restored)...............1913-1915
Nathaniel Edwin Harris.......................1915-1917
Hugh Manson Dorsey...........................1917-1921
Thomas William Hardwick......................1921-1923
Clifford Mitchell Walker.....................1923-1927
Lamartine Griffin Hardman....................1927-1931
Richard Brevard Russell, Jr. ................1931-1933
Eugene Talmadge..............................1933-1937
Eurith Dickinson Rivers......................1937-1941
Eugene Talmadge (restored)...................1941-1943
Ellis Gibbs Arnall...........................1943-1947
Herman Eugene Talmadge (
son of Eugene Tal.
).......1947
Melvin Ernest Thompson (acting), 1947-1948
Herman Eugene Talmadge (restored)............1948-1955
Marvin Griffin...............................1955-1959
Samuel Ernest Vandiver, Jr. .................1959-1963
Carl Edward Sanders..........................1963-1967
Lester Garfield Maddox.......................1967-1971
James Earl Carter (
President 1977-1981
)......1971-1975
George Dekle Busbee..........................1975-1983
Joe Frank Harris.............................1983-1991
Zell Bryan Miller............................1991-1999
Roy E. Barnes................................1999-2003
Sonny Perdue.................................2003-2011
Nathan Deal..................................2011-
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