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Fragmented into numerous local States. The island of Hawaii unified by 1791. All the islands unified by 1810.
HAWAII
Kamehameha I...............................(1782-)1810-1819
Kamehameha II.....................................1819-1825
Kamehameha III....................................1825-1854
Kamehameha IV.....................................1854-1863
Kamehameha V......................................1863-1873
Lunalilo..........................................1873-1874
Kalakaua..........................................1874-1891
Liliuokalani (
fem.
)................................1891-1893
Provisional Government............................1893-1894
Republic..........................................1894-1900
Sanford Ballard Dole.........................1893-1900 (-1903)
To the United States..............................1900-1959
Governors
Sanford Ballard Dole..................(1893-)1900-1903
George Robert Carter.........................1903-1907
Walter Francis Frear.........................1907-1913
Lucius Eugene Pinkham........................1913-1918
Charles James McCarthy.......................1918-1921
Wallace Rider Farrington.....................1921-1929
Lawrence McCully Judd........................1929-1934
Joseph Boyd Poindexter.......................1934-1942 with...
Walter C. Short (military governor), 1941 and then...
Delos C. Emmons (military governor), 1941-1943 with,,,
Ingram Macklin Stainback.....................1942-1951 with...
Robert C. Richardson, Jr. (military governor), 1943-1944
Oren Ethelbirt Long..........................1951-1953
Samuel Wilder King...........................1953-1957
William Francis Quinn........................1957-1962
Admitted as the 50th State........................1959-
John Anthony Burns...........................1962-1974
George Ryoichi Ariyoshi......................1974-1986
John David Waihee III........................1986-1994
Benjamin J. Cayetano.........................1994-2002
Linda Lingle (
fem.
)...........................2002-2010
Neil Abercrombie.............................2010-
IDAHO
Claimed by
Spain
..................................1762-1800
Claimed by France.................................1800-1803
Unorganized territory of the United States........1803-1848
To Oregon.........................................1848-1859 with...
Portions to Washington............................1853-1863
Idaho Territory...................................1863-1890
William Henson Wallace.......................1863-1864
Caleb Lyon...................................1864-1866
David W. Ballard.............................1866-1870
Samuel Bard.......................................1870
Gilman Marston....................................1870
Edward J. Curtis (acting), 1870-1871
Alexander H. Conner...............................1871
Thomas Meade Bowen................................1871
Thomas Warren Bennett........................1871-1875
David P. Thompson............................1875-1876
Mason Brayman................................1876-1878
John Philo Hoyt (
Arizona 1877-1878
)..........1878-1880
John B. Neil.................................1880-1883
John Nichol Irwin............................1883-1884
William M. Bunn..............................1884-1885
Edward Augustus Stevenson....................1885-1889
George Laird Shoup...........................1889-1890
Admitted as the 43rd State........................1890-
Norman Bushnell Willey.......................1890-1893
William John McConnell.......................1893-1897
Frank Steunenberg............................1897-1901
Frank Williams Hunt..........................1901-1903
John Tracy Morrison..........................1903-1905
Frank Robert Gooding.........................1905-1909
James Henry Brady............................1909-1911
James Henry Hawley...........................1911-1913
John Michiner Haines.........................1913-1915
Moses Alexander..............................1915-1919
David William Davis..........................1919-1923
Charles Calvin Moore.........................1923-1927
H. Clarence Baldridge........................1927-1931
C. Ben Ross..................................1931-1937
Barzilla Worth Clark.........................1937-1939
Clarence Alfred Bottolfsen...................1939-1941
Chase Addison Clark..........................1941-1943
Clarence Alfred Bottolfsen (restored)........1943-1945
Charles Clinton Gossett...................Jan-Nov 1945
Arnold Williams..............................1945-1947
Charles Armington Robins.....................1947-1951
Leonard Beck Jordan..........................1951-1955
Robert Eben Smylie...........................1955-1967
Don William Samuelson........................1967-1971
Cecil Dale Andrus............................1971-1977
John Victor Evans............................1977-1987
Cecil Dale Andrus (restored).................1987-1995
Philip E. Batt...............................1995-1999
Dirk Kempthorne..............................1999-2007
Butch Otter..................................2007-
ILLINOIS
Adena Culture..............................c. BCE 1000-c. CE 200
Hopewell Culture................................c. 200-c. 700
Mississippian Culture...........................c. 700-c. 1550
Occupied mostly by Illinois....................c. 1600-c. 1770
Claimed by France.................................1673-1763
To
Great Britain
..................................1763-1778
To Virginia.......................................1778-1787
To the Northwest Territory........................1787-1800
To Indiana Territory..............................1800-1809
Illinois Territory................................1809-1818
Ninian Edwards...............................1809-1818
Admitted as the 21st State........................1818-
Shadrach Bond................................1818-1822
Edward Coles.................................1822-1826
Ninian Edwards (restored)....................1826-1830
John Reynolds................................1830-1834
William Lee Davidson Ewing...................1834-1834
Joseph Duncan................................1834-1838
Thomas Carlin................................1838-1842
Thomas Ford..................................1842-1846
Augustus C. French...........................1846-1853
Joel Aldrich Matteson........................1853-1857
William Henry Bissell........................1857-1860
John Wood....................................1860-1861
Richard Yates................................1861-1865
Richard James Oglesby........................1865-1869
John McAuley Palmer..........................1869-1873
Richard James Oglesby (restored)........13-23 Jan 1873
John Lourie Beveridge........................1873-1877
Shelby Moore Cullom..........................1877-1883
John Marshal Hamilton........................1883-1885
Richard James Oglesby (re-restored)..........1885-1889
Joseph Wilson Fifer..........................1889-1893
John Peter Altgeld...........................1893-1897
John Riley Tanner............................1897-1901
Richard Yates................................1901-1905
Charles Samuel Deneen........................1905-1913
Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne.....................1913-1917
Frank Orren Lowden...........................1917-1921
Lennington Small.............................1921-1929
Louis Lincoln Emmerson.......................1929-1933
Henry Horner.................................1933-1940
John Stelle..................................1940-1941
Dwight Herbert Green.........................1941-1949
Adlai Ewing Stevenson II.....................1949-1953
William Grant Stratton.......................1953-1961
Otto Kerner, Jr. ............................1961-1968
Samuel Harvey Shapiro........................1968-1969
Richard Buell Ogilvie........................1969-1973
Daniel Walker................................1973-1977
James Robert Thompson........................1977-1991
James Edgar..................................1991-1999
George H. Ryan...............................1999-2003
Rod R. Blagojevich...........................2003-2009
Patrick Quinn................................2009-
INDIANA
Adena Culture..............................c. BCE 1000-c. CE 200
Hopewell Culture................................c. 200-c. 700
Mississippian Culture...........................c. 700-c. 1550
Claimed by France.................................1673-1763
Occupied by Shawnee (central) & Miami (north)..c. 1755-c. 1815
To
Great Britain
..................................1763-1779
To Virginia.......................................1779-1787
To the Northwest Territory........................1787-1800
Indiana Territory.................................1800-1816
William Henry Harrison (
President, 1841
).....1800-1812
John Gibson (acting), 1812-1813
Thomas Posey.................................1813-1816
Admitted as the 19th State........................1816-
Jonathan Jennings............................1816-1822
Ratliff Boon..............................Sep-Dec 1822
William Hendricks............................1822-1825
James Brown Ray..............................1825-1831
Noah Noble...................................1831-1837
David Wallace................................1837-1840
Samuel Bigger................................1840-1843
James Whitcomb...............................1843-1848
Paris Chipman Dunning........................1848-1849
Joseph Albert Wright.........................1849-1857
Ashbel Parsons Willard.......................1857-1860
Abram Adams Hammond..........................1860-1861
Henry Smith Lane........................14-16 Jan 1861
Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton............1861-1867
Conrad Baker.................................1867-1873
Thomas Aandrews Hendricks....................1873-1877
James Douglas Williams.......................1877-1880
Isaac Pusey Gray.............................1880-1881
Albert Gallatin Porter.......................1881-1885
Isaac Pusey Gray (restored)..................1885-1889
Alvin Peterson Hovey.........................1889-1891
Ira Joy Chase................................1891-1893
Claude Matthews..............................1893-1897
James Atwell Mount...........................1897-1901
Winfield Taylor Durbin.......................1901-1905
James Franklin Hanly.........................1905-1909
Thomas Riley Marshall........................1909-1913
Samuel Moffett Ralston.......................1913-1917
James Putnam Goodrich........................1917-1921
Warren Terry McCray..........................1921-1924
Emmett Forest Branch.........................1924-1925
Edward L. Jackson............................1925-1929
Harry Guyer Leslie...........................1929-1933
Paul Vories McNutt...........................1933-1937
Maurice Clifford Townsend....................1937-1941
Henry Frederick Schricker....................1941-1945
Ralph Fesler Gates...........................1945-1949
Henry Frederick Schricker (restored).........1949-1953
George North Craig...........................1953-1957
Harold Willis Handley........................1957-1961
Matthew Empson Welsh.........................1961-1965
Roger Douglas Branigin.......................1965-1969
Edgar Doud Whitcomb..........................1969-1973
Otis Ray Bowen...............................1973-1981
Robert Dunkerson Orr.........................1981-1989
Birch Evans Bayh III.........................1989-1997
Frank O'Bannon...............................1997-2003
Joe Kernan...................................2003-2005
Mitch Daniels................................2005-
IOWA
Adena Culture..............................c. BCE 1000-c. CE 200
Hopewell Culture................................c. 200-c. 700
Mississippian Culture...........................c. 700-c. 1550
Occupied largely by Iowa.......................c. 1550-1820's
Claimed by France.................................1673-1762
To
Spain
..........................................1762-1800
To France.........................................1800-1803
To Louisiana Territory............................1803-1804
To Indiana Territory..............................1804-1805
To Louisiana Territory............................1805-1812
To Missouri.......................................1812-1821
Unorganized territory of the United States........1821-1834
To Michigan Territory.............................1834-1836
To Wisconsin Territory............................1836-1838
Territory of Iowa.................................1838-1846
Robert Lucas.................................1838-1841
John Chambers................................1841-1845
James Clark..................................1845-1846
Admitted as the 29th State........................1846-
Ansel Briggs.................................1846-1850
Stephen P. Hempstead.........................1850-1854
James Wilson Grimes..........................1854-1858
Ralph Phillips Lowe..........................1858-1860
Samuel Jordan Kirkwood.......................1860-1864
William Milo Stone...........................1864-1868
Samuel Merrill...............................1868-1872
Cyrus Clay Carpenter.........................1872-1876
Samuel Jordan Kirkwood (restored)............1876-1877
Joshua G. Newbold............................1877-1878
John Henry Gear..............................1878-1882
Buren Robinson Sherman.......................1882-1886
William Larrabee.............................1886-1890
Horace Boies.................................1890-1894
Frank Darr Jackson...........................1894-1896
Francis Marion Drake.........................1896-1898
Leslie Mortimer Shaw.........................1898-1902
Albert Baird Cummins.........................1902-1908
Warren Garst.................................1908-1909
Beryl Franklin Carroll.......................1909-1913
George W. Clarke.............................1913-1917
William Lloyd Harding........................1917-1921
Nathan Edward Kendall........................1921-1925
John Hammill.................................1925-1931
Daniel Webster Turner........................1931-1933
Clyde LaVerne Herring........................1933-1937
Nelson George Kraschel.......................1937-1939
George Allison Wilson........................1939-1943
Bourke Blakemore Hickenlooper................1943-1945
Robert Donald Blue...........................1945-1949
William S. Beardsley.........................1949-1954
Leo Elthon...................................1954-1955
Leo A. Hoegh.................................1955-1957
Herschel Celiel Loveless.....................1957-1961
Norman Arthur Erbe...........................1961-1963
Harold Everett Hughes........................1963-1969
Robert David Fulton......................1-16 Jan 1969
Robert D. Ray................................1969-1983
Terry Edward Branstad........................1983-1999
Tom Vilsack..................................1999-2007
Chet Culver..................................2007-2011
Terry Edward Branstad (restored).............2011-
KANSAS
Mostly to Kaw (north) and Wichita (south)...... < 1540-c. 1825/40
Claimed by France.................................1673-1762
To
Spain
..........................................1762-1800
To France.........................................1800-1803
To Louisiana Territory............................1803-1804
Unorganized territory of the United States........1804-1854
Territory of Kansas...............................1854-1861
Andrew Horatio Reeder........................1854-1855
Daniel Woodson (acting), Aug-Sept 1855
Wilson Shannon...............................1855-1856
Daniel Woodson (restored: acting)Aug-Sept 1856
John White Geary.............................1856-1857
Daniel Woodson (re-restored: acting), Mar-Apr 1857
Frederick P. Stanton (acting), Apr-May 1857
Robert James Walker.......................May-Nov 1857
Frederick P. Stanton (restored: acting), Nov-Dec 1857
James William Denver (acting to 12 May 1858).1857-1858
Hugh S. Walsh (acting), Oct-Dec1858
Samuel Medary................................1858-1860
George M. Beebe (acting), 1860-1861
Admitted as the 34th State........................1861-
Charles Lawrence Robinson....................1861-1863
Thomas Carney................................1863-1865
Samuel Johnson Crawford......................1865-1868
Nehemiah Green...............................1868-1869
James Madison Harvey.........................1869-1873
Thomas Andrew Osborn.........................1873-1877
George Tobey Anthony.........................1877-1879
John Pierce St. John.........................1879-1883
George Washington Glick......................1883-1885
John Alexander Martin........................1885-1889
Lyman Underwood Humphrey.....................1889-1893
Lorenzo Dow Lewelling........................1893-1895
Edmund Needham Morrill.......................1895-1897
John Whitnah Leedy...........................1897-1899
William Eugene Stanley.......................1899-1903
Willis Joshua Bailey.........................1903-1905
Edward Wallis Hoch...........................1905-1909
Walter Roscoe Stubbs.........................1909-1913
George Hartshorn Hodges......................1913-1915
Arthur Capper................................1915-1919
Henry Justin Allen...........................1919-1923
Jonathan McMillan Davis......................1923-1925
Ben Sanford Paulen...........................1925-1929
Clyde Martin Reed............................1929-1931
Harry Hines Woodring.........................1931-1933
Alfred Mossman Landon........................1933-1937
Walter Augustus Huxman.......................1937-1939
Payne Harry Ratner...........................1939-1943
Andrew Frank Schoeppel.......................1943-1947
Frank Carlson................................1947-1950
Frank Leslie Hagaman.........................1950-1951
Edward Ferdinand Arn.........................1951-1955
Frederick Lee Hall...........................1955-1957
John McCuish......................................1957
George Docking...............................1957-1961
John Anderson, Jr. ..........................1961-1965
William Henry Avery..........................1965-1967
Robert Docking...............................1967-1975
Robert Frederick Bennett.....................1975-1979
John W. Carlin...............................1979-1987
John Michael Hayden..........................1987-1991
Joan Finney (
fem.
)............................1991-1995
Bill Graves..................................1995-2003
Kathleen Gilligan Sebelius (
fem.
).............2003-2009
Mark Parkinson...............................2009-2011
Sam Brownback................................2011-
KENTUCKY
Adena Culture..............................c. BCE 1000-c. CE 200
Hopewell Culture................................c. 200-c. 700
Mississippian Culture...........................c. 700-c. 1550
The Cherokee (south and southeast)............. < 1540-1830
Claimed by France.................................1673-1763
To
Great Britain
..................................1763-1776
To Virginia.......................................1776-1792
Admitted as the 15th State........................1792-
Isaac Shelby.................................1792-1796
James Garrard................................1796-1804
Christopher Greenup..........................1804-1808
Charles Scott................................1808-1812
Isaac Shelby (restored)......................1812-1816
George Madison............................Sep-Oct 1816
Gabriel Slaughter............................1816-1820
John Adair...................................1820-1824
Joseph Desha.................................1824-1828
Thomas Metcalfe..............................1828-1832
John Breathitt...............................1832-1834
James Turner Morehead........................1834-1836
James Clark..................................1836-1839
Charles Anderson Wickliffe...................1839-1840
Robert Perkins Letcher.......................1840-1844
William Owsley...............................1844-1848
John Jordan Crittenden.......................1848-1850
John Larue Helm..............................1850-1851
Lazarus Whitehead Powell.....................1851-1855
Charles Slaughter Morehead...................1855-1859
Beriah Magoffin (Federal)....................1859-1862 opposed by...
George W. Johnson (Confederate)..............1861-1862
Richard Hawes (Confederate)..................1862-1865 opposing...
James Fisher Robinson (Federal)..............1862-1863
Thomas Elliott Bramlette (Federal)...........1863-1867
John Larue Helm (restored)...............3-8 Sept 1867
John White Stevenson.........................1867-1871
Preston Hopkins Leslie.......................1871-1875
James Bennett McCreary.......................1875-1879
Luke Pryor Blackburn.........................1879-1883
James Proctor Knott..........................1883-1887
Simon Bolivar Buckner........................1887-1891
John Young Brown.............................1891-1895
William O'Connell Bradley....................1895-1899
William Sylvester Taylor.....................1899-1900
William J. Goebel............................Jan-Feb 1900
John Crepps Wickliffe Beckham................1900-1907
Augustus Everett Willson.....................1907-1911
James Bennett McCreary (restored)............1911-1915
Augustus Owsley Stanley......................1915-1919
Edwin Porch Morrow...........................1919-1923
William Jason Fields.........................1923-1927
Flemon Davis Sampson.........................1927-1931
Ruby Laffoon.................................1931-1935
Albert Benjamin Chandler.....................1935-1939
Keen Johnson.................................1939-1943
Simeon Slavens Willis........................1943-1947
Earle Chester Clements.......................1947-1951
Lawrence Winchester Wetherby.................1951-1955
Albert Benjamin Chandler (restored)..........1955-1959
Bertram Thomas Combs.........................1959-1963
Edward Thompson Breathitt Jr. ...............1963-1967
Louis Broady Nunn............................1967-1971
Wendell Hampton Ford.........................1971-1975
Julian Morton Carroll........................1975-1979
John Young Brown, Jr. .......................1979-1983
Martha Layne Collins (
fem.
)...................1983-1987
Wallace Wilkinson............................1987-1991
Brereton Chandler Jones......................1991-1995
Paul Patton..................................1995-2003
Ernest L. Fletcher...........................2003-2007
Steve Beshear................................2007-
LOUISIANA
Poverty Point Culture..........................c. 1800-500
Adena Culture..............................c. BCE 1000-c. CE 200
Claimed by France.................................1673-1762
Pierre Le Moyne, sieur d'Iberville................1699
Sauvole de la Villantray.....................1699-1701
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, sieur de Bienville...1701-1712
Antoine de Lamothe Cadillac..................1713-1716
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, sieur de Bienville (restored: acting), 1716-1717
Jean Michel de l'Espinay.....................1717-1718
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, sieur de Bienville (re-rest.)...1718-1724
Pierre Dugué, sieur de Boisbriant (acting), 1724-1726
Étienne Périer de Salvert....................1726-1733
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, sr. de Bienville (re-re-rst.)...1733-1743
Pierre de Rigaud, mqs. de Vaudreuil-Cabagnal.1743-1753
Louis Billouart, chevalier de Kerlérec.......1753-1763
To
Spain
..........................................1762-1800
Jean-Jacques Blaise d'Abbadie................1763-1765
Charles Philippe Aubry (acting), 1765-1766
Antonio de Ulloa.............................1766-1768
Alejandro O'Reilly...........................1769-1770
Luis de Unzaga y Amezaga.....................1770-1777
Bernardo Vicente Polinar de Gálvez...........1777-1785
Estéban Rodríguez Miró.......................1785-1791
Francisco Luis Hector, baron de Carondelet...1791-1797
Manuel Gayoso de Lemos.......................1797-1799
Nicolás María Vidal (acting civil governor), 1799-1801
Francisco Bouligny (acting military governor), 1799
Sebastián Calvo de la Puerta, marqués de Casa Calvo (acting military governor), 1799-1801
To France.........................................1800-1803
Juan Manuel de Salcedo.......................1801-1803
Pierre Clément de Laussat.................Nov-Dec 1803
To the United States (unorganized)................1803-1804
Orleans Territory.................................1804-1812
William Charles Cole Claiborne (
Mississippi 1801-5
)...1803-1816
Admitted as the 18th State........................1812-1861
Jacques Philippe Villeré.....................1816-1820
Thomas Bolling Robertson.....................1820-1824
Henry Schuyler Thibodeaux (acting), 1824
Henry Johnson................................1824-1828
Pierre Auguste Charles Bourguignon Derbigny..1828-1829
Armand Julie Beauvais (acting), 1829-1830
Jacques Dupré................................1830-1831
André Bienvenu Roman.........................1831-1835
Edward Douglass White........................1835-1839
André Bienvenu Roman (restored)..............1839-1843
Alexander Mouton.............................1843-1846
Isaac Johnson................................1846-1850
Joseph Marshall Walker.......................1850-1853
Paul Octave Hébert...........................1853-1856
Robert Charles Wickliffe.....................1856-1860
Thomas Overton Moore.........................1860-1864
Technically independent......................Jan.-Feb. 1861
6th Confederate State of America..................1861-1863
Henry Watkins Allen..........................1864-1865 opposing...
To the United States..............................1863-1868
George F. Shepley (U.S. military governor), 1862-1864
Michael Hahn (U.S. military governor), 1864-1865
James M. Wells...............................1865-1867
Benjamin Flanders (military governor), 1867
Joshua Baker (military governor), 1867-1868
Readmitted to the Union...........................1868-
Henry Clay Warmouth..........................1868-1872
Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback (acting), 1872-1873
William Pitt Kellogg.........................1873-1877
Francis Redding Tillou Nicholls..............1877-1880
Louis Alfred Wiltz...........................1880-1881
Samuel Douglas McEnery.......................1881-1888
Francis Redding Tillou Nicholls (restored)...1888-1892
Murphy James Foster..........................1892-1900
William Wright Heard.........................1900-1904
Newton Crain Blanchard.......................1904-1908
Jared Young Sanders..........................1908-1912
Luther Egbert Hall...........................1912-1916
Ruffin Golson Pleasant.......................1916-1920
John Milliken Parker.........................1920-1924
Henry Luse Fuqua.............................1924-1926
Oramel Hinckley Simpson......................1926-1928
Huey Pierce Long.............................1928-1932
Alvin Olin King...............................Jan 1932
Oscar Kelly Allen............................1932-1936
James Albert Noe..........................Jan-May 1936
Richard Webster Leche........................1936-1939
Earl Kemp Long (Brother of Huey Long)........1939-1940
Sam Houston Jones............................1940-1944
James Houston Davis..........................1944-1948
Earl Kemp Long (restored)....................1948-1952
Robert Floyd Kennon..........................1952-1956
Earl Kemp Long (re-restored).................1956-1960
James Houston Davis (restored)...............1960-1964
John Julian McKeithen........................1964-1972
Edwin Washington Edwards.....................1972-1980
David Conner Treen...........................1980-1984
Edwin Washington Edwards (restored)..........1984-1988
Charles Elson Roemer III.....................1988-1992
Edwin Washington Edwards (re-restored).......1992-1996
Mike J. Foster...............................1996-2004
Kathleen Blanco (
fem.
)........................2004-2008
Bobby Jindal.................................2008-
MAINE
Various grants and settlements............from c. 1623-1691 with...
To
Massachusetts
piecemeal........................1652-1820
Admitted as the 23rd State........................1820-
William King.................................1820-1821
William Durkee Williamson.................May-Dec 1821
Benjamin Ames................................1821-1822
Daniel Rose...............................2-4 Jan 1822
Albion Keith Parris..........................1822-1827
Enoch Lincoln................................1827-1829
Nathan Cutler................................1829-1830
Joshua Hall..............................5-10 Feb 1830
Jonathan Glidden Hunton......................1830-1831
Samuel Emerson Smith.........................1831-1834
Robert Pinckney Dunlap.......................1834-1838
Edward Kent..................................1838-1839
John Fairfield...............................1839-1841
Richard H. Vose...........................January 1841
Edward Kent (restored).......................1841-1842
John Fairfield (restored)....................1842-1843
Edward Kavanaugh.............................1843-1844
David Dunn................................2-3 Jan 1844
John Winchester Dana......................3-5 Jan 1844
Hugh Johnston Anderson.......................1844-1847
John Winchester Dana (restored)..............1847-1850
John Hubbard.................................1850-1853
William George Crosby........................1853-1855
Anson Peaslee Morrill........................1855-1856
Samuel E. Wells..............................1856-1857
Hannibal Hamlin...........................Jan-Feb 1857
Joseph Hartwell Williams.....................1857-1858
Lot Myrick Morrill...........................1858-1861
Israel Washburn, Jr. ........................1861-1863
Abner Coburn.................................1863-1864
Samuel Cony..................................1864-1867
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain..................1867-1871
Sidney Perham................................1871-1874
Nelson Dingley, Jr. .........................1874-1876
Seldon Connor................................1876-1879
Alonzo M. Garcelon...........................1879-1880
Daniel Franklin Davis........................1880-1881
Harris Merrill Plaisted......................1881-1883
Frederick Robie..............................1883-1887
Joseph Robinson Bodwell...........................1887
Sebastian Streeter Marble (acting), 1887-1889
Edwin Chick Burleigh.........................1889-1893
Henry B. Cleaves.............................1893-1897
Llewellyn Powers.............................1897-1901
John Fremont Hill............................1901-1905
William Titcomb Cobb.........................1905-1909
Bert Manfred Fernald.........................1909-1911
Frederick William Plaisted (son H. M. Pl.)...1911-1913
William Thomas Haines........................1913-1915
Oakley Chester Curtis........................1915-1917
Carl Elias Milliken..........................1917-1921
Frederic Hale Parkhurst...................January 1921
Percival Proctor Baxter......................1921-1925
Ralph Owen Brewster..........................1925-1929
William Tudor Gardiner.......................1929-1933
Louis Jefferson Brann........................1933-1937
Lewis Orin Barrows...........................1937-1941
Sumner Sewall................................1941-1945
Horace Augustus Hildreth.....................1945-1949
Frederick George Payne.......................1949-1952
Burton Melvin Cross..........................1952-1953
Nathaniel M. Haskell......................6-7 Jan 1953
Burton Melvin Cross (restored)...............1953-1955
Edmund Sixtus Muskie.........................1955-1959
Robert N. Haskell.........................2-7 Jan 1959
Clinton Amos Clauson......................Jan-Dec 1959
John Hathaway Reed...........................1959-1967
Kenneth Merwin Curtis........................1967-1975
James Bernard Longley........................1975-1979
Joseph Edward Brennan........................1979-1987
John Rettie McKernan, Jr. ...................1987-1995
Angus S. King, Jr. ..........................1995-2003
John Elias Baldacci..........................2003-2011
Paul LePage..................................2011-
MARYLAND
Proprietary Colony of the Calvert family..........1632-1689
Lord Proprietors
CALVERT (Lords Baltimore)
Cecilius..........................................1632-1675
Charles I.........................................1675-1688 d. 1715
To
Great Britain
as a Crown possession............1688-1715
Benedict Leonard..................................1715-1732
Charles II........................................1732-1751
Frederick.........................................1751-1771
HARFORD
Henry.............................................1771-1776 d. 1816 >
Governors for the Calverts
Leonard Calvert..............................1634-1647
Thomas Greene................................1647-1648
William Stone................................1648-1656
Josias Fendall...............................1656-1660
Philip Calvert...............................1660-1661
Charles Calv. Baron Baltimore (
Ld. Propr.
)...1661-1676
Cecil Calvert............................June-Oct 1676
Thomas Notley................................1676-1679
Charles Calvert Bn. Baltm. (
L. Prop.
, rest.).1679-1684
Benedict Leonard Calvert.....................1684-1688
Governors for the Crown
William Joseph (acting), 1688-1689
John Coode (commander in chief), 1689-1690
Governors for the Calverts
Lionel Copley................................1692-1693
Thomas Lawrence...................................1693
Sir Edmund Andros............................1693-1694
Governor of New York 1674-81, 1688; of the Dominion of New England 1686-91; of Virginia 1692-8.
Thomas Lawrence (restored)........................1694
Francis Nicholson............................1694-1699
Nathaniel Blakistone.........................1699-1702
Thomas Tench.................................1702-1704
John Seymour.................................1704-1709
Edward Lloyd.................................1709-1714
John Hart....................................1714-1720
Charles Calvert, Baron Baltimore (
L.Pr.
).....1720-1727
Benedict Leonard Calvert, Bn. Balt. (
L.Pr.
)..1727-1731
Samuel Ogle..................................1731-1732
Charles Calvert, Bn. Baltimore (
L.Pr.
, r.)...1732-1733
Samuel Ogle (restored).......................1733-1742
Thomas Bladen................................1742-1747
Samuel Ogle (re-restored)....................1747-1752
Benjamin Tasker..............................1752-1753
Horatio Sharpe...............................1753-1769
Robert Eden..................................1769-1776
Autonomous within the Articles of Confederation...1776-1788
President of the Council of Safety
Daniel St. Thomas Jenifer1775-1777
Governors
Thomas Johnson...............................1777-1779
Thomas Sim Lee...............................1779-1782
William Paca.................................1782-1785
William Smallwood............................1785-1788
Admitted as the 7th State.........................1788-
John Eager Howard............................1788-1791
George Plater................................1791-1792
James Brice.......................................1792
Thomas Sim Lee (2nd time)....................1792-1794
John Hoskins Stone...........................1794-1797
John Henry...................................1797-1798
Benjamin Ogle................................1798-1801
John Francis Mercer..........................1801-1803
Robert Bowie.................................1803-1806
Robert Wright................................1806-1809
James Butcher.....................................1809
Edward Lloyd.................................1809-1811
Robert Bowie (restored)......................1811-1812
Levin Winder.................................1812-1816
Charles Carnan Ridgely.......................1816-1819
Charles Goldsborough..............................1819
Samuel Sprigg................................1819-1822
Samuel Stevens, Jr. .........................1822-1826
Joseph Kent..................................1826-1829
Daniel Martin................................1829-1830
Thomas King Carroll..........................1830-1831
Daniel Martin (restored)..........................1831
George Howard................................1831-1833
James Thomas.................................1833-1836
Thomas Ward Veazey...........................1836-1839
William Grason...............................1839-1841
Francis Thomas...............................1841-1845
Thomas George Pratt..........................1845-1848
Philip Francis Thomas........................1848-1851
Enoch Louis Lowe.............................1851-1854
Thomas Watkins Ligon.........................1854-1858
Thomas Holliday Hicks........................1858-1862
Augustus Williamson Bradford.................1862-1866
Thomas Swann.................................1866-1869
Oden Bowie...................................1869-1872
William Pinkney Whyte........................1872-1874
James Black Groome...........................1874-1876
John Lee Carroll.............................1876-1880
William Thomas Hamilton......................1880-1884
Robert Milligan McLane.......................1884-1885
Henry Lloyd..................................1885-1888
Elihu Emory Jackson..........................1888-1892
Frank Brown..................................1892-1896
Lloyd Lowndes................................1896-1900
John Walter Smith............................1900-1904
Edwin Warfield...............................1904-1908
Austin Lane Crothers.........................1908-1912
Phillips Lee Goldsborough....................1912-1916
Emerson Columbus Harrington..................1916-1920
Albert Cabell Ritchie........................1920-1935
Harry Whinna Nice............................1935-1939
Herbert Romulus O'Conor......................1939-1947
William Preston Lane.........................1947-1951
Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin..................1951-1959
John Millard Tawes...........................1959-1967
Spiro Theodore Agnew (Anagnostopoulos).......1967-1969
Marvin Mandel................................1969-1977
Blair Lee III................................1977-1979
Marvin Mandel (restored)...............15-17 Jan. 1979
Harry Roe Hughes.............................1979-1987
William Donald Schaefer......................1987-1995
Parris N. Glendening.........................1995-2003
Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr. ......................2003-2007
Martin O'Malley..............................2007-
MASSACHUSETTS
Proprietary Colony of Plymouth, 1620-1691
John Carver..................................1620-1621
William Bradford.............................1621-1633
Edward Winslow...............................1633-1634
Thomas Prence................................1634-1635
William Bradford (restored)..................1635-1636
Edward Winslow (restored)....................1636-1637
William Bradford (re-restored)...............1637-1638
Thomas Prence (restored).....................1638-1639
William Bradford (re-re-restored)............1639-1644
Edward Winslow (re-restored).................1644-1645
William Bradford (re-re-re-restored).........1645-1657
Thomas Prence (re-restored)..................1657-1673
Josiah Winslow...............................1673-1680
Thomas Hinckley..............................1681-1686
Absorbed by the Dominion of New England...........1686-1689
Thomas Hinckley (restored)...................1689-1691
Annexed to Crown Colony of Massachusetts
Proprietary Colony of Massachusetts Bay, 1629-1686
John Endecott (acting), 1629-1630
John Winthrop................................1630-1634
Thomas Dudley................................1634-1635
John Haynes..................................1635-1636
Sir Henry Vane...............................1636-1637
John Winthrop (restored).....................1637-1640
Thomas Dudley (restored).....................1640-1641
Richard Bellingham...........................1641-1642
John Winthrop (re-restored)..................1642-1644
John Endecott (restored).....................1644-1645
Thomas Dudley (re-restored)..................1645-1646
John Winthrop (re-re-restored)...............1646-1649
John Endecott (re-restored)..................1649-1650
Thomas Dudley (re-re-restored)...............1650-1651
John Endecott (re-re-restored)...............1651-1654
Richard Bellingham (restored)................1654-1655
John Endecott (re-re-re-restored)............1655-1665
Richard Bellingham (re-restored).............1665-1672
John Leverett................................1672-1679
Simon Bradstreet.............................1679-1686
Absorbed by the Dominion of New England...........1686-1689
Dominion of New England
To England........................................1686-1689
Joseph Dudley (Provisional President), May-Dec. 1686
Governor
Sir Edmund Andros............................1686-1689
Governor of New York 1674-81, 1688; of Virginia 1692-8; of Maryland 1693-4.
Crown Colony of Massachusetts
To
Great Britain
as a Crown possession............1689-1776
Simon Bradstreet (restored)..................1689-1692
Sir William Phips...........................1692-1694
William Stoughton (acting), 1694-1699
Richard Coote, Earl of Bellomont (
NY 1698-1701
)...1699-1700
William Stoughton (restored: acting), 1700-1701
Joseph Dudley................................1702-1715
William Tailer (acting), 1715-1716
Samuel Shute.................................1716-1723
William Dummer (acting), 1723-1728
William Burnett..............................1728-1729
William Dummer (restored: acting), 1729-1730
William Tailer (restored: acting), 1730
Jonathan Belcher.............................1730-1741
William Shirley..............................1741-1749
Spencer Phips (acting), 1749-1753
William Shirley (restored)...................1753-1756
Spencer Phips (restored: acting), 1756-1757
Thomas Pownall...............................1757-1760
Thomas Hutchinson (acting), 1760
Sir Francis Bernard..........................1760-1769
Thomas Hutchinson (rest.) (acting to 1771)...1769-1774
Thomas Gage..................................1774-1775
Autonomous within the Articles of Confederation...1776-1788
Revolutionary Council........................1775-1780
Governors
John Hancock.................................1780-1785
Thomas Cushing (acting), Jan.-May 1785
James Bowdoin................................1785-1787
John Hancock (restored)......................1787-1793
Admitted as the 6th State.........................1788-
Samuel Adams.................................1793-1797
Increase Sumner..............................1797-1799
Moses Gill (acting), 1799-1800
Caleb Strong.................................1800-1807
James Sullivan...............................1807-1808
Levi Lincoln (acting), 1808-1809
Christopher Gore.............................1809-1810
Elbridge Gerry...............................1810-1812
Caleb Strong (restored)......................1812-1816
John Brooks..................................1816-1823
William Eustis...............................1823-1825
Marcus Morton (acting), 1825
Levi Lincoln, Jr. ...........................1825-1834
John Davis...................................1834-1835
Samuel Turell Armstrong (acting)1835-1836
Edward Everett...............................1836-1840
Marcus Morton (restored).....................1840-1841
John Davis (restored)........................1841-1843
Marcus Morton (re-restored)..................1843-1844
George Nixon Briggs..........................1844-1851
George Sewall Boutwell.......................1851-1853
John Henry Clifford..........................1853-1854
Emory Washburn...............................1854-1855
Henry Joseph Gardner.........................1855-1858
Nathaniel Prentice Banks.....................1858-1861
John Albion Andrew...........................1861-1866
Alexander Hamilton Bullock...................1866-1869
William Claflin..............................1869-1871
William Barrett Washburn.....................1872-1874
Thomas Talbot (acting), 1874-1875
William Gaston...............................1875-1876
Alexander Hamilton Rice......................1876-1879
Thomas Talbot (restored).....................1879-1880
John Davis Long..............................1880-1883
Benjamin Franklin Butler.....................1883-1884
George Dexter Robinson.......................1884-1887
Oliver Ames..................................1887-1890
John Quincy Adams Brackett...................1890-1891
William Eustis Russell.......................1891-1894
Frederic Thomas Greenhalge...................1894-1896
Roger Wolcott................................1896-1900
Winthrop Murray Crane........................1900-1903
John Lewis Bates.............................1903-1904
William Lewis Douglas........................1905-1906
Curtis Guild, Jr. ...........................1906-1909
Eben Sumner Draper...........................1909-1911
Eugene Noble Foss............................1911-1914
David Ignatius Walsh.........................1914-1916
Samuel Walker McCall.........................1916-1918
John Calvin Coolidge (
President 1924-1929
)...1919-1921
Channing Harris Cox..........................1921-1925
Alvan Tufts Fuller...........................1925-1929
Frank G. Allen...............................1929-1931
Joseph Buell Ely.............................1931-1935
James Michael Curley.........................1935-1937
Charles Francis Hurley.......................1937-1939
Leverett Saltonstall.........................1939-1945
Maurice Joseph Tobin.........................1945-1947
Robert Fiske Bradford........................1947-1949
Paul Andrew Dever............................1949-1953
Christian Archibald Herter...................1953-1957
Foster Furcolo...............................1957-1961
John Anthony Volpe...........................1961-1963
Endicott Peabody.............................1963-1965
John Anthony Volpe (restored)................1965-1969
Francis Williams Sargent.....................1969-1975
Michael Stanley Dukakis......................1975-1979
Edward Joseph King...........................1979-1983
Michael Stanley Dukakis (restored)...........1983-1991
William Floyd Weld...........................1991-1997
Argeo Paul Cellucci..........................1997-2001
Jane Maria Swift (
fem.
).......................2001-2003
W. Mitt Romney...............................2003-2007
Deval Patrick................................2007-
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