USA - NY to SC

United States:
New York - South Carolina

Alabama-Georgia
Hawaii-Massachusetts
Michigan-New Mexico
South Dakota-Wyoming

NEW YORK

Upstate subject to the Iroquois League...... < c. 1600-c. 1770
To the Netherlands................................1613-1664

Directors
Adriaen Jorisszen Tienpoint..................1623-1624
Cornelis Jacobzen Mey........................1624-1625
Willem Verhulst..............................1625-1626
Directors-General
Peter Minuit (Gov. in Delaware 1638).........1626-1632
Bastiaen Jansz Krol..........................1632-1633
Wouter van Twiller...........................1633-1637
Willem Kieft.................................1638-1647
Petrus Stuyvesant............................1647-1664

To the Duke of York (Great Britain)...............1664-1688

Governors
Richard Nicolls..............................1664-1668
Francis Lovelace.............................1668-1673
Cornelis Evertsen........................Aug-Sept 1673
Anthony Colve................................1673-1674
Sir Edmund Andros............................1674-1681
Governor of the Dominion of New England 1686-91; of Virginia 1692-8; of Maryland 1693-4.

Anthony Brockholls (acting), 1681-1683

Thomas Dongan................................1683-1688
Sir Edmund Andros (restored)..............Aug-Oct 1688 (-1689)

To the Dominion of New England....................1688-1689

Francis Nicholson (lieutenant governor), 1688-1691 opposed by...

Jacob Leisler................................1689-1691

To Great Britain directly.........................1689-1777

Henry Sloughter.........................Mar.-July 1691

Richard Ingoldsby (acting), 1691-1692

Benjamin Fletcher............................1692-1697
Richard Coote, Earl of Bellomont (Mass. 1699-1700)...1698-1701

John Nanfan (acting), 1701-1702

Edward Hyde, Viscount Cornbury...............1702-1708
John Lovelace, Baron Lovelace................1708-1709

Peter Schuyler (acting), 1709
Richard Ingoldsby (restored, acting), 1709-1710
Gerardus Beekman (acting), Apr-June 1710

Robert Hunter................................1710-1719

Peter Schuyler (restored, acting), 1719-1720

William Burnet...............................1720-1728
John Montgomerie.............................1728-1731

Rip Van Dam (acting), 1731-1732

William Cosby................................1732-1736
George Clarke (acting to 1738)...............1736-1743
George Clinton (I)...........................1743-1753
Sir Danvers Osborn......................10-12 Oct 1753

James de Lancey (acting), 1753-1755

Sir Charles Hardy............................1755-1757

James de Lancey (restored; acting), 1757-1760
Cadwallader Colden (acting), 1760-1761

Robert Monckton..............................1761-1763

Cadwallader Colden (restored; acting), 1763-1765

Sir Henry Moore..............................1765-1769

Cadwallader Colden (re-restored; acting), 1769-1770

John Murray, Earl of Dunmore.................1770-1774
William Tryon................................1774-1780
James Robertson..............................1780-1783

Andrew Elliott (acting), Apr-Nov 1783

Autonomous within the Articles of Confederation...1776-1788

Chairmen of the Committee of Safety (Council of Safety from May 1777)
Nathaniel Woodhull.......................July-Aug 1776
Abraham Yates (acting to 28 Aug 1776)....Aug-Sept 1776
Peter R. Livingston..........................1776-1777
Abraham Ten Broeck........................Mar-Apr 1777

William Smith (acting), 9-11 Apr 1777
Pierre Van Cortland (acting), 11-18 Apr 1777

Leonard Gansevoort........................Apr-May 1777
Pierre Van Cortland (restored)...........May-July 1777
Governors
George Clinton (II)..........................1777-1795

Admitted as the 11th State........................1788-

John Jay (Pres., Cont. Congress 1778-9)......1795-1801
George Clinton (II) (restored)...............1801-1804
Morgan Lewis.................................1804-1807
Daniel D. Tompkins...........................1807-1817

John Tayler (acting), Feb-July 1817

DeWitt Clinton...............................1817-1823
Joseph Christopher Yates.....................1823-1825
DeWitt Clinton (restored)....................1825-1828

Nathaniel Pitcher (acting), 1828-1829

Martin Van Buren (President 1837-1841)....Jan-Mar 1829
Enos Thompson Throop (acting to 1 Jan 1831)..1829-1833
William Learned Marcy........................1833-1839
William Henry Seward.........................1839-1843
William C. Bouck.............................1843-1845
Silas Wright, Jr. ...........................1845-1847
John Young...................................1847-1849
Hamilton Fish................................1849-1851
Washington Hunt..............................1851-1853
Horatio Seymour..............................1853-1855
Myron Holley Clark...........................1855-1857
John Alsop King..............................1857-1859
Edwin Denison Morgan.........................1859-1863
Horatio Seymour (restored)...................1863-1865
Reuben Eaton Fenton..........................1865-1869
John Thompson Hoffman........................1869-1873
John Adams Dix...............................1873-1875
Samuel Jones Tilden..........................1875-1877
Lucius Robinson..............................1877-1880
Alonzo B. Cornell............................1880-1883
Grover Stephen Cleveland (Pres. 1885-9, 1893-7)...1883-1885
David Bennett Hill (acting to 1 Jan 1886)....1885-1892
Roswell Pettibone Flower.....................1892-1895
Levi Parsons Morton..........................1895-1897
Frank Swett Black............................1897-1899
Theodore Roosevelt (President 1901-1909).....1899-1901
Benjamin Barker Odell, Jr. ..................1901-1905
Frank Wayland Higgins........................1905-1907
Charles Evans Hughes.........................1907-1910

Horace White (acting), 1910-1911

John Alden Dix...............................1911-1913
William Sulzer............................Jan-Oct 1913

Martin Henry Glynn (acting), 1913-1915

Charles Seymour Whitman......................1915-1919
Alfred Emanuel Smith.........................1919-1921
Nathan Lewis Miller..........................1921-1923
Alfred Emanuel Smith (restored)..............1923-1929
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Pres. 1933-1945)..1929-1933
Herbert Henry Lehman.........................1933-1942

Charles Poletti (acting), 1942-1943

Thomas Edmund Dewey..........................1943-1955
William Averell Harriman.....................1955-1959
Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller...................1959-1973
Charles Malcolm Wilson.......................1973-1975
Hugh Leo Carey...............................1975-1983
Mario Matthew Cuomo..........................1983-1995
George E. Pataki.............................1995-2007
Eliot Spitzer................................2007-2008
David A. Paterson............................2008-2011
Andrew Cuomo.................................2011-

NORTH CAROLINA

To the Cherokee (center and west).............. < 1540-1830
North Carolina
Claimed by England................................1587-1669

Governors
William Drummond.............................1663-1667
Samuel Stephens..............................1667-1669

Proprietary Grants................................1669-1729

Peter Carteret...............................1670-1673

John Jenkins (acting), 1673-1676

Thomas Eastchurch............................1676-1677
Thomas Miller.....................................1677
Seth Sothel.......................................1678

John Harvey (acting), 1679
John Jenkins (restored; acting), 1679-1681

Seth Sothel (restored).......................1682-1689
Philipp Ludwell..............................1689-1694
John Archdale................................1694-1696
John Harvey (restored).......................1696-1699

Henderson Walker (acting), 1699-1704
Robert Daniel (acting), 1704-1705

Thomas Cary..................................1705-1706

William Glover (acting), 1706-1708
Thomas Cary (restored; acting), 1708-1710

Edward Hyde (acting to 1711).................1710-1712

Thomas Pollock (acting), 1712-1714

Charles Eden.................................1714-1722

Thomas Pollock (restored; acting), 1722

William Reed.................................1722-1724
George Burrington............................1724-1725
Richard Everard..............................1725-1731

To Great Britain directly.........................1729-1776

George Burrington (restored).................1731-1734
Gabriel Johnston.............................1734-1752
Nathaniel Rice...............................1752-1753
Matthew Rowan................................1753-1754
Arthur Dobbs.................................1754-1765
William Tryon................................1765-1771

James Hasell (acting), 1771

Josiah Martin................................1771-1776

Autonomous within the Articles of Confederation...1776-1789

Presidents of the Council of Safety
Cornelius Harnett........................July-Aug 1776
Samuel Ashe..............................Aug-Sept 1776
Willie Jones.............................Sept-Nov 1776
President of the Provincial Congress
Richard Caswell (Governor 1776-80)........Nov-Dec 1776
Governors
Abner Nash...................................1780-1781
Thomas Burke.................................1781-1782
Alexander Martin.............................1782-1785
Richard Caswell (restored)...................1785-1787
Samuel Johnston..............................1787-1789

Admitted as the 12th State........................1789-1861

Alexander Martin (restored)..................1789-1792
Richard Dobbs Spaight........................1792-1795
Samuel Ashe..................................1795-1798
William Richardson Davie.....................1798-1799
Benjamin Williams............................1799-1802
James Turner.................................1802-1805
Nathaniel Alexander..........................1805-1807
David Stone..................................1808-1810
Benjamin Smith...............................1810-1811
William Hawkins..............................1811-1814
William Miller...............................1814-1817
John Branch..................................1817-1820
Jesse Franklin...............................1820-1821
Gabriel Holmes...............................1821-1824
Hutchings Gordon Burton......................1824-1827
James Iredell................................1827-1828
John Owen....................................1828-1830
Montfort Stokes..............................1830-1832
David Lowry Swain............................1832-1835
Richard Dobbs Spaight, Jr. ..................1835-1837
Edward Bishop Dudley.........................1837-1840
John Motley Morehead.........................1841-1845
William Alexander Graham.....................1845-1849
Charles Manly................................1849-1851
David Settle Reid............................1851-1854

Warren Winslow (acting), 1854

Thomas Bragg.................................1854-1858
John Willis Ellis............................1858-1861

10th Confederate State of America.................1861-1865

Henry Toole Clark............................1861-1862
Zebulon Baird Vance..........................1862-1865

William Woods Holden (acting),1865

To the United States..............................1865-1868

Jonathan Worth...............................1865-1868

Readmitted to the Union...........................1868-

William Woods Holden (restored)..............1868-1870
Tod Robinson Caldwell........................1870-1874
Curtis Hooks Brogden.........................1874-1877
Zebulon Baird Vance (restored)...............1877-1879
Thomas Jordan Jarvis.........................1879-1885
Alfred Moore Scales..........................1885-1889
Daniel Gould Fowle...........................1889-1891
Thomas Michael Holt..........................1891-1893
Elias Carr...................................1893-1897
Daniel Lindsay Russell.......................1897-1901
Charles Brantley Aycock......................1901-1905
Robert Brodnax Glenn.........................1905-1909
William Walton Kitchin.......................1909-1913
Locke Craig..................................1913-1917
Thomas Walter Bickett........................1917-1921
Cameron Morrison.............................1921-1925
Angus Wilton McLean..........................1925-1929
Oliver Max Gardner...........................1929-1933
John Christoph Blucher Ehringhaus............1933-1937
Clyde Roark Hoey.............................1937-1941
Joseph Melville Broughton....................1941-1945
Robert Gregg Cherry..........................1945-1949
William Kerr Scott...........................1949-1953
William Bradley Umstead......................1953-1954
Luther Hartwell Hodges.......................1954-1961
James Terry Sanford..........................1961-1965
Daniel Killian Moore.........................1965-1969
Robert Walter Scott..........................1969-1973
James Eubert Holshouser, Jr. ................1973-1977
James Baxter Hunt, Jr. ......................1977-1985
James Grubbs Martin..........................1985-1993
James Baxter Hunt, Jr. (restored)............1993-2001
Michael F. Easley............................2001-2009
Beverley Perdue (fem.)........................2009-

NORTH DAKOTA

Claimed by France.................................1673-1762
Claimed by Spain..................................1762-1800
To France.........................................1800-1803
To Louisiana Territory............................1803-1812
To Missouri.......................................1812-1834
To Michigan Territory.............................1834-1836
To Wisconsin Territory............................1836-1838
To Iowa...........................................1838-1849
To Minnesota Territory............................1849-1858
To Nebraska Territory.............................1858-1861
Dakota Territory (see S. Dakota for Govs.)........1861-1889
Admitted as the 39th or 40th State................1889-

John Miller..................................1889-1891
Andrew Horace Burke..........................1891-1893
Eli C. D. Shortridge.........................1893-1895
Roger Allin..................................1895-1897
Frank Arlington Briggs.......................1897-1898
Joseph McMurray Devine.......................1898-1899
Frederick Bartlett Fancher...................1899-1901
Frank White..................................1901-1905
Elmore Yocum Sarles..........................1905-1907
John Burke...................................1907-1912
Louis Benjamin Hanna.........................1913-1917
Lynn Joseph Frazier..........................1917-1921
Ragnvald Anderson Nestos.....................1921-1925
Arthur Gustav Sorlie.........................1925-1928
Walter Jeremiah Maddock......................1928-1929
George F. Shafer.............................1929-1932
William Langer...............................1932-1934

Ole H. Olson (acting), 1934-1935

Thomas Hilliard Moodie....................Jan-Feb 1935

Walter Welford (acting), 1935-1937

William Langer (restored)....................1937-1939
John Moses...................................1939-1945
Fred George Aandahl..........................1945-1951
Clarence Norman Brunsdale....................1951-1957
John Edward Davis............................1957-1961
William Lewis Guy............................1961-1973
Arthur Albert Link...........................1973-1981
Allen Ingvar Olson...........................1981-1985
George A. Sinner.............................1985-1992
Edward Thomas Schafer........................1992-2000
John Hoeven..................................2000-2010
Faxk Dalrymple...............................2010-

OHIO

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 mostly by Shawnee in the west.........c. 1755-c. 1815
To Great Britain..................................1763-1778
To Virginia.......................................1778-1787
To the Northwest Territory........................1787-1799

Governors
Arthur St. Clair (Presid. Confed. 1787)......1788-1802

Ohio Territory....................................1799-1803

Charles W. Byrd..............................1802-1803

Admitted as the 17th State........................1803-

Edward Tiffin................................1803-1807

Thomas Kirker (acting), 1807-1808

Samuel H. Huntington.........................1808-1810
Return Jonathan Meigs, Jr. ..................1810-1814

Othneil Looker (acting), Mar-Dec 1814

Thomas Worthington...........................1814-1818
Ethan Allen Brown............................1818-1822

Allen Trimble (acting), 1822

Jeremiah Morrow..............................1822-1826
Allen Trimble (restored).....................1826-1830
Duncan McArthur..............................1830-1832
Robert Lucas.................................1832-1836
Joseph Vance.................................1836-1838
Wilson Shannon...............................1838-1840
Thomas Corwin................................1840-1842
Wilson Shannon (restored)....................1842-1844

Thomas Welles Bartley (acting) (Son of Mordecai, succeeding), Apr-Dec 1844

Mordecai Bartley (Father of Thomas W.).......1844-1846
William Bebb.................................1846-1849
Seabury Ford.................................1849-1850
Reuben Wood..................................1850-1853
William Medill (acting to 9 Jan 1854)........1853-1856
Salmon Portland Chase........................1856-1860
William Dennison, Jr. .......................1860-1862
David Tod....................................1862-1864
John Brough..................................1864-1865

Charles Anderson (acting), 1865-1866

Jacob Dolson Cox.............................1866-1868
Rutherford Birchard Hayes (President 1877-1881)...1868-1872
Edward Follansbee Noyes......................1872-1874
William Allen................................1874-1876
Rutherford Birchard Hayes (rest.;Pres 1877-81)...1876-1877

Thomas Lowry Young (acting), 1877-1878

Richard Moore Bishop.........................1878-1880
Charles Foster...............................1880-1884
George Hoadly................................1884-1886
Joseph Benson Foraker........................1886-1890
James Edwin Campbell.........................1890-1892
William McKinley, Jr. (President 1897-1901)..1892-1896
Asa Smith Bushnell...........................1896-1900
George Kilborn Nash..........................1900-1904
Myron Timothy Herrick........................1904-1906
John M. Pattison..................................1906

Andrew Lintner Harris (acting), 1906-1909

Judson Harmon................................1909-1913
James Middleton Cox..........................1913-1915
Frank Bartlett Willis........................1915-1917
James Middleton Cox (restored)...............1917-1921
Harry Lyman Davis............................1921-1923
Alvin Victor Donahey.........................1923-1929
Myers Young Cooper...........................1929-1931
George White.................................1931-1935
Martin Luther Davey..........................1935-1939
John William Bricker.........................1939-1945
Frank John Lausche...........................1945-1947
Thomas James Herbert.........................1947-1949
Frank John Lausche (restored)................1949-1957
John William Brown................................1957
C. William O'Neill...........................1957-1959
Michael Vincent DiSalle......................1959-1963
James Allen Rhodes...........................1963-1971
John Joyce Gilligan..........................1971-1975
James Allen Rhodes (restored)................1975-1983
Richard Frank Celeste........................1983-1991
George Victor Voinovich......................1991-1998
Nancy Putnam Hollister (fem.)..........31 Dec 1998-11 Jan 1999
Robert A. Taft II............................1999-2007
Ted Strickland...............................2007-2011
John Kasich..................................2011-

OKLAHOMA

Claimed by France.................................1673-1762
Claimed by Spain..................................1762-1800
To France.........................................1800-1803
To Louisiana Territory............................1803-1812
To Missouri.......................................1812-1834
Mandated by the USA as the Indian Territory.......1834-1906 with...

Occupied by the Cherokee (1830), Choctaw (1834), Muskogee (1836), and Seminole (1839). The Chickasaw emerged from the Choctaw as a separate tribe from 1856. Elements of the Cherokee (1862-1866) and Seminole (1866-1875) in rebellion.

Portions purchased as Oklahoma Territory.......1889/93-1907

George Washington Steele.....................1890-1891
Robert Martin................................1891-1892
Abraham Jefferson Seay.......................1892-1893
William Cary Renfrow.........................1893-1897
Cassius McDonald Barnes......................1897-1901
William Miller Jenkins............................1901
William C. Grimes.........................Nov-Dec 1901
Thompson Benton Ferguson.....................1901-1906
Frank Frantz.................................1906-1907

Admitted as the 46th State........................1907-

Charles Nathaniel Haskell....................1907-1911
Lee Cruce....................................1911-1915
Robert Lee Williams..........................1915-1919
James Brooks Ayers Robertson.................1919-1923
John Calloway Walton..............................1923
Martin Edwin Trapp...........................1923-1927
Henry Simpson Johnston.......................1927-1929
William Judson Holloway......................1929-1931
William Henry David Murray...................1931-1935
Ernest Whitworth Marland.....................1935-1939
Leon Chase Phillips..........................1939-1943
Robert Samuel Kerr...........................1943-1947
Roy Joseph Turner............................1947-1951
Johnston Murray..............................1951-1955
Raymond Dancel Gary..........................1955-1959
James Howard Edmondson.......................1959-1963
George Patterson Nigh.............................1963
Henry Louis Bellmon..........................1963-1967
Dewey Follett Bartlett.......................1967-1971
David Hall...................................1971-1975
David Lyle Boren.............................1975-1979
George Patterson Nigh (restored).............1979-1987
Henry Louis Bellmon (restored)...............1987-1991
David Lee Walters............................1991-1995
Francis Anthony Keating III..................1995-2003
Brad Henry...................................2003-2011
Mary Falin (fem.).............................2011-

OREGON

To the United States..............................1804-1848 with...
Joint occupation by Great Britain.................1818-1846
Oregon Territory..................................1848-1859

Chairman of the Executive Committee
George Abernethy.............................1845-1849
Governors
Joseph Lane..................................1849-1850
Kintzing Prichette.......................June-Aug 1850
John Pollard Gaines..........................1850-1853
Joseph Lane (restored)..................16-19 May 1853
George Law Curry..........................May-Dec 1853
John Wesley Davis............................1853-1854
George Law Curry (restored)..................1854-1856

Benjamin Franklin Harding (acting), 1856

George Law Curry (re-restored)...............1856-1859

Admitted as the 33rd State........................1859-

John Whiteaker...............................1859-1862
Addison Crandall Gibbs.......................1862-1866
George Lemuel Woods (Gov. Utah Terr. 1871-5).1866-1870
La Fayette Grover............................1870-1877
Stephen Fowler Chadwick......................1877-1878
William Wallace Thayer.......................1878-1882
Zenas Ferry Moody............................1882-1887
Sylvester Pennoyer...........................1887-1895
William Paine Lord...........................1895-1899
Theodore Thurston Geer.......................1899-1903
George Earle Chamberlain.....................1903-1909

Frank Williamson Benson (acting), 1909-1910
Jay Bowerman (acting), 1910-1911

Oswald West..................................1911-1915
James Withycombe.............................1915-1919

Ben Wilson Olcott (acting), 1919-1923

Walter Marcus Pierce.........................1923-1927
Isaac Lee Patterson..........................1927-1929

Albin Walter Norblad, Jr. (acting), 1929-1931

Julius L. Meier..............................1931-1935
Charles Henry Martin.........................1935-1939
Charles Aarthur Sprague......................1939-1943
Earl Wilcox Snell............................1943-1947

John Hubert Hall (acting), 1947-1949

Douglas James McKay..........................1949-1952
Paul Linton Patterson (acting to 10 Jan 1955)1952-1956

Elmo E. Smith (acting), 1956-1957

Robert Denison Holmes........................1957-1959
Mark Odom Hatfield...........................1959-1967
Thomas Lawson McCall.........................1967-1975
Robert William Straub........................1975-1979
Victor George Atiyeh.........................1979-1987
Neil Goldschmidt.............................1987-1991
Barbara Roberts (fem.)........................1991-1995
John A. Kitzhaber............................1995-2003
Ted Kulongoski...............................2003-2011
John A. Kitzhaber (restored).................2011-

PENNSYLVANIA

To the Iroquois League (north and central).....c. 1650-c. 1765
Swedish control in the lower Delaware Basin.......1643-1655
To the Netherlands................................1655-1664
To the Duke of York...............................1664-1681
Proprietary Colony................................1681-1776

Governors
William Markham..............................1681-1682
William Penn.................................1682-1684

Thomas Lloyd (President of Council), 1684-1688

John Blackwell...............................1688-1690
Thomas Lloyd (restored; Pr. Cncl. to Mar 91).1690-1693
William Markham (restored)...................1693-1699
William Penn (restored)......................1699-1701
Andrew Hamilton..............................1701-1703

Edward Shippen (President of Council), 1703-1704

John Evans...................................1704-1709
Charles Gookin...............................1709-1717
Sir William Keith............................1717-1726
Patrick Gordon...............................1726-1736

James Logan (President of Council), 1736-1738

George Thomas................................1738-1747

Anthony Palmer (President of Council), 1747-1748

James Hamilton...............................1748-1754
Robert Hunter Morris.........................1754-1756
William Denny................................1756-1759
James Hamilton (restored)....................1759-1763
John Penn....................................1763-1771

James Hamilton (re-restored; President of Council), May-Oct 1771

Richard Penn.................................1771-1773
John Penn (restored).........................1773-1776

Autonomous within the Articles of Confederation...1776-1787

Chairmen of the Committee of Safety
Owen Biddle................................4 July 1776
George Clymer............................4-8 July 1776
Owen Biddle (restored).....................8 July 1776
James Mease (restored).....................9 July 1776
Owen Biddle (re-restored).................10 July 1776
Alexander Wilcocks........................11 July 1776
Samuel Howell.............................12 July 1776
James Mease (restored)....................15 July 1776
Owen Biddle (re-re-restored)..............16 July 1776
James Biddle..............................17 July 1776
Alexander Wilcocks (restored)..........19-22 July 1776
Chairmen of the Council of Safety
David Rittenhouse......................24-26 July 1776
Samuel Morris.............................27 July 1776
David Rittenhouse (restored)...........29-31 July 1776
Samuel Morris (restored)....................1 Aug 1776
Thomas Wharton..............................2 Aug 1776
David Rittenhouse (re-restored)...........5-6 Aug 1776
President of the Council of Safety, then (1777) of the Supreme Executive Council
Thomas Wharton (restored)....................1776-1778

George Bryan (acting), May-Dec 1778

Joseph Reed..................................1778-1781
William Moore (acting to 14 Nov 1781)........1781-1782

James Potter (acting), Oct-Nov 1782

John Dickinson...............................1782-1785

Charles Biddle (acting), 10-18 Oct 1785

Benjamin Franklin............................1785-1788

Admitted as the 2nd State.........................1787-

David Redick (acting), Oct-Nov 1788

Thomas Mifflin (Governor from 1790)..........1788-1799
Governors
Thomas McKean................................1799-1808
Simon Snyder.................................1808-1817
William Findlay..............................1817-1820
Joseph Hiester...............................1820-1825
John Andrew Shulze...........................1825-1829
George Wolf..................................1829-1835
Joseph Ritner................................1835-1839
David Rittenhouse Porter.....................1839-1845
Francis Rawn Shunk...........................1845-1848
William Fraeme Johnston......................1848-1852
William Bigler...............................1852-1855
James Pollock................................1855-1858
William Fisher Packer........................1858-1861
Andrew Gregg Curtin..........................1861-1867
John White Geary.............................1867-1873
John Frederick Hartranft.....................1873-1879
Henry Martyn Hoyt............................1879-1883
Robert Emory Pattison........................1883-1887
James Addams Beaver..........................1887-1891
Robert Emory Pattison (restored).............1891-1895
Daniel Hartman Hastings......................1895-1899
William Alexis Stone.........................1899-1903
Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker..................1903-1907
Edwin Sydney Stuart..........................1907-1911
John Kinley Tener............................1911-1915
Martin Grove Brumbaugh.......................1915-1919
William Cameron Sproul.......................1919-1923
Gifford Pinchot..............................1923-1927
John Stuchell Fisher.........................1927-1931
Gifford Pinchot (restored)...................1931-1935
George Howard Earle III......................1935-1939
Arthur Horace James..........................1939-1943
Edward Martin................................1943-1947
John Cromwell Bell, Jr. .................2-21 Jan 1947
James Henderson Duff.........................1947-1951
John Sydney Fine.............................1951-1955
George Michael Leader........................1955-1959
David Leo Lawrence...........................1959-1963
William Warren Scranton......................1963-1967
Raymond Philip Shafer........................1967-1971
Milton Jerrold Shapp.........................1971-1979
Richard Lewis Thornburgh.....................1979-1987
Robert Patrick Casey.........................1987-1995
Thomas Joseph Ridge..........................1995-2001
Mark S. Schweiker............................2001-2003
Edward G. Rendell............................2003-2011
Tom Corbett..................................2011-

RHODE ISLAND

Settled from Massachusetts........................1636-1663
Proprietary Colony................................1663-1687

Presidents
John Coggeshall..............................1647-1648
Jeremy Clarke................................1648-1649
John Smith...................................1649-1650
Nicholas Easton..............................1650-1651

Newport and Portsmouth
Governors
William Coddington...........................1651-1653
John Sanford.................................1653-1654

Providence and Warwick
Presidents
Samuel Gorton................................1651-1652
John Smith (restored)........................1652-1653
Gregory Dexter...............................1653-1654

All once more...
Presidents
Nicholas Easton (restored)...............May-Sept 1654
Roger Williams...............................1654-1657
Benedict Arnold..............................1657-1660
William Brenton..............................1660-1662
Benedict Arnold (restored)...................1662-1663
Governors
Benedict Arnold..............................1663-1666
William Brenton..............................1666-1669
Benedict Arnold (restored)...................1669-1672
Nicholas Easton..............................1672-1674
William Coddington...........................1674-1676
Walter Clarke................................1676-1677
Benedict Arnold (re-restored)................1677-1678
William Coddington (restored).............Aug-Nov 1678
John Cranston................................1678-1680
Peleg Sanford................................1680-1683
William Coddington, Jr. .....................1683-1685
Henry Bull...................................1685-1686
Walter Clarke (restored).................May-June 1686

John Coggeshall (acting), 1686-1687

To the Dominion of New England....................1687-1689
Proprietary Colony once again.....................1689-1779

Henry Bull (restored)........................1689-1690
John Easton..................................1690-1695
Caleb Carr...................................1695-1696
Walter Clarke (re-restored)..................1696-1698
Samuel Cranston..............................1698-1727
Joseph Jenckes...............................1727-1732
William Wanton...............................1732-1733
John Wanton..................................1734-1740
Richard Ward.................................1740-1743
William Greene...............................1743-1745
Gideon Wanton................................1745-1746
William Greene (restored)....................1746-1747
Gideon Wanton (restored).....................1747-1748
William Greene (re-restored).................1748-1755
Stephen Hopkins..............................1755-1757
William Greene (re-re-restored)..............1757-1758
Stephen Hopkins (restored)...................1758-1762
Samuel Ward..................................1762-1763
Stephen Hopkins (re-restored)................1763-1765
Samuel Ward (restored).......................1765-1767
Stephen Hopkins (re-re-restored).............1767-1768
Josias Lyndon................................1768-1769
Joseph Wanton................................1769-1775
Nicholas Cooke...............................1775-1778

Autonomous within the Articles of Confederation...1776-1790

William Greene, Jr. .........................1778-1786
John Collins.................................1786-1790

Admitted as the 13th State........................1790-

Arthur Fenner................................1790-1805

Paul Mumford (acting), 1805
Henry Smith (acting), 1805-1806
Isaac Wilbour (acting), 1806-1807

James Fenner.................................1807-1811
William Jones................................1811-1817
Nehemiah Rice Knight.........................1817-1821

Edward Wilcox (acting), 1821

William Channing Gibbs.......................1821-1824
James Fenner (restored)......................1824-1831
Lemuel Hastings Arnold.......................1831-1833
John Brown Francis...........................1833-1838
William Sprague..............................1838-1839
Samuel Ward King (acting to 1840)............1839-1843
James Fenner (re-restored)...................1843-1845
Charles Jackson..............................1845-1846
Byron Diman..................................1846-1847
Elisha Harris................................1847-1849
Henry Bowen Anthony..........................1849-1851
Philip Allen.................................1851-1853

Francis M. Dimond (acting), 1853-1854

William Warner Hoppin........................1854-1857
Elisha Dyer..................................1857-1859
Thomas Goodwin Turner........................1859-1860
William Sprague..............................1860-1863
William Cole Cozzens......................Mar-May 1863
James Y. Smith...............................1863-1866
Ambrose Everett Burnside.....................1866-1869
Seth Padelford...............................1869-1873
Henry Howard.................................1873-1875
Henry Lippitt................................1875-1877
Charles Collins Van Zandt....................1877-1880
Alfred Henry Littlefield.....................1880-1883
Augustus Osborn Bourn........................1883-1885
George Peabody Wetmore.......................1885-1887
John William Davis...........................1887-1888
Royal Chapin Taft............................1888-1889
Herbert Warren Ladd..........................1889-1890
John William Davis (restored)................1890-1891
Herbert Warren Ladd (restored)...............1891-1892
Daniel Russell Brown.........................1892-1895
Charles Warren Lippitt.......................1895-1897
Elisha Dyer III..............................1897-1900
William Gregory..............................1900-1901
Charles Dean Kimball.........................1901-1903
Lucius Fayette Clark Garvin..................1903-1905
George Herbert Utter.........................1905-1907
James Henry Higgins..........................1907-1909
Aram J. Pothier..............................1909-1915
Robert Livingston Beeckman...................1915-1921
Emery John San Souci.........................1921-1923
William Smith Flynn..........................1923-1925
Aram J. Pothier (restored)...................1925-1928
Norman Stanley Case..........................1928-1933
Theodore Francis Green.......................1933-1937
Robert Emmet Quinn...........................1937-1939
William Henry Vanderbilt.....................1939-1941
James Howard McGrath.........................1941-1945
John Orlando Pastore.........................1945-1950
John Sammon McKiernan........................1950-1951
Dennis Joseph Roberts........................1951-1959
Christopher Del Sesto........................1959-1961
John Anthony Notte, Jr. .....................1961-1963
John Hubbard Chafee..........................1963-1969
Frank Licht..................................1969-1973
Philip William Noel..........................1973-1977
John Joseph Garrahy..........................1977-1985
Edward Daniel DiPrete........................1985-1991
Bruce G. Sundlun.............................1991-1995
Lincoln C. Almond............................1995-2003
Don Carcieri.................................2003-2011
Lincoln Chafee...............................2011-

SOUTH CAROLINA

The Cherokee (northwest)....................... < 1540-1830
Proprietary Grants................................1669-1729

William Sayle................................1669-1671
Joseph West..................................1671-1672
Sir John Yeamans.............................1672-1674
Joseph West (restored).......................1674-1682
Joseph Morton................................1682-1684
Richard Kyrle.....................................1684
Robert Quarry................................1684-1685
Joseph West (re-restored).........................1685
Joseph Morton (restored).....................1685-1686
James Colleton...............................1686-1690
Seth Sothell.................................1690-1692
Philip Ludwell...............................1692-1693
Thomas Smith.................................1693-1694
Joseph Blake......................................1694
John Archdale................................1694-1696
Joseph Blake (restored)......................1696-1700
James Moore..................................1700-1703
Sir Nathaniel Johnson........................1703-1708
Edward Tynte.................................1709-1710
Robert Gibbes................................1710-1711
Charles Craven...............................1711-1716
Robert Daniel................................1716-1717
Robert Johnson...............................1717-1719
James Moore..................................1719-1721
Francis Nicholson............................1721-1725
Arthur Middleton.............................1725-1729

To Great Britain directly.........................1729-1781

Robert Johnson (restored)....................1729-1735

Thomas Broughton (acting), 1735-1737
William Bull (acting), 1737-1743

James Glen...................................1743-1756
William Henry Lyttelton......................1756-1760

William Bull (acting), 1760-1761

Thomas Boone.................................1761-1764

William Bull (restored; acting), 1764-1766

Charles Greville Montagu.....................1766-1773

William Bull (re-restored; acting), 1773-1775

William Campbell.............................1775-1776

Autonomous within the Articles of Confederation...1776-1788
Presidents

John Rutledge................................1776-1778
Rawlins Lowndes..............................1778-1779

Governors

John Rutledge (restored).....................1779-1782
John Mathews.................................1782-1783
Benjamin Guerard.............................1783-1785
William Moultrie.............................1785-1787
Thomas Pinckney..............................1787-1789

Admitted as the 8th State.........................1788-1860

Charles Pinckney.............................1789-1792
William Moultrie (restored)..................1792-1794
Arnoldus Vanderhorst.........................1794-1796
Charles Pinckney (restored)..................1796-1798
Edward Rutledge..............................1798-1800
John Drayton.................................1800-1802
James Burchill Richardson....................1802-1804
Paul Hamilton................................1804-1806
Charles Pinckney (re-restored)...............1806-1808
John Drayton (restored)......................1808-1810
Henry Middleton..............................1810-1812
Joseph Alston................................1812-1814
David Rogerson Williams......................1814-1816
Andrew Rickens...............................1816-1817
John Geddes..................................1818-1820
Thomas Bennett...............................1820-1822
John Lyde Wilson.............................1822-1824
Richard Irvine Manning.......................1824-1826
John Taylor..................................1826-1828
Stephen Decatur Miller.......................1828-1830
James Hamilton, Jr. .........................1830-1832
Robert Young Hayne...........................1832-1834
George McDuffie..............................1834-1836
Pierce Mason Butler..........................1836-1838
Patrick Noble................................1838-1840

Barnabas Kelet Henagan (acting), 1840

John Peter Richardson........................1840-1842
James Henry Hammond..........................1842-1844
William Aiken................................1844-1846
David Johnson................................1846-1848
Whitemarsh Benjamin Seabrook.................1848-1850
John Hugh Means..............................1850-1852
John Laurence Manning........................1852-1854
James Hopkins Adams..........................1854-1856
Robert Francis Withers Allston...............1856-1858
William Henry Gist...........................1858-1860

Technically independent......................Dec. 1860-Feb. 1861

Francis Wilkinson Pickens....................1860-1862

1st Confederate State of America..................1861-1865

Milledge Luke Bonham.........................1862-1864
Andrew Gordon Magrath........................1864-1865

Benjamin Franklin Perry (acting), 1865

To the United States..............................1865-1868

James Lawrence Orr...........................1866-1868

Readmitted to the Union...........................1868-

Edward R. S. Canby (acting), 1868

Robert Kingston Scott........................1868-1872
Franklin J. Moses, Jr. ......................1872-1874
Daniel Henry Chamberlain.....................1874-1876
Wade Hampton.................................1876-1879

William Dunlap Simpson (acting), 1879-1880

Thomas Bothwell Jeter.............................1880
Johnson Hagood...............................1880-1882
Hugh Smith Thompson..........................1882-1886

John Calhoun Sheppard (acting), 1886

John Peter Richardson........................1886-1890
Benjamin Ryan Tillman........................1890-1894
John Gary Evans..............................1894-1897
William Haselden Ellerbe.....................1897-1899
Miles Benjamin McSweeney.....................1899-1903
Duncan Clinch Heyward........................1903-1907
Martin Frederick Ansel.......................1907-1911
Coleman Livingston Blease....................1911-1915

Charles Aurelius Smith (acting), 1915

Richard Irvine Manning.......................1915-1919
Robert Archer Cooper.........................1919-1922
Wilson Godfrey Harvey........................1922-1923
Thomas Gordon McLeod.........................1923-1927
John Gardiner Richards.......................1927-1931
Ibra Charles Blackwood.......................1931-1935
Olin DeWitt Talmadge Johnston................1935-1939
Burnet Rhett Maybank.........................1939-1941
Joseph Emile Harley..........................1941-1942
Richard Manning Jeffries.....................1942-1943
Olin DeWitt Talmadge Johnston (restored).....1943-1945
Ransome Judson Williams......................1945-1947
James Strom Thurmond.........................1947-1951
James Francis Byrnes.........................1951-1955
George Bell Timmerman, Jr. ..................1955-1959
Ernest Frederick Hollings....................1959-1963
Donald Stuart Russell........................1963-1965
Robert Evander McNair........................1965-1971
John Carl West...............................1971-1975
James Burrows Edwards........................1975-1979
Richard Wilson Riley.........................1979-1987
Carroll Ashmore Campbell, Jr. ...............1987-1995
David M. Beasley.............................1995-1999
Jim Hodges...................................1999-2003
Marshall (Mark) Clement Sanford, Jr. ........2003-2011
Nikki Haley (fem.)............................2011-

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