United S
tates:
South Dakota - Wyoming
Alabama-Georgia
Hawaii-Massachusetts
Michigan-New Mexico
New York-South Carolina
SOUTH DAKOTA
Occupied by Sioux.............................. < 1540-c. 1880
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..................................1861-1889
Governors of Dakota
William Jayne................................1861-1863
Newton Edmunds...............................1863-1866
Andrew Jackson Faulk.........................1866-1869
John A. Burbank..............................1869-1874
John L. Pennington...........................1874-1878
William Alanson Howard.......................1878-1880
Nehemiah George Ordway.......................1880-1884
Gilbert Ashville Pierce......................1884-1886
Louis K. Church..............................1887-1889
Arthur Calvin Mellette...................Mar 1889-1893
Admitted as the 39th or 40th State................1889-
Governors of South Dakota (from Nov. 1889)
Charles Henry Sheldon........................1893-1897
Andrew Ericson Lee...........................1897-1901
Charles Nelsonreid...........................1901-1905
Samuel Harrison Elrod........................1905-1907
Coe Isaac Crawford...........................1907-1909
Robert Scadden Vessey........................1909-1913
Frank Michael Byrne..........................1913-1917
Peter Norbeck................................1917-1921
William Henry McMaster.......................1921-1925
Carl Gunderson...............................1925-1927
William John Bulow...........................1927-1931
Warren Everett Green.........................1931-1933
Thomas Berry.................................1933-1937
Leslie Jensen................................1937-1939
Harlan John Bushfield........................1939-1943
Merrell Quentin Sharpe.......................1943-1947
George Theodore Mickelson....................1947-1951
Sigurd Anderson..............................1951-1955
Joseph Jacob Foss............................1955-1959
Ralph Herseth................................1959-1961
Archie Gubbrud...............................1961-1965
Nils Andreas Boe.............................1965-1969
Frank Leroy Farrar...........................1969-1971
Richard Francis Kneip........................1971-1978
Harvey L. Wollman............................1978-1979
William John Janklow.........................1979-1987
George Speaker Mickelson.....................1987-1993
Walter Dale Miller...........................1993-1995
William John Janklow (restored)..............1995-2003
Mike Rounds..................................2003-2011
Dennis Daugaard..............................2011-
TENNESSEE
To the Cherokee (center and east).............. < 1540-1830
Claimed by France.................................1673-1763
To
North Carolina
.................................1763-1784
Republic of Franklin..............................1784-1788
John Sevier..................................1785-1788
To
North Carolina
.................................1788-1790
Territory "South of the River Ohio"...............1790-1796
William Blount...............................1790-1796
Admitted as the 16th State........................1796-1861
John Sevier (restored).......................1796-1801
Archibald Roane..............................1801-1803
John Sevier (re-restored)....................1803-1809
Willie Blount................................1809-1815
Joseph McMinn................................1815-1821
William Carroll..............................1821-1827
Sam Houston (
Texas 1836-61 passim
)...........1827-1829
William Hall (acting), 1829
William Carroll (restored)...................1829-1835
Newton Cannon................................1835-1839
James Knox Polk (
President 1845-1849
)........1839-1841
James Chamberlain Jones......................1841-1845
Aaron Venable Brown..........................1845-1847
Neill Smith Brown............................1847-1849
William Trousdale............................1849-1851
William Bowen Campbell.......................1851-1853
Andrew Johnson (
President 1865-1869
).........1853-1857
Isham Green Harris...........................1857-1862
11th Confederate State of America.................1861-1862/4
To the United States..............................1862-1868
Andrew Johnson (restored; military governor), 1862-1865
Edward Hazzard East, 1865
William Gannaway Brownlow....................1865-1869
Readmitted to the Union...........................1868-
DeWitt Clinton Senter........................1869-1871
John Calvin Brown............................1871-1875
James Davis Porter...........................1875-1879
Albert Smith Marks...........................1879-1881
Alvin Hawkins................................1881-1883
William Brimage Bate.........................1883-1887
Robert Love Taylor...........................1887-1891
John Price Buchanan..........................1891-1893
Peter Turney.................................1893-1897
Robert Love Taylor (restored)................1897-1899
Benton McMillin..............................1899-1903
James Beriah Frazier.........................1903-1905
John Isaac Cox...............................1905-1907
Malcolm Rice Patterson.......................1907-1911
Ben Walker Hooper............................1911-1915
Thomas Clark Rye.............................1915-1919
Albert Houston Roberts.......................1919-1921
Alfred Alexander Taylor......................1921-1923
Austin Peay IV...............................1923-1927
Henry Hollis Horton..........................1927-1933
Harry Hill McAlister.........................1933-1937
Gordon Browning..............................1937-1939
Prentice Cooper..............................1939-1945
Jim Nance McCord.............................1945-1949
Gordon Browning (restored)...................1949-1953
Frank Goad Clement...........................1953-1959
Earl Buford Ellington........................1959-1963
Frank Goad Clement (restored)................1963-1967
Earl Buford Ellington (restored).............1967-1971
Bryant Winfield Culberson Dunn...............1971-1975
Leonard Ray Blanton..........................1975-1979
Lamar Alexander..............................1979-1987
Ned Ray McWherter............................1987-1995
Donald Kenneth Sundquist.....................1995-2003
Phil Bredesen................................2003-2011
Bill Haslam..................................2011-
TEXAS
Occupied by Tonkawa (central) & Comanche (north).to c. 1845
Claimed by
Spain
..................................1540-1822
Governors
Domingo Terán de los Ríos....................1691-1692
Gregorio de Salinas Varona...................1692-1697
Francisco Cuerbo y Valdez....................1698-1702
Mathías de Aguirre...........................1703-1705
Martín de Alarcón............................1705-1708
Simon Padilla y Córdova......................1708-1712
Pedro Fermín de Echevers y Subisa............1712-1714
Juan Váldez..................................1714-1716
Martín de Alarcón (restored).................1716-1719
José de Azlor y Virto de Vera, marqués de San Miguel de Aguayo...1719-1722
Fernando Pérez de Almazán....................1722-1727
Melchor de Media Villa y Azcona..............1727-1731
Juan Antonio Bustillos y Ceballos............1731-1734
Manuel de Sandoval...........................1734-1736
Carlos Benites Franquis de Lugo..............1736-1737
José Antonio Fernández de Jáuregui Urrutia...1737-1738
Prudencio de Orobio y Basterra...............1738-1741
Tomás Felipe de Winthuisen...................1741-1743
Justo Boneo y Morales........................1743-1744
Francisco García Larios......................1744-1748
Pedro del Barrio Junco y Espriella...........1748-1750
Jacinto de Barrios y Jáuregui................1751-1759
Ángel de Martos y Navarrete..................1759-1767
Hugo Oconór..................................1767-1770
Juan María Vicencio, barón de Ripperdá.......1770-1778
Domingo Cabello y Robles.....................1778-1786
Rafael Martínez Pacheco......................1786-1788
vacant
Rafael Martínez Pacheco (restored)...........1789-1790
Manuel Muñoz.................................1790-1799
Juan Bautista Elguézabal.....................1799-1805
Manuel Antonio Cordero y Bustamante..........1805-1808
Manuel María de Salcedo......................1808-1813 opposed by...
Juan Bautista Casas...............................1811
Cristóbal Domínguez..........................1813-1814
Benito de Armiñán............................1814-1815
Mariano Varela...............................1815-1816
Juan Ignacio Pérez...........................1816-1817
Manuel Pardo..............................Mar-May 1817
Antonio María Martínez.......................1817-1822
To Mexico.........................................1822-1836
José Félix Trespalacios......................1822-1823
Luciano García...........................July-Oct 1823
Rafael Gonzales..............................1824-1826
Víctor Blanco................................1826-1827
José María Viesca............................1827-1831
José María Letona............................1831-1832
Juan Martín de Veramendi.....................1832-1833
Juan José de Vidauri y Villaseñor............1833-1834
Juan José Elguézabal.........................1834-1835
José María Cantu..........................Mar-Apr 1835
Agustín M. Viesca.................................1835
Marciel Borrego...................................1835
Ramón Musquiz............................June-Nov 1835
Henry Smith..................................1835-1836
James W. Robinson (acting), Jan-Mar 1836
Republic of Texas.................................1836-1845
Provisional Government, Mar-Oct. 1836
Presidents
Sam Houston (
Tenn. 1827-1829
)................1836-1838
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar....................1838-1841
Sam Houston (restored).......................1841-1844
Anson Jones..................................1844-1846
Admitted as the 28th State........................1846-1861
Governors
James Pinckney Henderson.....................1846-1847
George Tyler Wood............................1847-1849
Peter Hansbrough Bell........................1849-1853
James Wilson Henderson (acting), 1853
Elisha Marshall Pease........................1853-1857
Hardin Richard Runnels.......................1857-1859
Sam Houston..................................1859-1861
7th Confederate State of America..................1861-1865
Edward Clark (acting), Mar-Nov 1861
Francis Richard Lubbock......................1861-1863
Pendleton Murrah.............................1863-1865
Fletcher Summerfield Stockdale....................1865
To the United States..............................1865-1870
Andrew Jackson Hamilton......................1865-1866
James Webb Throckmorton......................1866-1867
Elisha Marshall Pease (restored).............1867-1869
Readmitted to the Union...........................1870-
Edmund Jackson Davis.........................1870-1874
Richard Coke.................................1874-1876
Richard Bennet Hubbard.......................1876-1879
Oran Milo Roberts............................1879-1883
John Ireland.................................1883-1887
Lawrence Sullivan Ross.......................1887-1891
James Stephen Hogg...........................1891-1895
Charles Allen Culberson......................1895-1899
Joseph Draper Sayers.........................1899-1903
Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham..................1903-1907
Thomas Mitchell Campbell.....................1907-1911
Oscar Branch Colquitt........................1911-1915
James Edward Ferguson........................1915-1917
William Pettus Hobby.........................1917-1921
Patrick Morris Neff..........................1921-1925
Miriam Amanda Wallace Ferguson (
fem.
).........1925-1927
Daniel James Moody, Jr. .....................1927-1931
Ross Shaw Sterling...........................1931-1933
Miriam Amanda Wallace Ferguson (
fem.
) (rest.).1933-1935
James V. Allred..............................1935-1939
Wilbert Lee O'Daniel.........................1939-1941
Coke Robert Stevenson........................1941-1947
Beauford Halbert Jester......................1947-1949
Robert Allan Shivers.........................1949-1957
Marion Price Daniel..........................1957-1963
John Bowden Connally, Jr. ...................1963-1969
Preston Earnest Smith........................1969-1973
Dolph Briscoe, Jr. ..........................1973-1979
William Perry Clements, Jr. .................1979-1983
Mark White...................................1983-1987
William Perry Clements, Jr. (restored).......1987-1991
Dorothy Ann Willis Richards (
fem.
)............1991-1995
George Walker Bush (
President 2001-
)........1995-2000
Rick Perry...................................2000-
UTAH
Occupied by Shoshone and Paiute..................to c. 1850
Claimed by
Spain
..................................1540-1822
Claimed by Mexico.................................1822-1848
Occupied by Mormon colonists......................1847-1849
State of Deseret
..................................1848-1858
Brigham Young................................1849-1858
Territory of Utah.................................1858-1896
Alfred Cumming...............................1858-1861
Francis H. Wooten (acting), 1861
John W. Dawson...........................7-31 Dec 1861
Frank Fuller (acting), 1861-1862
Stephen Selwyn Harding.......................1862-1863
James Duane Doty (
Wisconsin Terr. 1841-4
)....1863-1865
Amos Reed (acting), 1865
Charles Durkee...............................1865-1869
Edwin Higgins (acting), 1869-1870
S. A. Mann (acting), 1870
John Wilson Shaffer...............................1870
Vernon H. Vaughan (acting), 1870-1871
George A. Black (acting), 1871
George Lemuel Woods (
Gov. Oregon 1866-70
)....1871-1874
Samuel Beach Axtell..........................1874-1875
George W. Emery..............................1875-1880
Eli Huston Murray............................1880-1886
Caleb Walton West............................1886-1889
Arthur Lloyd Thomas..........................1889-1893
Caleb Walton West (restored).................1893-1896
Admitted as the 45th State........................1896-
Heber Manning Wells..........................1896-1905
John Christopher Cutler......................1905-1909
William Spry.................................1909-1917
Simon Bamberger..............................1917-1921
Charles Rendell Mabey........................1921-1925
George Henry Dern............................1925-1933
Henry Hooper Blood...........................1933-1941
Herbert Brown Maw............................1941-1949
Joseph Bracken Lee...........................1949-1957
George Dewey Clyde...........................1957-1965
Calvin Lewellyn Rampton......................1965-1977
Scott Milne Matheson.........................1977-1985
Norman Howard Bangerter......................1985-1993
Michael Okerlund Leavitt.....................1993-2003
Olene Walker (
fem.
)...........................2003-2005
Jon Huntsman, Jr. ...........................2005-2009
Gary Herbert.................................2009-
VERMONT
Occupied by the Iroquois League.............c. 1600-c. 1765
Claims by France and
Great Britain
..................to 1729
Settled from Massachusetts........................from 1729
To New York.......................................1741-1777
Republic of New Connecticut..................Jan.-July 1777
Chairman, General Convention
Joseph Bowker............................Jan-July 1777
Republic of Vermont...............................1777-1791
President of the Council of Safety; Governors from 1778
Thomas Chittenden............................1777-1789
Moses Robinson...............................1789-1790
Thomas Chittenden (restored).................1790-1797
Admitted as the 14th State........................1791-
Paul Brigham (acting), Aug-Oct 1797
Isaac Tichenor...............................1797-1807
Israel Smith.................................1807-1808
Isaac Tichenor (restored)....................1808-1809
Jonas Galusha................................1809-1813
Martin Chittenden............................1813-1815
Jonas Galusha (restored).....................1815-1820
Richard Skinner..............................1820-1823
Cornelius Peter Van Ness.....................1823-1826
Ezra Butler..................................1826-1828
Samuel Chandler Crafts.......................1828-1831
William Adams Palmer.........................1831-1835
Silas Hemenway Jennison......................1835-1841
Charles Paine................................1841-1843
John Mattocks................................1843-1844
William Slade................................1844-1846
Horace Eaton.................................1846-1848
Carlos Coolidge..............................1848-1850
Charles Kilborn Williams.....................1850-1852
Erastus Fairbanks............................1852-1853
John Staniford Robinson......................1853-1854
Stephen Royce................................1854-1856
Ryland Fletcher..............................1856-1858
Hiland Hall..................................1858-1860
Erastus Fairbanks (restored).................1860-1861
Frederick Holbrook...........................1861-1863
John Gregory Smith...........................1863-1865
Paul Dillingham, Jr. (
Fath. Wm. Paul Dill.
)..1865-1867
John Boardman Page...........................1867-1869
Peter Thacher Washburn.......................1869-1870
George Whitman Hendee (acting), 1870
John Wolcott Stewart..............................1870-1872
Julius Converse..............................1872-1874
Asahel Peck..................................1874-1876
Horace Fairbanks.............................1876-1878
Redfield Proctor.............................1878-1880
Roswell Farnham..............................1880-1882
John Lester Barstow..........................1882-1884
Samuel Everett Pingree.......................1884-1886
Ebenezer Jolls Ormsbee.......................1886-1888
William Paul Dillingham (
Son Paul Dill.
).....1888-1890
Carroll Smalley Page.........................1890-1892
Levi Knight Fuller...........................1892-1894
Urban Andrian Woodbury.......................1894-1896
Josiah Grout.................................1896-1898
Edward Curtisth..............................1898-1900
William Wallace Stickney.....................1900-1902
John Griffith McCullough.....................1902-1904
Charles James Bell...........................1904-1906
Fletcher Dutton Proctor......................1906-1908
George Herbert Prouty........................1908-1910
John Abner Mead..............................1910-1912
Allen Miller Fletcher........................1912-1915
Charles Winslow Gates........................1915-1917
Horace French Graham.........................1917-1919
Percival Wood Clement........................1919-1921
James Hartness...............................1921-1923
Redfield Proctor.............................1923-1925
Franklin Swift Billings......................1925-1927
John Eliakim Weeks...........................1927-1931
Stanley Calef Wilson.........................1931-1935
Charles Manley Smith.........................1935-1937
George David Aiken...........................1937-1941
William Henry Wills..........................1941-1945
Mortimer Robinson Proctor....................1945-1947
Ernest William Gibson........................1947-1950
Harold John Arthur...........................1950-1951
Lee Earl Emerson.............................1951-1955
Joseph Blaine Johnson........................1955-1959
Robert Theodore Stafford.....................1959-1961
Frank Ray Keyser, Jr. .......................1961-1963
Philip Henderson Hoff........................1963-1969
Deane Chandler Davis.........................1969-1973
Thomas Paul Salmon...........................1973-1977
Richard Arkwright Snelling...................1977-1985
Madeleine M. Kunin (
fem.
).....................1985-1991
Richard Arkwright Snelling (restored).....Jan-Aug 1991
Howard Brush Dean III........................1991-2003
James H. Douglas.............................2003-2011
Peter Shumlin................................2011-
VIRGINIA
Claimed by England................................1587-1609
Proprietary Grants................................1609-1729
Presidents of Council
Edward Maria Wingfield...................Apr-Sept 1607
John Ratcliffe...............................1607-1608
John Smith...................................1608-1609
George Percy.................................1609-1610
Governors
Sir Thomas Gates (acting), 1610
Thomas West, Baron de la Warr................1610-1611
George Percy (acting), Mar-May 1611
Thomas Dale (acting), May-Aug 1611
Sir Thomas Gates (restored; acting), 1611-1612
Thomas Dale (restored; acting), 1612-1616
George Yeardley..............................1616-1617
Samuel Argall (acting), 1617-1619
Nathaniel Powell (acting), 9-19 Apr 1619
Sir George Yeardley (restored)...............1619-1621
Sir Francis Wyatt............................1621-1626
Sir George Yeardley (re-r.; act. to 19.4.26).1626-1627
Francis West.................................1627-1628
John Pott....................................1628-1630
Sir John Harvey..............................1630-1635
John West....................................1635-1636
Sir John Harvey (restored)...................1636-1639
Sir Francis Wyatt (restored).................1639-1642
Sir William Berkeley.........................1642-1652
Richard Bennett..............................1652-1655
Edward Digges................................1655-1658
Samuel Mathews...............................1658-1660
Sir William Berkeley (restored)..............1660-1677
Herbert Jeffreys.............................1677-1678
Henry Chicheley (acting), 1678-1680
Thomas Culpeper, Baron Culpeper..............1680-1683
Nicholas Spencer (acting), 1683-1684
Francis Howard, Baron Howard of Effingham (acting), 1684-1687
Nathaniel Bacon (acting), 1687-1690
Francis Nicholson (acting), 1690-1692
Sir Edmund Andros............................1692-1698
Governor of New York 1674-81, 1688; of the Dominion of New England 1686-91; of Maryland 1693-4.
Francis Nicholson (restored; acting), 1698-1704
George Hamilton Douglas, Earl of Orkney (ab.)1704-1737 with...
Edward Nott (acting), 1705-1706
Edmund Jennings (acting), 1706-1710
Alexander Spotswood (acting), 1710-1722
Hugh Drysdale (acting), 1722-1726
Robert Carter (acting), 1726-1727
Sir William Gooch (acting), 1727-1749
To
Great Britain
directly.........................1729-1775
William Anne Keppel, Earl of Albemarle (ab.).1737-1754 with...
John Robinson (acting), June-Sept 1749
Thomas Lee (acting), 1749-1750
Lewis Burwell (acting), 1750-1751
Robert Dinwiddie (acting), 1751-1758
John Campbell, Earl of Loudoun (absentee)....1756-1763 with...
John Blair (acting), Jan-June 1758
Francis Fauquier (acting), 1758-1768
Jeffrey Amherst (absentee)...................1763-1768 with...
John Blair (restored) acting, Mar-Oct 1768
Norborne Berkeley, B. de Botetourt (abs.)....1768-1770
William Nelson (acting), 1770-1771
John Murray, Earl of Dunmore.................1771-1775
Autonomous within the Articles of Confederation...1776-1789
President of the Committee of Safety
Edmund Pendleton.............................1775-1776
Governors
Patrick Henry................................1776-1779
Thomas Jefferson (
President 1801-1809
).......1779-1781
William Fleming (acting), 3-12 June 1781
Thomas Nelson............................June-Nov 1781
David Jameson (acting), 22-30 Nov 1781
Benjamin Harrison............................1781-1784
Patrick Henry (restored).....................1784-1786
Edmund Jenings Randolph......................1786-1788
Beverley Randolph............................1788-1791
Admitted as the 10th State........................1789-1861
Henry Lee....................................1792-1795
Robert Brooke................................1795-1796
James Wood...................................1796-1799
Hardin Burnley (acting), 7-11 Dec 1799
John Pendleton (acting), 11-19 Dec 1799
James Monroe (
President 1817-1825
)...........1799-1802
John Page....................................1802-1805
William H. Cabell............................1805-1808
John Tyler (I) (
Father J. Tyler (II)
)........1808-1811
George William Smith....................15-19 Jan 1811
James Monroe (
Pres. 1817-25
; restored)....Jan-Apr 1811
George W. Smith (restored; acting), Apr-Dec 1811
Peyton Randolph (acting), 1811-1812
James Barbour................................1812-1814
Wilson Cary Nicholas.........................1814-1816
James Patton Preston.........................1816-1819
Thomas Mann Randolph.........................1819-1822
James Pleasants, Jr. ........................1822-1825
John Tyler (II) (
Son J. Tyl.; Pres. 1841-5
)..1825-1827
William Branch Giles.........................1827-1830
John Floyd...................................1830-1834
Littleton Waller Tazewell....................1834-1836
Wyndham Robertson............................1836-1837
David Campbell...............................1837-1840
Thomas Walker Gilmer.........................1840-1841
John Mercer Patton (acting), 20-31 Mar 1841
John Rutherford (acting), 1841-1842
John Munford Gregory (acting), 1842-1843
James McDowell...............................1843-1846
William Smith................................1846-1849
John Buchanan Floyd..........................1849-1852
Joseph Johnson...............................1852-1856
Henry Alexander Wise.........................1856-1860
John Letcher.................................1860-1864
8th Confederate State of America..................1861-1865
William Smith (restored).....................1864-1865
To the United States..............................1865-1870
Francis Harrison Pierpont....................1865-1868
Henry Horatio Wells..........................1868-1869
Gilbert C. Walker............................1869-1874
Readmitted to the Union...........................1870-
James Lawson Kemper..........................1874-1877
Frederick William Mackey Holliday............1878-1882
William Ewan Cameron.........................1882-1886
Fitzhugh Lee.................................1886-1890
Philip Watkins McKinney......................1890-1894
Charles Triplett O'Ferrall...................1894-1898
James Hoge Tyler.............................1898-1902
Andrew Jackson Montague......................1902-1906
Claude Augustus Swanson......................1906-1910
William Hodges Mann..........................1910-1914
Henry Carter Stuart..........................1914-1918
Westmoreland Davis...........................1918-1922
Elbert Lee Trinkle...........................1922-1926
Harry Flood Byrd, Sr. .......................1926-1930
John Garland Pollard.........................1930-1934
George Campbell Peery........................1934-1938
James Hubert Price...........................1938-1942
Colgate Whitehead Darden, Jr. ...............1942-1946
William Munford Tuck.........................1946-1950
John Stewart Battle..........................1950-1954
Thomas Bahnson Stanley.......................1954-1958
James Lindsay Almond, Jr. ...................1958-1962
Albertis Sydney Harrison, Jr. ...............1962-1966
Mills Edwin Godwin, Jr. .....................1966-1970
Abner Linwood Holton, Jr. ...................1970-1974
Mills Edwin Godwin, Jr. (restored)...........1974-1978
John Nichols Dalton..........................1978-1982
Charles Spittal Robb.........................1982-1986
Gerald L. Baliles............................1986-1990
Lawrence Douglas Wilder......................1990-1994
George Felix Allen...........................1994-1998
James S. Gilmore.............................1998-2002
Mark Warner..................................2002-2006
Tim Kaine....................................2006-2010
Bob McDonnell................................2010-
WASHINGTON
Claimed by the United States......................1804-1848 with...
Jointly claimed by
Great Britain
..................1818-1846
To Oregon.........................................1846-1853
Washington Territory..............................1853-1889
Governors
Isaac Ingalls Stevens........................1853-1857
Charles H. Mason (acting), Aug-Sept 1857
Fayette McMullen.............................1857-1858
Charles H. Mason (restored; acting), 1858-1859
Richard Dickerson Gholson....................1859-1860
Henry M. McGill (acting), 1860-1861
William Henson Wallace............................1861
L. Jay S. Turney (acting), 1861-1862
William Pickering............................1862-1866
George Edward Cole...........................1866-1867
Marshall F. Moore............................1867-1869
Alvan Flanders...............................1869-1870
Edward Selig Salomon.........................1870-1872
Elisha Peyre Ferry...........................1872-1880
William Augustus Newell (
New Jersey 1857-60
).1880-1884
Watson Carvoso Squire........................1884-1887
Eugene Semple................................1887-1889
Miles Conway Moore........................Mar-Nov 1889
Admitted as the 42nd State........................1889-
Elisha Peyre Ferry (restored)................1889-1893
John Harte McGraw............................1893-1897
John Rankin Rogers...........................1897-1901
Henry McBride (acting), 1901-1905
Albert Edward Mead...........................1905-1909
Samuel Goodlove Cosgrove..................Jan-Mar 1909
Marion E. Hay (acting), 1909-1913
Ernest Lister................................1913-1919
Louis Folwell Hart...........................1919-1925
Roland Hill Hartley..........................1925-1933
Clarence Daniel Martin.......................1933-1941
Arthur Bernard Langlie.......................1941-1945
Monrad Charles Wallgren......................1945-1949
Arthur Bernard Langlie (restored)............1949-1957
Albert Dean Rosellini........................1957-1965
Daniel Jackson Evans.........................1965-1977
Dixy Lee Ray (
fem.
)...........................1977-1981
John D. Spellman.............................1981-1985
Booth Gardner................................1985-1993
Michael Edward Lowry.........................1993-1997
Gary Locke...................................1997-2005
Christine Gregoire (
fem.
).....................2005-
WEST VIRGINIA
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
To Virginia.......................................1763-1861
Controlled by Unionist residents..................1861-1863
Admitted as the 35th State........................1863-
Arthur Inghram Boreman.......................1863-1869
Daniel Duane Tompkins Farnsworth.............1869-1869
William Erskine Stevenson....................1869-1871
John Jeremiah Jacob..........................1871-1877
Henry Mason Mathews..........................1877-1881
Jacob Beeson Jackson.........................1881-1885
Emanuel Willis Wilson........................1885-1890
Aretas Brooks Fleming........................1890-1893
William Alexander MacCorkle..................1893-1897
George Wesley Atkinson.......................1897-1901
Albert Blakeslee White.......................1901-1905
William Mercer Owens Dawson..................1905-1909
William Ellsworth Glasscock..................1909-1913
Henry Drury Hatfield.........................1913-1917
John Jacob Cornwell..........................1917-1921
Ephraim Franklin Morgan......................1921-1925
Howard Mason Gore............................1925-1929
William Gustavus Conley......................1929-1933
Herman Guy Kump..............................1933-1937
Homer Adams Holt.............................1937-1941
Matthew Mansfield Neely......................1941-1945
Clarence Watson Meadows......................1945-1949
Okey Leonidas Patteson.......................1949-1953
William Casey Marland........................1953-1957
Cecil Harland Underwood......................1957-1961
William Wallace Barron.......................1961-1965
Hulett Carlson Smith.........................1965-1969
Arch Alfred Moore, Jr. ......................1969-1977
John Davison Rockefeller IV..................1977-1985
Arch Alfred Moore, Jr. (restored)............1985-1989
W. Gaston Caperton...........................1989-1997
Cecil Harland Underwood (restored)...........1997-2001
Robert Ellsworth Wise, Jr. ..................2001-2005
Joe Manchin..................................2005-2010
Earl Ray Tomblin, acting.....................2010-
WISCONSIN
Adena Culture..............................c. BCE 1000-c. CE 200
Hopewell Culture................................c. 200-c. 700
Mississippian Culture...........................c. 700-c. 1550
Claimed by France.................................1665-1763
To
Great Britain
..................................1763-1787
To the Northwest Territory........................1787-1803
To Indiana Territory..............................1803-1809
To Illinois Territory.............................1809-1818
To Michigan Territory.............................1818-1836
Wisconsin Territory...............................1836-1848
Henry Dodge..................................1836-1841
James Duane Doty (
Gov. Utah Terr. 1863-65
)...1841-1844
Nathaniel Pitcher Tallmadge..................1844-1845
Henry Dodge (restored).......................1845-1848
Admitted as the 30th State........................1848-
Nelson Dewey.................................1848-1852
Leonard James Farwell........................1852-1854
William Augustus Barstow.....................1854-1856
Arthur MacArthur.............................1856-1856
Coles Bashford...............................1856-1858
Alexander Williams Randall...................1858-1862
Louis Powell Harvey...............................1862
Edward P. Salomon............................1862-1864
James Taylor Lewis...........................1864-1866
Lucius Fairchild.............................1866-1872
Cadwallader Colden Washburn..................1872-1874
William Robert Taylor........................1874-1876
Harrison Ludington...........................1876-1878
William E. Smith.............................1878-1882
Jeremiah McLain Rusk.........................1882-1889
William Dempster Hoard.......................1889-1891
George Wilbur Peck...........................1891-1895
William Henry Upham..........................1895-1897
Edward Scofield..............................1897-1901
Robert Marion La Follette (
Fath. Philip L'F.
)...1901-1906
James Ole Davidson...........................1906-1911
Francis Edward McGovern......................1911-1915
Emanuel Lorenz Philipp.......................1915-1921
John James Blaine............................1921-1927
Fred R. Zimmerman............................1927-1929
Walter Jodok Kohler, Sr. (
Fth. Walter K. Jr.
)...1929-1931
Philip Fox La Follette (
Son Robert La Fol.
)..1931-1933
Albert George Schmedeman.....................1933-1935
Philip Fox La Follette (restored)............1935-1939
Julius Peter Heil............................1939-1943
Walter Samuel Goodland.......................1943-1947
Oscar Rennebohm..............................1947-1951
Walter Jodok Kohler, Jr. (
Son Walter K. Sr.
).1951-1957
Vernon Wallace Thomson.......................1957-1959
Gaylord Anton Nelson.........................1959-1963
John W. Reynolds.............................1963-1965
Warren Perley Knowles........................1965-1971
Patrick Joseph Lucey.........................1971-1977
Martin James Schreiber.......................1977-1979
Lee Sherman Dreyfus..........................1979-1983
Anthony Scully Earl..........................1983-1987
Tommy George Thompson........................1987-2001
Scott McCallum...............................2001-2003
James Doyle..................................2003-2011
Scott Walker.................................2011-
WYOMING
Claimed by France.................................1673-1762
Claimed by
Spain
..................................1762-1800
To France.........................................1800-1803
To the United States..............................1803-1868
Various portions of the region included at various times with a number of surrounding territories, especially Missouri, Utah, and Idaho.
Wyoming Territory.................................1868-1890
John Allen Campbell..........................1869-1875
John Milton Thayer (
Nebr. 1887-91, 91-2
).....1875-1878
John Wesley Hoyt.............................1878-1882
William Hale.................................1882-1885
E. S. N. Morgan...........................Jan-Feb 1885
Francis Emroy Warren.........................1885-1886
George White Baxter.......................Nov-Dec 1886
E. S. N. Morgan (restored; acting), 1886-1887
Thomas Moonlight.............................1887-1889
Francis Emroy Warren (restored)..............1889-1890
Admitted as the 44th State........................1890-
Amos Walker Barber (acting), 1890-1893
John Eugene Osborne..........................1893-1895
William Alford Richards......................1895-1899
DeForest Richards............................1899-1903
Fenimore Chatterton (acting), 1903-1905
Bryant Butler Brooks.........................1905-1911
Joseph Maull Carey
(
Father Robert Carey
).....1911-1915
John Benjamin Kendrick.......................1915-1917
Frank Lee Houx (acting), 1917-1919
Robert Davis Carey (
Son Joseph Carey
)........1919-1923
William Bradford Ross (
Husb. Nellie Ross
)....1923-1924
Frank Earl Lucas (acting), 1924-1925
Nellie Tayloe Ross (
fem.
: Wife of Wm. Ross
)...1925-1927
Nellie Ross was the first female Governor in the United States.
Frank Collins Emerson........................1927-1931
Alonzo Monroe Clark (acting), 1931-1933
Leslie Andrew Miller.........................1933-1939
Nels Hanson Smith............................1939-1943
Lester Callaway Hunt.........................1943-1949
Arthur Griswold Crane (acting), 1949-1951
Frank Aloysius Barrett.......................1951-1953
Clifford Joy Rogers (acting), 1953-1955
Milward Lee Simpson..........................1955-1959
John Joseph Hickey...........................1959-1961
Jack Robert Gage (acting), 1961-1963
Clifford Peter Hansen........................1963-1967
Stanley Knapp Hathaway.......................1967-1975
Edgar J. Herschler...........................1975-1987
Michael John Sullivan........................1987-1995
Jim Geringer.................................1995-2003
Dave Freudenthal.............................2003-2011
Matt Mead....................................2011-
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