Governor of New York

The Governor of New York, the highest executive officer in the state, was originally chosen for a term of 2 years. In 1877 it was extended to 3 years, in 1895 reduced back to 2 years, amd in 1938 it was extended to the current 4 year term.

Governors of New York

• George Clinton, Democratic-Republican, 1777-1795
• John Jay, Federalist, 1795-1801
• George Clinton, Democratic-Republican, 1801-1804
• [Morgan Lewis]?, Democratic-Republican, 1804-1807
• [Daniel D. Tompkins]?, Democratic-Republican, 1807-1817
• [John Tayler]?, Democratic-Republican, 1817
• [De Witt Clinton]?, Democratic-Republican, 1817-1822
• [Joseph C. Yates]?, Democratic-Republican, 1823-1824
• [De Witt Clinton]?, Clinton Republican, 1825-1828
• [Nathaniel Pitcher]?, Democratic-Republican, 1828
• Martin Van Buren, Jacksonian Democratic, 1829
• [Enos T. Throop]?, Jacksonian Democratic, 1829-1832
• [William L. Marcy]?, Democratic, 1833-1838
• [William H. Seward]?, Whig, 1839-1842
• [William C. Bouck]?, Democratic, 1843-1844
• [Silas Wright]?, Democratic, 1845-1846
• John Young, Whig, 1847-1848
• [Hamilton Fish]?, Whig, 1849-1850
• [Washington Hunt]?, Whig Anti-Rent, 1851-1852
• [Horatio Seymour]?, Democratic, 1853-1854
• [Myron H. Clark]?, Fusion Republican, 1855-1856
• [John A. King]?, Republican, 1857-1858
• [Edwin D. Morgan]?, Republican, 1859-1862
• [Horatio Seymour]?, Democratic, 1863-1864
• [Reuben E. Fenton]?, Union, 1865-1868
• [John T. Hoffman]?, Democratic, 1869-1872
• [John A. Dix]?, Republican, 1873-1874
• [Samuel J. Tilden]?, Democratic, 1875-1876
• [Lucius Robinson]?, Democratic, 1877-1879
• [Alonzo B. Cornell]?, Republican, 1880-1882
• Grover Cleveland, Democratic, 1883-1884
• [David B. Hill]?, Democratic, 1885-1891
• [Roswell P. Flower]?, Democratic, 1892-1894
• [Levi P. Morton]?, Republican, 1895-1896
• [Frank S. Black]?, Republican, 1897-1898
• Theodore Roosevelt, Republican, 1899-1900
• [Benjamin B. Odell, Jr.]?, Republican, 1901-1904
• [Frank W. Higgins]?, Republican, 1905-1906
• Charles Evans Hughes, Republican, 1907-1910
• [Horace White]?, Republican, 1910
• [John A. Dix]?, Republican, 1911-1912
• [William Sulzer]?, Democratic, 1913
• [Martin H. Glynn]?, Democratic, 1913-1914
• [Charles S. Whitman]?, Republican, 1915-1918
• [Alfred E. Smith]?, Democratic, 1919-1920
• [Nathan L. Miller]?, Republican, 1921-1922
• [Alfred E. Smith]?, Democratic, 1923-1928
• [Franklin D. Roosevelt]?, Democratic, 1929-1932
• [Herbert H. Lehman]?, Democratic, 1933-1942
• [Charles Poletti]?, Democratic, 1942
• [Thomas E. Dewey]?, Republican, 1943-1954
• [W. Averell Harriman]?, Democratic, 1955-1958
• Nelson A. Rockefeller, Republican, 1959-1973
• [Malcolm Wilson]?, Republican, 1973-1974
• [Hugh L. Carey]?, Democratic, 1975-1982
• [Mario M. Cuomo]?, Democratic, 1983-1994
• [George E. Pataki]?, Republican, 1995-