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This is a 'list of the Governors of the State of New York'. The governor is the highest executive officer of the state. He was originally elected in April for a term of three years, beginning on July 1. The New York State Constitutional Convention of 1821 amended the state constitution, reducing the term of office to two years, moving the election to November, and moving the beginning and the end of the term to coincide with the calendar year. Until today the term ends on December 31, the next term begins on January 1. Beginning in 1877, the term in office was extended again to three years, in 1895 reduced to two years, and from 1938 on it was extended to the current four years.
The current Governor, the 58th, is Eliot Spitzer, who took office on New Year's Day, 2007.
Since 1875, the home of the Governor has been the New York State Executive Mansion in Albany, New York.
For colonial governors see List of Colonial Governors of New York.

Contents

List of governors

Notes

Living former governors

Other offices held

Other high offices held

See also

External links

List of governors

#	Picture	Name	Took office	Left office	Party	Lt. Governor(s)	Notes
1		George Clinton	July 30 1777	April 1 1795	Democratic-Republican	Pierre Van Cortlandt
2		John Jay	April 1 1795	April 1 1801	Federalist	Stephen Van Rensselaer
3		George Clinton	April 1 1801	April 1 1804	Democratic-Republican	Jeremiah Van Rensselaer
4		Morgan Lewis	April 1 1804	July 1 1807	Democratic-Republican	John Broome
5		Daniel D. Tompkins	July 1 1807	February 24 1817	Democratic-Republican	John Broome John Tayler (acting) DeWitt Clinton John Tayler	Resigned to be Vice President of the United States.
6		John Tayler	February 24 1817	July 1 1817	Democratic-Republican	Vacant	As lieutenant governor, filled unexpired term.
7		DeWitt Clinton	July 1 1817	January 1 1823	Democratic-Republican	John Tayler
8		Joseph C. Yates	January 1 1823	January 1 1825	Democratic-Republican	Erastus Root
9		DeWitt Clinton	January 1 1825	February 11 1828	Clinton Republican	James Tallmadge, Jr. Nathaniel Pitcher	Died in office.
10		Nathaniel Pitcher	February 11 1828	January 1 1829	Democratic-Republican	Peter R. Livingston (acting) Charles Dayan (acting)
11		Martin Van Buren	January 1 1829	March 5 1829	Jacksonian Democratic	Enos T. Throop	Resigned to be President of the United States.
12		Enos T. Throop	March 5 1829	January 1 1833	Jacksonian Democratic	Charles Stebbins (acting) William M. Oliver (acting) Edward Philip Livingston	As lieutenant governor, filled unexpired term, and was later elected in his own right.
13		William L. Marcy	January 1 1833	January 1 1839	Democratic	John Tracy
14		William H. Seward	January 1 1839	January 1 1843	Whig	Luther Bradish
15		William C. Bouck	January 1 1843	January 1 1845	Democratic	Daniel S. Dickinson
16		Silas Wright	January 1 1845	January 1 1847	Democratic	Addison Gardiner
17		John Young	January 1 1847	January 1 1849	Whig	Addison Gardiner Hamilton Fish
18		Hamilton Fish	January 1 1849	January 1 1851	Whig	George Washington Patterson
19		Washington Hunt	January 1 1851	January 1 1853	Whig Anti-Rent	Sanford E. Church
20		Horatio Seymour	January 1 1853	January 1 1855	Democratic	Sanford E. Church
21		Myron H. Clark	January 1 1855	January 1 1857	Fusion	Henry J. Raymond
22		John Alsop King	January 1 1857	January 1 1859	Republican	Henry R. Selden
23		Edwin D. Morgan	January 1 1859	January 1 1863	Republican	Robert Campbell
24		Horatio Seymour	January 1 1863	January 1 1865	Democratic	David R. Floyd-Jones
25		Reuben Fenton	January 1 1865	January 1 1869	Union	Thomas G. Alvord Stewart L. Woodford
26		John Thompson Hoffman	January 1 1869	January 1 1873	Democratic	Allen C. Beach
27		John Adams Dix	January 1 1873	January 1 1875	Republican	John Cleveland Robinson
28		Samuel J. Tilden	January 1 1875	January 1 1877	Democratic	William Dorsheimer
29		Lucius Robinson	January 1 1877	January 1 1880	Democratic	William Dorsheimer
30		Alonzo B. Cornell	January 1 1880	January 1 1883	Republican	George Gilbert Hoskins
31		Grover Cleveland	January 1 1883	January 6 1885	Democratic	David B. Hill
32		David B. Hill	January 6 1885	January 1 1892	Democratic	Dennis McCarthy (acting) Edward F. Jones
33		Roswell P. Flower	January 1 1892	January 1 1895	Democratic	William F. Sheehan
34		Levi P. Morton	January 1 1895	January 1 1897	Republican	Charles T. Saxton
35		Frank S. Black	January 1 1897	January 1 1899	Republican	Timothy L. Woodruff
36		Theodore Roosevelt	January 1 1899	January 1 1901	Republican	Timothy L. Woodruff
37		Benjamin B. Odell, Jr.	January 1 1901	January 1 1905	Republican	Timothy L. Woodruff Frank W. Higgins
38		Frank W. Higgins	January 1 1905	January 1 1907	Republican	M. Linn Bruce
39		Charles Evans Hughes	January 1 1907	October 6 1910	Republican	Lewis S. Chanler Horace White	[1]
40		Horace White	October 6 1910	January 1 1911	Republican	George H. Cobb
41		John Alden Dix	January 1 1911	January 1 1913	Democratic	Thomas F. Conway
42		William Sulzer	January 1 1913	October 17 1913	Democratic	Martin H. Glynn	[2]
43		Martin H. Glynn	October 17 1913	January 1 1915	Democratic	Robert F. Wagner
44		Charles S. Whitman	January 1 1915	January 1 1919	Republican	Edward Schoeneck
45		Al Smith	January 1 1919	January 1 1921	Democratic	Harry C. Walker
46		Nathan L. Miller	January 1 1921	January 1 1923	Republican	Jeremiah Wood
47		Al Smith	January 1 1923	January 1 1929	Democratic	George R. Lunn Seymour Lowman Edwin Corning
48		Franklin D. Roosevelt	January 1 1929	January 1 1933	Democratic	Herbert H. Lehman
49		Herbert H. Lehman	January 1 1933	December 3 1942	Democratic	M. William Bray Charles Poletti	[3]
50		Charles Poletti	December 3 1942	January 1 1943	Democratic	Joe R. Hanley (acting)
51		Thomas Dewey	January 1 1943	January 1 1955	Republican	Thomas W. Wallace Joe R. Hanley Frank C. Moore Arthur H. Wicks (acting) Walter J. Mahoney (acting)
52		W. Averell Harriman	January 1 1955	January 1 1959	Democratic	George DeLuca
53		Nelson Rockefeller	January 1 1959	December 18 1973	Republican	Malcolm Wilson	[4]
54		Malcolm Wilson	December 18 1973	January 1 1975	Republican	Warren M. Anderson (acting)
55		Hugh Carey	January 1 1975	January 1 1983	Democratic	Mary Anne Krupsak Mario Cuomo
56		Mario Cuomo	January 1 1983	January 1 1995	Democratic	Alfred B. DelBello Warren M. Anderson (acting) Stanley N. Lundine
57		George Pataki	January 1 1995	January 1 2007	Republican	Betsy McCaughey Ross Mary O. Donohue
58		Eliot Spitzer	January 1 2007	''Incumbent''	Democratic	David Paterson	[5]

Notes

1. Resigned to take seat as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
2. Impeached and removed from office for campaign contribution fraud.
3. Resigned to be Director of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations at the U.S. Department of State.
4. Resigned to devote himself to his Commission on Critical Choices for Americans.
5. Governor Spitzer's first term expires in 2010; he is not yet term limited.

Living former governors

As of July 2007, three former governors were alive, the oldest being Hugh Carey (1975–1982, born 1919). The most recent governor to die was Charles Poletti (1942), on August 8 2002. The most recently-serving governor to die was Malcolm Wilson (1973–1974), on March 13 2000.

Name	Gubernatorial term	Date of birth
Hugh Carey	1975–1982	April 11 1919
Mario Cuomo	1983–1994	June 15 1932
George Pataki	1995–2006	June 24 1945

Other offices held

Many New York governors have also held higher office

★ President of the United States: Martin Van Buren, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt

★ Vice President of the United States: George Clinton, Daniel D. Tompkins, Martin Van Buren, Levi P. Morton, Theodore Roosevelt, Nelson Rockefeller

★ Chief Justice of the United States: John Jay, Charles Evans Hughes

★ United States Secretary of State: William H. Seward, Hamilton Fish, Charles Evans Hughes

★ Unsuccessful Presidential nominee: De Witt Clinton, Horatio Seymour, Samuel J. Tilden, Charles Evans Hughes, Al Smith, Thomas Dewey
Some had held a higher office before becoming governor.

Other high offices held

This is a table of congressional and other federal offices held by governors. All representatives and senators mentioned represented New York.
★ denotes those offices which the governor resigned to take.

Name	Gubernatorial term	U.S. Congress		Other offices held
		House	Senate
George Clinton	1777–1795, 1801–1804			Delegate to the Continental Congress, Vice President of the United States
John Jay	1795–1801			President of the Continental Congress, U.S. Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador to Spain, Chief Justice of the United States
Daniel D. Tompkins	1807–1817	H		Vice President of the United States ★
DeWitt Clinton	1817–1822, 1825–1828		S
Nathaniel Pitcher	1828	H
Martin Van Buren	1829		S	U.S. Secretary of State, Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Vice President of the United States, President of the United States ★
Enos T. Throop	1829–1832	H
William L. Marcy	1833–1838		S	U.S. Secretary of War, U.S. Secretary of State
William H. Seward	1839–1842		S	U.S. Secretary of State
Silas Wright	1845–1845	H	S
John Young	1847–1848	H
Hamilton Fish	1849–1850	H	S	U.S. Secretary of State
Washington Hunt	1851–1852	H
John Alsop King	1857–1858	H
Edwin D. Morgan	1859–1862		S
Reuben Fenton	1865–1868	H	S
John Adams Dix	1873–1874		S	Ambassador to France, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
Grover Cleveland	1883–1884			President of the United States ★
David B. Hill	1885–1891		S
Roswell P. Flower	1892–1894	H
Levi P. Morton	1895–1896	H		Ambassador to France, Vice President of the United States
Frank S. Black	1897–1898	H
Theodore Roosevelt	1899–1900			Vice President of the United States, President of the United States
Benjamin B. Odell, Jr.	1901–1904	H
Charles Evans Hughes	1907–1910			U.S. Secretary of State, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court ★ , Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
William Sulzer	1913	H
Martin H. Glynn	1913–1914	H
Franklin D. Roosevelt	1929–1932			President of the United States
Herbert H. Lehman	1933–1942		S
W. Averell Harriman	1955–1958			U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Ambassador to the United Kingdom
Nelson Rockefeller	1959–1973			Vice President of the United States
Hugh Carey	1975–1982	H

See also

★ Election results, New York governor

★ List of Colonial Governors of New York

★ Director-General of New Netherland

External links

★ "Governors of New York" - history page on New York State website

★ Lives of the governors of the state of New York, , John S., Jenkins, Derby and Miller, ,