LIST OF COLONIAL GOVERNORS OF VIRGINIA

This is a 'list of colonial governors of Virginia'. Some of these governors never visited the New World and governed through deputies resident in the colony.

Contents

Virginia Company of London Governors (1607-1624)

Crown Governors (1624-1652)

Commonwealth of England Governors (1652-1660)

Crown Governors (1660-1775)

President of the Committee for Public Safety

See also

Virginia Company of London Governors (1607-1624)

From 1606 until 1624, Proprietary Governors oversaw the operation of the Virginia Colony.

★ Edward Maria Wingfield (1607)

★ John Ratcliffe (1608)

★ Matthew Scrivener (1608)

★ John Smith (1608-1609)

★ George Percy (1609-1610)

★ Thomas Gates (1610)

★ Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr (1610-1611)

★ George Percy (1611)

★ Thomas Dale (1611, 1614-1616)

★ Thomas Gates (1611-1614)

★ George Yeardley (1616-1617, 1619-1621)

★ Samuel Argall (1617-1619)

★ Francis Wyatt (1621-1624)

Crown Governors (1624-1652)

After the Virginia Company of London lost its proprietary charter in 1624, Royal Governors oversaw the interests of the Crown in the Virginia Colony until the American Revolution, except for a period under Oliver Cromwell and the Commonwealth of England from 1652-1660.

★ Francis Wyatt (1624-1626, 1639-1642)

★ George Yeardley (1626-1627)

★ Francis West (1627-1629)

★ John Potts (1629-1630)

★ John Harvey (1630-1635, 1637-1639)

★ John West (Governor) (1635-1637)

★ William Berkeley (1642-1652)

★ Richard Kemp (1644-1645)

Commonwealth of England Governors (1652-1660)

★ Richard Bennett (1652-1655)

★ Edward Digges (1655-1656)

★ Samuel Mathews (1656-1660)

★ William Berkeley (1660)

Crown Governors (1660-1775)

★ William Berkeley (1660-1677)

★ Thomas Culpeper, 2nd Baron Culpeper of Thoresway (1677-1683)

★ Francis Howard, 5th Baron Howard of Effingham (1683-1692)

★ Edmund Andros (1692-1698)

★ Francis Nicholson (1698-1705)

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★ President of the Council Edward Nott (1705-1706)

★ Edmund Jenings (1706-1708)

★ Robert Hunter (1707-1709)

★ George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney (1710-1737, absentee)

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★ Lieutenant Governor: Alexander Spotswood (1714-1722)

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★ Lieutenant Governor: Hugh Drysdale (1722-1726)

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★ President of the Council: Robert "King" Carter (1726-Sept. 1727)[1]

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★ Lieutenant Governor: William Gooch (1727-1740)

★ Willem Anne van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle (1737-1754, absentee)

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★ President of the Council: James Blair (1740-41) (acting for Lt. Gov. Gooch while latter out-of-country)

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★ Lieutenant Governor: William Gooch (1741-1749)

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★ President of the Council: Thomas Lee. (1749-1750)

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★ Lieutenant Governor: Robert Dinwiddie (1751-January 1758)

★ John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun, (1756-1759)

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★ Lieutenant Governor: Robert Dinwiddie (1751 to January 1758)

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★ Lieutenant Governor: Francis Fauquier (1758-1768)

★ Jeffery Amherst (1759-1768, absentee)

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★ President of the Council John Blair I (1768)

★ Norborne Berkeley, Baron de Botetourt (1768-1770)

★ William Nelson (1770-1771)

★ John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (1771-June 1775)

President of the Committee for Public Safety

★ Edmund Pendleton (16 August 1775 - 5 July 1776) [2]

See also

★ Virginia

★ Virginia Company of London

★ Virginia Colony

★ List of Governors of Virginia