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1857-Abraham Rencher.

1861-Henry Conolly.

1865-Robert B. Mitchell.

1867-W. F. M. Amy (Acting Gov-

ernor).

1869-William A. Pile.

1871-Marsh Giddings.

1876-Samuel B. Axtell.
1878-Lewis Wallace.
1881-Lionel A. Sheldon.
1885-E. G. Ross.

1888-L. B. Prince.
1893-W. T. Thornton

1897-M. A. Otero.
1906-H. J. Hagerman.
1907-George Curry.
1909-William J. Mills.
1912-William C. McDonald

NEW YORK.

COLONIAL.

1623-Adrian Joris.
1624-Cornelius J. Mey.
1625-William Verhulst.
1626-Peter Minuit.
1633-Wouter Van Twiller.
1638-William Kieft.
1647-Petrus Stuyvesant.
1664-Richard Nicolls.
1668-Francis Lovlace.
1673-Cornelius Evertse, Jr.
1673-Anthony Colve.
1674-Edmond Andros.
1677-Anthony Brockholles.
1678-Sir Edmond Andros.
1681-Anthony Brockholles.
1683-Thomas Dongan.
1688-Sir Edmond Andros.
1688-Francis Nicholson.
1689-Jacob Leisler.
1691-Henry Sloughter.
1691-Richard Ingoldsby.
1692-Benjamin Fetcher.
1698-Earl of Bellamont.

1699-John Nanfan.
1700-Earl of Bellamont.
1701-Col. William Smith.
1701-Col. Abraham De Peyster.
1701-Col. Peter Schuyler.
1701-John Nanfan.
1702-Lord Cornbury.
1708-Lord Lovelace.
1709-Peter Schuyler.
1709-Richard Ingoldsby.
1709-Peter Schuyler.
1709-Richard Ingoldsby.
1710 Gerardus Beekman.
1710-Robert Hunter.
1719-Peter Schuyler.
1720-William Burnet.
1728-John Montgomerie.
1731-Rip Van Dam.
1732-William Crosby.
1736-George Clark.
1743-George Clinton.
1753-Sir Danvers Osborne.
1753-James De Lancey.

1755-Sir Charles Hardy.
1757-James De Lancey.
1760-Cadwallader Colden.
1761-Robert Monckton.
1761-Cadwallader Colden.
1765-Sir Henry Moore.
1769-Cadwallader Colden.
1770-John, Lord Dunmore.
1771-William Tyron.

PROVINCIAL CONGRESS.

1775-Nathaniel Woodhull.

1775-Abraham Yates.

1775-Nathaniel Woodhull.
1775-John Harding.
1776-Abraham Yates.
1776-Peter R. Livingston.
1777-Abraham Ten Broeck.
1777-Leonard Gansevoort.
1777-Pierre Van Courtland.

STATE.

1777-George Clinton.
1795-John Jay.

1801-George Clinton.

1804-Morgan Lewis.

1807-Daniel D. Tompkins.
1817-John Tayler.

1817-De Witt Clinton.
1822-Joseph C. Yates.
1824-De Witt Clinton.
1828-Nathaniel Pitcher.
1829-Martin Van Buren.
1829-Enos T. Throop.
1833-William L. Marcy.
1838-William H. Seward.
1842-William C. Bouck.
1844-Silas Wright.
1846-John Young.
1849-Hamilton Fish.
1851-Washington Hunt.
1853-Horatio Seymour.
1855-Myron H. Clark.
1857-John A. King.
1859-Edwin D. Morgan.
1863-Horatio Seymour.

1865-Reuben E. Fenton.

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NORTH CAROLINA.

PROPRIETORS.

1629-Sir Robert Heath. 1663-1725-Lords Proprietors: Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon; George Monck, Duke of Albermarle; William, Lord Craven; John, Lord Berkeley; Anthony Aslhey Cooper, Lord Ashley, later Earl of Shaftesbury; Sir George Carteret; Sir William Berkeley; Sir John Colleton.

PROPRIETARY GOVERNORS.

1663-William Drummond.

1667-Samuel Stevens.

1670-Peter Carteret.

1670-Samuel Stevens.

1674-Sir George Carteret.

1675-John Jenkins (Acting Governor).

1675-John Harvey (Acting Governor).

1677-Sir George Eastchurch.

1677-Thomas Miller (Acting Governor).

1677-John Culpepper.

1678-John Harvey (Acting Governor).

1678-John Jenkins. 1681-Henry Wilkinson.

1683-Seth Sothel.

1689-Philip Ludwell.

1691-Alexander Lillington.

1693-Thomas Smith.

1694-John Archdale.

1698-Thomas Harvey.

1699-Henderson Walker.

-Sir Nathaniel Johnson.

1704-Robert Daniel. 1705-Thomas Carey.

1706-William Glover (Acting Governor).

1707-Thomas Carey (Acting Governor).

1708-10-William Glover and Thos. Carey, contestants. 1710-Edward Hyde.

1712-George Pollock (Acting Governor).

1713-Charles Eden.

1722-Thomas Pollock (Acting Governor).

1722-William Reed (Acting Governor).

1724 George Burrington.

1725-Edward

Governor).

Mosely (Acting

1725-Sir Richard Everhard.

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TERRITORY.

UNDER STATE CONSTITUTION.

1776-Richard Caswell.

1779-Abner Nash.

1781-Thomas Burke.

1782-Alexander Martin.

1784-Richard Caswell.

1787-Samuel Johnston.

1792-Richard Dobbs Spraight, Sr.
1795-Samuel Ashe.

1798-William Richardson Davie.
1799-Benjamin Williams.
1802-James Turner.

1805-Nathaniel Alexander.
1807-Benjamin Williams.
1808-David Stone.
1810-Benjamin Smith.
1811-William Hawkins.
1814-William Miller.
1817-John Branch.
1820-Jesse Franklin.
1821-Gabriel Holmes.
1824-Hutchings G. Burton.
1827-James Iredell.
1828-John Owen.
1830-Montford Stokes.
1832-David L. Swain.

1835-Richard Dobbs Spaight, Jr. 1837-Edward B. Dudley.

1841-John M. Morehead.

1845-William A. Graham.
1849-Charles Manly.
1851-David S. Reid.

1854-Warren Winslow (Acting Governor).

1855-Thomas Bragg. 1858-John W. Ellis.

1861-Henry T. Clarke (Acting Governor).

1863-Zebulon B. Vance.

1866-William W. Holden (Provisional Governor). 1866-Jonathan Worth.

1867-Gen. Daniel E. Sickles (Military Governor).

1867-Gen. E. R. S. Canby (Military Governor).

1868-William W. Holden (Impeached).

1871-Tod R. Caldwell.
1874-Curtis H. Brogden.
1877-Zebulon B. Vance.

1878-Thomas J. Jarvis (Acting
Governor).

1881-Thomas J. Jarvis.

1885-Alfred M. Scales.

1889-Daniel G. Fowle.

1891-Thomas M. Holt.

1893-Elias Carr.

1897-Daniel L. Russell.

1861-William Jayne. 1863-Newton Edmonds. 1866-Andrew J. Faulk. 1869-John A. Burbank. 1874-John L. Pennington. 1878-William A. Howard. 1880-Nehemiah G. Ordway. 1884-Gilbert A. Pierce. 1887-Louis K. Church. 1889-Arthur C. Melette.

STATE.

1889-John Miller.
1891-A. H. Burke.
1893-E. C. D. Shortridge.
1895-Roger Allen.

1897-Frank A. Briggs.

1898-Joseph M. Devine.

1899-Frederick B. Fancher. 1901-Frank White.

1903-E. Y. Sarles.

1907-John Burke.

1913-Louis B. Hanna.

OHIO.

TERRITORY.

1788-Arthur St. Clair.

547

1802-C. W. Byrd (Acting Governor).

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1849-Seabury Ford. 1850-Reuben Wood. 1853-William Medill.

1856-Salmon P. Chase.

1860-William Dennison.

1862-David Todd.

1864-John Brough.

1865-C. Anderson (Acting Gov

ernor).

1866-Jacob D. Cox.

1868 Rutherford B. Hayes. 1872-Edward F. Noyes. 1874-William Allen.

1876 Rutherford B. Hayes. 1877-Thomas L. Young. 1878-Richard M. Bishop. 1880-Charles Foster. 1884-George Hoadley 1886-Joseph B. Foraker. 1890-James E. Campbell 1892-William McKinley. 1896-Asa S. Bushnell. 1900-George K. Nash. 1904-Myron T. Herrick. 1906-John M. Pattison. 1907-Andrew L. Harris. 1909-Judson Harmon. 1913-James M. Cox.

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1887-Sylvester Pennoyer.

1895-William P. Lord.

1899-Theodore T. Geer.

1903-George E. Chamberlain. 1909-Frank W. Benson.

1911-Oswald West.

PENNSYLVANIA.

COLONIAI. GOVERNMENTS.

Governors and Directors of New Netherlands and of the Dutch on the Delaware.

1624-Cornelius Jacobson May (Director).

1625-William Van Hulst (Director).

1626-Peter Minuit.

1632-David Pieterzen De Vries.
1633-Wouter Van Twiller.
1638-Sir William Kieft.
1647-64-Petrus Stuyvesant.

Swedish.

1638-Peter Minuit.

1641-Peter Hollandaer.

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1736-Council (J. Logan, President).

1738-George Thomas (Lieut.-Governor).

1747-Council (A. Palmer, Presi

dent). 1748-James

Governor).

Hamilton (Lieut.

1754-Robert H. Morris (Lieut.

Governor).

1756-William Denny (Lieut.-Gov

ernor). 1759-James

Governor).

Hamilton (Lieut.

1763-John Penn.

1771-Council (J. Hamilton, President).

1771-Richard Penn.

1776-John Penn (Lieut.-Gov. ernor).

REVOLUTION.

1776, September,-1777, March. Committee of Safety (Benjamin Franklin, Chairman).

1777-1790-Supreme

Executive

Council of which the following were Presidents:

1777-Thomas Wharton, Jr.

1778-George Bryan (Acting Presi

dent).

1778-Joseph Reed.

1781-William Moore.

1782-John Dickinson.

1785-Benjamin Franklin. 1788-Thomas Mifflin.

STATE.

1790-Thomas Mifflin.

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1681-William Markham (DeputyGovernor). 1682-William Penn. 1684-Council President).

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1817-William Findlay. 1820-Joseph Heister. 1823-John A. Schulze. 1829-George Wolf. 1835-Joseph Ritner. 1839-David R. Porter. 1845-Francis A. Shunk. 1848-William F. Johnston. 1852-William Bigler. 1855-James Pollock. 1858-William F. Packer. 1861-Andrew J. Curtin. 1867-John W. Geary. 1873-John F. Hartranft. 1879-Henry M. Hoyt.

1883-Robert E. Pattison. 1887-James A. Beaver. 1891-Robert E. Pattison. 1895-Daniel H. Hastings.

PROVIDENCE AND WARWICK.

1651-Samuel Groton.

1652-John Smith.

1653-Gregory Dexter (President).

PORTSMOUTH AND NEWPORT.

1652-John Sandford (President).

UNITED TOWNS. 1654-Nicholas Easton. 1654 Roger Williams. 1657-Benedict Arnold. 1660-William Brenton.

UNDER ROYAL CHARTER.

1662-Benedict Arnold. 1666-William Brenton.

1667-Benedict Arnold.

1672-Nicholas Easton.

1899-William A. Stone.

1903-Samuel W. Pennypacker.

1907-Edwin S. Stuart.

1676-Walter Clarke.

1911-John K. Tener.

PORTO RICO.

MILITARY.

1898-Gen. John R. Brooke. 1898-Gen. Guy V. Henry. 1899-Gen. George M. Davis.

CIVIL.

1900-Charles H. Allen. 1901-William H. Hunt. 1904-Beekman Winthrop. 1907-Regis H. Post. 1909-George R. Colton.

RHODE ISLAND.

The State consisted originally of four towns.

1674-William Coddington.

1677-Benedict Arnold.
1678-William Coddington.
1678-John Cranston.
1680-Peleg Sandford.

1683-William Coddington, Jr.
1685-Henry Bull.
1686-Walter Clarke.
1690-Henry Bull.

1690-John Easton.
1695-Caleb Carr.
1696-Walter Clarke.
1698-Samuel Cranston.
1728-Joseph Jencks.
1732-William Wanton.
1734-John Wanton.
1740-Richard Ward.
1743-William Greene.
1745-Gideon Wanton.
1746-William Greene.

Providence and Warwick had no executive head until 1647.

PORTSMOUTH.

1638-William Coddington (Judge). 1639-William Hutchinson.

1747-Gideon Wanton. 1748-William Greene. 1755-Stephen Hopkins. 1757-William Greene. 1758-Stephen Hopkins. 1762-Samuel Ward. 1763 Stephen Hopkins. 1765--Samuel Ward. 1767-Stephen Hopkins. 1768-Josias Lyndon. 1769-Joseph Wanton.

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1863-James Y. Smith.

1866-Ambrose E. Burnside.

1869-Seth Padelford.

1873-Henry Howard.

1875-Henry Lippitt.

1877-Charles C. Van Zandt.

1880-A. H. Littlefield.

1883-A. O. Bourn.

1885-George P. Wetmore.

1887-John W. Davis. 1888-Royal C. Taft. 1889-Herbert W. Ladd. 1890-John W. Davis. 1891-Herbert W. Ladd. 1892-D. Russell Brown. 1895-Charles W. Lippitt. 1897-Elisha Dyer. 1900-William Gregory. 1901-Charles D. Kimball. 1903-Lucius F. C. Garvin. 1905-George H. Utter. 1907-James H. Higgins. 1909-Aram J. Pothier.

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UNDER THE CROWN.

1719-James Moore, 2d.
1721-Sir Francis Nicholson.

1724-Arthur Middleton (President of Council).

1729-Robert Johnson.

1735-Thomas Broughton (Lieut.Governor).

1737-William Bull (President of Council and Lieut.-Governor). 1743-James Glen.

1756-William Henry Lyttelton. 1760-William Bull, 2d (Lieut.Governor).

1761-Thomas Boone.

1764-William Bull, 2d (Lieut.Governor).

1766-Lord Charles Greville Mon

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1802-James B. Richardson. 1804-Paul Hamilton. 1806-Charles Pinckney. 1808-John Drayton. 1810-Henry Middleton. 1812-Joseph Alston. 1814-David R. Williams. 1816-Andrew Pickens. 1818-John Geddes. 1820-Thomas Bennett. 1822-John L. Wilson. 1824-Richard I. Manning. 1826-John Taylor. 1828-Stephen D. Miller. 1830-James Hamilton. 1832-Robert Y. Hayne. 1834-George McDuffie. 1836-Pierce M. Butler. 1838-Patrick Noble. 1840-B. K. Henagan. 1840-John P. Richardson. 1842-James H. Hammond. 1844-William Aiken. 1846-David Johnson. 1848-W. B. Seabrook. 1850-John H. Means. 1852-John L. Manning. 1854-James J. Adams. 1856-Robert F. W. Allston. 1858-William H. Gist. 1860-Francis W. Pickens. 1862-Milledge L. Bonham. 1864-A. Gordon Magrath. 1865-Benjamin F. Perry (Provisional Governor). 1865-James L. Orr.

1865-Gen. Daniel E. Sickles (Military Governor).

1865-Gen. E. R. S. Canby (Military Governor). 1868-Robert K. Scott. 1872-Franklin J. Moses, Jr. 1874 Daniel H. Chamberlain. 1876-Wade Hampton. 1879-William D. Simpson. 1880-T. B. Jeter. 1880-Johnson Hagood. 1882-Hugh S. Thompson. 1886-John C. Sheppard. 1886-John P. Richardson. 1890-Benjamin R. Tillman. 1894-John Gary Evans. 1897-William H. Ellerbe. 1899-Miles B. McSweeney. 1903-Duncan Clinch Heyward. 1907-Martin F. Ansel. 1911-Cole L. Blease.

SOUTH DAKOTA.

TERRITORY.

For Governors of Dakota Territory see North Dakota.

STATE.

1889-Arthur C. Mellette. 1893-Charles H. Sheldon.

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