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GOVERNORS.

543

1673-John Leverett. 1679 Simon Bradstreet.

1684-Joseph Dudley (President). 1686 Sir Edmund Andros (Governor-General).

1689-Thomas Danforth (Acting Governor).

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1715-Joseph Dudley.

1715-William Tailer (Acting Governor).

1716 Samuel Shute.

1723-William Dummer (Acting Governor).

1728-William Burnett.

1728-William Dummer (Acting Governor).

1730-William Tailer (Acting Governor).

1730--Jonathan Belcher. 1741-William Shirley.

1749-Spencer Phips (Acting Governor).

1753-William Shirley.

1756-Spencer Phips (Acting Governor).

1757 The Council.
1757-Thomas Pownall.

1760-Thomas Hutchinson (Acting Governor).

1760 Sir Francis Bernard.
1769-Thomas Hutchinson (Acting
Governor).

1771-Thomas Hutchinson.
1774-Thomas Gage.
1774-Provincial Congress.
1775-The Council.

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1825-Levi Lincoln. 1834-John Davis.

1835 Samuel T. Armstrong (Acting Governor). 1836-Edward Everett. 1840-Marcus Morton. 1841-John Davis. 1843-Marcus Morton. 1844 George N. Briggs. 1851-George S. Boutwell. 1853-John H. Clifford. 1854-Emory Washburn. 1855-Henry J. Gardner.

1858-Nathaniel P. Banks. 1861-John A. Andrew.

1866-Alexander H. Bullock. 1869-William Claflin.

1872-William B. Washburn.

1874-Thomas Talbot (Acting Governor).

1874-William Gaston.

1876-Alexander H. Rice.
1879-Thomas Talbot.
1880-John D. Long.
1883-Benjamin F. Butler.
1884 George D. Robinson.
1887-Oliver Ames.
1890-J. Q. A. Brackett.
1891-William E. Russell.
1894-Frederick T. Greenhalge.
1897-Roger Wolcott.
1900-Winthrop M. Crane.
1903-John L. Bates.
1905-William L. Douglas.
1906-Curtis Guild, Jr.
1909-Eben S. Draper.
1911-Eugene N. Foss.
1914-David I. Walsh.

MICHIGAN.

1622-Under French rule there were 28 governors. 1763-Under British rule there were 11 governors.

AS PART OF NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 1796-Arthur St. Clair.

AS PART OF INDIANA TERRITORY.

1800-William Henry Harrison.

AS TERRITORY OF MICHIGAN. 1805-William Hull. 1813-Lewis Cass. 1831-George B. Porter. 1834-Stevens T. Mason.

STATE.

1835-Stevens T. Mason (Not in Union).

1837-Stevens T. Mason (In Union).

1840-William Woodbridge. 1841-J. Wright Gordon (Acting Governor).

1843-John S. Barry. 1846-Alpheus Felch.

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1858-Henry H. Sibley.
1860-Alexander Ramsey.
1863-Henry A. Swift.
1864 Stephen Miller.
1866-William R. Marshail.
1870-Horace Austin.
1874 Cushman K. Davis.
1876-John S. Pillsbury.
1882-Lucius F. Hubbard.
1887-Andrew R. McGill.
1889-William R. Merriam.
1893-Knute Nelson.
1895-David M. Clough.
1899-John Lind.

1901-Samuel R. Van Sant.
1905-John A. Johnson (d. Sept
21, 1909).

1909-Adolph O. Eberhart.

MISSISSIPPI.

UNDER FRENCH RULE, 1699-1763. 1699-Pierre le Moyne, Sieur d'Iberville (Made settlement of Biloxi). 1699-1711-Louis Hector de Callierves and Philip de Rigault, Marquis de Vaudreuil (Governors of New France or Canada) controlled the settlements of Louisiana in these years. 1699-Antoine le Moyne Sauvolle,

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1832-Abram M. Scott (d. June 12, 1833). 1833-Charles

Lynch (President of Senate and Acting Governor). 1833-Hiram G. Runnels (Vacated Office Nov. 20, 1835). 1835-John A. Quitman (President of Senate and Acting Governor). 1836-Charles Lynch. 1838-Alexander G. McNutt. 1842-Tilghman M. Tucker.

1844-Albert G. Brown.

1848-Joseph W. Matthews. 1850-John A. Quitman (Resigned Feb. 3, 1851).

1851-John J. Guion (President of Senate and Acting Governor). 1851-James Whitfield (President of Senate and Acting Governor). 1852-Henry S. Foote (Resigned Jan. 5, 1854).

1854-John J. Pettus (President of Senate and Acting Governor). 1854-John J. McRae. 1857-William McWillie. 1859-John J. Pettus.

1863-Charles Clark (Removed by Federal Government May 22, 1865).

1865-William L. Sharkey (Provisional Governor). 1865-Benjamin G. Humphreys (Removed by Federal Government June 15, 1868). 1868-Adelbert

Governor).

Ames (Military

1870-James L. Alcorn (Resigned Nov. 30, 1871).

1871-Ridgeley C. Powers (Acting Governor).

1874-Adelbert Ames (Resigned March 29, 1876).

1876-John M. Stone (President of Senate).

1882-Robert Lowry.

1890-John M. Stone.

1896-Anselm J. McLaurin.

1900-Andrew H. Longino.

1904-James Kimble Vardaman.
1908-Edmond Favor Noel.
1912-Earl Brewer.

MISSOURI.

. SPANISH ILLINOIS COUNTRY.

1770-Pedro Piernas (Lieut.-Governor).

1775-Francisco Cruzat (Lieut.Governor).

1778-Fernando de Leyba (Lieut.Governor).

1780-Francisco Cruzat (Lieut.Governor).

1787-Manuel Perez (Lieut.-Governor). 1792-Zenon

Governor).

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Trudeau (Lieut.

1864-Sydney Egerton.

1799-Carlos Dehault de Lassus (Lieut.-Governor).

1865-Thomas Francis Meagher

(Acting Governor). 1866-Green Clay Smith.

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TERRITORY.

1854 Francis Burt.

1854—T. B. Cumming (Acting Governor).

1855-Mark W. Izard.

1858-William A. Richardson.

1858-J. S. Morton (Acting Governor).

1859-Samuel W. Black.

1861-Alvin Saunders.

1866-David Butler.

STATE.

1867-David Butler.

1871-W. H. James (Acting Governor).

1873-Robert W. Furnas.

1875-Silas Garber.

1879-Albinus Nance.

1883-James W. Dawes.

1887-John M. Thayer. 1891-James E Boyd. 1893-Lorenzo Crounse. 1895-S. A. Holcomb. 1899-W. A. Poynter.

1901-C. H. Dietrich.

1903-John H. Mickey.

1907-George L. Sheldon,

1909-Ashton C. Shallenbarger. 1911-Chester H. Aldrich.

1913-John H. Morehead.

NEVADA.

TERRITORY.

1861-James W. Nye.

STATE.

ernor).

1890-Frank Bell (Acting Gov

FOURTH

CONSTITUTIONAL PERIOD, 1879-.

1879-Nathaniel Head.

1881-Charles H. Bell.

1891-Roswell K. Colcord.

1895-John E. Jones.

1897-R. Sadler.
1903-John Sparks.
1909-D. S. Dickerson.
1911-Tasker L. Oddie.

NEW HAMPSHIRE.

REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD.

1775-Mathew Thornton. 1776-Meshech Weare.

SECOND CONSTITUTIONAL PERIOD, 1784-93.

1784-Meshech Weare.

1785-John Langdon.

1786-John Sullivan.

1788-John Langdon. 1789-John Pickering. 1789-John Sullivan. 1790-Josiah Bartlett.

THIRD CONSTITUTIONAL PERIOD, 1793-1879.

1794-John Taylor Gilman.

1805-John Langdon.

1809-Jeremiah Smith.

1810-John Langdon.
1812-William Plumer.

1813-John Taylor Gilman.
1816-William Plumer.
1819-Samuel Bell.
1823-Levi Woodbury.
1824-David L. Morril.
1827-Benjamin Pierce.
1828-John Bell.
1829-Benjamin Pierce.
1830-Matthew Harvey.
1831-Joseph M. Harper.
1832-Samuel Dinsmoor.
1834-William Badger.
1836-Isaac Hill.
1839-John Page.
1842-Henry Hubbard.
1844-John H. Steele.
1846-Anthony Colby.
1847-Jared W. Williams.
1849-Samuel Dinsmoor.
1852-Noah Martin.

1854-Nathaniel B. Baker.

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1864 James W. Nye (Acting Gov

1865-Frederick Smythe. 1867-Walter Harriman.

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1879-John H. Kinkead. 1883-Jewett W. Adams. 1887-Christopher C. Stevenson.

1869-Onslow Stearns. 1871-James A. Weston. 1872-Ezekiel A. Straw. 1874-James A. Weston. 1875-Person F. Cheney. 1877-Benjamin F. Prescott.

1736-John Hamilton.

SEPARATED FROM NEW YORK. 1738-Lewis Morris.

1746-John Hamilton. 1747-John Reading. 1747-Jonathan Belcher. 1757-Thomas Pownall. 1757-John Reading. 1758-Francis Barnard.

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1866-Marcus L. Ward.
1869-Theodore F. Randolph.
1872-Joel Parker.
1875-Joseph D. Bedle.
1878-George B. McClellan.
1881-George C. Ludlow.
1884-Leon Abbett.

1887-Robert S. Green.

1890-Leon Abbett.

1893-George J. Werts.
1896-John W. Griggs.
1898-Foster M. Voorhees.
1902-Franklin Murphy.
1905-Edward C. Stokes.
1908-John Franklin Fort.
1912-Woodrow Wilson.
1913-Mar. 1-James F. Fielder.
1913-Oct. 28-Leon R. Taylor.
1914-James F. Fielder.

NEW MEXICO.

CIVIL GOVERNORS UNDER MILITARY

APPOINTMENT.

1846-Charles Bent (Assassinated
July 17, 1847).
1847-Donaciano Vigil.

1848-J. M. Washington (Com-
mandant of the Department).
1849-John Munroe (Commandant
of the Department).

CIVIL GOVERNORS UNDER THE OR-

GANIC ACT, MARCH 3, 1851.

1851-James S. Calhoun.

1852-William Carr Lane.

1853-David Meriwether.

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.

1869-John T. Hoffman.

1873-John A. Dix.

1875-Samuel J. Tilden.

1877-Lucius Robinson.

1880-Alonzo B. Cornell.

1883-Grover Cleveland (Elected

President 1884, resigned Gov-
ernorship Jan. 6, 1885).

1885-David B. Hill (Acting Gov-
ernor).

1886-David B. Hill.

1892-Roswell P. Flower.

1896-Levi P. Morton.

1897-Frank S. Black.

1899-Theodore Roosevelt.

1901-Benjamin B. Odell, Jr.

1905-Frank W. Higgins.

1907-Charles E. Hughes (Ap-
pointed to Sup. Court, Oct. 1910).
1910 October-Horace White.
1911-John A. Dix.

1913-William Sulzer (Impeached).
1913-Oct. 17-Martin H. Glynn.

GOVERNORS.

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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 Mosely (Acting Governor).

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.

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