Earliest serving US governor
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This page contains the individuals, who, at the time of their deaths, were the earliest serving governors of any U.S. state who was still living. The current earliest serving US governor is George M. Leader.
???? - 1838 - Isaac Tichenor - Vermont
1838 - 1844 - Morgan Lewis - New York
1844 - 1853 - William H. Cabell - Virginia
1853 - 1853 - Mahlon Dickerson - New Jersey
1853 - 1854 - Nehemiah R. Knight - Rhode Island
1854 - 1863 - John Branch - North Carolina
1863 - 1865 - Thomas Bennett, Jr. - South Carolina
1865 - 1871 - William C. Gibbs - Rhode Island
1871 - 1874 - Enos T. Throop - New York
1874 - 1888 - Wyndham Robertson - Virginia
1888 - 1894 - David Dunn - Maine
1894 - 1896 - Alpheus Felch - Michigan
1896 - 1898 - Peter H. Bell - Texas
1898 - 1905 - George S. Boutwell - Massachusetts
1905 - 1915 - William Sprague IV - Rhode Island
1915 - 1933 - Adelbert Ames - Mississippi
1933 - 1938 - Joseph W. Fifer - Illinois
1938 - 1939 - Roswell K. Colcord - Nevada
1939 - 1943 - John E. Osborne - Wyoming
1943 - 1944 - Frederick B. Fancher - North Dakota
1944 - 1946 - John L. Bates - Massachusetts
1946 - 1958 - Fenimore Chatterton - Wyoming
1958 - 1960 - George L. Sheldon - Nebraska
1960 - 1964 - John G. Townsend, Jr. - Delaware
1964 - 1968 - William H. McMaster - South Dakota
1968 - 1984 - George Alexander Parks - Alaska
1984 - 1987 - Alf Landon - Kansas
1987 - 1991 - A. B. "Happy" Chandler I - Kentucky
1991 - 2001 - Harold E. Stassen - Minnesota
2001 - 2002 - Charles Poletti - New York
2002 - 2003 - J. Strom Thurmond - South Carolina
2003 - 2003 - Sid McMath - Arkansas - 1st served January 11, 1949
2003 - 2005 - Elbert N. Carvel - Delaware - 1st served January 18, 1949
2005 - present - George M. Leader - Pennsylvania
[edit] Current Living Earliest Serving US Governors
1. George M. Leader - 1955
2. Cecil H. Underwood - 1957
2. Albert Rosellini - 1957
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