List of Governors of Connecticut

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The following is a list of Governors of the State of Connecticut, from the Colonial period through present day.

1 Governors of the Colony of Connecticut, 1639-1662
2 Governors of the Colony of New Haven, 1639-1665
3 Governors of the Colony of Connecticut, 1662-1776
4 Governors of the State of Connecticut, 1776-present
5 See also

[edit] Governors of the Colony of Connecticut, 1639-1662

(The colony was initially formed from the towns of Hartford, Windsor and Wethersfield)

John Haynes 1639-1640
Edward Hopkins 1640-1641
John Haynes 1641-1642
George Wyllys 1642-1643
John Haynes 1643-1644
Edward Hopkins 1644-1645
John Haynes 1645-1646
Edward Hopkins 1646-1647
John Haynes 1647-1648
Edward Hopkins 1648-1649
John Haynes 1649-1650
Edward Hopkins 1650-1651
John Haynes 1651-1652
Edward Hopkins 1652-1653
John Haynes 1653-1654
Edward Hopkins 1654-1655
Thomas Welles 1655-1656
John Webster 1656-1657
John Winthrop, Jr. 1657-1658
Thomas Welles 1658-1659
John Winthrop, Jr. 1659-1662

[edit] Governors of the Colony of New Haven, 1639-1665

Theophilus Eaton 1639-1658
Francis Newman 1658-1660
William Leete 1661-1665 (when the Colony of Connecticut and the Colony of New Haven, merged by Royal Charter in 1662, became one government)

[edit] Governors of the Colony of Connecticut, 1662-1776

John Winthrop, Jr. 1662-1676
William Leete 1676-1683
Robert Treat 1683-1687
Sir Edmond Andros 1687-1689 as part of the Dominion of New England
Robert Treat 1689-1698
Fitz-John Winthrop 1698-1707
Gurdon Saltonstall 1708-1724
Joseph Talcott 1724-1741
Jonathan Law 1741-1750
Roger Wolcott 1750-1754
Thomas Fitch 1754-1766
William Pitkin 1766-1769
Jonathan Trumbull 1769-1776

[edit] Governors of the State of Connecticut, 1776-present

#	Name	Party	Term
1	Jonathan Trumbull	No party	1776–1784
2	Matthew Griswold	No party	1784–1786
3	Samuel Huntington	Federalist	1786–1796
4	Oliver Wolcott	Federalist	1796–1797
5	Jonathan Trumbull, Jr.	Federalist	1797–1809
6	John Treadwell	Federalist	1809–1811
7	Roger Griswold	Federalist	1811–1812
8	John Cotton Smith	Federalist	1812–1817
9	Oliver Wolcott, Jr.	Toleration Party	1817–1827
10	Gideon Tomlinson	Democratic-Republican	1827–1831
11	John Samuel Peters	National Republican	1831–1833
12	Henry W. Edwards	Democratic	1833–1834
13	Samuel A. Foot	Whig	1834–1835
14	Henry W. Edwards	Democratic	1835–1838
15	William W. Ellsworth	Whig	1838–1842
16	Chauncey Fitch Cleveland	Democratic	1842–1844
17	Roger Sherman Baldwin	Whig	1844–1846
18	Isaac Toucey	Democratic	1846–1847
19	Clark Bissell	Whig	1847–1849
20	Joseph Trumbull	Whig	1849–1850
21	Thomas Hart Seymour	Democratic	1850–1853
22	Charles H. Pond	Democratic	1853–1854
23	Henry Dutton	Whig	1854–1855
24	William T. Minor	American Republican	1855–1857
25	Alexander H. Holley	Republican	1857–1858
26	William A. Buckingham	Republican	1858–1866
27	Joseph R. Hawley	Republican	1866–1867
28	James E. English	Democratic	1867–1869
29	Marshall Jewell	Republican	1869–1870
30	James E. English	Democratic	1870–1871
31	Marshall Jewell	Republican	1871–1873
32	Charles R. Ingersoll	Democratic	1873–1877
33	Richard D. Hubbard	Democratic	1877–1879
34	Charles B. Andrews	Republican	1879–1881
35	Hobart B. Bigelow	Republican	1881–1883
36	Thomas M. Waller	Democratic	1883–1885
37	Henry B. Harrison	Republican	1885–1887
38	Phineas C. Lounsbury	Republican	1887–1889
39	Morgan G. Bulkeley	Republican	1889–1893
40	Luzon B. Morris	Democratic	1893–1895
41	Owen Vincent Coffin	Republican	1895–1897
42	Lorrin A. Cooke	Republican	1897–1899
43	George E. Lounsbury	Republican	1899–1901
44	George P. McLean	Republican	1901–1903
45	Abiram Chamberlain	Republican	1903–1905
46	Henry Roberts	Republican	1905–1907
47	Rollin S. Woodruff	Republican	1907–1909
48	George L. Lilley	Republican	1909–1909
49	Frank B. Weeks	Republican	1909–1911
50	Simeon E. Baldwin	Democratic	1911–1915
51	Marcus H. Holcomb	Republican	1915–1921
52	Everett J. Lake	Republican	1921–1923
53	Charles A. Templeton	Republican	1923–1925
54	Hiram Bingham	Republican	1925–1925
55	John H. Trumbull	Republican	1925–1931
56	Wilbur Lucius Cross	Democratic	1931–1939
57	Raymond E. Baldwin	Republican	1939–1941
58	Robert A. Hurley	Democratic	1941–1943
59	Raymond E. Baldwin	Republican	1943–1946
60	Wilbert Snow	Democratic	1946–1947
61	James L. McConaughy	Republican	1947–1948
62	James C. Shannon	Republican	1948–1949
63	Chester Bowles	Democratic	1949–1951
64	John Davis Lodge	Republican	1951–1955
65	Abraham A. Ribicoff	Democratic	1955–1961
66	John N. Dempsey	Democratic	1961–1971
67	Thomas J. Meskill	Republican	1971–1975
68	Ella T. Grasso	Democratic	1975–1980
69	William A. O'Neill	Democratic	1980–1991
70	Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.	A Connecticut Party	1991–1995
71	John G. Rowland	Republican	1995–2004
72	Hell Rell	Republican	2004-

[edit] See also

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Governors of Connecticut

Trumbull Sr • M Griswold • Huntington • Wolcott • Trumbull Jr • Treadwall • R Griswold • Smith • Tomlinson • Peters • Edwards • Foot • Edwards • Ellsworth • Cleveland • RS Baldwin • Toucey • Bissell • Trumbull • Seymour • Pond • Dutton • Minor • Holley • Buckingham • Hawley • English • Jewell • English • Jewell • Ingersoll • Hubbard • Andrews • Bigelow • Waller • Harrison • P Lounsbury • Bulkeley • Morris • Coffin • Cooke • G Lounsbury • McLean • Chamberlain • Roberts • Woodruff • Lilley • Weeks • S. Baldwin • Holcomb • Lake • Templeton • Bingham • JH Trumbull • Cross • R Baldwin • Hurley • R Baldwin • Snow • McConaughy • Shannon • Bowles • Lodge • Ribicoff • Dempsey • Meskill • Grasso • O'Neill • Weicker • Rowland • Rell

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