List of Governors of Virginia

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This is a list of Governors of Virginia since Virginia became a U.S. state following the American Revolutionary War. The Governor of Virginia is forbidden by the Constitution of the Commonwealth from serving consecutive terms (making Virginia the only U.S. state in which gubernatorial incumbents are forbidden from running for governor); however, several governors have served two non-consecutive terms (but they are forbidden from serving more than two non-consecutive terms). In Virginia, governors and lieutenant governors are elected separately, so the two can be of different political parties and can be political rivals. Each new gubernatorial term begins on the Saturday after the second Wednesday in January.

1 Colonial Governors
2 Governors chosen by state legislature
3 Governors elected by popular vote
4 Sources
5 External links

[edit] Colonial Governors

Main article: List of colonial governors of Virginia

[edit] Governors chosen by state legislature

#	Name	Party	Term	Previous Office
1	Patrick Henry	No party	1776–1779
2	Thomas Jefferson	No party	1779–1781
3	William Fleming	No party	1781
4	Thomas Nelson, Jr.	No party	1781
5	Benjamin Harrison	No party	1781–1784
6	Patrick Henry	No party	1784–1786
7	Edmund Randolph	No party	1786–1788
8	Beverley Randolph	No party	1788–1791
9	Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee	Federalist	1791–1794
10	Robert Brooke	Democratic-Republican	1794–1796
11	James Wood	Democratic-Republican	1796–1799
12	James Monroe	Democratic-Republican	1799–1802
13	John Page	Democratic-Republican	1802–1805
14	William H. Cabell	Democratic-Republican	1805–1808
15	John Tyler, Sr.	Democratic-Republican	1808–1811
N/A	George William Smith	Democratic-Republican	Jan. 1811	Member of the Council of State acting as Governor
16	James Monroe	Democratic-Republican	Jan. 1811–April 1811
N/A	George William Smith	Democratic-Republican	April 1811–Dec. 1811	Member of the Council of State acting as Governor
17	George William Smith	Democratic-Republican	Dec. 1811
N/A	Peyton Randolph	Democratic-Republican	Dec. 1811–Jan. 1812	Member of the Council of State acting as Governor
18	James Barbour	Democratic-Republican	1812–1814
19	Wilson Cary Nicholas	Democratic-Republican	1814–1816
20	James Patton Preston	Democratic-Republican	1816–1819
21	Thomas Mann Randolph	Democratic-Republican	1819–1822
22	James Pleasants	Democratic-Republican	1822–1825
23	John Tyler	Democratic-Republican	1825–1827
24	William Branch Giles	Democrat	1827–1830
25	John Floyd	Democrat	1830–1834
26	Littleton Waller Tazewell	Whig	1834–1836
N/A	Wyndham Robertson	Whig	March 1836–March 1837	Member of the Council of State acting as Governor
27	David Campbell	Democrat	1837–1840
28	Thomas Walker Gilmer	Whig	1840–1841
N/A	John Mercer Patton	Whig	March 20, 1841–March 31, 1841	Member of the Council of State acting as Governor
N/A	John Rutherford	Whig	March 1841–March 1842	Member of the Council of State acting as Governor
N/A	John Munford Gregory	Whig	March 1842–Jan. 1843	Member of the Council of State acting as Governor
29	James McDowell	Democrat	1843–1846
30	William Smith	Democrat	1846–1849
31	John Buchanan Floyd	Democrat	1849–1852

[edit] Governors elected by popular vote

#	Name	Party	Term	Previous Office
32	Joseph Johnson	Democrat	1852–1856	US Congress
33	Henry A. Wise	Democrat	1856–1860	US Congress
34	John Letcher	Democrat	1860–1864	US Congress
35	William Smith	Democrat	1864–1865	US Congress
N/A	Francis H. Pierpont	Republican	May 1865–April 1868	Unelected Military Governor
N/A	Henry H. Wells	Republican	April 1868–Sept. 1869	Unelected Military Governor
N/A	Gilbert C. Walker	Republican	Sept. 1869–Dec. 1869	Unelected Military Governor
36	Gilbert C. Walker	Democrat	1870–1874	Provisional Governor
37	James L. Kemper	Democrat	1874–1878	Confederate General
38	Frederick W. M. Holliday	Democrat	1878–1882	Confederate Colonel
39	William E. Cameron	Re-adjuster	1882–1886	Mayor of Petersburg, VA
40	Fitzhugh Lee	Democrat	1886–1890	Confederate General
41	Philip W. McKinney	Democrat	1890–1894
42	Charles T. O'Ferrall	Democrat	1894–1898	US Congress
43	James Hoge Tyler	Democrat	1898–1902	Lieutenant Governor of Virginia
44	Andrew Jackson Montague	Democrat	1902–1906	Attorney General of Virginia
45	Claude A. Swanson	Democrat	1906–1910	US Congress
46	William H. Mann	Democrat	1910–1914
47	Henry Carter Stuart	Democrat	1914–1918
48	Westmoreland Davis	Democrat	1918–1922	Farmer and Magazine Editor
49	Elbert Lee Trinkle	Democrat	1922–1926	Virginia State Senate
50	Harry F. Byrd Sr.	Democrat	1926–1930	President of The Valley Turnpike Company
51	John Garland Pollard	Democrat	1930–1934	Attorney General of Virginia
52	George C. Peery	Democrat	1934–1938	US Congress
53	James H. Price	Democrat	1938–1942	Lieutenant Governor of Virginia
54	Colgate W. Darden Jr.	Democrat	1942–1946	US Congress
55	William M. Tuck	Democrat	1946–1950	Lieutenant Governor of Virginia
56	John S. Battle	Democrat	1950–1954	Virginia State Senate
57	Thomas B. Stanley	Democrat	1954–1958	US Congress
58	James Lindsay Almond, Jr.	Democrat	1958–1962	Attorney General of Virginia
59	Albertis S. Harrison Jr.	Democrat	1962–1966	Attorney General of Virginia
60	Mills E. Godwin Jr.	Democrat	1966–1970	Lieutenant Governor of Virginia
61	A. Linwood Holton Jr.	Republican	1970–1974	US Senate Candidate
62	Mills E. Godwin Jr.	Republican	1974–1978	Governor of Virginia
63	John N. Dalton	Republican	1978–1982	Lieutenant Governor of Virginia
64	Charles S. Robb	Democrat	1982–1986	Lieutenant Governor of Virginia
65	Gerald L. Baliles	Democrat	1986–1990	Attorney General of Virginia
66	L. Douglas Wilder	Democrat	1990-1994	Lieutenant Governor of Virginia
67	George Allen	Republican	1994–1998	US Congress
68	James S. Gilmore III	Republican	1998–2002	Attorney General of Virginia
69	Mark Warner	Democrat	2002–2006	US Senate Candidate
70	Tim Kaine	Democrat	2006–Present	Lieutenant Governor of Virginia

[edit] Sources

Virginia State Government Website
Congressional Quarterly
- Virginia governors. (2000). In Congressional Quarterly (Ed.), American political leaders 1789-2000. Washington: CQ Press. Retrieved January 10, 2006, from CQ Electronic Library, CQ Voting and Elections Collection, . Document ID: amldrs-147-7136-390228. (Requires Subscription)

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