Appendix 6
Virginia Governors
Number | Name | Took Office | Left Office | Party |
1 | Patrick Henry | July 6, 1776 | June 1, 1779 | None |
2 | Thomas Jefferson | June 2, 1779 | June 3, 1781 | None |
3 | William Fleming | June 4, 1781 | June 12, 1781 | None |
4 | Thomas Nelson, Jr. | June 12, 1781 | November 22, 1781 | None |
Acting Governor | David Jameson | November 22, 1781 | November 30, 1781 | None |
5 | Benjamin Harrison V | December 1, 1781 | November 30, 1784 | None |
6 | Patrick Henry | November 30, 1784 | November 30, 1786 | None |
7 | Edmund Randolph | November 30, 1786 | November 12, 1788 | None |
8 | Beverley Randolph | November 12, 1788 | December 1, 1791 | None |
9 | Henry Lee III | December 1, 1791 | December 1, 1794 | Federalist |
10 | Robert Brooke | December 1, 1794 | November 30, 1796 | Democratic-Republican |
11 | James Wood | November 30, 1796 | December 6, 1799 | Federalist |
Acting Governor | Hardin Burnley | December 7, 1799 | December 9, 1799 | None |
Acting Governor | John Pendleton, Jr. | December 11, 1799 | December 19, 1799 | None |
12 | James Monroe | December 19, 1799 | December 24, 1802 | Democratic-Republican |
13 | John Page | December 24, 1802 | December 11, 1805 | Democratic-Republican |
14 | William H. Cabell | December 11, 1805 | December 12, 1808 | Democratic-Republican |
15 | John Tyler, Sr. | December 12, 1808 | January 15, 1811 | Democratic-Republican |
Acting Governor | George William Smith | January 15, 1811 | January 19, 1811 | Democratic-Republican |
16 | James Monroe | January 19, 1811 | April 3, 1811 | Democratic-Republican |
Acting Governor |
George William Smith | April 3, 1811 | December 6, 1811 | Democratic-Republican |
17 | George William Smith | December 6, 1811 | December 26, 1811 | Democratic- Republican |
Acting Governor | Peyton Randolph | December 27, 1811 | January 4, 1812 | Democratic-Republican |
18 | James Barbour | January 4, 1812 | December 11, 1814 | Democratic-Republican |
19 | Wilson Cary Nicholas | December 11, 1814 | December 11, 1816 | Democratic-Republican |
20 | James Patton Preston | December 1, 1816 | December 11, 1819 | Democratic-Republican |
21 | Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr. | December 11, 1819 | December 11, 1822 | Democratic-Republican |
22 | James Pleasants, Jr. | December 11, 1822 | December 11, 1825 | Democratic-Republican |
23 | John Tyler, Jr. | December 11, 1825 | March 4, 1827 | Democratic-Republican |
24 | William Branch Giles | March 4, 1827 | March 4, 1830 | Democratic- Republican |
25 | John Floyd | March 4, 1830 | March 31, 1834 | Democrat |
26 | Littleton Waller Tazewell | March 31, 1834 | March 30, 1836 | None |
Acting Governor | Wyndham Robertson | March 30, 1836 | March 31, 1837 | Whig |
27 | David Campbell | March 31, 1837 | March 31, 1840 | Whig |
28 | Thomas Walker Gilmer | March 31, 1840 | March 20, 1841 | Whig |
Acting Governor | John M. Patton | March 20, 1841 | March 31, 1841 | Whig |
Acting Governor | John Rutherford | March 31, 1841 | March 31, 1842 | Democrat |
Acting Governor | John Munford Gregory | March 31, 1842 | January 5, 1843 | Whig |
29 | James McDowell | January 5, 1843 | January 1, 1846 | Democrat |
30 | William Smith | January 1, 1846 | January 1, 1849 | Democrat |
31 | John B. Floyd | January 1, 1849 | January 1, 1852 | Democrat |
32 | Joseph Johnson | January 1, 1852 | January 1, 1856 | Democrat |
33 | Henry A. Wise | January 1, 1856 | January 1, 1860 | Democrat |
34 | John Letcher | January 1, 1860 | January 1, 1864 | Democrat |
35 | William Smith | January 1, 1864 | May 9, 1865 | Democrat |
Provisional | Francis Harrison Pierpont | May 9, 1865 | April 4, 1868 | Republican |
Provisional | Henry H. Wells | April 4, 1868 | September 21, 1869 | Republican |
Provisional | Gilbert Carlton Walker | September 21, 1869 | December 31, 1869 | Republican |
36 | Gilbert Carlton Walker | January 1, 1870 | January 1, 1874 | Republican |
37 | James L. Kemper | January 1, 1874 | January 1, 1878 | Conservative |
38 | Frederick W.M. Holliday | January 1, 1878 | January 1, 1882 | Conservative |
39 | William E. Cameron | January 1, 1882 | January 1, 1886 | Readjuster |
40 | Fitzhugh Lee | January 1, 1886 | January 1, 1890 | Democrat |
41 | Philip W. McKinney | January 1, 1890 | January 1, 1894 | Democrat |
42 | Charles Triplett O’Ferrall | January 1, 1894 | January 1, 1898 | Democrat |
43 | James Hoge Tyler | January 1, 1898 | January 1, 1902 | Democrat |
44 | Andrew Jackson Montague | January 1, 1902 | February 1, 1906 | Democrat |
45 | Claude A. Swanson | February 1, 1906 | February 1, 1910 | Democrat |
46 | William Hodges Mann | February 1, 1910 | February 1, 1914 | Democrat |
47 | Henry Carter Stuart | February 1, 1914 | February 1, 1918 | Democrat |
48 | Westmoreland Davis | February 1, 1918 | February 1, 1922 | Democrat |
49 | Elbert Lee Trinkle | February 1, 1922 | February 1, 1926 | Democrat |
50 | Harry F. Byrd | February 1, 1926 | January 15, 1930 | Democrat |
51 | John Garland Pollard | January 15, 1930 | January 16, 1934 | Democrat |
52 | George C. Peery | January 17, 1934 | January 18, 1938 | Democrat |
53 | James H. Price | January 19, 1938 | January 20, 1942 | Democrat |
54 | Colgate Darden, Jr. | January 21, 1942 | January 15, 1946 | Democrat |
55 | William M. Tuck | January 16, 1946 | January 17, 1950 | Democrat |
56 | John S. Battle | January 18, 1950 | January 19, 1954 | Democrat |
57 | Thomas Bahnson Stanley | January 20, 1954 | January 11, 1958 | Democrat |
58 | James Lindsay Almond, Jr. | January 11, 1958 | January 13, 1962 | Democrat |
59 | Albertis S. Harrison, Jr. | January 13, 1962 | January 15, 1966 | Democrat |
60 | Mills E. Godwin, Jr. | January 15, 1966 | January 17, 1970 | Democrat |
61 | A. Linwood Holton, Jr. | January 17, 1970 | January 12, 1974 | Republican |
62 | Mills E. Godwin, Jr. | January 12, 1974 | January 14, 1978 | Republican |
63 | John N. Dalton | January 14, 1978 | January 16, 1982 | Republican |
64 | Charles S. Robb | January 16, 1982 | January 11, 1986 | Democrat |
65 | Gerald L. Baliles | January 11, 1986 | January 13, 1990 | Democrat |
66 | Douglas Wilder | January 13, 1990 | January 15, 1994 | Democrat |
67 | George Allen | January 15, 1994 | January 17, 1998 | Republican |
68 | Jim Gilmore | January 17, 1998 | January 12, 2002 | Republican |
69 | Mark Warner | January 12, 2002 | January 14, 2006 | Democrat |
70 | Timothy Kaine | January 14, 2006 | January 16, 2010 | Democrat |
71 | Bob McDonnell | January 16, 2010 | January 11, 2014 | Republican |
72 | Terry McAuliffe | January 11, 2014 | Present | Democrat |