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This is a list of the Governors of New York. The Governor of the U.S. state of New York is the highest executive officer of the state, was originally chosen for a term of two years. In 1877 it was extended to three years, in 1895 reduced back to two years, and in 1938 it was extended to the current four-year term.


# Name Party Term
1 George Clinton (1739-1812) Democratic-Republican 1777–1795
2 John Jay (1745-1829) Federalist 1795–1801
3 George Clinton (1739-1812) Democratic-Republican 1801–1804
4 Morgan Lewis Democratic-Republican 1804–1807
5 Daniel D. Tompkins (1774-1825) Democratic-Republican 1807–1817
6 John Tayler Democratic-Republican 1817
7 De Witt Clinton (1769-1828) Democratic-Republican 1817–1822
8 Joseph C. Yates Democratic-Republican 1823–1824
9 De Witt Clinton (1769-1828) Clinton Republican 1825–1828
10 Nathaniel Pitcher Democratic-Republican 1828
11 Martin Van Buren (1782-1862) Jacksonian Democratic 1829
12 Enos T. Throop Jacksonian Democratic 1829–1832
13 William L. Marcy Democratic 1833–1838
14 William H. Seward (1801-1872) Whig 1839–1842
15 William C. Bouck Democratic 1843–1844
16 Silas Wright Democratic 1845–1846
17 John Young (1802-1852) Whig 1847–1848
18 Hamilton Fish (1808-1893) Whig 1849–1850
19 Washington Hunt Whig Anti-Rent 1851–1852
20 Horatio Seymour (1810-1886) Democratic 1853–1854
21 Myron H. Clark Fusion Republican 1855–1856
22 John A. King Republican 1857–1858
23 Edwin D. Morgan Republican 1859–1862
24 Horatio Seymour (1810-1886) Democratic 1863–1864
25 Reuben E. Fenton Union 1865–1868
26 John T. Hoffman Democratic 1869–1872
27 John Adams Dix Republican 1873–1874
28 Samuel J. Tilden (1814-1886) Democratic 1875–1876
29 Lucius Robinson Democratic 1877–1879
30 Alonzo B. Cornell Republican 1880–1882
31 Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) Democratic 1883–1884
32 David B. Hill Democratic 1885–1891
33 Roswell P. Flower Democratic 1892–1894
34 Levi P. Morton (1824-1920) Republican 1895–1896
35 Frank S. Black Republican 1897–1898
36 Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) Republican 1899–1900
37 Benjamin B. Odell, Jr. (1854-1926) Republican 1901–1904
38 Frank W. Higgins (1856-1907) Republican 1905–1906
39 Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948) Republican 1907–1910
40 Horace White Republican 1910
41 John Alden Dix (1860-1928) Democratic 1911–1912
42 William Sulzer (1863-1941) Democratic 1913
43 Martin H. Glynn (1871-1924) Democratic 1913–1914
44 Charles S. Whitman (1868-1947) Republican 1915–1918
45 Alfred E. Smith (1873-1944) Democratic 1919–1920
46 Nathan L. Miller (1868-1953) Republican 1921–1922
47 Alfred E. Smith (1873-1944) Democratic 1923–1928
48 Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) Democratic 1929–1932
49 Herbert H. Lehman (1878-1963) Democratic 1933–1942
50 Charles Poletti (1903-2002) Democratic 1942
51 Thomas E. Dewey (1902-1971) Republican 1943–1954
52 W. Averell Harriman (1891-1986) Democratic 1955–1958
53 Nelson A. Rockefeller (1908-1979) Republican 1959–1973
54 Malcolm Wilson (1914-2000) Republican 1973–1975
55 Hugh L. Carey (1919—) Democratic 1975–1983
56 Mario M. Cuomo (1932—) Democratic 1983–1995
57 George E. Pataki (1945—) Republican 1995—

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