The Governor of North Carolina is the top executive of the government of the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of 2004, the governor of North Carolina is Mike Easley, a Democrat. Among other responsibilities, the governor heads the North Carolina Council of State.

Contents

1 List of Governors 1.1 Roanake Colony, 1585 - 1586 1.2 Proprietary Colony, 1664-1731 1.2.1 Governors of Albemarle, 1664-1689 1.2.2 Deputy Governors of Carolina, 1689-1710 1.2.3 Governors of North Carolina, 1711-1731 1.3 Royal Colony, 1731-1775 1.4 State of North Carolina, 1776-present 2 Related articles 3 References 4 External link

List of Governors

Roanake Colony, 1585 - 1586

• Ralph Lane, 1585 - 1586
• John White, 1587

Proprietary Colony, 1664-1731

Governors of Albemarle, 1664-1689

• William Drummond 1664-1667
• Samuel Stephens 1667-1669
• Peter Carteret 1670-1672
• John Jenkins 1672-1675
• Thomas Eastchurch 1675-1676
• John Jenkins 1676-1677
• Thomas Miller 1677
• John Harvey 1679
• Henry Wilkinson 1680
• John Jenkins 1680-1681
• Seth Sothel 1682-1689

Deputy Governors of Carolina, 1689-1710

• John Gibbs 1689-1690
• Thomas Jarvis 1690-1694
• Philip Ludwell 1690-1691, 1692-1693, 1693-1695
• Thomas Harvey 1694-1699
• John Archdale 1695-1696 (Governor of North and South Carolina)
• Henderson Walker 1699-1703
• Robert Daniel 1703-1705
• Thomas Cary 1705-1711
• William Glover 1706-1710

Governors of North Carolina, 1711-1731

• Edward Hyde 1711-1712
• Thomas Pollock 1712-1714
• Charles Eden 1714-1722
• Thomas Pollock 1722
• William Reed 1722-1724
• George Burrington 1724-1725
• Richard Everard 1725-1731

Royal Colony, 1731-1775

• George Burrington 1731-1734
• Nathaniel Rice 1734
• Gabriel Johnston 1734-1752
• Nathaniel Rice 1752-1753
• Matthew Rowan 1753-1754
• Arthur Dobbs 1753-1763
• William Tryon 1765-1771
• James Hasell 1771
• Josiah Martin 1771-1775

State of North Carolina, 1776-present

Name	Took Office	Left Office	Party
Richard Caswell	1776	1780	No party
Abner Nash	1780	1781	No party
Thomas Burke	1781	1782	No party
Alexander Martin	1782	1784	No party
Richard Caswell	1784	1787	No party
Samuel Johnston	1787	1789	Federalist
Alexander Martin	1789	1792	Federalist
Richard Dobbs Spaight	1792	1795	Democratic-Republican
Samuel Ashe	1795	1798	Democratic-Republican
William Richardson Davie	1798	1799	Federalist
Benjamin Williams	1799	1802	Democratic-Republican
James Turner	1802	1805	Democratic-Republican
Nathaniel Alexander	1805	1807	Democratic-Republican
Benjamin Williams	1807	1808	Democratic-Republican
David Stone	1808	1810	Democratic-Republican
Benjamin Smith	1810	1811	Democratic-Republican
William Hawkins	1811	1814	Democratic-Republican
William Miller	1814	1817	Democratic-Republican
John Branch	1817	1820	Democratic-Republican
Jesse Franklin	1820	1821	Democratic-Republican
Gabriel Holmes	1821	1824	No party
Hutchins Gordon Burton	1824	1827	No party
James Iredell, Jr.	1827	1828	Democratic-Republican
John Owen	1828	1830	Democrat
Montfort Stokes	1830	1832	Democrat
David Lowry Swain	1832	1835	Whig
Richard Dobbs Spaight, Jr.	1835	1836	Democrat
Edward Bishop Dudley	1836	1841	Whig
John Motley Morehead	1841	1845	Whig
William Alexander Graham	1845	1849	Whig
Charles Manly	1849	1851	Whig
David Settle Reid	1851	1854	Democrat
Warren Winslow	1854	1855	Democrat
Thomas Bragg	1855	1859	Democrat
John Willis Ellis	1859	1861	Democrat
Henry Toole Clark	1861	1862	Democrat
Zebulon Baird Vance	1862	1865	Democrat
William Woods Holden	1865	1865	Republican
Jonathan Worth	1865	1868	Democrat
William Woods Holden	1868	1871	Republican
Tod Robinson Caldwell	1871	1874	Republican
Curtis Hooks Brogden	1874	1877	Republican
Zebulon Baird Vance	1877	1879	Democrat
Thomas Jordan Jarvis	1879	1885	Democrat
Alfred Moore Scales	1885	1889	Democrat
Daniel Gould Fowle	1889	1891	Democrat
Thomas Michael Holt	1891	1893	Democrat
Elias Carr	1893	1897	Democrat
Daniel Lindsay Russell	1897	1901	Republican
Charles Brantley Aycock	1901	1905	Democrat
Robert Broadnax Glenn	1905	1909	Democrat
William Walton Kitchin	1909	1913	Democrat
Locke Craig	1913	1917	Democrat
Thomas Walter Bickett	1917	1921	Democrat
Cameron Morrison	1921	1925	Democrat
Angus Wilton McLean	1925	1929	Democrat
Oliver Max Gardner	1929	1933	Democrat
John C.B. Ehringhaus	1933	1937	Democrat
Clyde R. Hoey	1937	1941	Democrat
J. Melville Broughton	1941	1945	Democrat
R. Gregg Cherry	1945	1949	Democrat
W. Kerr Scott	1949	1953	Democrat
William B. Umstead	1953	1954	Democrat
Luther H. Hodges	1954	1961	Democrat
Terry Sanford	1961	1965	Democrat
Dan K. Moore	1965	1969	Democrat
Robert W. Scott	1969	1973	Democrat
James E. Holshouser, Jr.	1973	1977	Republican
James B. Hunt, Jr.	1977	1985	Democrat
James G. Martin	1985	1993	Republican
James B. Hunt, Jr.	1993	2001	Democrat
Mike Easley	2001		Democrat

Related articles

• North Carolina gubernatorial election, 2004

References

• North Carolina Encyclopedia (http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/nc/cover.htm)

External link

• Office of the Governor (http://www.governor.state.nc.us/)