List of governors of Connecticut

The Governor of Connecticut is in charge of the executive branch of Connecticut's government. The Governor is also commander-in-chief of the state's military forces. The governor must enforce state laws. The governor also can approve or veto bills passed by the Connecticut General Assembly. The governor of Connecticut has no power to pardon. This is unusual among other US governors. There have been 68 governors of the state. The current Governor is Ned Lamont, who took office on January 9, 2019.

Governor of Connecticut
Seal of the Governor
Incumbent Ned Lamont since January 9, 2019
Style	His Excellency
Residence	Connecticut Governor's Residence
Term length	Four years
Inaugural holder	Jonathan Trumbull
Deputy	Susan Bysiewicz
Salary	$150,000 (2009)[1]
Website	www.ct.gov/governor

List

Governors of the State of Connecticut^[a]

No.[b]	Governor			Term in office	Party	Election	Lt. Governor[c][d]
1			Jonathan Trumbull Sr.	October 10, 1776 – May 13, 1784 (not candidate for election)	No party	1776[e]		Matthew Griswold
						1777
						1778
						1779
						1780
						1781
						1782
						1783
2			Matthew Griswold	May 13, 1784 – May 11, 1786 (lost election)[5]	Federalist	1784		Samuel Huntington
						1785
3			Samuel Huntington	May 11, 1786 – January 5, 1796 (died in office)	Federalist	1786		Oliver Wolcott
						1787
						1788
						1789
						1790
						1791
						1792
						1793
						1794
						1795
4			Oliver Wolcott Sr.	January 5, 1796 – December 1, 1797 (died in office)	Federalist	Lieutenant Governor acting as Governor		Acting as Governor
						1796		Jonathan Trumbull Jr.
						1797
5			Jonathan Trumbull Jr.	December 1, 1797 – August 7, 1809 (died in office)	Federalist	Lieutenant Governor acting as Governor		Acting as Governor
						1798		John Treadwell
						1799
						1800
						1801
						1802
						1803
						1804
						1805
						1806
						1807
						1808
						1809
6			John Treadwell	August 7, 1809 – May 9, 1811 (lost election)[6]	Federalist	Lieutenant Governor acting as Governor		Acting as Governor
						1810		Roger Griswold
7			Roger Griswold	May 9, 1811 – October 25, 1812 (died in office)	Federalist	1811		John Cotton Smith
						1812
8			John Cotton Smith	October 25, 1812 – May 8, 1817 (lost election)	Federalist	Lieutenant Governor acting as Governor		Acting as Governor
						1813		Chauncey Goodrich (died August 18, 1815)
						1814
						1815
							Vacant
						1816		Jonathan Ingersoll[f] (died January 12, 1823)
9			Oliver Wolcott Jr.	May 8, 1817 – May 2, 1827 (lost election)	Toleration Republican	1817
						1818
						1819
						1820
						1821
						1822
							Vacant
						1823		David Plant[g]
						1824
						1825
						1826
10			Gideon Tomlinson	May 2, 1827 – March 2, 1831 (resigned)[h]	Democratic- Republican	1827		John Samuel Peters[g]
						1828
						1829
						1830
11			John Samuel Peters	March 2, 1831 – May 1, 1833 (lost election)	National Republican	Lieutenant Governor acting as Governor		Acting as Governor
						1831		Thaddeus Betts
						1832
12			Henry W. Edwards	May 1, 1833 – May 7, 1834 (lost election)	Democratic	1833		Ebenezer Stoddard
13			Samuel A. Foot	May 7, 1834 – May 6, 1835 (lost election)	Whig	1834		Thaddeus Betts
14			Henry W. Edwards	May 6, 1835 – May 2, 1838 (not candidate for election)	Democratic	1835		Ebenezer Stoddard
						1836
						1837
15			William W. Ellsworth	May 2, 1838 – May 4, 1842 (lost election)	Whig	1838		Charles Hawley
						1839
						1840
						1841
16			Chauncey Fitch Cleveland	May 4, 1842 – May 1, 1844 (lost election)	Democratic	1842		William S. Holabird
						1843
17			Roger Sherman Baldwin	May 1, 1844 – May 6, 1846 (not candidate for election)	Whig	1844		Reuben Booth
						1845
18			Isaac Toucey	May 6, 1846 – May 5, 1847 (not candidate for election)	Democratic	1846		Noyes Billings
19			Clark Bissell	May 5, 1847 – May 2, 1849 (not candidate for election)	Whig	1847		Charles J. McCurdy
						1848
20			Joseph Trumbull	May 2, 1849 – May 4, 1850 (not candidate for election)	Whig	1849		Thomas Backus
21			Thomas H. Seymour	May 4, 1850[i] – October 13, 1853 (resigned)[j]	Democratic	1850		Charles H. Pond
						1851		Green Kendrick
						1852		Charles H. Pond
						1853
22			Charles H. Pond	October 13, 1853 – May 3, 1854 (not candidate for election)	Democratic	Lieutenant Governor acting as Governor		Acting as Governor
23			Henry Dutton	May 3, 1854 – May 2, 1855 (lost election)	Whig	1854		Alexander H. Holley
24			William T. Minor	May 2, 1855 – May 6, 1857 (not candidate for election)	American	1855		William Field
						1856		Albert Day
25			Alexander H. Holley	May 6, 1857 – May 5, 1858 (not candidate for election)	Republican	1857		Alfred A. Burnham
26			William Alfred Buckingham	May 5, 1858 – May 2, 1866 (not candidate for election)	Republican	1858		Julius Catlin
						1859
						1860
						1861		Benjamin Douglas
						1862		Roger Averill
						1863
						1864
						1865
27			Joseph Roswell Hawley	May 2, 1866 – May 1, 1867 (lost election)	Republican	1866		Oliver Winchester
28			James E. English	May 1, 1867 – May 5, 1869 (lost election)	Democratic	1867		Ephraim H. Hyde
						1868
29			Marshall Jewell	May 5, 1869 – May 4, 1870 (lost election)	Republican	1869		Francis Wayland III
30			James E. English	May 4, 1870 – May 16, 1871 (lost election)[k]	Democratic	1870		Julius Hotchkiss
31			Marshall Jewell	May 16, 1871 – May 7, 1873 (not candidate for election)	Republican	1871[k]		Morris Tyler
						1872
32			Charles Roberts Ingersoll	May 7, 1873 – January 3, 1877 (not candidate for election)	Democratic	1873		George G. Sill
						1874
						1875[l]
33			Richard D. Hubbard	January 3, 1877 – January 9, 1879 (lost election)	Democratic	1876[m]		Francis Loomis
34			Charles B. Andrews	January 9, 1879[n] – January 5, 1881 (not candidate for election)	Republican	1878		David Gallup
35			Hobart B. Bigelow	January 5, 1881 – January 3, 1883 (not candidate for election)	Republican	1880		William H. Bulkeley
36			Thomas M. Waller	January 3, 1883 – January 8, 1885 (lost election)	Democratic	1882		George G. Sumner
37			Henry Baldwin Harrison	January 8, 1885[o] – January 7, 1887 (not candidate for election)	Republican	1884		Lorrin A. Cooke
38			Phineas C. Lounsbury	January 7, 1887[p] – January 10, 1889 (not candidate for election)	Republican	1886		James L. Howard
39			Morgan Bulkeley	January 10, 1889[q] – January 4, 1893 (not candidate for election)	Republican	1888		Samuel E. Merwin
						1890[r]
40			Luzon B. Morris	January 4, 1893 – January 9, 1895 (not candidate for election)	Democratic	1892		Ernest Cady
41			Owen Vincent Coffin	January 9, 1895 – January 6, 1897 (not candidate for election)	Republican	1894		Lorrin A. Cooke
42			Lorrin A. Cooke	January 6, 1897 – January 4, 1899 (not candidate for election)	Republican	1896		James D. Dewell
43			George E. Lounsbury	January 4, 1899 – January 9, 1901 (not candidate for election)	Republican	1898		Lyman A. Mills
44			George P. McLean	January 9, 1901 – January 7, 1903 (not candidate for election)	Republican	1900		Edwin O. Keeler
45			Abiram Chamberlain	January 7, 1903 – January 4, 1905 (not candidate for election)	Republican	1902		Henry Roberts
46			Henry Roberts	January 4, 1905 – January 9, 1907 (not candidate for election)	Republican	1904		Rollin S. Woodruff
47			Rollin S. Woodruff	January 9, 1907 – January 6, 1909 (not candidate for election)	Republican	1906		Everett J. Lake
48			George L. Lilley	January 6, 1909 – April 21, 1909 (died in office)	Republican	1908		Frank B. Weeks
49			Frank B. Weeks	April 21, 1909 – January 4, 1911 (not candidate for election)	Republican	Lieutenant Governor acting as Governor		Acting as Governor
50			Simeon Eben Baldwin	January 4, 1911 – January 6, 1915 (not candidate for election)	Democratic	1910		Dennis A. Blakeslee[s]
						1912		Lyman T. Tingier
51			Marcus H. Holcomb	January 6, 1915 – January 5, 1921 (not candidate for election)	Republican	1914		Clifford B. Wilson
						1916
						1918
52			Everett J. Lake	January 5, 1921 – January 3, 1923 (not candidate for election)	Republican	1920		Charles A. Templeton
53			Charles A. Templeton	January 3, 1923 – January 7, 1925 (not candidate for election)	Republican	1922		Hiram Bingham III
54			Hiram Bingham III	January 7, 1925 – January 8, 1925 (resigned)[t]	Republican	1924		John H. Trumbull
55			John H. Trumbull	January 8, 1925 – January 7, 1931 (not candidate for election)	Republican	Lieutenant Governor acting as Governor		Acting as Governor[u]
						1926		J. Edwin Brainard
						1928		Ernest E. Rogers
56			Wilbur Lucius Cross	January 7, 1931 – January 4, 1939 (lost election)	Democratic	1930		Samuel R. Spencer[s]
						1932		Roy C. Wilcox[s]
						1934		T. Frank Hayes
						1936
57			Raymond E. Baldwin	January 4, 1939 – January 8, 1941 (lost election)	Republican	1938		James L. McConaughy
58			Robert A. Hurley	January 8, 1941 – January 6, 1943 (lost election)	Democratic	1940		Odell Shepard
59			Raymond E. Baldwin	January 6, 1943 – December 27, 1946 (resigned)[v]	Republican	1942		William L. Hadden
						1944		Charles Wilbert Snow[w]
60			Charles Wilbert Snow	December 27, 1946 – January 8, 1947 (successor took office)	Democratic	Lieutenant Governor acting as Governor		Acting as Governor
61			James L. McConaughy	January 8, 1947 – March 7, 1948 (died in office)	Republican	1946		James C. Shannon
62			James C. Shannon	March 7, 1948 – January 5, 1949 (lost election)	Republican	Lieutenant Governor acting as Governor		Acting as Governor[x]
63			Chester Bowles	January 5, 1949 – January 3, 1951 (lost election)	Democratic	1948		William T. Carroll
64			John Davis Lodge	January 3, 1951 – January 5, 1955 (lost election)	Republican	1950[y]		Edward N. Allen
65			Abraham Ribicoff	January 5, 1955 – January 21, 1961 (resigned)[z]	Democratic	1954		Charles W. Jewett
						1958		John N. Dempsey
66			John N. Dempsey	January 21, 1961 – January 6, 1971 (not candidate for election)	Democratic	Lieutenant Governor acting as Governor		Acting as Governor[aa]
						1962		Samuel J. Tedesco (resigned January 15, 1966)
								Fred J. Doocy
						1966		Attilio R. Frassinelli
67			Thomas Meskill	January 6, 1971 – January 8, 1975 (not candidate for election)	Republican	1970		T. Clark Hull (resigned June 1, 1973)
								Peter L. Cashman
68			Ella Grasso	January 8, 1975 – December 31, 1980 (resigned)[ab]	Democratic	1974		Robert K. Killian
						1978		William A. O'Neill
69			William A. O'Neill	December 31, 1980 – January 9, 1991 (not candidate for election)	Democratic	Succeeded from Lieutenant Governor		Joseph J. Fauliso
						1982
						1986
70			Lowell Weicker	January 9, 1991 – January 4, 1995 (not candidate for election)	A Connecticut Party	1990		Eunice Groark
71			John G. Rowland	January 4, 1995 – July 1, 2004 (resigned)[ac]	Republican	1994		Jodi Rell
						1998
						2002
72			Jodi Rell	July 1, 2004 – January 5, 2011 (not candidate for election)	Republican	Succeeded from Lieutenant Governor		Kevin Sullivan[w]
						2006		Michael Fedele
73			Dannel Malloy	January 5, 2011 – January 9, 2019 (not candidate for election)	Democratic	2010		Nancy Wyman
						2014
74			Ned Lamont	January 9, 2019 – present[ad]	Democratic	2018		Susan Bysiewicz

Notes

1. Data is sourced from the National Governors Association, unless supplemental references are required.
2. According to the Connecticut State Library, the official listing goes back to the first governor of Connecticut Colony in 1639, and did not include repeat governors serving non-consecutive terms in the colonial period; this makes Trumbull the 16th governor.^[2] The official numbering since statehood includes repeat and acting governors.
3. The office of Lieutenant Governor was known as Deputy-Governor under the colonial charter, but the name 'Lieutenant Governor' was predominantly used after independence.^[3]
4. Lieutenant governors represented the same party as their governor unless noted.
5. The Connecticut General Assembly approved the United States Declaration of Independence on October 10, 1776, and resolved that the state's government would continue as established under the charter. So, as colonial governor, Jonathan Trumbull became state governor, serving roughly 14 years total.^[4]
6. Represented the Democratic-Republican Party
7. Represented the National Republican Party
8. Tomlinson resigned to take an elected seat in the United States Senate.^[7]
9. The constitutional start date for the term in 1850 was May 1; the delay may be because Seymour was chosen by the legislature after a close election.^[8]
10. Seymour resigned to be U.S. Minister to Russia.^[8]
11. James English won the popular vote, but a canvassing committee found the election was fraudulent, and named Jewell governor several days into the term.^[9]
12. This term was lengthened by 7 months due to a constitutional amendment moving the election schedule.^[10]
13. First term under a constitutional amendment which lengthened terms to two years.^[10]
14. The constitutional start date for the term in 1879 was January 8; the delay may be because Andrews was chosen by the legislature after a close election.^[11][12]
15. The constitutional start date for the term in 1885 was January 7; the delay may be because Harrison was chosen by the legislature after a close election.^[13]
16. The constitutional start date for the term in 1887 was January 5; the delay may be because Lounsbury was chosen by the legislature after a close election.^[14]
17. The constitutional start date for the term in 1889 was January 9; the delay may be because Bulkeley was chosen by the legislature after a close election.^[15]
18. Morgan Bulkeley did not run for re-election in 1890, but due to such a close contest and controversies, the results were not certified, and the legislature spent two years debating the issue; Bulkeley essentially served as governor by default.^[15]
19. Represented the Republican Party
20. Bingham resigned to take an elected seat in the United States Senate.^[16]
21. Since Trumbull took over only one day into the term, nearly all sources describe J. Edwin Brainard as lieutenant governor during this term; however, constitutionally, he would have remained president of the senate and only acted as lieutenant governor. At least one contemporary news source describes him as such.^[17]
22. Baldwin resigned to take an elected seat in the United States Senate.^[18]
23. Represented the Democratic Party
24. Robert E. Parsons is always listed as serving as lieutenant governor during this term, but constitutionally he likely would have remained president of the senate. However, questions were raised over whether or not they should fully succeed to the next office.^[19]
25. First term under a constitution amendment which lengthened terms to four years.^[20]
26. Ribicoff resigned to become United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare.^[21]
27. Anthony J. Armentano is always listed as serving as lieutenant governor during this term, but constitutionally he likely would have remained president of the senate. This is the last time such a confusion would exist, as the 1965 constitution established a solid line of succession.
28. Grasso resigned due to ovarian cancer.^[22]
29. Rowland resigned due to a federal corruption investigation;^[23] he later pleaded guilty to corruption.^[24]
30. Lamont's first term expires on January 4, 2023.