List of governors of New York

This is a list of people who served as the governor of New York.

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List of governors

No.	Governor			Term in office	Time in office	Party	Election	Lieutenant Governor
1			George Clinton	July 30, 1777 – June 30, 1795 (not candidate for election)	17 years, 336 days	Democratic– Republican	1777		Pierre Van Cortlandt
							1780
							1783
							1786
							1789
							1792
2			John Jay	July 1, 1795 – June 30, 1801 (not candidate for election)	6 years, 0 days	Federalist	1795		Stephen Van Rensselaer
							1798
3			George Clinton	July 1, 1801 – June 30, 1804 (not candidate for election)[a]	3 years, 0 days	Democratic– Republican	1801		Jeremiah Van Rensselaer
4			Morgan Lewis	July 1, 1804 – June 30, 1807 (lost election)	3 years, 0 days	Democratic– Republican	1804		John Broome (died August 8, 1810)
5			Daniel D. Tompkins	July 1, 1807 – February 24, 1817 (resigned)[b]	9 years, 238 days	Democratic– Republican	1807
							1810
								Vacant
									John Tayler (acting) (took office January 29, 1811)[c]
									DeWitt Clinton (elected May 2, 1811)
							1813		John Tayler
							1816
6			John Tayler	February 24, 1817 – June 30, 1817 (not candidate for election)	127 days	Democratic– Republican	Lieutenant Governor acting as Governor		Philetus Swift (acting)
7			DeWitt Clinton	July 1, 1817 – December 31, 1822 (not candidate for election)	5 years, 184 days	Democratic– Republican	1817		John Tayler
							1820
8			Joseph C. Yates	January 1, 1823 – December 31, 1824 (not candidate for election)	2 years, 0 days	Democratic– Republican	1822		Erastus Root
9			DeWitt Clinton	January 1, 1825 – February 11, 1828 (died in office)	3 years, 41 days	Democratic– Republican	1824		James Tallmadge Jr.
							1826		Nathaniel Pitcher
10			Nathaniel Pitcher	February 11, 1828 – December 31, 1828 (not candidate for election)	325 days	Democratic– Republican	Succeeded from Lieutenant Governor		Peter R. Livingston (acting)
									Charles Dayan (acting from October 17, 1828)
11			Martin Van Buren	January 1, 1829 – March 12, 1829 (resigned)[d]	70 days	Democratic	1828		Enos T. Throop
12			Enos T. Throop	March 12, 1829 – December 31, 1832 (not candidate for election)	3 years, 295 days	Democratic	Succeeded from Lieutenant Governor		Charles Stebbins (acting)
									William M. Oliver (acting)
							1830		Edward Philip Livingston
13			William L. Marcy	January 1, 1833 – December 31, 1838 (lost election)	6 years, 0 days	Democratic	1832		John Tracy
							1834
							1836
13			William H. Seward	January 1, 1839 – December 31, 1842 (not candidate for election)	4 years, 0 days	Whig	1838		Luther Bradish
							1840
15			William C. Bouck	January 1, 1843 – December 31, 1844 (not candidate for election)	2 years, 0 days	Democratic	1842		Daniel S. Dickinson
16			Silas Wright	January 1, 1845 – December 31, 1846 (lost election)	2 years, 0 days	Democratic	1844		Addison Gardiner (resigned July 5, 1847)
17			John Young	January 1, 1847 – December 31, 1848 (not candidate for election)	2 years, 0 days	Whig	1846
									Albert Lester (acting)
									Hamilton Fish (took office January 1, 1848)
18			Hamilton Fish	January 1, 1849 – December 31, 1850 (not candidate for election)	2 years, 0 days	Whig	1848		George W. Patterson
19			Washington Hunt	January 1, 1851 – December 31, 1852 (lost election)	2 years, 0 days	Whig	1850		Sanford E. Church
20			Horatio Seymour	January 1, 1853 – December 31, 1854 (lost election)	2 years, 0 days	Democratic	1852
21			Myron H. Clark	January 1, 1855 – December 31, 1856 (not candidate for election)	2 years, 0 days	Whig (fusion)	1854		Henry Jarvis Raymond
22			John A. King	January 1, 1857 – December 31, 1858 (not candidate for election)	2 years, 0 days	Republican	1856		Henry R. Selden
23			Edwin D. Morgan	January 1, 1859 – December 31, 1862 (not candidate for election)[e]	4 years, 0 days	Republican	1858		Robert Campbell
							1860
24			Horatio Seymour	January 1, 1863 – December 31, 1864 (lost election)	2 years, 0 days	Democratic	1862		David R. Floyd-Jones
25			Reuben Fenton	January 1, 1865 – December 31, 1868 (not candidate for election)	4 years, 0 days	Union	1864		Thomas G. Alvord
							1866		Stewart L. Woodford
26			John T. Hoffman	January 1, 1869 – December 31, 1872 (not candidate for election)	4 years, 0 days	Democratic	1868		Allen C. Beach
							1870
27			John Adams Dix	January 1, 1873 – December 31, 1874 (lost election)	2 years, 0 days	Republican	1872		John C. Robinson
28			Samuel J. Tilden	January 1, 1875 – December 31, 1876 (not candidate for election)[f]	2 years, 0 days	Democratic	1874		William Dorsheimer
29			Lucius Robinson	January 1, 1877 – December 31, 1879 (lost election)	3 years, 0 days	Democratic	1876[g]
30			Alonzo B. Cornell	January 1, 1880 – December 31, 1882 (not candidate for election)	3 years, 0 days	Republican	1879		George Gilbert Hoskins
31			Grover Cleveland	January 1, 1883 – January 6, 1885 (resigned)[h]	2 years, 5 days	Democratic	1882		David B. Hill
32			David B. Hill	January 6, 1885 – December 31, 1891 (not candidate for election)[i]	6 years, 360 days	Democratic	Succeeded from Lieutenant Governor		Dennis McCarthy (acting)
							1885		Edward F. Jones
							1888
33			Roswell P. Flower	January 1, 1892 – December 31, 1894 (not candidate for election)	3 years, 0 days	Democratic	1891		William F. Sheehan
34			Levi P. Morton	January 1, 1895 – December 31, 1896 (not candidate for election)	2 years, 0 days	Republican	1894[j]		Charles T. Saxton
35			Frank S. Black	January 1, 1897 – December 31, 1898 (not candidate for election)	2 years, 0 days	Republican	1896		Timothy L. Woodruff
36			Theodore Roosevelt	January 1, 1899 – December 31, 1900 (not candidate for election)[k]	2 years, 0 days	Republican	1898
37			Benjamin Odell	January 1, 1901 – December 31, 1904 (not candidate for election)	4 years, 0 days	Republican	1900
							1902		Frank W. Higgins
38			Frank W. Higgins	January 1, 1905 – December 31, 1906 (not candidate for election)	2 years, 0 days	Republican	1904		Matthew Linn Bruce
									John Raines (acting)
39			Charles Evans Hughes	January 1, 1907 – October 6, 1910 (resigned)[l]	3 years, 278 days	Republican	1906		Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler
							1908		Horace White
40			Horace White	October 6, 1910 – December 31, 1910 (not candidate for election)	87 days	Republican	Succeeded from Lieutenant Governor		George H. Cobb (acting)
41			John Alden Dix	January 1, 1911 – December 31, 1912 (not candidate for election)	2 years, 0 days	Democratic	1910		Thomas F. Conway
42			William Sulzer	January 1, 1913 – October 17, 1913 (impeached and removed)[m]	289 days	Democratic	1912		Martin H. Glynn
43			Martin H. Glynn	October 17, 1913 – December 31, 1914 (lost election)	1 year, 76 days	Democratic	Succeeded from Lieutenant Governor		Robert F. Wagner (acting)
44			Charles Seymour Whitman	January 1, 1915 – December 31, 1918 (lost election)	4 years, 0 days	Republican	1914		Edward Schoeneck
							1916
45			Al Smith	January 1, 1919 – December 31, 1920 (lost election)	2 years, 0 days	Democratic	1918		Harry C. Walker
46			Nathan L. Miller	January 1, 1921 – December 31, 1922 (lost election)	2 years, 0 days	Republican	1920		Jeremiah Wood
									Clayton R. Lusk (acting)
47			Al Smith	January 1, 1923 – December 31, 1928 (not candidate for election)[n]	6 years, 0 days	Democratic	1922		George R. Lunn
							1924		Seymour Lowman
							1926		Edwin Corning
48			Franklin D. Roosevelt	January 1, 1929 – December 31, 1932 (not candidate for election)[o]	4 years, 0 days	Democratic	1928		Herbert H. Lehman
							1930
49			Herbert H. Lehman	January 1, 1933 – December 3, 1942 (resigned)[p]	9 years, 336 days	Democratic	1932		M. William Bray
							1934
							1936
							1938[q]		Charles Poletti
50			Charles Poletti	December 3, 1942 – December 31, 1942 (not candidate for election)	29 days	Democratic	Succeeded from Lieutenant Governor		Joe R. Hanley (acting)
51			Thomas E. Dewey	January 1, 1943 – December 31, 1954 (not candidate for election)	12 years, 0 days	Republican	1942		Thomas W. Wallace
							1946		Joe R. Hanley
							1950		Frank C. Moore (resigned September 30, 1953)
									Arthur H. Wicks (acting)
									Walter J. Mahoney (acting)
52			W. Averell Harriman	January 1, 1955 – December 31, 1958 (lost election)	4 years, 0 days	Democratic	1954		George DeLuca
53			Nelson Rockefeller	January 1, 1959 – December 18, 1973 (resigned)[r]	14 years, 351 days	Republican	1958		Malcolm Wilson
							1962
							1966
							1970
54			Malcolm Wilson	December 18, 1973 – December 31, 1974 (lost election)	1 year, 14 days	Republican	Succeeded from Lieutenant Governor		Warren M. Anderson (acting)
55			Hugh Carey	January 1, 1975 – December 31, 1982 (not candidate for election)	8 years, 0 days	Democratic	1974		Mary Anne Krupsak
							1978		Mario Cuomo
56			Mario Cuomo	January 1, 1983 – December 31, 1994 (lost election)	12 years, 0 days	Democratic	1982		Alfred DelBello
									Warren M. Anderson (acting)
							1986		Stan Lundine
							1990
57			George Pataki	January 1, 1995 – December 31, 2006 (not candidate for election)	12 years, 0 days	Republican	1994		Betsy McCaughey Ross[s]
							1998		Mary Donohue
							2002
58			Eliot Spitzer	January 1, 2007 – March 17, 2008 (resigned)[t]	1 year, 76 days	Democratic	2006		David Paterson
59			David Paterson	March 17, 2008 – December 31, 2010 (not candidate for election)	2 years, 290 days	Democratic	Succeeded from Lieutenant Governor		Joseph Bruno (acting)
									Dean Skelos (acting)
									Malcolm Smith (acting)
									Pedro Espada Jr. (acting)[u]
									Richard Ravitch (contested)[v]
									Malcolm Smith (acting)[w]
									Richard Ravitch[x]
60			Andrew Cuomo	January 1, 2011 – August 23, 2021 (resigned)[y]	10 years, 234 days	Democratic	2010		Robert Duffy
							2014		Kathy Hochul
							2018
61			Kathy Hochul	August 24, 2021 – Incumbent[z]	3 years, 270 days	Democratic	Succeeded from the Lieutenant Goveror 2022		Andrea Stewart-Cousins (acting)
									Brian Benjamin[2]
									Andrea Stewart-Cousins (acting)
									Antonio Delgado

Notes

1. Clinton instead successfully ran for Vice President of the United States.
2. Tompkins resigned to be Vice President of the United States.
3. At the time, the position of president pro-tempore of the Senate was only filled during a vacancy in the office of lieutenant governor, so Tayler was not elected to fill the position until January 29, 1811.
4. Van Buren resigned to be United States Secretary of State.
5. Morgan instead successfully ran for United States Senate.
6. Tilden instead unsuccessfully ran for President of the United States.
7. First term under an 1874 amendment to the constitution, which lengthened terms to three years.
8. Cleveland resigned to be President of the United States.
9. Hill had been elected to the United States Senate for a term starting March 4, 1891, but did not take office until his gubernatorial term expired.
10. First term under the 1894 constitution, which shortened terms to two years.
11. Roosevelt instead successfully ran for Vice President of the United States.
12. Hughes resigned to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
13. Sulzer was impeached and removed from office for campaign contribution fraud.
14. Smith instead unsuccessfully ran for President of the United States.
15. Roosevelt instead successfully ran for President of the United States.
16. Lehman resigned to be Director of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations at the United States Department of State.
17. First term under the 1938 constitution, which lengthened terms to four years.
18. Rockefeller resigned to devote himself to his Commission on Critical Choices for Americans.
19. Elected as Betsy McCaughey, but married and changed name in 1995.
20. Spitzer resigned due to a prostitution scandal.
21. Espada was a Democrat, but combined with the Republicans in a change of leadership which triggered the 2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis.
22. Ravitch was appointed on July 8, 2009, but the appointment was contested in the courts. On August 20, the Appellate Division rejected the appointment; Ravitch vacated the office.
23. Smith succeeded Espada on July 9 as temporary President of the New York State Senate and claimed to be Acting Lieutenant Governor under the provisions of the New York State Constitution while the appointment of Ravitch was contested.
24. On September 22, the New York Court of Appeals reversed the Appellate Division's ruling, thus re-instating Ravitch to the lieutenant governorship, beginning on July 8.
25. Cuomo resigned due to sexual harassment allegations.^[1]
26. Hochul's first term expires at midnight on January 1, 2023.