United S
tates:
Michigan - New Mexico
Alabama-Georgia
Hawaii-Massachusetts
New York-South Carolina
South Dakota-Wyoming
MICHIGAN
Claimed by France.................................1668-1763
To
Great Britain
..................................1763-1787
To the Northwest Territory........................1787-1800
To Indiana Territory..............................1800-1805
Michigan Territory................................1805-1837
William Hull.................................1805-1813
Lewis Cass...................................1813-1831
George B. Porter.............................1831-1834
Stevens Thomson Mason........................1834-1840
Admitted as the 26th State........................1837-
William Woodbridge...........................1840-1841
James Wright Gordon (acting), 1841-1842
John Stewart Barry...........................1842-1846
Alpheus Felch................................1846-1847
William L. Greenly (acting), 1847-1848
Epaphroditus Ransom..........................1848-1850
John Stewart Barry (restored)................1850-1852
Robert McClelland............................1852-1853
Andrew Parsons (acting), 1853-1855
Kinsley Scott Bingham........................1855-1859
Moses Wisner.................................1859-1861
Austin Blair.................................1861-1865
Henry Howland Crapo..........................1865-1869
Henry Porter Baldwin.........................1869-1873
John Judson Bagley...........................1873-1877
Charles Miller Croswell......................1877-1881
David Howell Jerome..........................1881-1883
Josiah Willams Begole........................1883-1885
Russell Alexander Alger......................1885-1887
Cyrus Gray Luce..............................1887-1891
Edwin Baruch Winans..........................1891-1893
John Tyler Rich..............................1893-1897
Hazen Stuart Pingree.........................1897-1901
Aaron Thomas Bliss...........................1901-1905
Fred Malthy Warner...........................1905-1911
Chase Salmon Osborn..........................1911-1913
Woodbridge Nathan Ferris.....................1913-1917
Albert Edson Sleeper.........................1917-1921
Alexander Joseph Groesbeck...................1921-1927
Fred Warren Green............................1927-1931
Wilber Marion Brucker........................1931-1933
William Alfred Comstock......................1933-1935
Frank Dwight Fitzgerald......................1935-1937
Francis William Murphy (
Gov. Philippines 1933-5
)...1937-1939
Frank Dwight Fitzgerald (restored)........Jan-Mar 1939
Luren Dudley Dickinson.......................1939-1941
Murray Delos Van Wagoner.....................1941-1943
Harry Francis Kelly..........................1943-1947
Kimber Cornellus Sigler......................1947-1949
Gerhard Mennen Williams......................1949-1961
John Burley Swainson.........................1961-1963
George Wilcken Romney........................1963-1969
William Grawn Milliken.......................1969-1983
James Johnston Blanchard.....................1983-1991
John Engler..................................1991-2003
Jennifer Granholm (
fem.
)......................2003-
MINNESOTA
Claimed by France.................................1668-1762
Claimed by
Spain
..................................1762-1800
To France.........................................1800-1803
To Louisiana Territory............................1803-1804
To Indiana Territory..............................1804-1805
To Louisiana......................................1805-1812
To Missouri.......................................1812-1821
Unorganized territory of the United States........1821-1834
To Michigan.......................................1834-1836
To Wisconsin......................................1836-1849
Minnesota Territory...............................1849-1858
Alexander Ramsey.............................1849-1853
Willis Arnold Gorman.........................1853-1857
Samuel Medary................................1857-1858
Admitted as the 32nd State........................1858-
Henry Hastings Sibley........................1858-1860
Alexander Ramsey (restored)..................1860-1863
Henry Adoniram Swift.........................1863-1864
Stephen Miller...............................1864-1866
William Rainey Marshall......................1866-1870
Horace Austin................................1870-1874
Cushman Kellogg Davis........................1874-1876
John Sargent Pillsbury.......................1876-1882
Lucius Frederick Hubbard.....................1882-1887
Andrew Ryan McGill...........................1887-1889
William Rush Merriam.........................1889-1893
Knute Nelson.................................1893-1895
David Marston Clough.........................1895-1899
John Lind....................................1899-1901
Samuel Rinnah Van Sant.......................1901-1905
John Albert Johnson..........................1905-1909
Adolph Olson Eberhart........................1909-1915
Winfield Scott Hammond....................Jan-Dec 1915
Joseph Alfred Arner Burnquist................1915-1921
Jacob Aall Ottesen Preus.....................1921-1925
Theodore Christianson........................1925-1931
Floyd Björnstjerne Olson.....................1931-1936
Hjalmar Petersen.............................1936-1937
Elmer Austin Benson..........................1937-1939
Harold Edward Stassen........................1939-1943
Edward John Thye.............................1943-1947
Luther Wallace Youngdahl.....................1947-1951
Clyde Elmer Anderson.........................1951-1955
Orville Lothrop Freeman......................1955-1961
Elmer Lee Andersen...........................1961-1963
Karl Fritjof Rolvaag.........................1963-1967
Harold LeVander..............................1967-1971
Wendell Richard Anderson.....................1971-1976
Rudolph Perpich..............................1976-1979
Albert Harold Quie...........................1979-1983
Rudolph Perpich (restored)...................1983-1991
Arne H. Carlson..............................1991-1999
Jesse Ventura (James George Janos)...........1999-2003
Tim Pawlenty.................................2003-
MISSISSIPPI
Poverty Point Culture..........................c. 1800-500
Adena Culture..............................c. BCE 1000-c. CE 200
Hopewell Culture................................c. 200-c. 700
Mississippian Culture...........................c. 700-c. 1550
To the Choctaw (interior)......................c. 1540-1830
Claimed by
Spain
..................................1540-1702
To France.........................................1702-1763
To
Great Britain
..................................1763-1783
To the United States (as part of Georgia).........1783-1798
Mississippi Territory.............................1798-1817
Winthrop Sargent.............................1798-1801
William Charles Cole Claiborne (
Louisiana 1803-16
)...1801-1805
Robert Williams..............................1805-1809
David Holmes.................................1809-1820
Admitted as the 20th State........................1817-1861
George Poindexter............................1820-1822
Walter Leake.................................1822-1825
Gerard Chittoque Brandon (acting), 1825-1826
David Holmes (restored)..................Jan-July 1826
Gerard Chittoque Brandon (restored)..........1826-1832
Abram Marshall Scott.........................1832-1833
Charles Lynch (acting), July-Nov 1833
Hiram George Runnels.........................1833-1835
John Anthony Quitman (acting), 1835-1836
Charles Lynch (restored).....................1836-1838
Alexander Gallatin McNutt....................1838-1842
Tilgham Mayfield Tucker......................1842-1844
Albert Gallatin Brown........................1844-1848
Joseph W. Matthews...........................1848-1850
John Anthony Quitman (restored)..............1850-1851
John Isaac Guion (acting), Feb-Nov 1851
James Whitfield (acting), 1851-1852
Henry Stuart Foote...........................1852-1854
John Jones Pettus (acting), 5-10 Jan 1854
John Jones McRae.............................1854-1857
William McWillie.............................1857-1859
John Jones Pettus (restored).................1859-1863
Technically independent......................Jan.-Feb. 1861
2nd Confederate State of America..................1861-1865
Charles Clark................................1863-1865
To the United States..............................1865-1868
William Lewis Sharkey (acting), Jun-Oct 1865-1865
Benjamin Grubb Humphreys.....................1865-1868
Readmitted to the Union...........................1868-
Adelbert Ames (military governor), 1868-1870
James Lusk Alcorn............................1870-1871
Ridgley Ceylon Powers........................1871-1874
Adelbert Ames (restored).....................1874-1876
John Marshall Stone..........................1876-1882
Robert Lowry.................................1882-1890
John Marshall Stone (restored)...............1890-1896
Anselm Joseph McLaurin.......................1896-1900
Andrew Houston Longino.......................1900-1904
James Kimble Vardaman........................1904-1908
Edmund Favor Noel............................1908-1912
Earl LeRoy Brewer............................1912-1916
Theodore Gilmore Bilbo.......................1916-1920
Lee Maurice Russell..........................1920-1924
Henry Lewis Whitfield........................1924-1927
Herron Dennis Murphree.......................1927-1928
Theodore Gilmore Bilbo (restored)............1928-1932
Martin Sennett Conner........................1932-1936
Hugh Lawson White............................1936-1940
Paul Burney Johnson..........................1940-1943
Herron Dennis Murphree (restored)............1943-1944
Thomas Lowry Bailey..........................1944-1946
Fielding Lewis Wright........................1946-1952
Hugh Lawson White (restored).................1952-1956
James Plemon Coleman.........................1956-1960
Ross Robert Barnett..........................1960-1964
Paul Burney Johnson, Jr. ....................1964-1968
John Bell Williams...........................1968-1972
William Lowe Waller..........................1972-1976
Cliff Finch..................................1976-1980
William Forrest Winter.......................1980-1984
William A. Allain............................1984-1988
Raymond Edwin Mabus, Jr. ....................1988-1992
Kirk Fordice.................................1992-2000
Ronnie Musgrove..............................2000-2004
Haley Barbour................................2004-
MISSOURI
Hopewell Culture................................c. 200-c. 700
Mississippian Culture...........................c. 700-c. 1550
Occupied largely by Missouri...................c. 1550-c. 1820
Claimed by France.................................1673-1762
Claimed by
Spain
..................................1762-1800
To France.........................................1800-1803
To Louisiana (Orleans) Territory..................1803-1807
Territory of Louisiana (Missouri)
Meriwether Lewis.............................1807-1809
vacant
Benjamin Howard..............................1810-1812
Missouri Territory................................1812-1821
Frederick Bates (acting), 1812-1813
William Clark................................1813-1820
Alexander McNair.............................1820-1824
Admitted as the 24th State........................1821-
Frederick Bates (restored)...................1824-1825
Abraham J. Williams (acting), 1825-1826
John Miller..................................1826-1832
Daniel Dunklin...............................1832-1836
Lilburn Williams Boggs.......................1836-1840
Thomas Reynolds..............................1840-1844
Meredith Miles Marmaduke (acting), Feb-Nov 1844
John Cummins Edwards.........................1844-1848
Austin Augustus King.........................1848-1853
Sterling Price...............................1853-1857
Trusten Polk............................early Jan 1857
Hancock Lee Jackson (acting), Jan-Aug 1857
Robert Marcellus Stewart.....................1857-1861
Claiborne Fox Jackson.............................1861
Hamilton Rowan Gamble (acting), 1861-1864 opposed by...
Thomas Caute Reynolds........................1862-1865 opposed by...
Willard Preble Hall (acting), 1864-1865
Thomas Clement Fletcher......................1865-1869
Joseph Washington McClurg....................1869-1871
Benjamin Gratz Brown.........................1871-1873
Silas Woodson................................1873-1875
Charles Henry Hardin.........................1875-1877
John Smith Phelps............................1877-1881
Thomas Theodore Crittenden...................1881-1885
John Sappington Marmaduke....................1885-1887
Albert Pickett Morehouse (acting), 1887-1889
David Rowland Francis........................1889-1893
William Joel Stone...........................1893-1897
Lon Vest Stephens............................1897-1901
Alexander Monroe Dockery.....................1901-1905
Joseph Wingate Folk..........................1905-1909
Herbert Spencer Hadley.......................1909-1913
Elliot Woolfolk Major........................1913-1917
Frederick Dozier Gardner.....................1917-1921
Arthur Mastick Hyde..........................1921-1925
Sam Aaron Baker..............................1925-1929
Henry Stewart Caulfield......................1929-1933
Guy Brasfield Park...........................1933-1937
Lloyd Crow Stark.............................1937-1941
Forrest C. Donnell...........................1941-1945
Philip Matthew Donnelly......................1945-1949
Forrest Smith................................1949-1953
Philip Matthew Donnelly (restored)...........1953-1957
James Thomas Blair, Jr. .....................1957-1961
John Montgomery Dalton.......................1961-1965
Warren E. Hearnes............................1965-1973
Christopher Samuel Bond......................1973-1977
Joseph P. Teasdale...........................1977-1981
Christopher Samuel Bond (restored)...........1981-1985
John David Ashcroft..........................1985-1993
Melvin Eugene Carnahan.......................1993-2000
Roger B. Wilson (acting), 2000-2001
Bob Holden...................................2001-2005
Matt Blunt...................................2005-
MONTANA
Occupied mostly by Sioux........................... ? -c. 1880
Claimed by France.................................1673-1762
Claimed by
Spain
..................................1762-1800
To France.........................................1800-1803
To Louisiana Territory............................1803-1812
(East of the Rockies...)
To Missouri..................................1812-1854
To Nebraska Territory........................1854-1861
To Dakota Territory..........................1861-1863
(West of the Rockies...)
Unorganized territory of the United States...1812-1848
To Oregon Territory..........................1848-1853
To Washington Territory......................1853-1863
All to Idaho Territory............................1863-1864
Montana Territory.................................1864-1889
Sidney Edgerton..............................1864-1865
Thomas Francis Meagher.......................1865-1866
Green Clay Smith.............................1866-1868
James Tufts..................................1868-1869
James Mitchell Ashley.............................1869
Wiley S. Schribner...........................1869-1870
Benjamin Franklin Potts......................1870-1883
John Schuyler Crosby.........................1883-1884
Benjamin Platt Carpenter.....................1884-1885
Samuel Thomas Hauser.........................1885-1887
Preston Hopkins Leslie.......................1887-1889
Benjamin Franklin White...................Mar-Nov 1889
Admitted as the 41st State........................1889-
Joseph Kemp Toole............................1889-1893
John Ezra Rickards...........................1893-1897
Robert Burns Smith...........................1897-1901
Joseph Kemp Toole (restored).................1901-1908
Edwin Lee Norris.............................1908-1913
Sam Vernon Stewart...........................1913-1921
Joseph Moore Dixon...........................1921-1925
John Edward Erickson.........................1925-1933
Frank Henry Cooney...........................1933-1935
William Elmer Holt...........................1935-1937
Roy Elmer Ayres..............................1937-1941
Samuel Clarence Ford.........................1941-1949
John Woodrow Bonner..........................1949-1953
John Hugo Aronson............................1953-1961
Donald Grant Nutter..........................1961-1962
Tim M. Babcock...............................1962-1969
Forrest Howard Anderson......................1969-1973
Thomas Lee Judge.............................1973-1981
Ted Schwinden................................1981-1989
Stan Stephens................................1989-1993
Marc Racicot.................................1993-2001
Judy Martz (
fem.
).............................2001-2005
Brian Schweitzer.............................2005-
NEBRASKA
Claimed by France.................................1673-1762
Claimed by
Spain
..................................1762-1800
To France.........................................1800-1803
To Louisiana Territory............................1803-1812
To Missouri.......................................1812-1854
Nebraska Territory................................1854-1867
Francis Burt............................16-18 Oct 1854
Thomas B. Cuming (acting), 1854-1855
Mark Whitaker Izard..........................1855-1857
Thomas B. Cuming (restored; acting), 1857-1858
William Alexander Richardson..............Jan-Dec 1858
Julius Sterling Morton (acting), 1858-1859
Samuel Watson Black..........................1859-1861
Julius Sterling Morton (restored; acting), Feb-May 1861
Algernon Sidney Paddock (acting), 1861
Alvin Saunders...............................1861-1867
Admitted as the 37th State........................1867-
David Christy Butler.........................1867-1871
William Hartford James.......................1871-1873
Robert Wilkinson Furnas......................1873-1875
Silas Garber.................................1875-1879
Albinus Nance................................1879-1883
James William Dawes..........................1883-1887
John Milton Thayer (
Gov. Wyo. Terr. 1875-8
)..1887-1891
James E. Boyd.............................Jan-May 1891
John Milton Thayer (restored; acting), 1891-1892
James E. Boyd (restored).....................1892-1893
Lorenzo Crounse..............................1893-1895
Silas Alexander Holcomb......................1895-1899
William Amos Poynter.........................1899-1901
Charles Henry Dietrich....................Jan-May 1901
Ezra Perin Savage............................1901-1903
John Hopwood Mickey..........................1903-1907
George Lawson Sheldon........................1907-1909
Ashton Cokayne Shallenberger.................1909-1911
Chester Hardy Aldrich........................1911-1913
John Henry Morehead..........................1913-1917
Keith Neville................................1917-1919
Samuel Roy McKelvie..........................1919-1923
Charles Wayland Bryan........................1923-1925
Adam McMullen................................1925-1929
Arthur J. Weaver.............................1929-1931
Charles Wayland Bryan (restored).............1931-1935
Robert LeRoy Cochran.........................1935-1941
Dwight Palmer Griswold.......................1941-1947
Val Peterson.................................1947-1953
Robert Berkey Crosby.........................1953-1955
Victor Emanuel Anderson......................1955-1959
Ralph Gilmour Brooks.........................1959-1960
Dwight Willard Burney........................1960-1961
Frank Brenner Morrison.......................1961-1967
Norbert Theodore Tiemann.....................1967-1971
John James Exon..............................1971-1979
Charles Thone................................1979-1983
Joseph Robert Kerrey.........................1983-1987
Kay A. Orr (
fem.
).............................1987-1991
Earl Benjamin Nelson.........................1991-1999
Mike Johanns.................................1999-2005
Dave Heineman................................2005-
NEVADA
Claimed by
Spain
..................................1540-1821
To Mexico.........................................1821-1848
To Utah...........................................1848-1861
Nevada Territory..................................1861-1864
James Warren Nye.............................1861-1864
Admitted as the 36th State........................1864-
Henry Goode Blasdel..........................1864-1871
Lewis Rice Bradley...........................1871-1879
John Henry Kinkead...........................1879-1883
Jewett Williams Adams........................1883-1887
Charles Clark Stevenson......................1887-1890
Francis Jardine Bell (acting), 1890-1891
Roswell Keyes Colcord........................1891-1895
John Edward Jones............................1895-1896
Reinhold Sadler (acting to 2 Jan 1899).......1896-1903
John Sparks..................................1903-1908
Denver Sylvester Dickerson (acting), 1908-1911
Tasker Lowndes Oddie.........................1911-1915
Emmet Derby Boyle............................1915-1923
James Graves Scrugham........................1923-1927
Fredrick Bennett Balzar......................1927-1934
Morley Griswold (acting), 1934-1935
Richard Kirman, Sr. .........................1935-1939
Edward Peter Carville........................1939-1945
Vail Pittman (acting to 6 Jan 1947)..........1945-1951
Charles Hinton Russell.......................1951-1959
Grant Sawyer.................................1959-1967
Paul Dominque Laxalt.........................1967-1971
Donald Neil O'Callaghan......................1971-1979
Robert Frank List............................1979-1983
Richard H. Bryan.............................1983-1989
Robert Joseph Miller (acting to 7 Jan 1991)..1989-1999
Kenny Guinn..................................1999-2007
Jim Gibbons..................................2007-
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Private grants of land in the area................1623-1641
To Massachusetts..................................1641-1679
To
Great Britain
, directly........................1679-1686
Presidents
John Cutt....................................1680-1681
Richard Waldron (acting), 1681-1682
Governors
Edward Cranfield.............................1682-1685
Walter Barefoote (acting), 1685-1686
Joseph Dudley.....................................1686
To the Dominion of New England....................1686-1689
To
Great Britain
again............................1689-1776
Simon Bradstreet.............................1689-1692
John Usher...................................1692-1697
William Partridge............................1697-1698
Samuel Allen.................................1698-1699
Richard Coote, Earl of Bellomont.............1699-1701
William Partridge (restored).................1701-1702
Joseph Dudley (restored).....................1702-1716
Samuel Shute.................................1716-1723
John Wentworth...............................1723-1728
William Burnett..............................1728-1730
Jonathan Belcher.............................1730-1741
Benning Wentworth............................1741-1767
John Wentworth...............................1767-1775
Autonomous within the Articles of Confederation...1776-1788
Presidents of the Council
Matthew Thornton.............................1775-1776
Meshech Weare................................1776-1785
Presidents (from 1784)
John Langdon.................................1785-1786
John Sullivan................................1786-1788
Admitted as the 9th State.........................1788-
John Langdon (restored)......................1788-1789
John Pickering (acting), Jan-June 1789
John Sullivan (restored).....................1789-1790
Josiah Bartlett..............................1790-1794
Governors (from 1793)
John Taylor Gilman...........................1794-1805
John Langdon.................................1805-1809
Jeremiah Smith...............................1809-1810
John Langdon (restored)......................1810-1812
William Plumer...............................1812-1813
John Taylor Gilman (restored)................1813-1816
William Plumer (restored)....................1816-1819
Samuel Bell..................................1819-1823
Levi Woodbury................................1823-1824
David Lawrence Morrill.......................1824-1827
Benjamin Pierce..............................1827-1828
John Bell....................................1828-1829
Benjamin Pierce (restored)...................1829-1830
Matthew Harvey...............................1830-1831
Joseph M. Harper (acting), Feb-Dec 1831
Samuel Dinsmoor, Sr.(
father Sam. Dinsm. Jr.
).1831-1835
William Badger...............................1836-1839
John Page....................................1839-1842
Henry Hubbard................................1842-1844
John Hardy Steele............................1844-1846
Anthony Colby................................1846-1847
Jared Warner Williams........................1847-1849
Samuel Dinsmoor, Jr. (
son Sam. Dinsmoor Sr.
).1849-1852
Noah Martin..................................1852-1854
Nathaniel Bradley Baker......................1854-1855
Ralph Metcalf................................1855-1857
William Haile................................1857-1859
Ichabod Goodwin..............................1859-1861
Nathaniel Springer Berry.....................1861-1863
Joseph Albree Gilmore........................1863-1865
Frederick Smyth..............................1865-1867
Walter Harriman..............................1867-1869
Onslow Stearns...............................1869-1871
James Adams Weston...........................1871-1872
Ezekiel Albert Straw.........................1872-1874
James Adams Weston (restored)................1874-1875
Person Colby Cheney..........................1875-1877
Benjamin Franklin Prescott...................1877-1879
Nathaniel Head...............................1879-1881
Charles Henry Bell...........................1881-1883
Samuel Whitney Hale..........................1883-1885
Moody Currier................................1885-1887
Charles Henry Sawyer.........................1887-1889
David Harvey Goodell.........................1889-1891
Hiram Americus Tuttle........................1891-1893
John Butler Smith............................1893-1895
Charles Albert Busiel........................1895-1897
George Allen Ramsdell........................1897-1899
Frank West Rollins...........................1899-1901
Chester Bradley Jordan.......................1901-1903
Nahum Josiah Bachelder.......................1903-1905
John McLane..................................1905-1907
Charles Miller Floyd.........................1907-1909
Henry Brewer Quinby..........................1909-1911
Robert Perkins Bass..........................1911-1913
Samuel Demeritt Felker.......................1913-1915
Rolland Harty Spaulding......................1915-1917
Henry Wilder Keyes...........................1917-1919
John Henry Bartlett..........................1919-1921
Albert Oscar Brown...........................1921-1923
Fred Herbert Brown...........................1923-1925
John Gilbert Winant..........................1925-1927
Huntley Nowel Spaulding......................1927-1929
Charles William Tobey........................1929-1931
John Gilbert Winant (restored)...............1931-1935
Henry Styles Bridges.........................1935-1937
Francis Parnell Murphy.......................1937-1941
Robert Oscar Blood...........................1941-1945
Charles Milby Dale...........................1945-1949
Sherman Adams................................1949-1953
Hugh Gregg (
father Judd Gregg
)...............1953-1955
Lane Dwinell.................................1955-1959
Wesley Powell................................1959-1963
John William King............................1963-1969
Walter R. Peterson...........................1969-1973
Meldrim Thomson, Jr. ........................1973-1979
Hugh J. Gallen...............................1979-1982
Robert B. Monier (acting for Gallen), 11-30 Nov 1982
William Michael Gardner (acting for Gallen), 30 Nov-1 Dec 1982
Vesta Roy (
fem
.
; acting Gallen to 12.29 '82).1982-1983
John Henry Sununu...........................1983-1989
Judd Alan Gregg (
son Hugh Gregg
)............1989-1993
Stephen E. Merrill..........................1993-1997
Jeanne Shaheen (
fem.
)........................1997-2003
Craig Benson................................2003-2005
John Lynch..................................2005-
NEW JERSEY
To the Netherlands................................1617-1664
To the Duke of York...............................1664-1673
Philip Carteret..............................1665-1672
John Berry...................................1672-1673
To The Netherlands................................1673-1674
To the Duke of York...............................1674-1688
Philip Carteret (rest.;
from 1676 East Jer.
).1674-1682 with...
Samuel Jennings (
West
).......................1681-1684 with...
Robert Barclay (
East
)........................1682-1688 with...
Thomas Olive (
West
)..........................1684-1685 and then...
John Skene (
West
)............................1685-1687 and then...
Edward Hunloke (
West
).............................1687 and finally...
Daniel Coxe (
West
)...........................1687-1688
To the Dominion of New England....................1688-1689
Colonies of East and West Jersey..................1689-1702
Daniel Coxe (restored) (
West
)................1689-1692 with...
Robert Barclay (restored) (
East
).............1689-1690
Andrew Hamilton..............................1692-1697
Jeremiah Basse...............................1697-1699
Andrew Hamilton (restored)...................1699-1702
To New York.......................................1702-1738
Crown Colony of
Great Britain
.....................1738-1776
Lewis Morris.................................1738-1746
John Hamilton (acting), 1746
John Reading (acting), 1747
Jonathan Belcher.............................1747-1757
Thomas Pownall (acting), 1757
John Reading (restored; acting), 1757-1758
Sir Francis Bernard..........................1758-1760
Thomas Boone.................................1760-1761
Josiah Hardy.................................1761-1762
William Franklin.............................1762-1776
Autonomous within the Articles of Confederation...1776-1787
William Livingston...........................1776-1790
Admitted as the 3rd State.........................1787-
William Paterson.............................1790-1793
Thomas Henderson.........................Mar-June 1793
Richard Howell...............................1793-1801
Joseph Bloomfield............................1801-1802
John Lambert (acting), 1802 -1803
Joseph Bloomfield (restored).................1803-1812
Aaron Ogden..................................1812-1813
William Sandford Pennington..................1813-1815
William Kennedy...................................1815
Mahlon Dickerson.............................1815-1817
Isaac Halstead Williamson....................1817-1829
Peter Dumont Vroom...........................1829-1832
Samuel Lewis Southard........................1832-1833
Elias P. Seeley...................................1833
Peter Dumont Vroom (restored)................1833-1836
Philemon Dickerson...........................1836-1837
William Pennington...........................1837-1843
Daniel Haines................................1843-1844
Charles Creighton Stratton...................1845-1848
Daniel Haines (restored).....................1848-1851
George Franklin Fort.........................1851-1854
Rodman McCamley Price........................1854-1857
William Augustus Newell (Washington Terr. 1880-4)...1857-1860
Charles Smith Olden..........................1860-1863
Joel Parker..................................1863-1866
Marcus Lawrence Ward.........................1866-1869
Theodore Fitz Randolph.......................1869-1872
Joel Parker (restored).......................1872-1875
Joseph Dorsett Bedle.........................1875-1878
George Brinton McClellan.....................1878-1881
George Craig Ludlow..........................1881-1884
Leon Abbett..................................1884-1887
Robert Stockton Green........................1887-1890
Leon Abbett (restored).......................1890-1893
George Theodore Werts........................1893-1896
John William Griggs..........................1896-1898
Foster MacGowan Voorhees (acting), Jan-Oct 1898
David Ogden Watkins (acting), 1898-1899
Foster MacGowan Voorhees (restored)..........1899-1902
Franklin Murphy..............................1902-1905
Edward Casper Stokes.........................1905-1908
John Franklin Fort...........................1908-1911
Thomas Woodrow Wilson (
President 1913-1921
)..1911-1913
James Fairman Fielder (acting), Mar-Oct 1913
Leon R. Taylor (acting), 1913-1914
James Fairman Fielder (restored).............1914-1917
Walter Evans Edge............................1917-1919
William Nelson Runyon (acting), 1919-1920
Clarence E. Case (acting), 13-20 Jan 1920
Edward Irving Edwards........................1920-1923
George Sebastian Silzer......................1923-1926
Arthur Harry Moore...........................1926-1929
Morgan Foster Larson.........................1929-1932
Arthur Harry Moore (restored)................1932-1935
Clifford R. Powell (acting), 3-8 Jan 1935
Horace G. Prall (acting), 8-15 Jan 1935
Harold Giles Hoffman........................1935-1938
Arthur Harry Moore (re-restored)............1938-1941
Charles Edison..............................1941-1944
Walter Evans Edge (restored)................1944-1947
Alfred Eastlack Driscoll....................1947-1954
Robert Baumle Meyner........................1954-1962
Richard Joseph Hughes.......................1962-1970
William Thomas Cahill.......................1970-1974
Brendan Thomas Byrne........................1974-1982
Thomas Howard Kean..........................1982-1990
James Joseph Florio.........................1990-1994
Christine Todd Whitman (
fem.
)................1994-2001
Donald T. DiFrancesco (acting), 2001-2002
John J. Farmer, Jr. (acting), 8 Jan 2002
John O. Bennett (acting), 8-11 Jan 2002
Richard J. Codey (acting), 12-15 Jan 2002
Jim McGreevey...............................2002-2004
Richard J. Codey (r.: acting, to 9 Jan '06).2004-17 Jan 2006
Jon Corzine.................................2006-
NEW MEXICO
Mogollon Culture in the southwest...........c. BCE 300-1300 CE with...
Anasazi Culture in the northwest............c. BCE 100-1300 CE followed by...
Occupied by Apaches............................ < 1540-c. 1870
Claimed by
Spain
..................................1540-1821
Juan de Oñate................................1595-1607
Cristóbal de Oñate...........................1607-1609
Pedro de Peralta.............................1609-1614
Bernardino de Ceballos.......................1614-1618
Juan de Eulate...............................1618-1625
Felipe de Sotelo Osorio......................1625-1628
Francisco Manuel de Silva Nieto..............1628-1632
Francisco de la Mora Ceballos................1632-1634
Francisco Martínez de Baeza..................1634-1637
Luis de Rosas................................1637-1641
Juan Flores de Sierra y Valdés....................1641
Francisco Gomes (acting), 1641-1642
Alonso Pacheco de Heredia....................1642-1644
Fernando de Argüello.........................1644-1647
Luis de Guzmán y Figueroa....................1647-1649
Hernando de Ugarte y la Concha...............1649-1652
Juan de Samaniego y Xaca.....................1652-1656
Juan Manso de Contreras......................1656-1659
Bernardo López de Mendizábal.................1659-1660
Diego Dionisio de Peñalosa Briceño y Berdugo.1661-1664
Tomé Dominguez de Mendoza (acting)1664
Juan Durán de Miranda........................1664-1665
Fernando de Villanueva.......................1665-1668
Juan de Medrano y Mesía......................1668-1671
Juan Durán de Miranda (restored).............1671-1675
Juan Francisco de Treviño....................1675-1679
Antonio de Otermín...........................1679-1682
Domingo Gironza Petriz Cruzate...............1682-1686
Pedro Reneros de Posada......................1686-1688
Domingo Gironza Petriz Cruzate (restored).........1688
Diego de Vargas Zapata y Lujan Ponce de León.1688-1696
Pedro Rodríguez Cubero.......................1696-1703
Diego de Vargas Zapata y Lujan Ponce de León (r.)...1703-1704
Juan Páez Hurtado (acting), 1704-1705
Francisco Cuervo Valdés......................1705-1707
José Chacón Medina Salazar y Villaseñor, mqs. de Penuela...1707-1712
Juan Ignacio Flores Mogollon.................1712-1715
Felix Martínez (acting)1715-1716
Antonio Valverde de Cosio (acting), 1716
Juan Páez Hurtado (restored; acting)1716-1717
Antonio Valverde de Cosio (restored).........1718-1721
Juan Estrada de Austria......................1721-1723
Juan Domingo de Bustamente...................1723-1731
Gervasio Cruzat y Gongora....................1731-1736
Enrique de Olavide y Michelena...............1736-1738
Gaspar Domingo de Mendoza....................1739-1743
Joaquín Codallos.............................1743-1749
Tomás Vélez Cachupín.........................1749-1754
Francisco Antonio Marín del Valle............1754-1760
Domingo de Mendoza (acting), 1760
Manuel Portilla Urrisola.....................1760-1762
Tomás Vélez Cachupín (restored)..............1762-1767
Pedro Fermín de Mendinueta...................1767-1777
Francisco Trevre (acting), 1777
Juan Bautista de Anza........................1777-1788
Fernando de la Concha........................1789-1794
Fernando Chacón..............................1794-1804
Joaquín del Real Alencaster..................1804-1807
Alberto Maynez...............................1807-1808
José Manrique................................1808-1814
Alberto Maynez (restored)....................1814-1816
Pedro María de Allande.......................1816-1818
Facundo Melgares.............................1818-1822
To Mexico.........................................1822-1846
Francisco Xavier Chávez......................1822-1823
José Antonio Vizcarra........................1823-1824
Bartolomé Baca...............................1824-1825
Antonio de Narbona................................1825
José Antonio Vizcarra (restored).............1825-1827
Manuel Armijo................................1827-1829
José Antonio Chávez..........................1828-1831
Santiago Abreu...............................1831-1833
Francisco Sarracino..........................1833-1835
Albino Pérez.................................1835-1837
Manuel Armijo (restored).....................1837-1844
Mariano Martínez de Lejarza..................1844-1845
Manuel Armijo (re-restored)..................1845-1846
Juan Bautista Vigil y Alarid......................1846
To United States (west half to Utah 1848-50)......1846-1850
Stephen Watts Kearny.....................Aug-Sept 1846
Charles Bent.................................1846-1847
Sterling Price (military governor)...........1847-1848 with...
Donaciano Vigil (civil governor).............1847-1848
John M. Washington...........................1848-1849
John Munroe..................................1849-1851
New Mexico Territory..............................1850-1912
James S. Calhoun.............................1851-1852
Edwin V. Sumner (acting), 1852
John Greiner (acting), 1852
William Carr Lane............................1852-1853
William S. Messervy (acting), 1853-1854
David Meriwether.............................1854-1857
Abraham Rencher..............................1857-1861
Henry Connelly...............................1861-1865
W. F. M. Arny (acting), 1865-1866
Robert Byington Mitchell.....................1866-1869
William Anderson Pile........................1869-1871
Marsh Giddings...............................1871-1875
William G. Fitch (acting), 1875
Samuel Beach Axtell..........................1875-1878
Lewis Wallace................................1878-1881
Lionel Allen Sheldon.........................1881-1885
Edmund Gibson Ross...........................1885-1889
Le Baron Bradford Prince.....................1889-1893
William Taylor Thornton......................1893-1897
Miguel Antonio Otero.........................1897-1906
Herbert James Hagerman.......................1906-1907
George Curry.................................1907-1909
William Joseph Mills.........................1909-1911
Admitted as the 47th State........................1912-
William C. McDonald..........................1912-1917
Ezequiel Cabeza de Baca......................1917-1917
Washington Ellsworth Lindsey.................1917-1919
Octaviano Ambrosio Larrazolo.................1919-1921
Merritt Cramer Mechem........................1921-1923
James Fielding Hinkle........................1923-1925
Arthur Thomas Hannett........................1925-1927
Richard Charles Dillon.......................1927-1931
Arthur Seligman..............................1931-1933
Andrew W. Hockenhull.........................1933-1935
Clyde Tingley................................1935-1939
John Esten Miles.............................1939-1943
John Joseph Dempsey..........................1943-1947
Thomas Jewett Mabry..........................1947-1951
Edwin Leard Mechem...........................1951-1955
John Field Simms, Jr. .......................1955-1957
Edwin Leard Mechem (restored)................1957-1959
John Burroughs...............................1959-1961
Edwin Leard Mechem (re-restored).............1961-1962
Thomas Felix Bolack (acting), 1962-1963
Jack M. Campbell.............................1963-1967
David Francis Cargo..........................1967-1971
Bruce King...................................1971-1975
Raymond S. (Jerry) Apodaca...................1975-1979
Bruce King (restored)........................1979-1983
Toney Anaya..................................1983-1987
Garrey Edward Carruthers.....................1987-1991
Bruce King (re-restored).....................1991-1995
Gary E. Johnson..............................1995-2003
Bill Richardson..............................2003-
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