List of Governors of New Jersey

Table of contents

1 Governors under the Proprietors (1665-1674) 2 Governors of East Jersey and their Deputies (1674-1702) 3 Governors of West Jersey and their Deputies (1680-1702) 4 Governors under Royal Government (1703-1776) 4.1 Governors of New York and New Jersey (1703-1738) 4.2 Governors of New Jersey Only (1738-1776) 5 Governors under the U.S. Constitution (1776-present) 5.3 Governors under the 1776 N.J. Constitution (1776-1844) 5.4 Governors under the 1844 N.J. Constitution (1844-1946) 5.5 Governors under the 1947 N.J. Constitution (1947-present)

Governors under the Proprietors (1665-1674)

• Philip Carteret 1674-1682
• Robert Barclay 1682-1688
• Thomas Rudyard, Deputy 1682-1683
• Gawen Lawrie, Deputy 1683-1686
• Lord Neill Campbell, Deputy 1686-1687
• Andrew Hamilton, Deputy 1687-1690
• Edmund Andros 1688-1689
• Andrew Hamilton 1692-1697
• Jeremiah Basse 1698-1699
• Andrew Hamilton 1699-1702

• Edward Byllynge 1680-1687
• Samuel Jennings, Deputy 1681-1684
• Thomas Olive, Deputy 1684-1685
• John Skene, Deputy 1685-1687
• Daniel Coxe 1687-1688
• Edmund Andros 1688-1689
• Edward Hunloke, Deputy 1690
• Andrew Hamilton 1692-1697
• Jeremiah Basse 1697-1699
• Andrew Hamilton 1699-1702 (again)

• Edward Hyde, Lord Cornbury 1703-8
• John, Lord Lovelace 1708-9
• Richard Ingoldesby, Lieutenant and Governor 1709-10
• Robert Hunter 1710-20
• William Burnet 1720-28
• John Montgomerie 1728-31
• Lewis Morris, President Of Council 1731-1732
• William Cosby 1732-36
• John Anderson, President Of Council 1736
• John Hamilton, President Of Council 1736-1738

• Lewis Morris 1738-46
• John Hamilton, President Of Council 1746-1747
• John Reading, President Of Council 1747
• Jonathan Belcher 1747-57
• Thomas Pownall, Lieut. Governor 1757
• John Reading, President Of Council 1757-1758
• Francis Bernard 1758-60
• Thomas Boone 1760-61
• Josiah Hardy 1761-63
• William Franklin, (1731-1813), 1763-76

• William Livingston 1776-90
• Elisha Lawrence 1790 (?)
• William Paterson 1790-93
• Thomas Henderson 1793 (?)
• Richard Howell 1793-1801
• Joseph Bloomfield 1801-02
• John Lambert, Acting Governor 1802-03
• Joseph Bloomfield 1803-12
• Aaron Ogden 1812-13
• William S. Pennington 1813-15
• William Kennedy 1815 (?)
• Mahlon Dickerson 1815-17
• Isaac Halstead Williamson 1817-29
• Peter Dumont Vroom 1829-32
• Samuel Lewis Southard 1832-33
• Elias P. Seeley 1833
• Peter Dumont Vroom 1833-36
• Philemon Dickerson1836-37
• William Pennington 1837-43
• Daniel Haines 1843-45

• Charles Creighton Stratton 1845-48
• Daniel Haines 1848-51
• George Franklin Fort 1851-54
• Rodman McCamley Price 1854-57
• William A. Newell 1857-60
• Charles S. Olden 1860-63
• Joel Parker 1863-66
• Marcus L. Ward 1866-69
• Theodore Frelinghuysen Randolph 1869-72
• Joel Parker 1872-75
• Joseph D. Bedle 1875-78
• George Brinton McClellan 1878-81
• George C. Ludlow 1881-84
• Leon Abbett 1884-87
• Robert Stockton Green 1887-90
• Leon Abbett 1890-93
• George T. Werts 1893-96
• John W. Griggs 1896-98
• Foster M. Voorhees 1898
• David Ogden Watkins 1898-99
• Foster M. Voorhees 1899-1902
• Franklin Murphy 1902-05
• Edward C. Stokes 1905-08
• John Franklin Fort 1908-11
• Woodrow Wilson, 1911-13
• James F. Fielder, Acting Governor 1913
• Leon R. Taylor, Acting Governor 1913-14
• James F. Fielder 1914-17
• Walter E. Edge 1917-19
• William N. Runyon, Acting Governor 1919-20
• Clarence E. Case, Acting Governor 1920
• Edward I. Edwards 1920-23
• George S. Silzer 1923-26
• A. Harry Moore 1926-29
• Morgan F. Larson 1929-32
• A. Harry Moore 1932-35
• Harold G. Hoffman 1935-38
• A. Harry Moore 1938-41
• Charles Edison, 1941-44
• Walter E. Edge 1944-47

• Alfred E. Driscoll 1947-54
• Robert B. Meyner 1954-62
• Richard J. Hughes 1962-70
• William T. Cahill 1970-74
• Brendan Byrne 1974-82
• Thomas Kean 1982-90
• James Florio 1990-94
• Christine Todd Whitman 1994-2001
• Donald DiFrancesco, Acting Governor 2001-2002
• John Bennett, Acting Governor 2002
• Richard Codey, Acting Governor 2002
• James McGreevey 2002-