This is a list of the Governors of New York. The Governor of the U.S. state of New York is the highest executive officer of the state, was originally chosen for a term of two years. In 1877 the term of office was extended to three years, in 1895 reduced back to two years, and in 1938 it was extended to the current four-year term.

For colonial governors see List of Colonial Governors of New York

|| Democratic-Republican || 1777–1795 || Pierre Van Cortlandt || Federalist || 1795–1801 || Stephen Van Rensselaer || Democratic-Republican || 1801–1804 || Jeremiah Van Rensselaer || Democratic-Republican || 1807–1817 || John Broome (-1811)
John Tayler (1811)
DeWitt Clinton (1811-1813)
John Tayler (1813-) || Democratic-Republican || 1817 || Vacant || Democratic-Republican || 1817–1823 || John Tayler || Democratic-Republican || 1823–1825 || Erastus Root || Clinton Republican || 1825–1828 || James Tallmadge, Jr. (-1827)
Nathaniel Pitcher (1827-) || Jacksonian Democratic || 1829 || Enos T. Throop || Democratic || 1833–1839 || John Tracy (-1835)
Luther Bradish (1835-1836)
John Tracy (1836-37)
Luther Bradish (1837-) || Whig || 1839–1843 || Luther Bradish || Whig || 1849–1851 || George Washington Patterson || Democratic || 1853–1855 || Sanford E. Church || Republican || 1873–1875 || John Cleveland Robinson || Democratic || 1875–1877 || William Dorsheimer || Democratic || 1883–1885 || David B. Hill || Republican || 1895–1897 ||Charles T. Saxton || Republican || 1899–1901 || Timothy L. Woodruff || Republican || 1907–1910 || Lewis S. Chanler (-1909)
Horace White (1909-) || Democratic || 1919–1921 || Harry C. Walker || Democratic || 1923–1929 || George R. Lunn (-1925)
Seymour Lowman (1925-27)
Edwin Corning (1927-) || Democratic || 1929–1933 || Herbert H. Lehman || Democratic || 1933–1942 || M. William Bray (-1939)
Charles Poletti (1939-) || Republican || 1943–1955 || Joe R. Hanley (-1951)
Frank C. Moore (1951-) || Democratic || 1955–1959 || George De Luca || Republican || 1959–1973 || Malcolm Wilson || Democratic || 1975–1983 || Mary Anne Krupsak (-1979)
Mario M. Cuomo (1979-) || Democratic || 1983–1995 || Alfred B. DelBello (-1985)
Warren M. Anderson (1985-1987)
Stanley Nelson Lundine (1987-) || Republican || 1995– || Betsy McCaughey Ross (-1999)
Mary O. Donohue (1999-)

#	Governor	Party	Term	Lt. Governor(s)
4	Morgan Lewis	Democratic-Republican	1804–1807	John Broome
10	Nathaniel Pitcher	Democratic-Republican	1828– 1829	Peter R. Livingston (1828) Charles Dayan (1828)
12	Enos T. Throop	Jacksonian Democratic	1829–1833	Charles Stebbins (-1831) William M. Oliver (1831) Edward P. Livingston (1831-)
15	William C. Bouck	Democratic	1843–1845	Daniel S. Dickinson
16	Silas Wright	Democratic	1845–1847	Addison Gardiner
17	John Young (1802-1852)	Whig	1847–1849	Addison Gardiner (1847) Hamilton Fish (1849)
19	Washington Hunt	Whig Anti-Rent	1851–1853	Sanford E. Church
21	Myron H. Clark	Fusion Republican	1855–1857	Henry J. Raymond
22	John A. King	Republican	1857–1859	Henry R. Selden
23	Edwin D. Morgan	Republican	1859–1863	Robert Campbell
24	Horatio Seymour	Democratic	1863–1865	David R. Floyd-Jones
25	Reuben E. Fenton	Union	1865–1869	Thomas G. Alvord (-1867) Stewart L. Woodford (1867-)
26	John T. Hoffman	Democratic	1869–1873	Allen C. Beach
29	Lucius Robinson	Democratic	1877–1880	William Dorsheimer
30	Alonzo B. Cornell	Republican	1880–1883	George Gilbert Hoskins
32	David B. Hill	Democratic	1885–1891	Dennis McCarthy (1885) Edward F. Jones (1885-)
33	Roswell P. Flower	Democratic	1891–1895	William F. Sheehan
35	Frank S. Black	Republican	1897–1899	Timothy L. Woodruff
37	Benjamin B. Odell, Jr.	Republican	1901–1905	Timothy L. Woodruff (-1903) Frank W. Higgins (1903-)
38	Frank W. Higgins	Republican	1905–1907	M. Linn Bruce
40	Horace White	Republican	1910– 1911	George H. Cobb
41	John Alden Dix	Democratic	1911–1913	Thomas F. Conway
42	William Sulzer	Democratic	1913	Martin H. Glynn
43	Martin H. Glynn	Democratic	1913–1915	Robert F. Wagner
44	Charles S. Whitman	Republican	1915–1919	Edward Schoeneck
46	Nathan L. Miller	Republican	1921–1923	Jeremiah Wood
50	Charles Poletti	Democratic	1942–1943	Thomas W. Wallace
54	Malcolm Wilson	Republican	1973–1975	Warren M. Anderson

Other offices held

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Many New York governors have also held higher office

• President of the United States: Martin Van Buren, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• Vice President of the United States: George Clinton,Daniel D. Tompkins,Martin Van Buren, Theodore Roosevelt,Nelson Rockefeller
• Chief Justice of the United States: John Jay, Charles Evans Hughes
• United States Secretary of State: William H. Seward, Hamilton Fish
• Unsuccessful Presidential nominee: De Witt Clinton, Horatio Seymour, Samuel J. Tilden, Charles Evans Hughes, Al Smith, Thomas Dewey

Some had higher office first:

See also

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• Election results, New York governor

External link

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• "Governors of New York" - history page on New York State website

Lists of United States governors | Governors of New York

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