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List of New York State Governors
Name Held Office Political Party
John Jay Jul 30, 1777
Jul 1, 1801
Federalist
George Clinton Jul 1, 1801
Jul 1, 1804
Democratic-Republican
Morgan Lewis Jul 1, 1804
Jul 1, 1807
Democratic-Republican
Daniel D. Tompkins Jul 1, 1807
Feb 24, 1817
Democratic-Republican
John Tayler Feb 24, 1817
Jul 1, 1817
Democratic-Republican
Joseph C. Yates Jan 1, 1823
Dec 31, 1824
Democratic-Republican
DeWitt Clinton Jan 1, 1825
Feb 11, 1828
Clinton Republican
Nathaniel Pitcher Feb 11, 1828
Dec 31, 1828
Democratic-Republican
Martin Van Buren Jan 1, 1829
Mar 5, 1829
Jacksonian Democratic
Enos T. Throop Mar 5, 1829
Dec 31, 1832
Jacksonian Democratic
William L. Marcy Jan 1, 1833
Dec 31, 1838
Democratic
William H. Seward Jan 1, 1839
Dec 31, 1842
Whig
William C. Bouck Jan 1, 1843
Dec 31, 1844
Democratic
Silas Wright Jan 1, 1845
Dec 31, 1846
Democratic
John Young Jan 1, 1847
Dec 31, 1848
Whig
Washington Hunt Jan 1, 1851
Dec 31, 1852
Whig
Myron H. Clark Jan 1, 1855
Dec 31, 1856
Whig (Fusion)
John Alsop King Jan 1, 1857
Dec 31, 1858
Republican
Edwin D. Morgan Jan 1, 1859
Dec 31, 1862
Republican
Horatio Seymour Jan 1, 1863
Dec 31, 1864
Democratic
Reuben Fenton Jan 1, 1865
Dec 31, 1868
Union
John Thompson Hoffman Jan 1, 1869
Dec 31, 1872
Democratic
John Adams Dix Jan 1, 1873
Dec 31, 1874
Republican
Samuel J. Tilden Jan 1, 1875
Dec 31, 1876
Democratic
Lucius Robinson Jan 1, 1877
Dec 31, 1879
Democratic
Alonzo B. Cornell Jan 1, 1880
Dec 31, 1882
Republican
Grover Cleveland Jan 1, 1883
Jan 6, 1885
Democratic
David B. Hill Jan 6, 1885
Dec 31, 1891
Democratic
Roswell P. Flower Jan 1, 1892
Dec 31, 1894
Democratic
Levi P. Morton Jan 1, 1895
Dec 31, 1896
Republican
Frank S. Black Jan 1, 1897
Dec 31, 1898
Republican
Benjamin Barker Odell, Jr. Jan 1, 1901
Dec 31, 1904
Republican
Frank W. Higgins Jan 1, 1905
Dec 31, 1906
Republican
Charles Evans Hughes Jan 1, 1907
Oct 6, 1910
Republican
Horace White Oct 6, 1910
Dec 31, 1910
Republican
John Alden Dix Jan 1, 1911
Dec 31, 1912
Democratic
William Sulzer Jan 1, 1913
Oct 17, 1913
Democratic
Martin H. Glynn Oct 17, 1913
Dec 31, 1914
Democratic
Charles S. Whitman Jan 1, 1915
Dec 31, 1918
Republican
Nathan Lewis Miller Jan 1, 1921
Dec 31, 1922
Republican
Al Smith Jan 1, 1923
Dec 31, 1928
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jan 1, 1929
Dec 31, 1932
Democratic
Herbert H. Lehman Jan 1, 1933
Dec 3, 1942
Democratic
Charles Poletti Dec 3, 1942
Dec 31, 1942
Democratic
Thomas Dewey Jan 1, 1943
Dec 31, 1954
Republican
W. Averell Harriman Jan 1, 1955
Dec 31, 1958
Democratic
Nelson Rockefeller Jan 1, 1959
Dec 18, 1973
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt JJan 1, 1899
Dec 31, 1900
Republican
Hamilton Fish Jan 1, 1849 -Dec 31, 1850 Whig
Malcolm Wilson Dec 18, 1973
Dec 31, 1974
Republican
Hugh Carey Jan 1, 1975
Dec 31, 1982
Democratic
Mario Cuomo Jan 1, 1983
Dec 31, 1994
Democratic
George Pataki Jan 1, 1995
Dec 31, 2006
Republican
Eliot Spitzer Jan 1, 2007
Mar 17, 2008
Democratic
David Paterson Mar 17, 2008
Jan 1, 2011
Democratic
Andrew Cuomo Jan 1, 2011
Incumbent
Democratic