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Chronology of North Carolina Governors Original Virginia Colony

Ralph Lane, 1585 - 1586

John White, 1587

Commander of the Southern Plantation

Samuel Stephens, 1662 - 1664 (later governor under Lords Proprietors)

Lords Proprietors

William Drummond, 1664 - 1667

Samuel Stephens, 1667 - 1669 (previously Commander of the Southern Plantation)

Peter Carteret, 1670 - 1672

John Jenkins, 1672 - 1677 (first of two terms)

Thomas Eastchurch, 1676 - 1678 (never actually served)

Thomas Miller, 1677

John Harvey, 1679

John Jenkins, 1679 - 1681 (second term)

Philip Ludwell, 1689 - 1691

Thomas Jarvis, 1691 - 1694

John Archdale, 1694 - 1696

Thomas Harvey, 1696 - 1699

Henderson Walker, 1699 - 1704

Robert Daniel, 1704 - 1705

Thomas Cary, 1705 - 1706 (first of two terms)

William Glover, 1706 - 1708

Thomas Cary, 1708 - 1711 (second of two terms)

Edward Hyde, 1711 - 1712

Thomas Pollock, 1712 - 1714 (first of two terms)

Charles Eden, 1714 - 1722

Thomas Pollock, 1722 (second of two terms)

William Reed, 1722 - 1724

George Burrington, 1724 - 1725 (later royal governor)

Richard Everard, 1725 - 1731

Royal Governors

George Burrington, 1731 - 1734 (previously governor under the Lords Proprietors)

Gabriel Johnston, 1734 - 1752

Nathaniel Rice, 1752 - 1753

Matthew Rowan, 1753 - 1754

Arthur Dobbs, 1754 - 1765

William Tryon, 1675 - 1771

James Hasell, 1771

Josiah Martin, 1771 - 1775

Governors of the State of North Carolina

Richard Caswell, 1776 - 1780 (first of two terms)

Abner Nash, 1780 - 1781

Thomas Burke, 1781 - 1782

Alexander Martin, 1782 - 1785 (first of two terms)

Richard Caswell, 1784 - 1787 (second of two terms)

Samuel Johnston, 1787 - 1789

Alexander Martin, 1789 - 1792 (second of two terms)

Richard Dobbs Spaight, Sr., 1792 - 1795

Samuel Ashe, 1795 - 1798

William Richardson Davie, 1798 - 1799

Benjamin Williams, 1799 - 1802 (first of two terms)

James Turner, 1802 - 1805

Nathaniel Alexander, 1805 - 1807

Benjamin Williams, 1807 - 1808 (second of two terms)

David Stone, 1808 - 1810

Benjamin Smith, 1810 - 1811

William Hawkins, 1811 - 1814

William Miller, 1814 - 1817

John Branch, 1817 - 1820

Jesse Franklin, 1820 - 1821

Gabriel Holmes, 1821 - 1824

Hutchins Gordon Burton, 1824 - 1827

James Iredell, Jr., 1827 - 1828

John Owen, 1828 - 1830

Montford Stokes, 1830 - 1832

David Lowry Swain, 1832 - 1835

Richard Dobbs Spaight, Jr., 1835 - 1836

Edward Dudley Bishop, 1836 - 1841

John Motley Morehead, 1841 - 1845

William Alexander Graham, 1845 - 1849

Charles Manly, 1849 - 1850

David Steele Reid, 1851 - 1854

Warren Winslow, 1854 - 1855

Thomas Bragg, 1855 - 1859

John Willis Ellis, 1859 - 1861

Henry Toole Clark, 1861 - 1862

Zebulon Baird Vance, 1862 - 1865 (first of two terms)

William Woods Holden, 1865 (first of two terms)

Jonathan Worth, 1865 - 1868

William Woods Holden, 1868 - 1870

Tod Robinson Caldwell, 1870 - 1874

Curtis Hooks Brogden, 1874 - 1877

Zebulon Baird Vance, 1877 - 1879 (second of two terms)

Thomas Jordan Jarvis, 1879 - 1885

James Lowry Robinson, 1883

Alfred Moore Scales, 1885 - 1889

David Gould Fowle, 1889 - 1891

Thomas Michael Holt, 1891 - 1893

Elias Carr, 1893 - 1897

Daniel Lindsay Russell, 1897 - 1901

Charles Brantley Aycock, 1901 - 1905

Robert Broadnax Glenn, 1905 - 1909

William Walton Kitchin, 1909 - 1913

Locke Craig, 1913 - 1917

Thomas Walter Bickett, 1917 - 1921

Cameron Morrison, 1921 - 1925

Angus Wilton McLean, 1925 - 1929

Oliver Max Gardner, 1929 - 1933

John Christoph Blucher Ehringhaus, 1933 - 1937

Clyde Roark Hoey, 1937 - 1941

Joseph Melville Broughton, 1941 - 1945

Robert Gregg Cherry, 1945 - 1949

William Kerr Scott, 1949 - 1953

William Bradley Umstead, 1953 - 1954

Luther Hartwell Hodges, 1954 - 1961

Terry Sanford, 1961 - 1965

Dan Killian Moore, 1965 - 1969

Robert Walker Scott, 1969 - 1973

James Eubert Holshouser, Jr., 1973 - 1977

James Baxter Hunt, Jr., 1977 - 1985 (first of two terms)

James Grubbs Martin, 1985 - 1993

James Baxter Hunt, Jr., 1993 - Present