This is a list of people who served as the governor of New York.
No. | Governor | Term in office | Time in office | Party | Election | Lieutenant Governor | |||
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1 | George Clinton | July 30, 1777
– June 30, 1795 (not candidate for election) |
17 years, 336 days | Democratic– | 1777 | Pierre Van Cortlandt | |||
1780 | |||||||||
1783 | |||||||||
1786 | |||||||||
1789 | |||||||||
1792 | |||||||||
2 | John Jay | July 1, 1795
– June 30, 1801 (not candidate for election) |
6 years, 0 days | Federalist | 1795 | Stephen Van Rensselaer | |||
1798 | |||||||||
1 | George Clinton | July 1, 1801
– June 30, 1804 (not candidate for election)[a] |
3 years, 0 days | Democratic– | 1801 | Jeremiah Van Rensselaer | |||
3 | Morgan Lewis | July 1, 1804
– June 30, 1807 (lost election) |
3 years, 0 days | Democratic– | 1804 | John Broome
(died August 8, 1810) | |||
4 | Daniel D. Tompkins | July 1, 1807
– February 24, 1817 (resigned)[b] |
9 years, 238 days | Democratic– | 1807 | ||||
1810 | |||||||||
Vacant | |||||||||
John Tayler
(acting) (took office January 29, 1811)[c] | |||||||||
DeWitt Clinton
(elected May 2, 1811) | |||||||||
1813 | John Tayler | ||||||||
1816 | |||||||||
5 | John Tayler
(Acting) |
February 24, 1817
– June 30, 1817 (not candidate for election) |
127 days | Democratic– | Lieutenant
Governor acting as Governor |
Philetus Swift
(acting) | |||
6 | DeWitt Clinton | July 1, 1817
– December 31, 1822 (not candidate for election) |
5 years, 184 days | Democratic– | 1817 | John Tayler | |||
1820 | |||||||||
7 | Joseph C. Yates | January 1, 1823
– December 31, 1824 (not candidate for election) |
2 years, 0 days | Democratic– | 1822 | Erastus Root | |||
6 | DeWitt Clinton | January 1, 1825
– February 11, 1828 (died in office) |
3 years, 41 days | Democratic– | 1824 | James Tallmadge Jr. | |||
1826 | Nathaniel Pitcher | ||||||||
8 | Nathaniel Pitcher | February 11, 1828
– December 31, 1828 (not candidate for election) |
325 days | Democratic– | Succeeded from
Lieutenant Governor |
Peter R. Livingston
(acting) | |||
Charles Dayan
(acting from October 17, 1828) | |||||||||
9 | Martin Van Buren | January 1, 1829
– March 12, 1829 (resigned)[d] |
70 days | Democratic | 1828 | Enos T. Throop | |||
10 | Enos T. Throop | March 12, 1829
– December 31, 1832 (not candidate for election) |
3 years, 295 days | Democratic | Succeeded from
Lieutenant Governor |
Charles Stebbins
(acting) | |||
William M. Oliver
(acting) | |||||||||
1830 | Edward Philip Livingston | ||||||||
11 | William L. Marcy | January 1, 1833
– December 31, 1838 (lost election) |
6 years, 0 days | Democratic | 1832 | John Tracy | |||
1834 | |||||||||
1836 | |||||||||
12 | William H. Seward | January 1, 1839
– December 31, 1842 (not candidate for election) |
4 years, 0 days | Whig | 1838 | Luther Bradish | |||
1840 | |||||||||
13 | William C. Bouck | January 1, 1843
– December 31, 1844 (not candidate for election) |
2 years, 0 days | Democratic | 1842 | Daniel S. Dickinson | |||
14 | Silas Wright | January 1, 1845
– December 31, 1846 (lost election) |
2 years, 0 days | Democratic | 1844 | Addison Gardiner
(resigned July 5, 1847) | |||
15 | John Young | January 1, 1847
– December 31, 1848 (not candidate for election) |
2 years, 0 days | Whig | 1846 | ||||
Albert Lester
(acting) | |||||||||
Hamilton Fish
(took office January 1, 1848) | |||||||||
16 | Hamilton Fish | January 1, 1849
– December 31, 1850 (not candidate for election) |
2 years, 0 days | Whig | 1848 | George W. Patterson | |||
17 | Washington Hunt | January 1, 1851
– December 31, 1852 (lost election) |
2 years, 0 days | Whig | 1850 | Sanford E. Church | |||
18 | Horatio Seymour | January 1, 1853
– December 31, 1854 (lost election) |
2 years, 0 days | Democratic | 1852 | ||||
19 | Myron H. Clark | January 1, 1855
– December 31, 1856 (not candidate for election) |
2 years, 0 days | Whig
(fusion) |
1854 | Henry Jarvis Raymond | |||
20 | John A. King | January 1, 1857
– December 31, 1858 (not candidate for election) |
2 years, 0 days | Republican | 1856 | Henry R. Selden | |||
21 | Edwin D. Morgan | January 1, 1859
– December 31, 1862 (not candidate for election)[e] |
4 years, 0 days | Republican | 1858 | Robert Campbell | |||
1860 | |||||||||
18 | Horatio Seymour | January 1, 1863
– December 31, 1864 (lost election) |
2 years, 0 days | Democratic | 1862 | David R. Floyd-Jones | |||
22 | Reuben Fenton | January 1, 1865
– December 31, 1868 (not candidate for election) |
4 years, 0 days | Union | 1864 | Thomas G. Alvord | |||
1866 | Stewart L. Woodford | ||||||||
23 | John T. Hoffman | January 1, 1869
– December 31, 1872 (not candidate for election) |
4 years, 0 days | Democratic | 1868 | Allen C. Beach | |||
1870 | |||||||||
24 | John Adams Dix | January 1, 1873
– December 31, 1874 (lost election) |
2 years, 0 days | Republican | 1872 | John C. Robinson | |||
25 | Samuel J. Tilden | January 1, 1875
– December 31, 1876 (not candidate for election)[f] |
2 years, 0 days | Democratic | 1874 | William Dorsheimer | |||
26 | Lucius Robinson | January 1, 1877
– December 31, 1879 (lost election) |
3 years, 0 days | Democratic | 1876[g] | ||||
27 | Alonzo B. Cornell | January 1, 1880
– December 31, 1882 (not candidate for election) |
3 years, 0 days | Republican | 1879 | George Gilbert Hoskins | |||
28 | Grover Cleveland | January 1, 1883
– January 6, 1885 (resigned)[h] |
2 years, 5 days | Democratic | 1882 | David B. Hill | |||
29 | David B. Hill | January 6, 1885
– December 31, 1891 (not candidate for election)[i] |
6 years, 360 days | Democratic | Succeeded from
Lieutenant Governor |
Dennis McCarthy
(acting) | |||
1885 | Edward F. Jones | ||||||||
1888 | |||||||||
30 | Roswell P. Flower | January 1, 1892
– December 31, 1894 (not candidate for election) |
3 years, 0 days | Democratic | 1891 | William F. Sheehan | |||
31 | Levi P. Morton | January 1, 1895
– December 31, 1896 (not candidate for election) |
2 years, 0 days | Republican | 1894[j] | Charles T. Saxton | |||
32 | Frank S. Black | January 1, 1897
– December 31, 1898 (not candidate for election) |
2 years, 0 days | Republican | 1896 | Timothy L. Woodruff | |||
33 | Theodore Roosevelt | January 1, 1899
– December 31, 1900 (not candidate for election)[k] |
2 years, 0 days | Republican | 1898 | ||||
34 | Benjamin Odell | January 1, 1901
– December 31, 1904 (not candidate for election) |
4 years, 0 days | Republican | 1900 | ||||
1902 | Frank W. Higgins | ||||||||
35 | Frank W. Higgins | January 1, 1905
– December 31, 1906 (not candidate for election) |
2 years, 0 days | Republican | 1904 | Matthew Linn Bruce | |||
John Raines
(acting) | |||||||||
36 | Charles Evans Hughes | January 1, 1907
– October 6, 1910 (resigned)[l] |
3 years, 278 days | Republican | 1906 | Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler | |||
1908 | Horace White | ||||||||
37 | Horace White | October 6, 1910
– December 31, 1910 (not candidate for election) |
87 days | Republican | Succeeded from
Lieutenant Governor |
George H. Cobb
(acting) | |||
38 | John Alden Dix | January 1, 1911
– December 31, 1912 (not candidate for election) |
2 years, 0 days | Democratic | 1910 | Thomas F. Conway | |||
39 | William Sulzer | January 1, 1913
– October 17, 1913 (impeached and removed)[m] |
289 days | Democratic | 1912 | Martin H. Glynn | |||
40 | Martin H. Glynn | October 17, 1913
– December 31, 1914 (lost election) |
1 year, 76 days | Democratic | Succeeded from
Lieutenant Governor |
Robert F. Wagner
(acting) | |||
41 | Charles Seymour Whitman | January 1, 1915
– December 31, 1918 (lost election) |
4 years, 0 days | Republican | 1914 | Edward Schoeneck | |||
1916 | |||||||||
42 | Al Smith | January 1, 1919
– December 31, 1920 (lost election) |
2 years, 0 days | Democratic | 1918 | Harry C. Walker | |||
43 | Nathan L. Miller | January 1, 1921
– December 31, 1922 (lost election) |
2 years, 0 days | Republican | 1920 | Jeremiah Wood | |||
Clayton R. Lusk
(acting) | |||||||||
42 | Al Smith | January 1, 1923
– December 31, 1928 (not candidate for election)[n] |
6 years, 0 days | Democratic | 1922 | George R. Lunn | |||
1924 | Seymour Lowman | ||||||||
1926 | Edwin Corning | ||||||||
44 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | January 1, 1929
– December 31, 1932 (not candidate for election)[o] |
4 years, 0 days | Democratic | 1928 | Herbert H. Lehman | |||
1930 | |||||||||
45 | Herbert H. Lehman | January 1, 1933
– December 3, 1942 (resigned)[p] |
9 years, 336 days | Democratic | 1932 | M. William Bray | |||
1934 | |||||||||
1936 | |||||||||
1938[q] | Charles Poletti | ||||||||
46 | Charles Poletti | December 3, 1942
– December 31, 1942 (not candidate for election) |
29 days | Democratic | Succeeded from
Lieutenant Governor |
Joe R. Hanley
(acting) | |||
47 | Thomas E. Dewey | January 1, 1943
– December 31, 1954 (not candidate for election) |
12 years, 0 days | Republican | 1942 | Thomas W. Wallace | |||
1946 | Joe R. Hanley | ||||||||
1950 | Frank C. Moore
(resigned September 30, 1953) | ||||||||
Arthur H. Wicks
(acting) | |||||||||
Walter J. Mahoney
(acting) | |||||||||
48 | W. Averell Harriman | January 1, 1955
– December 31, 1958 (lost election) |
4 years, 0 days | Democratic | 1954 | George DeLuca | |||
49 | Nelson Rockefeller | January 1, 1959
– December 18, 1973 (resigned)[r] |
14 years, 351 days | Republican | 1958 | Malcolm Wilson | |||
1962 | |||||||||
1966 | |||||||||
1970 | |||||||||
50 | Malcolm Wilson | December 18, 1973
– December 31, 1974 (lost election) |
1 year, 14 days | Republican | Succeeded from
Lieutenant Governor |
Warren M. Anderson
(acting) | |||
51 | Hugh Carey | January 1, 1975
– December 31, 1982 (not candidate for election) |
8 years, 0 days | Democratic | 1974 | Mary Anne Krupsak | |||
1978 | Mario Cuomo | ||||||||
52 | Mario Cuomo | January 1, 1983
– December 31, 1994 (lost election) |
12 years, 0 days | Democratic | 1982 | Alfred DelBello | |||
Warren M. Anderson
(acting) | |||||||||
1986 | Stan Lundine | ||||||||
1990 | |||||||||
53 | George Pataki | January 1, 1995
– December 31, 2006 (not candidate for election) |
12 years, 0 days | Republican | 1994 | Betsy McCaughey Ross[s] | |||
1998 | Mary Donohue | ||||||||
2002 | |||||||||
54 | Eliot Spitzer | January 1, 2007
– March 17, 2008 (resigned)[t] |
1 year, 76 days | Democratic | 2006 | David Paterson | |||
55 | David Paterson | March 17, 2008
– December 31, 2010 (not candidate for election) |
2 years, 290 days | Democratic | Succeeded from
Lieutenant Governor |
Joseph Bruno
(acting) | |||
Dean Skelos
(acting) | |||||||||
Malcolm Smith
(acting) | |||||||||
Pedro Espada Jr.
(acting)[u] | |||||||||
Richard Ravitch
(contested)[v] | |||||||||
Malcolm Smith
(acting)[w] | |||||||||
Richard Ravitch[x] | |||||||||
56 | Andrew Cuomo | January 1, 2011
– August 23, 2021 (resigned)[y] |
10 years, 234 days | Democratic | 2010 | Robert Duffy | |||
2014 | Kathy Hochul | ||||||||
2018 | |||||||||
57 | Kathy Hochul | August 24, 2021
– Incumbent[z] |
2 years, 329 days | Democratic | Succeeded from the Lieutenant Goveror
2022 |
Andrea Stewart-Cousins
(acting) | |||
Brian Benjamin[2] | |||||||||
Andrea Stewart-Cousins
(acting) | |||||||||
Antonio Delgado |