Governors of New York

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GOVERNORS OF NEW YORK

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Fifty-seven people have served as state governor, four of whom served non-consecutive terms (George Clinton, DeWitt Clinton, Horatio Seymour, and Al Smith); the official numbering lists each governor only once. This numbering includes one acting governor. This list does not include colonial governors.

Four New York governors have become president of the United States after serving as governor of New York: Martin Van Buren, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and six became vice president. Van Buren and Theodore Roosevelt held both offices. Two governors, Joh Jay and Charles Evans Hughes, both served as Chief Justice of the United States.

David Paterson was the first African American governor of New York, and the first legally blind governor as well. Paterson is only the fourth African American to hold the office of governor in the United States. To date, New York has had only one female governor: Kathy Hochul.

In the below list, columns can be sorted by clicking on the arrow button in any category heading box. A "C" in the final column denotes a Notable who has been successfully connected to the Big Tree. "N/C" stands for Not Connected.

GOVERNORS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK

#	Governor	Born	Died	Term	Photo	C
1	George Clinton	1739	1812	1777-1895		C
2	John Jay	1745	1829	1795-1801		C
1	George Clinton	1739	1812	1801-1804		C
3	Morgan Lewis	1754	1844	1804-1807		C
4	Daniel D. Tompkins	1774	1825	1807-1817		C
5-Act	John Tayler	1742	1829	1817		C
6	DeWitt Clinton	1769	1828	1817-1822		C
7	Joseph C. Yates	1768	1837	1823-1824		C
6	DeWitt Clinton	1769	1828	1825-1828		C
8	Nathaniel Pitcher	1777	1837	1823-1824		C
9	Martin Van Buren	1782	1862	1828-1832		C
10	Enos T. Throop	1784	1874	1829-1832		C
11	William L. Marcy	1786	1857	1833-1838		C
12	William H. Seward	1801	1872	1839-1842		C
13	William C. Bouck	1786	1859	1843-1844		C
14	Silas Wright	1795	1847	1845-1846		C
15	John Young	1802	1852	1847-1848		C
16	Hamilton Fish	1808	1893	1849-1850		C
17	Washington Hunt	1811	1867	1851-1852		C
18	Horation Seymour	1810	1886	1853-1854		C
19	Myron C. Clark	1806	1892	1855-1856		C
20	John A. King	1788	1867	1857-1858		C
21	Edwin D. Morgan	1811	1883	1859-1862		C
18	Horatio Seymour	1810	1886	1863-1864		C
22	Reuben E, Fenton	1819	1885	1865-1868		C
23	John T. Hoffman	1828	1888	1869-1872		C
24	John Adams Dix	1798	1879	1873-1874		C
25	Samuel J. Tilden	1814	1886	1875-1876		C
26	Lucius D. Robinson	1810	1891	1877-1879		C
27	Alanzo B. Cornell	1832	1904	1880-1882		C
28	Grover Cleveland	1837	1908	1885-1889		C
29	David B. Hill	1843	1910	1889-1891		C
30	Roswell P. Flower	1835	1899	1892-1894		C
31	Levi P. Morton	1824	1920	1895-1896		C
32	Frank S. Black	1853	1913	1897-1898		C
33	Theodore Roosevelt	1858	1919	1899-1900		C
34	Benjamin B. Odell	1854	1926	1901-1904		C
35	Frank W. Higgins	1856	1907	1905-1906		C
36	Charles Evans Hughes	1862	1943	1907-1910		C
37	Horace White	1865	1943	1910		C
38	John Alden Dix	1860	1928	1911-1912		C
39	William Sulzer	1863	1941	1913		C
40	Martin H. Glynn	1871	1924	1913-1914		C
41	Charles Seymour Whitman	1868	1947	1915-1918		C
42	Al Smith	1873	1944	1919-1920		C
43	Nathan L. Miller	1868	1953	1921-1922		C
42	Al Smith	1873	1944	1923-1928		C
44	Franklin D. Roosevelt	1882	1945	1929-1932		C
45	Herbert H. Lehman	1878	1963	1933-1942		C
46	Charles Poletti	1903	2002	1942		C
47	Thomas E. Dewey	1902	1971	1943-1954		C
48	W. Avirill Harriman	1891	1986	1955-1958		C
49	Nelson Rockefeller	1873	1979	1959-1973		C
50	Malcolm Wilson	1914	2000	1973-1974		C
51	Hugh Carey	1919	2011	1975-1982		C
52	Mario Cuomo	1932	2015	1983-1994		C
53	George Pataki	1945	LIVING	1995-2006		N/C
54	Eliot Spitzer	1959	LIVING	2007-2008		N/C
55	David Patterson	1954	LIVING	2008-2010		N/C
56	Andrew Cuomo	1957	LIVING	2011-2021		C
57	Kathy Hochul	1958	LIVING	2021-present		C