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The following is a list of the governors of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
List of governors
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# | Picture | Governor | Took office | Left office | Lieutenant Governor | Party | Notes |
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1 | Patrick Henry | July 5, 1776 | June 1, 1779 | Office vacant 1776-1852 | None | First under 1776 Constitution (limit of 3 one-year terms) | |
2 | Thomas Jefferson | June 1, 1779 | June 3, 1781 | None | 3rd President of the United States | ||
3 | ![]() | William Fleming | June 3, 1781 | June 12, 1781 | None | ||
4 | Thomas Nelson, Jr. | June 12, 1781 | November 22, 1781 | None | |||
– | ![]() | David Jameson | November 22, 1781 | December 1, 1781 | None | Acting Governor (member of Council of State) | |
5 | Benjamin Harrison V | December 1, 1781 | December 1, 1784 | None | |||
6 | Patrick Henry | December 1, 1784 | December 1, 1786 | None | Re-elected after 5-year hiatus (1 more than constitutional minimum) | ||
7 | ![]() | Edmund Randolph | December 1, 1786 | December 1, 1788 | None | First under U.S. statehood | |
8 | ![]() | Beverley Randolph | December 1, 1788 | December 1, 1791 | None | ||
9 | ![]() | Henry Lee III | December 1, 1791 | December 1, 1794 | Federalist | ||
10 | ![]() | Robert Brooke | December 1, 1794 | December 1, 1796 | Democratic-Republican | ||
11 | ![]() | James Wood | December 1, 1796 | December 1, 1799 | Federalist | ||
– | ![]() | Hardin Burnley | December 7, 1799 | December 11, 1799 | |||
– | ![]() | John Pendleton, Jr. | December 11, 1799 | December 19, 1799 | |||
12 | ![]() | James Monroe | December 19, 1799 | December 1, 1802 | Democratic-Republican | U.S. Senator 1790–1794, fifth President of the United States | |
13 | ![]() | John Page | December 1, 1802 | December 7, 1805 | Democratic-Republican | ||
14 | ![]() | William H. Cabell | December 7, 1805 | December 1, 1808 | Democratic-Republican | ||
15 | ![]() | John Tyler, Sr. | December 1, 1808 | January 15, 1811 | Democratic-Republican | ||
— | ![]() | George William Smith | January 15, 1811 | January 19, 1811 | Democratic-Republican | Acting Governor (member of Council of State) | |
16 | ![]() | James Monroe | January 19, 1811 | April 3, 1811 | Democratic-Republican | U.S. Senator 1790–94, Fifth President of the United States | |
17 | ![]() | George William Smith | April 3, 1811 | December 26, 1811 | Democratic-Republican | Acting Governor (member of Council of State) Later elected in his own right Died in office | |
N/A | ![]() | Peyton Randolph | December 27, 1811 | January 3, 1812 | Democratic-Republican | Acting Governor (member of Council of State) | |
18 | ![]() | James Barbour | January 3, 1812 | December 1, 1814 | Democratic-Republican | U.S. Senator 1815–1825 | |
19 | ![]() | Wilson Cary Nicholas | December 1, 1814 | December 1, 1816 | Democratic-Republican | ||
20 | ![]() | James Patton Preston | December 1, 1816 | December 1, 1819 | Democratic-Republican | ||
21 | ![]() | Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr. | December 1, 1819 | December 1, 1822 | Democratic-Republican | ||
22 | ![]() | James Pleasants | December 1, 1822 | December 10, 1825 | Democratic-Republican | Resigned U.S. Senate to assume Governorship | |
23 | ![]() | John Tyler | December 10, 1825 | March 4, 1827 | Democratic-Republican | Resigned to enter U.S. Senate 1827–1836, 10th United States President | |
24 | ![]() | William Branch Giles | March 4, 1827 | March 4, 1830 | Democratic | U.S. Senator 1804–1815 | |
25 | ![]() | John Floyd | March 4, 1830 | March 31, 1834 | Democratic | First under 1830 constitution (limit of 1 four-year term) | |
26 | ![]() | Littleton Waller Tazewell | March 31, 1834 | April 30, 1836 | Democratic | U.S. Senator 1824–1832 | |
— | ![]() | Wyndham Robertson | April 30, 1836 | March 31, 1837 | Whig | Acting Governor (member of Council of State) | |
27 | ![]() | David Campbell | March 31, 1837 | March 31, 1840 | Democratic | ||
28 | ![]() | Thomas Walker Gilmer | March 31, 1840 | March 20, 1841 | Whig | ||
— | ![]() | John M. Patton | March 20, 1841 | March 31, 1841 | Whig | Acting Governor (member of Council of State) | |
— | ![]() | John Rutherfoord | March 31, 1841 | March 31, 1842 | Democratic | Acting Governor (member of Council of State) | |
— | ![]() | John Munford Gregory | March 31, 1842 | January 1, 1843 | Whig | Acting Governor (member of Council of State) | |
29 | ![]() | James McDowell | January 1, 1843 | January 1, 1846 | Democratic | ||
30 | ![]() | William Smith | January 1, 1846 | January 1, 1849 | Democratic | ||
31 | ![]() | John B. Floyd | January 1, 1849 | January 16, 1852 | Democratic | U.S. Secretary of War 1857–60 | |
32 | ![]() | Joseph Johnson | January 16, 1852 | January 1, 1856 | Shelton Leake | Democratic | First under 1851 constitution (limit of 1 four-year term) First popularly elected governor |
33 | ![]() | Henry A. Wise | January 1, 1856 | January 1, 1860 | Elisha W. McComas William Lowther Jackson | Democratic | |
34 | ![]() | John Letcher | January 1, 1860 | January 1, 1864 | Robert Latane Montague | Democratic | (On June 20, 1863, the new U.S. state of West Virginia was formed) |
35 | ![]() | William Smith | January 1, 1864 | May 9, 1865 | Samuel Price | Democratic | |
— | ![]() | Francis Harrison Pierpont | May 9, 1865 | April 4, 1868 | None | Republican | Elected by Restored General Assembly (Union) |
— | ![]() | Henry H. Wells | April 4, 1868 | September 21, 1869 | None | Republican | Appointed Governor by U.S. military |
36 | ![]() | Gilbert Carlton Walker | September 21, 1869 | January 1, 1874 | John F. Lewis John Lawrence Marye, Jr. | Republican | Appointed Governor by U.S. military then elected as a Republican Governor later served as a Democratic Congressman |
37 | ![]() | James L. Kemper | January 1, 1874 | January 1, 1878 | Robert E. Withers Henry Wirtz Thomas | Democratic | |
38 | ![]() | Frederick W. M. Holliday | January 1, 1878 | January 1, 1882 | James A. Walker | Democratic | |
39 | ![]() | William E. Cameron | January 1, 1882 | January 1, 1886 | John F. Lewis | Re-adjuster | |
40 | ![]() | Fitzhugh Lee | January 1, 1886 | January 1, 1890 | John E. Massey | Democratic | |
41 | ![]() | Philip W. McKinney | January 1, 1890 | January 1, 1894 | James H. Tyler | Democratic | |
42 | ![]() | Charles Triplett O'Ferrall | January 1, 1894 | January 1, 1898 | Robert C. Kent | Democratic | Resigned U. S. House seat to assume Governorship |
43 | ![]() | James Hoge Tyler | January 1, 1898 | January 1, 1902 | Edward Echols | Democratic | |
44 | ![]() | Andrew Jackson Montague | January 1, 1902 | February 1, 1906 | Joseph Edward Willard | Democratic | |
45 | ![]() | Claude A. Swanson | February 1, 1906 | February 10, 1910 | James T. Ellyson | Democratic | U.S. Senator 1910–33 |
46 | ![]() | William Hodges Mann | February 10, 1910 | February 1, 1914 | James T. Ellyson | Democratic | |
47 | ![]() | Henry Carter Stuart | February 1, 1914 | February 1, 1918 | James T. Ellyson | Democratic | |
48 | ![]() | Westmoreland Davis | February 1, 1918 | February 1, 1922 | Benjamin F. Buchanan | Democratic | |
49 | ![]() | Elbert Lee Trinkle | February 1, 1922 | February 1, 1926 | Junius E. West | Democratic | |
50 | ![]() | Harry F. Byrd | February 1, 1926 | January 15, 1930 | Junius E. West | Democratic | U.S. Senator 1933–65 |
51 | ![]() | John Garland Pollard | January 15, 1930 | January 17, 1934 | James H. Price | Democratic | |
52 | ![]() | George C. Peery | January 17, 1934 | January 15, 1938 | James H. Price | Democratic | |
53 | ![]() | James H. Price | January 15, 1938 | January 21, 1942 | Saxon W. Holt | Democratic | |
54 | ![]() | Colgate Darden | January 21, 1942 | January 16, 1946 | William M. Tuck | Democratic | |
55 | ![]() | William M. Tuck | January 16, 1946 | January 18, 1950 | Lewis Preston Collins II | Democratic | |
56 | ![]() | John S. Battle | January 18, 1950 | January 20, 1954 | Lewis Preston Collins II Allie Edward Stakes Stephens | Democratic | |
57 | ![]() | Thomas B. Stanley | January 20, 1954 | January 11, 1958 | Allie Edward Stakes Stephens | Democratic | |
58 | ![]() | J. Lindsay Almond | January 11, 1958 | January 13, 1962 | Allie Edward Stakes Stephens | Democratic | |
59 | ![]() | Albertis Harrison | January 13, 1962 | January 15, 1966 | Mills Godwin | Democratic | |
60 | ![]() | Mills Godwin | January 15, 1966 | January 17, 1970 | Fred G. Pollard | Democratic | |
61 | ![]() | Linwood Holton | January 17, 1970 | January 12, 1974 | J. Sargeant Reynolds (Democratic) Henry Howell (Democratic) | Republican | |
62 | ![]() | Mills Godwin | January 12, 1974 | January 14, 1978 | John N. Dalton | Republican | |
63 | ![]() | John Dalton | January 14, 1978 | January 16, 1982 | Chuck Robb (Democratic) | Republican | |
64 | ![]() | Chuck Robb | January 16, 1982 | January 18, 1986 | Dick Davis | Democratic | U.S. Senator 1989–2001 |
65 | ![]() | Gerald Baliles | January 18, 1986 | January 13, 1990 | Douglas Wilder | Democratic | |
66 | ![]() | Douglas Wilder | January 13, 1990 | January 15, 1994 | Don Beyer | Democratic | First African-American governor elected in American history |
67 | ![]() | George Allen | January 15, 1994 | January 17, 1998 | Don Beyer (Democratic) | Republican | U.S. Senator 2001–2007 |
68 | ![]() | Jim Gilmore | January 17, 1998 | January 12, 2002 | John H. Hager | Republican | |
69 | ![]() | Mark Warner | January 12, 2002 | January 14, 2006 | Tim Kaine | Democratic | U.S. Senator 2009–present |
70 | ![]() | Tim Kaine | January 14, 2006 | January 16, 2010 | Bill Bolling (Republican) | Democratic | First Catholic Governor, U.S. Senator 2013–present, nominee for Vice President of the United States in 2016 |
71 | ![]() | Bob McDonnell | January 16, 2010 | January 11, 2014 | Bill Bolling | Republican | |
72 | ![]() | Terry McAuliffe | January 11, 2014 | January 13, 2018 | Ralph Northam | Democratic | |
73 | ![]() | Ralph Northam | January 13, 2018 | January 15, 2022 | Justin Fairfax | Democratic | |
74 | ![]() | Glenn Youngkin | January 15, 2022 | Incumbent | Winsome Sears | Republican |