North Carolina - The Governors from 1664 to Present




North Carolina Governors - 1664 to Present

Governors of Albemarle
William Drummond	1664-1667
Samuel Stephens	1667-1669
Peter Carteret	1670-1672
John Jenkins	1672-1676
Thomas Eastchurch	1677
Thomas Miller	1677
John Harvey	1679-1680
Henry Wilkinson	1680
John Jenkins	1680-1681
Seth Sothel	1682-1689
Governors of "Ye Lands North and East of Cape Feare"
John Gibbs	1689-1690
Thomas Jarvis	1690-1691
Deputy Governors of Carolina Province*
Thomas Jarvis	1691-1694
Thomas Harvey	1694-1699
Henderson Walker	1699-1703
Robert Daniel	1703-1705
Thomas Cary	1705-1711
William Glover	1706-1710
Edward Hyde	1711-1712
Thomas Pollock	1712-1714
*Governor was in Charles Town, Deputy Governor was in Albemarle.
Governors of North Carolina Province
Charles Eden	1714-1722
Thomas Pollock	1722
William Reed	1722-1724
George Burrington	1724-1725
Richard Everard	1725-1731
Royal Governors of North Carolina
George Burrington	1731-1734
Gabriel Johnston	1734-1752
Nathaniel Rice*	1752-1753
Matthew Rowan*	1753-1754
Arthur Dobbs	1754-1763
William Tryon	1763-1771
James Hassell*	1771
Josiah Martin	1771-1775
*Not appointed true Governors by the Crown. President of the Council serving as Acting Governor, awaiting for the next governor to arrive in the Province.
President of Provincial Congress
Samuel Johnston	1775-1776
Governors of North Carolina State
Richard Caswell	1776-1780
Abner Nash	1780-1781
Thomas Burke	1781-1782
Alexander Martin	1782-1784
Richard Caswell	1784-1787
Samuel Johnston	1787-1789
Alexander Martin	1789-1792
Richard Dobbs Spaight, Sr.	1792-1795
Samuel Ashe	1795-1798
William Richardson Davie	1798-1799
Benjamin Williams	1799-1802
James Turner	1802-1805
Nathaniel Alexander	1805-1807
Benjamin Williams	1807-1808
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 Bishop Dudley	1836-1841
John Motley Morehead	1841-1845
William Alexander Graham	1845-1849
Charles Manly	1849-1850
David Settle 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
William Woods Holden	1865
Jonathan Worth	1865-1868
William Woods Holden	1868-1870
Tod Robinson Caldwell	1870-1874
Curtis Hooks Brogden	1874-1877
Zebulon Baird Vance	1877-1879
Thomas Jordan Jarvis	1879-1885
Alfred Moore Scales	1885-1889
Daniel Gould Fowle	1889-1891
Thomas Michael Holt	1891-1893
Elias Carr	1893-1897
Daniel Lindsay Russell	1897-1901
Charles Brantley Aycock	1901-1905
Robert Brodnax Glenn	1905-1909
William Walton Kitchin	1909-1913
Locke Craig	1913-1917
Thomas Walter Bickett	1917-1921
Cameron A. Morrison	1921-1925
Angus Wilton McLean	1925-1929
Oliver Maxwell 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
James Terry Sanford	1961-1965
Daniel Killian Moore	1965-1969
Robert Walter Scott	1969-1973
James Eubert Holshouser, Jr.	1973-1977
James Baxter Hunt, Jr.	1977-1985
James Grubbs Martin	1985-1993
James Baxter Hunt, Jr.	1993-2001
Michael Francis Easley	2001-2009
Beverly Marlene Moore Perdue	2009-2013
Patrick Lloyd "Pat" McCrory	2013-2017
Roy Asberry Cooper, III	2017-
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