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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