Inauguration 2006 - Past Governors

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Governors of New Jersey

I. Colonial Period
1665-1703 Proprietors; 1703-1776 Royal Government

Philip Carteret	East New Jersey	1665-82
Edmund Andros	East and West New Jersey	1674-81; 1688-89
Edward Byllynge	West New Jersey	1680-87
Robert Barclay	East New Jersey	1682-90
Daniel Coxe	West New Jersey	1687-92
Andrew Hamilton	East and West New Jersey	1692-98, 1699-1703
Jeremiah Basse	East and West New Jersey	1698-99
Edward Hyde, Lord Cornbury	New York and New Jersey	1703-8
John Lovelace	New York and New Jersey	1708-9
Richard Ingoldesby	New York and New Jersey	1709-10
Robert Hunter	New York and New Jersey	1710-20
William Burnet	New York and New Jersey	1720-28
John Montgomerie	New York and New Jersey	1728-31
William Cosby	New York and New Jersey	1732-36
Lewis Morris	New Jersey	1738-46
Jonathan Belcher	New Jersey	1747-57
Francis Bernard	New Jersey	1758-60
Thomas Boone	New Jersey	1760-61
Josiah Hardy	New Jersey	1761-63
William Franklin	New Jersey	1763-76

II. Governors Under Constitution 1776

William Livingston	Patriot	1776-90
William Paterson	Federalist	1790-93
Richard Howell	Federalist	1793-1801
Joseph Bloomfield	Jeffersonian-Republican	1801-2; 1803-12
Aaron Ogden	Federalist	1812-13
William S. Pennington	Jeffersonian-Republican	1813-15
Mahlon Dickerson	Jeffersonian-Republican	1815-17
Isaac H. Williamson	Jeffersonian-Republican	1817-29
Peter D. Vroom	Democrat	1829-32; 1833-36
Samuel L. Southard	Whig	1832-33
Elias P. Seeley	Whig	1833
Philemon Dickerson	Democrat	1836-37
William Pennington	Whig	1837-43
Daniel Haines	Democrat	1843-45; 1848-51

III. Governors Under Constitution of 1844

Charles C. Stratton	Whig	1845-48
George F. Fort	Democrat	1851-54
Rodman M. Price	Democrat	1854-57
William A. Newell	Republican	1857-60
Charles S. Olden	Republican	1860-63
Joel Parker	Democrat	1863-66; 1872-75
Marcus L. Ward	Republican	1866-69
Theordore F. Randolph	Democrat	1869-72
Joseph D. Bedle	Democrat	1875-78
George B. McClellan	Democrat	1878-81
George C. Ludlow	Democrat	1881-84
Leon Abbett	Democrat	1884-87; 1890-93
Robert S. Green	Democrat	1887-90
George T. Werts	Democrat	1893-96
John W. Griggs	Republican	1896-98
Foster M. Vorhees	Republican	1898-1902
Franklin Murphy	Republican	1902-05
Edward C. Stokes	Republican	1905-08
John Franklin Fort	Republican	1908-11
Woodrow Wilson	Democrat	1911-13
James F. Fielder	Democrat	1913-17
Walter E. Edge	Republican	1917-19; 1944-47
Edward I. Edwards	Democrat	1920-23
George S. Silzer	Democrat	1923-26
A. Harry Moore	Democrat	1926-29; 1932-35; 1938-41
Morgan F. Larson	Republican	1929-32
Harold Hoffman	Republican	1935-38
Charles Edison	Democrat	1941-44

IV. Governors Under Constitution of 1947

Alfred E. Driscoll	Republican	1947-54
Robert B. Meyner	Democrat	1954-62
Richard J. Hughes	Democrat	1962-70
William T. Cahill	Republican	1970-74
Brendan Byrne	Democrat	1974-82
Thomas Kean	Republican	1982-90
James Florio	Democrat	1990-94
Christine Whitman	Republican	1994-2001
Donald T. Di Francesco	Republican	2001-02
James McGreevey	Democrat	2002-04
Richard Codey	Democrat	2004-06

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