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Governors of North Carolina

From the Roanoke colonies of the 1580s to the 21st century, ninety-nine men and one woman have served as Governor of North Carolina. Our current governor, Bev Perdue is the 73rd governor since statehood. Below is a chronological list of the governors since 1776 along with a short biography. The stories of these historic figures constitute a prism through which to view Tar Heel history.

Richard Caswell
1776-1780; 1784-1787
Abner Nash
1780-1781
Thomas Burke
1781-1782
Alexander Martin
1782-1784; 1789-1792
Samuel Johnston
1787-1789
Richard Dobbs Spaight
1792-1795
Samuel Ashe
1795-1798
William Richardson Davie
1798-1799
Benjamin Williams
1799-1802; 1807-1808
James Turner
1802-1805
Nathaniel Alexander
1805-1807
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
Montfort 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
1849-1851
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; 1877-1879
William Woods Holden
1865; 1868-1871
Jonathan Worth
1865-1868
Tod Robinson Caldwell
1871-1874
Curtis Hooks Brogden
1874-1877
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 Jr.
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 Morrison
1921-1925
Angus Wilton Mclean
1925-1929
Oliver Maxwell Gardner
1929-1933
J. C. B. 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
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; 1993-2001
James Grubbs Martin
1985-1993
Michael Francis Easley
2001-2009
   
       

Thank you to the Department of Cultural Resources for compiling these biographies.


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