Governors of Virginia

Governor

Party

Term of Office

Partrick Henry None
1776-1779
Thomas Jefferson None
1779-1781
William Fleming None
1781
Thomas Nelson, Jr. None
1781
Benjamin Harrison None
1781-1784
Patrick Henry None
1784-1786
Edmond Randolph None
1786-1788
Beverley Randolph None
1788-1791
Henry Lee Federalist
1791-1794
Robert Brooke Democratic-Republican
1794-1796
James Wood Democratic-Republican
1796-1799
James Monroe Democratic-Republican
1799-1802
John Page Democratic-Republican
1802-1805
William Cabell Democratic-Republican
1805-1808
John Tyler, Sr. Democratic-Republican
1808-1811
James Monroe Democratic-Republican
1811
George William Smith Democratic-Republican
1811
Peyton Randolph Democratic-Republican
1811-1812
James Barbour Democratic-Republican
1812-1814
Wilson Cary Nicholas Democratic-Republican
1814-1816
James Patton Preston Democratic-Republican
1816-1819
Thomas Mann Randolph Democratic-Republican
1819-1822
James Peasants Democratic-Republican
1822-1825
John Tyler, Jr. Democratic-Republican
1825-1827
William Branch Giles Democrat
1827-1830
John Floyd Democrat
1830-1834
Littleton Waller Tazewell Whig
1834-1836
Wyndham Robertson Whig
1836-1837
David Campbell Democrat
1837-1840
Thomas Walker Gilmer Whig
1840-1841
John Mercer Patton Whig
1841
John Ritherford Whig
1841-1842
John Munford Gregory Whig
1842-1843
James McDowell Democrat
1843-1846
William Smith Democrat
1846-1849
John Buchanan Floyd Democrat
1849-1852
Joeseph Johnson Democrat
1852-1856
Henry Wise Democrat
1856-1860
John Letcher Democrat
1860-1864
William Smith Democrat
1864-1865
Frances Pierpoint Republican
1865-1868
Henry Wells Republican
1868-1869
Gilbert Walker Republican
1869-1874
James Kemper Democrat
1874-1878
Frederick Holliday Democrat
1878-1882
William Cameron Readjuster-Republican
1882-1886
Fitzhugh Lee Democrat
1886-1890
Philip McKinney Democrat
1890-1894
Charles O'Ferrall Democrat
1894-1898
John Hoge Tyler Democrat
1898-1902
Andrew Jackson Montague Democrat
1902-1906
Claude Swanson Democrat
1906-1910
William Hodges Mann Democrat
1910-1914
Henry Carter Stuart Democrat
1914-1918
Westmorland Davis Democrat
1918-1922
Elbert Lee Trinkle Democrat
1922-1926
Henry Flood Byrd Democrat
1926-1930
John Garland Pollard Democrat
1930-1934
George C. Perry Democrat
1934-1938
James H. Price Democrat
1938-1942
Colgate Darden, Jr. Democrat
1942-1946
William Tuck Democrat
1946-1950
John S. Battle Democrat
1950-1954
Thomas Stanley Democrat
1954-1958
J. Lindsay Almond, Jr. Democrat
1958-1962
Albertis Harrison, Jr. Democrat
1962-1966
Miles Godwin, Jr. Democrat
1966-1970
A. Linwood Holton,Jr. Republican
1970-1974
Miles Godwin, Jr. Republican
1974-1978
John Dalton Republican
1978-1982
Charles Robb Democrat
1982-1986
Gerald Baliles Democrat
1986-1990
L. Douglas Wilder Democrat
1990-1994
George Allen Republican
1994-1998
James Gilmore III Republican
1998-Present