List of Governors of California

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This is a list of Governors of California since statehood. For Spanish, Mexican, Bear Flag, military and territorial governors, see list of pre-statehood governors of California.

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#	Name	Took Office	Left Office	Party
1	Peter Hardeman Burnett	1849	1851	Democrat
2	John McDougall	1851	1852	Democrat
3	John Bigler	1852	1856	Democrat
4	John Neeley Johnson	1856	1858	American
5	John B. Weller	1858	1860	Democrat
6	Milton Slocum Latham	1860	1860	Lecompton Democrat
7	John Gately Downey	1860	1862	Lecompton Democrat
8	Amasa Leland Stanford	1862	1863	Republican
9	Frederick Ferdinand Low	1863	1867	Unionist Republican
10	Henry Huntly Haight	1867	1871	Democrat
11	Newton Booth	1871	1875	Republican
12	Romualdo Pacheco (acting)	1875	1875	Republican
13	William Irwin	1875	1880	Democrat
14	George Clement Perkins	1880	1883	Republican
15	George Stoneman	1883	1887	Democrat
16	Washington Montgomery Bartlett	1887	1887	Democrat
17	Robert Whitney Waterman	1887	1891	Republican
18	Henry Harrison Markham	1891	1895	Republican
19	James Herbert Budd	1895	1899	Democrat
20	Henry Tifft Gage	1899	1903	Republican
21	George Cooper Pardee	1903	1907	Republican
22	James Norris Gillett	1907	1911	Republican
23	Hiram Warren Johnson	1911	1917	Republican
24	William Dennison Stephens	1917	1923	Republican
25	Friend William Richardson	1923	1927	Republican
26	Clement Calhoun Young	1927	1931	Republican
27	James Rolph Jr.	1931	1934	Republican
28	Frank Finley Merriam	1934	1939	Republican
30	Earl Warren	1943	1953	Republican
31	Goodwin Jess Knight	1953	1959	Republican
32	Edmund Gerald "Pat" Brown Sr.	1959	1967	Democrat
33	Ronald Wilson Reagan	1967	1975	Republican
34	Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown Jr.	1975	1983	Democrat
35	Courken George Deukmejian	1983	1991	Republican
36	Peter Barton Wilson	1991	1999	Republican
37	Joseph Graham "Gray" Davis Jr.¹	1999	2003	Democrat
38	Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger	2003	-	Republican

¹ Governor Gray Davis was recalled from office as a result of the California Recall Election held on October 7, 2003.
   The voters elected Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger to replace Davis and serve the remainder of his term.

External links

• Governors of California (http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/govsgallery/h/index.html) - Official Site from the State of California with Portraits and Biographies
• List of Governors of California when California Belonged to Mexico (http://www.santacruzpl.org/history/gov/govmx.shtml)
• List of Governors of California (http://www.infospect.com/Governors.htm)

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