List of Governors of Maryland

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The following is a list of all Governors of Maryland.

See Governor of Maryland for more information on the office.

Contents
1 Colonial Period

1.1 Leader of the Protestant Associators
1.2 Royal Governors
1.3 Governors of Restored Proprietary Government

2 Governors under Statehood

2.1 Governors Elected by the Legislature under the Maryland Constitution of 1776
2.2 Governors Elected by the People under the Constitutional Amendments of 1838
2.3 Governors Elected by the People under the Maryland Constitution of 1851
2.4 Governor Elected by the People under the Maryland Constitution of 1864
2.5 Governors Elected by the People under the Maryland Constitution of 1867

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Colonial Period

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Leader of the Protestant Associators

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Royal Governors

  1. Nehemiah Blakiston, 1691 - 1692
  2. Sir Lionel Copley, 1692 - 1693
  3. Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1693 - 1694
  4. Sir Edmund Andros, 1693
  5. Colonel Nicholas Greenberry, 1693 -1 694
  6. Sir Edmund Andros, 1694
  7. Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1694
  8. Sir Francis Nicholson, 1694 - 1698/99
  9. Colonel Nathaniel Blakiston, 1698/99 - 1702
  10. Thomas Tench, 1702 - 1704
  11. Colonel John Seymour, 1704 - 1709
  12. Major General Edward Lloyd, 1709 - 1714
  13. John Hart, 1714 - 1715
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Governors of Restored Proprietary Government

  1. John Hart, 1715 - 1720
  2. Thomas Brooke, 1720
  3. Charles Calvert, 1721 - 1727
  4. Benedict Leonard Calvert, 1727 - 1731
  5. Samuel Ogle, 1731 - 1732
  6. Charles Calvert, 1732 - 1733
  7. Samuel Ogle, 1733 - 1742
  8. Thomas Bladen, 1742 - 1746/47
  9. Samuel Ogle, 1746/47 - 1752
  10. Benjamin Tasker, 1752 - 1753
  11. Horatio Sharpe, 1753 - 1769
  12. Robert Eden, 1769 - 1776
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Governors under Statehood

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Governors Elected by the Legislature under the Maryland Constitution of 1776

  1. Thomas Johnson 1777-1779
  2. Thomas Sim Lee 1779-1782
  3. William Paca 1782-1785
  4. William Smallwood 1785-1788
  5. John Eager Howard 1788-1791
  6. George Plater 1791-1792
  7. James Brice 1792-1792
  8. Thomas Sim Lee 1792-1794
  9. John Hoskins Stone 1794-1797
  10. John Henry 1797-1798
  11. Benjamin Ogle 1798-1801
  12. John Francis Mercer 1801-1803
  13. Robert Bowie 1803-1806
  14. Robert Wright 1806-1809
  15. James Butcher 1809-1809
  16. Edward Lloyd 1809-1811
  17. Robert Bowie 1811-1812
  18. Levin Winder 1812-1816
  19. Charles Carnan Ridgely 1816-1819
  20. Charles Goldsborough 1819
  21. Samuel Sprigg 1819-1822
  22. Samuel Stevens, Jr. 1822-1826
  23. Joseph Kent 1826-1829
  24. Daniel Martin 1829-1830
  25. Thomas King Carroll 1830-1831
  26. Daniel Martin 1831-1831
  27. George Howard 1831-1833
  28. James Thomas 1833-1836
  29. Thomas W. Veazey 1836-1839
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Governors Elected by the People under the Constitutional Amendments of 1838


# Name Party Term
1 William Grason Democrat 1839–1841
2 Francis Thomas Democrat 1841–1845
3 Thomas G. Pratt Whig 1845–1848
4 Phillip F. Thomas Democrat 1848–1851
5 Enoch Louis Lowe Democrat 1851–1854
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Governors Elected by the People under the Maryland Constitution of 1851


# Name Party Term
1 Thomas W. Ligon Democrat 1854–1858
2 Thomas H. Hicks Democrat; later Republican 1858–1862
3 Augustus Bradford Unionist 1862–1866
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Governor Elected by the People under the Maryland Constitution of 1864

# Name Party Term
1 Thomas Swann Democrat 1866–1869
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Governors Elected by the People under the Maryland Constitution of 1867


# Name Party Term
1 Oden Bowie Democrat 1869–1872
2 William Pinkney Whyte Democrat 1872–1874
3 James B. Groome Democrat 1874–1876
4 John Lee Carroll Democrat 1876–1880
5 William T. Hamilton Democrat 1880–1884
6 Robert Milligan McLane Democrat 1884–1885
7 Henry Lloyd Democrat 1885–1888
8 Elihu Emory Jackson Democrat 1888–1892
9 Frank Brown Democrat 1882–1896
10 Lloyd Lowndes, Jr. Republican 1896–1900
11 John Walter Smith Democrat 1900–1904
12 Edwin Warfield Democrat 1904–1908
13 Austin Lane Crothers Democrat 1908–1912
14 Phillips Lee Goldsborough Republican 1912–1916
15 Emerson C. Harrington Democrat 1916–1920
16 Albert C. Ritchie Democrat 1920–1935
17 Harry W. Nice Republican 1935–1939
18 Herbert R. O'Conor Democrat 1939–1947
19 William Preston Lane, Jr. Democrat 1947–1951
20 Theodore R. McKeldin Republican 1951–1959
21 J. Millard Tawes Democrat 1959–1967
22 Spiro Agnew Republican 1967–1969
23 Marvin Mandel1 Democrat 1969–1979
24 Blair Lee III1 Democrat 1977–1979
25 Harry R. Hughes Democrat 1979–1987
26 William Donald Schaefer Democrat 1987–1995
27 Parris N. Glendening Democrat 1995–2003
28 Robert L. Ehrlich Republican 2003–present

1. Lee served as acting governor from 1977-1979 following the resignation of Mandel in 1977 and the retraction of said resignation in 1979.de:Liste der Gouverneure von Maryland

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