List of Governors of New Jersey
Governors under the Proprietors (1665-1674)
- Philip Carteret 1665-1672
- John Berry 1672-1673
- Anthony Colve 1673-1674
Governors of East Jersey and their Deputies (1674-1702)
- Philip Carteret 1674-1682
- Robert Barclay 1682-1688
- Thomas Rudyard, Deputy 1682-1683
- Gawen Lawrie, Deputy 1683-1686
- Lord Neill Campbell, Deputy 1686-1687
- Andrew Hamilton, Deputy 1687-1690
- Edmund Andros 1688-1689
- Andrew Hamilton 1692-1697
- Jeremiah Basse 1698-1699
- Andrew Hamilton 1699-1702
Governors of West Jersey and their Deputies (1680-1702)
- Edward Byllynge 1680-1687
- Samuel Jennings, Deputy 1681-1684
- Thomas Olive, Deputy 1684-1685
- John Skene, Deputy 1685-1687
- Daniel Coxe 1687-1688
- Edmund Andros 1688-1689
- Edward Hunloke, Deputy 1690
- Andrew Hamilton 1692-1697
- Jeremiah Basse 1697-1699
- Andrew Hamilton 1699-1702 (again)
Governors under Royal Government (1703-1776)
Governors of New York and New Jersey (1703-1738)
- Edward Hyde, Lord Cornbury 1703-8
- John, Lord Lovelace 1708-9
- Richard Ingoldesby, Lieutenant and Governor 1709-10
- Robert Hunter 1710-20
- William Burnet 1720-28
- John Montgomerie 1728-31
- Lewis Morris, President Of Council 1731-1732
- William Cosby 1732-36
- John Anderson, President Of Council 1736
- John Hamilton, President Of Council 1736-1738
Governors of New Jersey Only (1738-1776)
- Lewis Morris 1738-46
- John Hamilton, President Of Council 1746-1747
- John Reading, President Of Council 1747
- Jonathan Belcher 1747-57
- Thomas Pownall, Lieut. Governor 1757
- John Reading, President Of Council 1757-1758
- Francis Bernard 1758-60
- Thomas Boone 1760-61
- Josiah Hardy 1761-63
- William Franklin, (1731-1813), 1763-76
Governors under the U.S. Constitution (1776-present)
Governors under the 1776 N.J. Constitution (1776-1844)
- William Livingston 1776-90
- Elisha Lawrence 1790 (?)
- William Paterson 1790-93
- Thomas Henderson 1793 (?)
- Richard Howell 1793-1801
- Joseph Bloomfield 1801-02
- John Lambert, Acting Governor 1802-03
- Joseph Bloomfield 1803-12
- Aaron Ogden 1812-13
- William S. Pennington 1813-15
- William Kennedy 1815 (?)
- Mahlon Dickerson 1815-17
- Isaac Halstead Williamson 1817-29
- Peter Dumont Vroom 1829-32
- Samuel Lewis Southard 1832-33
- Elias P. Seeley 1833
- Peter Dumont Vroom 1833-36
- Philemon Dickerson1836-37
- William Pennington 1837-43
- Daniel Haines 1843-45
Governors under the 1844 N.J. Constitution (1844-1946)
- Charles Creighton Stratton 1845-48
- Daniel Haines 1848-51
- George Franklin Fort 1851-54
- Rodman McCamley Price 1854-57
- William A. Newell 1857-60
- Charles S. Olden 1860-63
- Joel Parker 1863-66
- Marcus L. Ward 1866-69
- Theodore Frelinghuysen Randolph 1869-72
- Joel Parker 1872-75
- Joseph D. Bedle 1875-78
- George Brinton McClellan 1878-81
- George C. Ludlow 1881-84
- Leon Abbett 1884-87
- Robert Stockton Green 1887-90
- Leon Abbett 1890-93
- George T. Werts 1893-96
- John W. Griggs 1896-98
- Foster M. Voorhees 1898
- David Ogden Watkins 1898-99
- Foster M. Voorhees 1899-1902
- Franklin Murphy 1902-05
- Edward C. Stokes 1905-08
- John Franklin Fort 1908-11
- Woodrow Wilson, 1911-13
- James F. Fielder, Acting Governor 1913
- Leon R. Taylor, Acting Governor 1913-14
- James F. Fielder 1914-17
- Walter E. Edge 1917-19
- William N. Runyon, Acting Governor 1919-20
- Clarence E. Case, Acting Governor 1920
- Edward I. Edwards 1920-23
- George S. Silzer 1923-26
- A. Harry Moore 1926-29
- Morgan F. Larson 1929-32
- A. Harry Moore 1932-35
- Harold G. Hoffman 1935-38
- A. Harry Moore 1938-41
- Charles Edison, 1941-44
- Walter E. Edge 1944-47
Governors under the 1947 N.J. Constitution (1947-present)
- Alfred E. Driscoll 1947-54
- Robert B. Meyner 1954-62
- Richard J. Hughes 1962-70
- William T. Cahill 1970-74
- Brendan Byrne 1974-82
- Thomas Kean 1982-90
- James Florio 1990-94
- Christine Todd Whitman 1994-2001
- Donald DiFrancesco, Acting Governor 2001-2002
- John Bennett, Acting Governor 2002
- Richard Codey, Acting Governor 2002
- James McGreevey 2002-