New York’s Governors: Terms and Partisan Affiliation

Governor	Terms	Partisan Affiliation
Kathleen (Kathy) Hochu	2022-2026 2021-2022	Democratic
Andrew Cuomo	2019 – 2021 2015 – 2018 2011 – 2014	Democratic
David A. Paterson	2008 – 2011	Democratic
Eliot Spitzer	2007 – 2008	Democratic
George E. Pataki	1995 – 2007	Republican
Mario Matthew Cuomo	1983 – 1995	Democratic
Hugh Leo Carey	1975 – 1983	Democratic
Malcolm Wilson	1973 – 1975	Republican
Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller	1959 – 1973	Republican
William Averell Harriman	1955 – 1959	Democratic
Thomas Edmund Dewey	1943 – 1955	Republican
Charles Poletti	1942 – 1943	Democratic
Herbert Henry Lehman	1933 – 1942	Democratic
Franklin Delano Roosevelt	1929 – 1933	Democratic
Alfred Emanuel Smith	1923 – 1929 1919 – 1921	Democratic
Nathan Lewis Miller	1921 – 1923	Republican
Charles Seymour Whitman	1915 – 1919	Republican
Martin Henry Glynn	1913 – 1915	Democratic
William Sulzer	1913 – 1913	Democratic
John Alden Dix	1911 – 1913	Democratic
Horace White	1910 – 1911	Republican
Charles Evans Hughes	1907 – 1910	Republican
Francis Wayland Higgins	1905 – 1907	Republican
Benjamin Baker Odell	1901 – 1905	Republican
Theodore Roosevelt	1899 – 1901	Republican
Frank Swett Black	1897 – 1899	Republican
Roswell Pettibone Flow	1892 – 1895	Democratic
David Bennett Hill	1885 – 1892	Democratic
Grover Cleveland	1883 – 1885	Democratic
Alonzo Barton Cornel	1880 – 1883	Republican
Lucius Robinson	1877 – 1880	Democratic
Samuel Jones Tilden	1875 – 1877	Democratic
John Adams Dix	1872 – 1874	Republican
John Thompson Hoffman	1869 – 1873	Democratic
Reuben Eaton Fenton	1865 – 1869	Union
Horatio Seymour	1863 – 1865 1853 – 1855	Democratic
Edwin Denison Morgan	1859 – 1863	Republican
John Alsop King	1857 – 1859	Republican
Myron Holley Clark	1855 – 1857	Republican
Washington Hunt	1851 – 1853	Democratic
Hamilton Fish	1849 – 1851	Whig
John Young	1847 – 1849	Whig
Silas Wright	1845 – 1847	Democratic
William C. Bouck	1843 – 1845	Democratic
William Henry Seward	1839 – 1843	Whig
William Learned Marcy	1833 – 1839	Jeffersonian-Republican
Enos Thompson Throop	1829 – 1833	Jeffersonian-Republican
Martin Van Buren	1829 – 1829	Jeffersonian-Republican
Nathaniel Pitcher	1828 – 1829	Democratic-Republican
Dewitt Clinton	1825 – 1828 1817 – 1823	Democratic-Republican
Joseph Christopher Yates	1823 – 1825	Jeffersonian-Republican
John Tayler	1817 – 1817	Democratic-Republican
Daniel D. Tompkins	1807 – 1817	Jeffersonian-Republican
Morgan Lewis	1804 – 1807	Democratic-Republican
George Clinton	1801 – 1804 1777 – 1795	Democratic-Republican
John Jay	1795 – 1801	Federalist

Table compiled by Lisa Parshall (June 30, 2024)