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Governors of New York as colony and State prior to 1900
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NEW YORK STATE--LIST OF GOVERNORS
The following is a list of the Governors of New York as a colony and a State.
DIRECTORS-GENERAL OF NEW NETHERLAND
Cornelis Jacobsen May 1624-25
William Verhuist 1625-26
Peter Minuit 1626-33
Wouter Van Twiller 1633-38
William Kleft 1638-47
Peter Stuyvesant 1647-64
ENGLISH COLONIAL GOVERNORS
Richard Nicolls 1664-68
Francis Lovelace 1668-73
DUTCH OCCUPATION
Anthony Colve 1673-74
ENGLISH COLONIAL GOVERNORS
Edmund Andros 1674-83
Thomas Dongan 1683-88
Francis Nicholson (Lieutenant-Governor under Governor-General Andros)
1688-89
(Jacob Leisler) 1689-91
Henry Sloughter 1691
Major Richard Ingoldsby (acting) 1691-92
Benjamin Fletcher 1692-98
Richard Coote, Earl of Bellomont 1698-1701
John Nanfan (acting) 1701-02
Edward Hyde, Lord Cornbury 1702-08
John, Lord Lovelace 1708-09
Richard Ingoldsby (acting) 1709-10
Gerardus Beckman (acting) 1710
Robert Hunter 1710-19
Peter Schuyler (acting) 1719-20
William Burnet 1720-28
John Montgomerle 1728-31
Rip Van Dam (acting) 1731-32
William Cosby (acting) 1732-36
George Clarke 1736-43
George Clinton 1743-53
Danvers Osborne 1753
James De Lancey (acting) 1753-55
Charles Hardy 1755-57
James de Lancey (acting) 1757-60
Cadwallader Colden (acting) 1760-61
Robert Moncktog 1761
Cadwallader Colden (acting) 1761-65
Henry Moore 1765-69
Cadwallader Colden (acting) 1769-70
John Murray, Lord Dunmore 1770-71
William Tryon 1771-77
STATE GOVERNORS
George Clinton 177-95
John Jay 1795-1801
George Clinton-- Democratic-Republican 1801-04
Morgan Lewis---- " " " 1804-07
Daniel D. Tompkins " " " 1807-16
John Taylor (acting) " " " 1816-17
De Witt Clinton " " " 1817-23
Joseph C. Yates " " " 1823-25
De Witt Clin ton " " " 1825-28
Nathaniel Pitcher (acting) " " 1828-29
Martin Van Buren Democrat 1829
Enos T. Throop (acting) Democrat 1829-31
Enos T. Throop Democrat 1831-33
William L. Marcy Democrat 1833-39
William H. Seward Whig 1839-43
William C. Bouck Democrat 1843-45
Silas Wright Democrat 1845-47
John Young Whig 1847-49
Hamilton Fish Whig 1849-51
Washington Hunt Whig 1851-53
Horatio Seymour Democrat 1853-55
Myron H. Clark Whig 1855-57
John A. King Republican 1857-59
Edward D. Morgan Republican 1859-63
Horatio Seymour Democrat 1863-65
Reuben E. Fenton Republican 1865-69
John T. Hoffman Democrat 1869-73
John T Dix Republican 1873-75
Samuel J. Tilden Democrat 1875-77
Lucius Robinson Democrat 1877-79
Alonzo B. Cornell Republican 1879-83
Grover Cleveland Democrat 1883-84
David Bennett Hill (acting) Democrat 1884-86
David Bennett Hill Democrat 1886-92
Roswell P. Flower Democrat 1892-95
Levi P. Morton Republican 1895-97
Frank S. Black Republican 1897-99
Theodore Roosevelt Republican 1899-1901
Benjamin B. Odell Republican 1901-----
Information in its exact word by word entirety is taken from
Volume XIV of the 21 Volumes of "The New International Encyclopaedia".
Pages 492-518. Copyright: 1903, 1904, 1905.
Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company--New York.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Tarr, Physical Geography of New York State (New York, 1903)
New York Geological Survey Reports (Albany, 1838 et seq.)
New York Academy of Sciences Transactions (New York, 1881 et. seq.)
for history, Dunlap, History of the New Netherlands Province of New York
(ib.,1840) O'Callaghan, History of New Netherland (ib., 1848) ;
Hammond, Political History of the State of New York (Syracuse, 1849) ;
Broadhead, History of the State of New York (New York, 1871) ; Satterlee,
The Political History of the Province of New York (ib., 1885) ;
Schuyler, Colonial New York (ib., 1885) ; Roberts, New York,
Planting and Growth of the Empire State
(Hartford, 1888) ; Phisterer, New York in the War of the Rebellion
(Albany, 1890); Roberts, New York in the Revolution (1897) ; Prentice,
New York State History (London, 1900) ; New York Historical Society
Collections (Albany); and for bibliography, New York Public Library
Bulletin, vol. iv. (New York, 1900) ; Flagg and Jennings, "Bibliography
of New York Colonial History," in New York State Library Bulletin of
Bibliography, vol. ii. (Albany, 1901).
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