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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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