The Political Graveyard: New Jersey: Governors

New Jersey: Governors

Governors of New Jersey, 1776-2007 (May be incomplete!)
William Livingston 1776-90 Elisha Lawrence 1790 William Paterson 1790-93 Thomas Henderson 1793 Richard Howell 1793-1801 Joseph Bloomfield 1801-02 John Lambert 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 L. Southard 1832-33 Elias P. Seeley 1833 Peter Dumont Vroom 1833-36 Philemon Dickerson 1836-37 William Pennington 1837-43 Daniel Haines 1843-45 Charles Creighton Stratton 1845-48 Daniel Haines 1848-51 George F. Fort 1851-54 Rodman M. Price 1854-57 William A. Newell 1857-60 Charles S. Olden 1860-63 Joel Parker 1863-66 Marcus L. Ward 1866-69 Theodore F. Randolph 1869-72 Joel Parker 1872-75 Joseph D. Bedle 1875-78 George B. 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 O. Watkins 1898-99 Foster M. Voorhees 1899-1902 Franklin Murphy 1902-05 Edward C. Stokes 1905-08 J. Franklin Fort 1908-11 Woodrow Wilson 1911-13 James F. Fielder 1913 Leon R. Taylor 1913-14 James F. Fielder 1914-17 Walter E. Edge 1917-19 William N. Runyon 1919-20 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 Alfred E. Driscoll 1947-54 Robert B. Meyner 1954-62 Richard J. Hughes 1962-70 William T. Cahill 1970-74 Brendan T. Byrne 1974-82 Thomas H. Kean 1982-90 James J. Florio 1990-94 Christine Todd Whitman 1994-2001 Donald T. DiFrancesco 2001-02 John Farmer, Jr. 2002 John O. Bennett 2002 Richard J. Codey 2002 Jim McGreevey 2002-04 Richard J. Codey 2004-06 Jon Corzine 2006-

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

1790 Jul 25: William Livingston, died in office.

1847: William Wright, defeated.

1865: Theodore Runyon (Dem), defeated.

1868: John I. Blair (Rep), defeated.

1874: George Armstrong Halsey (Rep), defeated.

1877: William A. Newell, defeated.

1889: E. Burd Grubb (Rep), defeated.

1892: John Kean, defeated.

1895: Alexander T. McGill (Dem), defeated.

1895 Nov 5: John W. Griggs (Rep), elected.

1898: Elvin Williamson Crane (Dem), defeated.

1916 Nov 7: Walter E. Edge (Rep), elected.

1919 May 16: Walter E. Edge, resigned.

1920 Sep 23: William N. Runyon (Rep), defeated in primary.

1931 Nov 3: A. Harry Moore (Dem), elected; David Baird, Jr. (Rep), defeated; Edmund R. Halsey (Ind), defeated; Owen M. Bruner (Prohibition), defeated; Herman F. Niessner (Socialist), defeated; John J. Ballam (Communist), defeated; John C. Butterworth (Socialist Labor), defeated; John A. Kelly (Taxpayers Economy), defeated.

1940: Robert C. Hendrickson, defeated; Charles Edison (Dem), elected.

1953: Henry B. Krajewski (Jersey Veterans Bonus), defeated.

1957: Henry B. Krajewski (American Third Party), defeated.

1957 Apr 16: Robert B. Meyner (Dem), nominated unopposed.

1957 Apr 16: Malcolm S. Forbes (Rep), nominated; Wayne Dumont, Jr. (Rep), defeated in primary.

1957 Nov 5: Robert B. Meyner (Dem), elected; Malcolm S. Forbes (Rep), defeated.

1961: James P. Mitchell (Rep), defeated.

1969: Henry Helstoski (Dem), defeated in primary.

1969: Harry Seals (Rep), defeated in primary; Frank X. McDermott (Rep), defeated in primary; Harry L. Sears (Rep), defeated in primary.

1973 Jun 5: Brendan T. Byrne (Dem), nominated; Ann Klein (Dem), defeated in primary; Ralph C. DeRose (Dem), defeated in primary; Francis A. Forst (Dem), defeated in primary; Vito Albanese (Dem), defeated in primary.

1973 Jun 5: Charles W. Sandman, Jr. (Rep), nominated; William T. Cahill (Rep), defeated in primary; Michael A. Maglio (Rep), defeated in primary.

1973 Nov 6: Brendan T. Byrne (Dem), elected; Charles W. Sandman, Jr. (Rep), defeated; A. Howard Freund (American), defeated; Alfred V. Colabella, Jr. (Ind), defeated; Robert Clement (Socialist Labor), defeated; John A. Goodson (Libertarian), defeated; James J. Terlizzi (Taxpayers' Watchdog), defeated; Stanley R. Knis (Tax Repeal), defeated; Kenneth E. Newcomb (Communist), defeated; Angelo S. Massaro (Populus), defeated; Jack D. Alvino (Ind), defeated; George Gilk (Defeat Narcotics Crime), defeated.

1977: James J. Florio (Dem), defeated in primary; Paul T. Jordan (Dem), defeated in primary.

1981: Joseph Sullivan (Rep), defeated in primary; Anthony Imperiale (Rep), defeated in primary.

1981: Thomas F. X. Smith, defeated; James J. Florio (Dem), defeated; William Gahres (Down With Lawyers), defeated.

1989: Alan Karcher (Dem), defeated in primary.

1989: James J. Florio (Dem), elected.

1993: Michael Murphy (Dem), defeated in primary.

1993: Christine Todd Whitman (Rep), elected; James J. Florio (Dem), defeated.

1997: W. Michael Murphy (Dem), defeated in primary.

1997: Christine Todd Whitman (Rep), elected.

2001: Bob Franks (Rep), defeated in primary.

2001: Bret Schundler (Rep), defeated.

2001 Jan 31: Christine Todd Whitman, resigned.

2001 Nov 6: Jim McGreevey (Dem), elected.

2004 Jan 15: Jim McGreevey, resigned.

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