The Political Graveyard: Virginia: Governors

Virginia: Governors

Governors of Virginia, 1776-2008 (May be incomplete!)
Patrick Henry 1776- Thomas Jefferson 1779-81 Thomas Nelson, Jr. 1781 Benjamin Harrison 1782-84 Edmund Jenings Randolph 1786-88 Beverley Randolph 1788-91 Henry Lee 1791-94 Robert Brooke 1794-96 James Wood 1796-99 James Monroe 1799-1802 John Page 1802-05 William H. Cabell 1805-08 John Tyler 1808-11 James Monroe 1811 George William Smith 1811 Peyton Randolph 1811-12 James Barbour 1812-14 Wilson C. Nicholas 1814-16 James Patton Preston 1816-19 Thomas Mann Randolph 1819-22 James Pleasants 1822-25 John Tyler 1825-27 William B. Giles 1827-30 John Floyd 1830-34 Littleton W. Tazewell 1834-36 Wyndham Robertson 1836-37 David Campbell 1837-40 Thomas Walker Gilmer 1840-41 John Mercer Patton 1841 John Rutherford 1841-42 John M. Gregory 1842-43 James McDowell 1843-46 William Smith 1846-49 John Buchanan Floyd 1849-52 Joseph Johnson 1852-55 Henry Alexander Wise 1856-59 John Letcher 1860-63 William Smith 1864-65 Francis Harrison Pierpoint 1865-68 Henry Horatio Wells 1868-69 Gilbert Carlton Walker 1870-74 James Lawson Kemper 1874-78 Frederick William Mackey Holliday 1878-82 William Ewan Cameron 1882-86 Fitzhugh Lee 1886-90 Philip Watkins McKinney 1890-94 Charles T. O'Ferrall 1894-98 J. Hoge Tyler 1898-1902 Andrew J. Montague 1902-06 Claude A. Swanson 1906-10 William Hodges Mann 1910-14 Henry Carter Stuart 1914-18 Westmoreland Davis 1918-22 E. Lee Trinkle 1922-26 Harry F. Byrd 1926-30 John Garland Pollard 1930-34 George C. Peery 1934-38 James H. Price 1938-42 Colgate W. Darden, Jr. 1942-46 William M. Tuck 1946-50 John S. Battle 1950-54 Thomas B. Stanley 1954-58 J. Lindsay Almond, Jr. 1958-62 Albert S. Harrison, Jr. 1962-66 Mills E. Godwin, Jr. 1966-70 Linwood Holton 1970-74 Mills E. Godwin, Jr. 1974-78 John N. Dalton 1978-82 Charles S. Robb 1982-86 Gerald L. Baliles 1986-90 L. Douglas Wilder 1990-94 George F. Allen, Jr. 1994-98 James S. Gilmore III 1998- Mark R. Warner 2004 Timothy M. Kaine 2006-

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

1811 Dec 26: George William Smith, died in office.

1878: LaFayette McMullen, defeated.

1885: John S. Wise (Rep), defeated.

1901: Claude A. Swanson, defeated for nomination.

1921: Henry W. Anderson (Rep), defeated.

1925: S. Harris Hoge (Rep), defeated.

1933: Joseph T. Deal (Dem), defeated in primary.

1965: Linwood Holton (Rep), defeated; George Lincoln Rockwell (American Nazi), defeated.

1969: Henry Evans Howell, Jr., defeated.

1973: Henry Evans Howell, Jr., defeated.

1977: Henry Evans Howell, Jr., defeated.

1989: L. Douglas Wilder (Dem), elected.

2005: Timothy M. Kaine (Dem), elected.

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