The Political Graveyard: Vermont: Governors

The Political
Graveyard

Vermont: Governors

Governors of Vermont, 1778-2007 (May be incomplete!)
Thomas Chittenden 1778-89 Moses Robinson 1789-90 Thomas Chittenden 1790-97 Paul Brigham 1797 Isaac Tichenor 1797-1807 Israel Smith 1807-08 Isaac Tichenor 1808-09 Jonas Galusha 1809-13 Martin Chittenden 1813-15 Jonas Galusha 1815-20 Richard Skinner 1820-23 Cornelius P. Van Ness 1823-26 Ezra Butler 1826-28 Samuel C. Crafts 1828-31 William Adams Palmer 1831-35 Silas Hemenway Jennison 1835-41 Charles Paine 1841-43 John Mattocks 1843-44 William Slade 1844-46 Horace Eaton 1846-48 Carlos Coolidge 1848-50 Charles Kilborn Williams 1850-52 Erastus Fairbanks 1852-53 John S. Robinson 1853-54 Stephen Royce 1854-56 Ryland Fletcher 1856-58 Hiland Hall 1858-60 Erastus Fairbanks 1860-61 Frederick Holbrook 1861-63 J. Gregory Smith 1863-65 Paul Dillingham, Jr. 1865-67 John Boardman Page 1867-69 Peter T. Washburn 1869-70 George Whitman Hendee 1870 John W. Stewart 1870-72 Julius Converse 1872-74 Asahel Peck 1874-76 Horace Fairbanks 1876-78 Redfield Proctor 1878-80 Roswell Farnham 1880-82 John L. Barstow 1882-84 Samuel E. Pingree 1884-86 Ebenezer J. Ormsbee 1886-88 William P. Dillingham 1888-90 Carroll S. Page 1890-92 Levi K. Fuller 1892-94 Urban Andrian Woodbury 1894-96 Josiah Grout 1896-98 Edward C. Smith 1898-1900 William Wallace Stickney 1900-02 John G. McCullough 1902-04 Charles James Bell 1904-06 Fletcher D. Proctor 1906-08 George H. Prouty 1908-10 John A. Mead 1910-12 Allen M. Fletcher 1912-15 Charles Winslow Gates 1915-17 Horace F. Graham 1917-19 Percival Wood Clement 1919-21 James Hartness 1921-23 Redfield Proctor 1923-25 Franklin S. Billings 1925-27 John E. Weeks 1927-31 Stanley C. Wilson 1931-35 Charles Manley Smith 1935-37 George D. Aiken 1937-41 William H. Wills 1941-45 Mortimer R. Proctor 1945-47 Ernest William Gibson 1947-50 Harold John Arthur 1950-51 Lee E. Emerson 1951-55 Joseph B. Johnson 1955-59 Robert T. Stafford 1959-61 F. Ray Keyser, Jr. 1961-63 Philip H. Hoff 1963-69 Deane C. Davis 1969-73 Thomas P. Salmon 1973-77 Richard A. Snelling 1977-85 Madeleine M. Kunin 1985-91 Richard A. Snelling 1991 Howard Dean 1991-2003 James H. Douglas 2003-

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

1797 Aug 25: Thomas Chittenden, died in office.

1870 Feb 7: Peter T. Washburn, died in office.

1876: Jacob Estey, defeated.

1906: Fletcher D. Proctor (Rep), elected.

1922 Nov 7: Redfield Proctor (Rep & Prohibition), elected; J. Holmes Jackson (Dem), defeated.

1924 Nov 4: Franklin S. Billings (Rep), elected; Fred C. Martin (Dem), defeated; George S. Wood (Prohibition), defeated.

1926 Sep 14: John E. Weeks (Rep), nominated; Walter K. Farnsworth (Rep), defeated in primary; Max Powell (Rep), defeated in primary.

1926 Nov 2: John E. Weeks (Rep), elected; Henry C. Comings (Dem), defeated.

1932: James P. Leamy (Dem), defeated.

1934: James P. Leamy (Dem), defeated.

1962 Sep 11: Philip H. Hoff (Dem), nominated unopposed.

1962 Sep 11: F. Ray Keyser, Jr. (Rep), nominated unopposed.

1962 Nov 6: Philip H. Hoff (Dem), elected; F. Ray Keyser, Jr. (Rep), defeated.

1964: Roger MacBride (Rep), defeated in primary.

1966: Richard A. Snelling (Rep), defeated.

1972: James M. Jeffords, defeated for nomination.

1974: Walter Kennedy, defeated.

1976: Bernie Sanders, defeated.

1986: Bernie Sanders, defeated; Peter P. Smith, defeated.

1991 Aug 14: Richard A. Snelling, died in office.

1996: Mary Alice Herbert (Liberty Union), defeated.

2002: James H. Douglas, elected.

2004: James H. Douglas (Rep), elected.

2006: James H. Douglas (Rep), elected.

"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard."
Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872

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