Former Governors - Colorado

Governor's Name State Time in Office Party
Gov. John Hickenlooper Colorado 2015 - 2019
2011 - 2015
Democratic
Gov. Bill Ritter Colorado 2007 - 2011
Democratic
Gov. Bill Owens Colorado 1999 - 2007
Republican
Gov. Roy Romer Colorado 1987 - 1999
Democratic
Gov. Richard D. Lamm Colorado 1975 - 1987
Democratic
Gov. John D. Vanderhoof Colorado 1973 - 1975
Republican
Gov. John Arthur Love Colorado 1963 - 1973
Republican
Gov. Stephen Lucid Robert McNichols Colorado 1957 - 1963
Democratic
Gov. Edwin Carl Johnson Colorado 1955 - 1957
1933 - 1937
Democratic
Gov. Daniel Isaac J. Thornton Colorado 1951 - 1955
Republican
Gov. Walter Walfred Johnson Colorado 1950 - 1951
Democratic
Gov. William Lee Knous Colorado 1947 - 1950
Democratic
Gov. John Charles Vivian Colorado 1943 - 1947
Republican
Gov. Ralph Lawrence Carr Colorado 1939 - 1943
Republican
Gov. Teller Ammons Colorado 1937 - 1939
Democratic
Gov. Raymond Herbert Talbot Colorado 1937 - 1937
Democratic
Gov. William Herbert Adams Colorado 1927 - 1933
Democratic
Gov. Clarence Morley Colorado 1925 - 1947
Republican
Gov. William Ellery Sweet Colorado 1923 - 1925
Democratic
Gov. Oliver Henry Nelson Shoup Colorado 1919 - 1923
Republican
Gov. Julius Caldeen Gunter Colorado 1917 - 1919
Democratic
Gov. George Alfred Carlson Colorado 1915 - 1917
Republican
Gov. Elias Milton Ammons Colorado 1913 - 1915
Democratic
Gov. John Franklin Shafroth Colorado 1909 - 1913
Republican, Democratic
Gov. Henry Augustus Buchtel Colorado 1907 - 1909
Republican
Gov. Jesse Fuller McDonald Colorado 1905 - 1907
Republican
Gov. James Hamilton Peabody Colorado 1905 - 1905
1903 - 1905
Republican
Gov. Alva Adams Colorado 1905 - 1905
1897 - 1899
1887 - 1889
Democratic
Gov. James Bradley Orman Colorado 1901 - 1903
Democratic
Gov. Charles Spalding Thomas Colorado 1899 - 1901
Democratic
Gov. Albert Wills McIntire Colorado 1895 - 1897
Republican
Gov. Davis Hanson Waite Colorado 1893 - 1895
Populist
Gov. John Long Routt Colorado 1891 - 1893
1875 - 1879
Republican
Gov. Job Adams Cooper Colorado 1889 - 1891
Republican
Gov. Benjamin Harrison Eaton Colorado 1885 - 1887
Republican
Gov. James Benton Grant Colorado 1883 - 1885
Democratic
Gov. Frederick Walker Pitkin Colorado 1879 - 1883
Republican

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