Former Governors - New Jersey

Governor's Name State Time in Office Party
Gov. Christopher Christie New Jersey 2010 - 2018
Republican
Gov. Jon Corzine New Jersey 2006 - 2010
Democratic
Gov. James E. McGreevey New Jersey 2002 - 2004
Democratic
Gov. Richard J. Codey New Jersey 2002 - 2002
Democratic
Gov. John O. Bennett New Jersey 2002 - 2002
Republican
Gov. Donald T. DiFrancesco New Jersey 2001 - 2002
Republican
Gov. Christine Todd Whitman New Jersey 1994 - 2001
Republican
Gov. Jim Florio New Jersey 1990 - 1994
Democratic
Gov. Thomas H. Kean New Jersey 1982 - 1990
Republican
Gov. Brendan Thomas Byrne New Jersey 1974 - 1982
Democratic
Gov. William T. Cahill New Jersey 1970 - 1974
Republican
Gov. Richard Joseph Hughes New Jersey 1962 - 1970
Democratic
Gov. Robert Baumie Meyner New Jersey 1954 - 1962
Democratic
Gov. Alfred Eastlack Driscoll New Jersey 1947 - 1954
Republican
Gov. Walter Evans Edge New Jersey 1944 - 1947
1917 - 1919
Republican
Gov. Charles Edison New Jersey 1941 - 1944
Democratic
Gov. Arthur Harry Moore New Jersey 1938 - 1941
1932 - 1935
1926 - 1929
Democratic
Gov. Harold Giles Hoffman New Jersey 1935 - 1938
Republican
Gov. Horace Griggs Prall New Jersey 1935 - 1935
Republican
Gov. Morgan Foster Larson New Jersey 1929 - 1932
Republican
Gov. George Sebastian Silzer New Jersey 1923 - 1926
Democratic
Gov. Edward Irving Edwards New Jersey 1920 - 1923
Democratic
Gov. Clarence Edwards Case New Jersey 1920 - 1920
Republican
Gov. William Nelson Runyon New Jersey 1919 - 1920
Republican
Gov. James Fairman Fielder New Jersey 1914 - 1917
1913 - 1913
Democratic
Gov. Leon R. Taylor New Jersey 1913 - 1914
Democratic
Gov. Thomas Woodrow Wilson New Jersey 1911 - 1913
Democratic
Gov. John Franklin Fort New Jersey 1908 - 1911
Republican
Gov. Edward Casper Stokes New Jersey 1905 - 1908
Republican
Gov. Franklin Murphy New Jersey 1902 - 1905
Republican
Gov. Foster McGowan Voorhees New Jersey 1899 - 1902
1898 - 1898
Republican
Gov. David Ogden Watkins New Jersey 1898 - 1899
Republican
Gov. John William Griggs New Jersey 1896 - 1898
Republican
Gov. George Theodore Werts New Jersey 1893 - 1896
Democratic
Gov. Leon Abbett New Jersey 1890 - 1893
1884 - 1887
Democratic
Gov. Robert Stockton Green New Jersey 1887 - 1890
Democratic
Gov. George Craig Ludlow New Jersey 1881 - 1884
Democratic
Gov. George Brinton McClellan New Jersey 1878 - 1881
Democratic
Gov. Joseph Dorsett Bedle New Jersey 1875 - 1878
Democratic
Gov. Joel Parker New Jersey 1872 - 1875
1863 - 1866
Democratic
Gov. Theodore Fitz Randolph New Jersey 1869 - 1872
Democratic
Gov. Marcus Lawrence Ward New Jersey 1866 - 1869
Republican
Gov. Charles Smith Olden New Jersey 1860 - 1863
Republican
Gov. William Augustus Newell New Jersey 1857 - 1860
Republican
Gov. Rodman M. Price New Jersey 1854 - 1857
Democratic
Gov. George Franklin Fort New Jersey 1851 - 1854
Democratic
Gov. Charles Creighton Stratton New Jersey 1845 - 1848
Whig
Gov. Daniel Haines New Jersey 1843 - 1845
Democratic
Gov. Philemon Dickerson New Jersey 1836 - 1837
Democratic
Gov. Peter Dumont Vroom New Jersey 1833 - 1836
1829 - 1832
Jacksonian, Democrat
Gov. Elias Pettit Seeley New Jersey 1833 - 1833
Whig
Gov. Samuel Lewis Southard New Jersey 1832 - 1833
Whig
Gov. Issac Halsted Williamson New Jersey 1817 - 1829
Democratic
Gov. Mahlon Dickerson New Jersey 1815 - 1817
Democratic-Republican
Gov. William Sanford Pennington New Jersey 1813 - 1815
Republican
Gov. Aaron Ogden New Jersey 1812 - 1813
Federalist
Gov. Joseph Bloomfield New Jersey 1803 - 1812
1801 - 1802
Jeffersonian-Republican
Gov. John Lambert New Jersey 1802 - 1803
Democratic-Republican
Gov. Richard Howell New Jersey 1793 - 1801
Federalist
Gov. Thomas Henderson New Jersey 1793 - 1793
Federalist
Gov. William Paterson New Jersey 1790 - 1793
Federalist
Gov. William Livingston New Jersey 1776 - 1790
Federalist

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