List of Governors of Connecticut

The following is a list of Governors of the State of Connecticut, from the Colonial period through present day.

Table of contents

1 Governors of the Colony of Connecticut, 1639-1662 2 Governors of the Colony of New Haven, 1639-1665 3 Governors of the Colony of Connecticut, 1662-1776 4 Governors of the State of Connecticut, 1776-present

Governors of the Colony of Connecticut, 1639-1662

(The colony was initially formed from the towns of Hartford, Windsor and Wethersfield)

• John Haynes 1639-1640
• Edward Hopkins 1640-1641
• John Haynes 1641-1642
• George Wyllys 1642-1643
• John Haynes 1643-1644
• Edward Hopkins 1644-1645
• John Haynes 1645-1646
• Edward Hopkins 1646-1647
• John Haynes 1647-1648
• Edward Hopkins 1648-1649
• John Haynes 1649-1650
• Edward Hopkins 1650-1651
• John Haynes 1651-1652
• Edward Hopkins 1652-1653
• John Haynes 1653-1654
• Edward Hopkins 1654-1655
• Thomas Welles 1655-1656
• John Webster 1656-1657
• John Winthrop, Jr. 1657-1658
• Thomas Welles 1658-1659
• John Winthrop, Jr. 1659-1662

Governors of the Colony of New Haven, 1639-1665

• Theophilus Eaton 1639-1658
• Francis Newman 1658-1660
• William Leete 1661-1665 (when the Colony of Connecticut and the Colony of New Haven, merged by Royal Charter in 1662, became one government)

Governors of the Colony of Connecticut, 1662-1776

• John Winthrop, Jr. 1662-1676
• William Leete 1676-1683
• Robert Treat 1683-1687

part of the Dominion of New England 1687-1689

• Robert Treat 1689-1698
• Fitz-John Winthrop 1698-1707
• Gurdon Saltonstall 1707-1724
• Joseph Talcott 1724-1741
• Jonathan Law 1741-1750
• Roger Wolcott 1750-1754
• Thomas Fitch 1754-1766
• William Pitkin 1766-1769
• Jonathan Trumbull 1769-1776

Governors of the State of Connecticut, 1776-present

• Jonathan Trumbull 1776-1784
• Matthew Griswold 1784-1786
• Samuel Huntington (Federalist) 1786-1796
• Oliver Wolcott (Federalist) 1796-1797
• Jonathan Trumbull, Jr (Federalist) 1797-1809
• John Treadwell (Federalist) 1809-1811
• Roger Griswold (Federalist)1811-1812
• John Cotton Smith (Federalist) 1812-1817
• Oliver Wolcott, Jr (Toleration Party) 1817-1827
• Gideon Tomlinson (Republican/Democrat) 1827-1831
• John S. Peters (National Republican) 1831-1833
• Henry W. Edwards (Democrat) 1833-1834
• Samuel A. Foot (Whig) 1834-1835
• Henry W. Edwards (Democrat) 1835-1838
• William W. Ellsworth (Whig) 1838-1842
• Chauncey Fitch Cleveland (Democrat) 1842-1844
• Roger Sherman Baldwin (Whig) 1844-1846
• Isaac Toucey (Democrat) 1846-1847
• Clark Bissell (Whig) 1847-1849
• Joseph Trumbull (Whig) 1849-1850
• Thomas Hart Seymour (Democrat) 1850-1853
• Charles H. Pond (Democrat) 1853-1854
• Henry Dutton (Whig) 1854-1855
• William T. Minor (American Republican) 1855-57
• Alexander H. Holley (Republican) 1857-1858
• William A. Buckingham (Republican) 1858-1866
• Joseph R. Hawley (Republican) 1866-1867
• James E. English (Democrat) 1867-1869
• Marshall Jewell (Republican) 1869-1870
• James E. English (Democrat) 1870-1871
• Marshall Jewell (Republican) 1871-1873
• Charles R. Ingersoll (Democrat) 1873-1877
• Richard D. Hubbard (Democrat) 1877-1879
• Charles B. Andrews (Republican) 1879-1881
• Hobart B. Bigelow (Republican) 1881-1883
• Thomas M. Waller (Democrat) 1883-1885
• Henry B. Harrison (Republican) 1885-1887
• Phineas C. Lounsbury (Republican) 1887-1889
• Morgan G. Bulkeley (Republican) 1889-1893
• Luzon B. Morris (Democrat) 1893-1895
• O. Vincent Coffin (Republican) 1895-1897
• Lorrin A. Cooke (Republican) 1897-1899
• George E. Lounsbury (Republican) 1899-1901
• George P. McLean (Republican) 1901-1903
• Abiram Chamberlain (Republican) 1903-1905
• Henry Roberts (Republican) 1905-1907
• Rollin S. Woodruff (Republican) 1907-1909
• George L. Lilley (Republican) 1909
• Frank B. Weeks (Republican) 1909-1911
• Simeon E. Baldwin (Democrat) 1911-1915
• Marcus H. Holcomb (Republican) 1915-1921
• Everett J. Lake (Republican) 1921-1923
• Charles A. Templeton (Republican) 1923-1925
• Hiram Bingham (Republican) 1925
• John H. Trumbull (Republican) 1925-1931
• Wilbur L. Cross (Democrat) 1931-1939
• Raymond E. Baldwin (Republican) 1939-1941
• Robert A. Hurley (Democrat) 1941-1943
• Raymond E. Baldwin (Republican) 1943-1946
• Wilbert Snow (Democrat) 1946-1947
• James L. McConaughy (Republican) 1947-1948
• James C. Shannon (Republican) 1948-1949
• Chester Bowles (Democrat) 1949-1951
• John Davis Lodge (Republican) 1951-1955
• Abraham A. Ribicoff (Democrat) 1955-1961
• John N. Dempsey (Democrat) 1961-1971
• Thomas J. Meskill (Republican) 1971-1975
• Ella T. Grasso (Democrat) 1975-1980
• William A. O'Neill (Democrat) 1980-1991
• Lowell P. Weicker, Jr (Independent) 1991-1995
• John G. Rowland (Republican) 1995-present

See also: lists of incumbents