List of Connecticut Governors

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

Governors of the Colony of Hartford, 1639-1662

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 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