This is a list of the Governors of New York. The Governor of New York is the highest executive officer of the state, was originally chosen for a term of 2 years. In 1877 it was extended to 3 years, in 1895 reduced back to 2 years, and in 1938 it was extended to the current 4 year term.

#	Name	Party	Term
1	George Clinton (1739-1812)	Democratic-Republican	1777–1795
2	John Jay (1745-1829)	Federalist	1795–1801
3	George Clinton (1739-1812)	Democratic-Republican	1801–1804
4	Morgan Lewis	Democratic-Republican	1804–1807
5	Daniel D. Tompkins (1774-1825)	Democratic-Republican	1807–1817
6	John Tayler	Democratic-Republican	1817
7	De Witt Clinton (1769-1828)	Democratic-Republican	1817–1822
8	Joseph C. Yates	Democratic-Republican	1823–1824
9	De Witt Clinton (1769-1828)	Clinton Republican	1825–1828
10	Nathaniel Pitcher	Democratic-Republican	1828
11	Martin Van Buren (1782-1862)	Jacksonian Democratic	1829
12	Enos T. Throop	Jacksonian Democratic	1829–1832
13	William L. Marcy	Democratic	1833–1838
14	William H. Seward (1801-1872)	Whig	1839–1842
15	William C. Bouck	Democratic	1843–1844
16	Silas Wright	Democratic	1845–1846
17	John Young (1802-1852)	Whig	1847–1848
18	Hamilton Fish (1808-1893)	Whig	1849–1850
19	Washington Hunt	Whig Anti-Rent	1851–1852
20	Horatio Seymour (1810-1886)	Democratic	1853–1854
21	Myron H. Clark	Fusion Republican	1855–1856
22	John A. King	Republican	1857–1858
23	Edwin D. Morgan	Republican	1859–1862
24	Horatio Seymour (1810-1886)	Democratic	1863–1864
25	Reuben E. Fenton	Union	1865–1868
26	John T. Hoffman	Democratic	1869–1872
27	John Adams Dix	Republican	1873–1874
28	Samuel J. Tilden (1814-1886)	Democratic	1875–1876
29	Lucius Robinson	Democratic	1877–1879
30	Alonzo B. Cornell	Republican	1880–1882
31	Grover Cleveland	Democratic	1883–1884
32	David B. Hill	Democratic	1885–1891
33	Roswell P. Flower	Democratic	1892–1894
34	Levi P. Morton (1824-1920)	Republican	1895–1896
35	Frank S. Black	Republican	1897–1898
36	Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)	Republican	1899–1900
37	Benjamin B. Odell, Jr. (1854-1926)	Republican	1901–1904
38	Frank W. Higgins (1856-1907)	Republican	1905–1906
39	Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948)	Republican	1907–1910
40	Horace White	Republican	1910
41	John Alden Dix (1860-1928)	Democratic	1911–1912
42	William Sulzer (1863-1941)	Democratic	1913
43	Martin H. Glynn (1871-1924)	Democratic	1913–1914
44	Charles S. Whitman (1868-1947)	Republican	1915–1918
45	Alfred E. Smith (1873-1944)	Democratic	1919–1920
46	Nathan L. Miller (1868-1953)	Republican	1921–1922
47	Alfred E. Smith (1873-1944)	Democratic	1923–1928
48	Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)	Democratic	1929–1932
49	Herbert H. Lehman (1878-1963)	Democratic	1933–1942
50	Charles Poletti (1903-2002)	Democratic	1942
51	Thomas E. Dewey (1902-1971)	Republican	1943–1954
52	W. Averell Harriman (1891-1986)	Democratic	1955–1958
53	Nelson A. Rockefeller (1908-1979)	Republican	1959–1973
54	Malcolm Wilson (1914-2000)	Republican	1973–1975
55	Hugh L. Carey (1919—)	Democratic	1975–1983
56	Mario M. Cuomo (1932—)	Democratic	1983–1995
57	George E. Pataki (1945—)	Republican	1995—

See also

• Election Results, New York governor