US GOVERNMENT OFFICE

1623	1624	Adriaen Jorisszen Tienpoint	(Director)
1624	1625	Cornelis Jacobzen Mey	(Director)
1625	1626	Willem Verhulst	(Director)
Sep-1626	1632	Peter Minuit	(Director-General, b. 1580, d. 1638)
Mar-1632	1633	Bastiaen Jansz Krol	(Director-General, b. 1595, d. 1674)
Apr-1633	1637	Wouter van Twiller	(Director-General, b. 1580, d. 1656)
28-Mar-1638	1647	Willem Kieft	(Director-General, b. 1597, d. 1697)
11-May-1647	8-Sep-1664	Petrus Stuyvesant	(Director-General, b. 1592, d. 1672)
8-Sep-1664	17-Aug-1668	Richard Nicolls	(b. 1624, d. 1672)
17-Aug-1668	Aug-1673	Francis Lovelace	(b. 1621?, d. 1675)
12-Aug-1673	19-Sep-1673	Cornelis Evertsen	(b. 1642, d. 1706)
19-Sep-1673	10-Nov-1674	Anthonie Colve
10-Nov-1674	13-Jan-1681	Edmund Andros	(1st time, b. 1637, d. 1714)
13-Jan-1681	27-Aug-1683	Anthony Brockholls	(acting)
27-Aug-1683	11-Aug-1688	Thomas Dongan	(b. 1634, d. 1715)
11-Aug-1688	9-Oct-1688	Edmund Andros	(2nd time)
9-Oct-1688	29-Mar-1691	Francis Nicholson	(acting, b. 1655, d. 1728)
12-Jun-1689	30-Mar-1691	Jacob Leisler	(schism, b. 1640, d. 1691)
29-Mar-1691	26-Jul-1691	Henry Sloughter
26-Jul-1691	30-Aug-1692	Richard Ingoldsby	(1st time, acting, d. circa 1720)
30-Aug-1692	22-Apr-1698	Benjamin Fletcher	(d. 1703)
22-Apr-1698	5-May-1701	Richard Coote	(b. 1636, d. 1701)
19-May-1701	3-May-1702	John Nanfan	(acting, d. 1716)
3-May-1702	18-Dec-1708	Edward Hyde	(b. 1661, d. 1723)
18-Dec-1708	6-May-1709	John Lovelace	(d. 1709)
6-May-1709	9-May-1709	Peter Schuyler	(1st time, acting, b. 1657, d. 1724)
9-May-1709	10-Apr-1710	Richard Ingoldsby	(2nd time, acting)
10-Apr-1710	14-Jun-1710	Gerardus Beekman	(acting, d. circa 1728)
14-Jun-1710	21-Jul-1719	Robert Hunter	(d. 1734)
21-Jul-1719	17-Sep-1720	Peter Schuyler	(2nd time, acting)
17-Sep-1720	15-Apr-1728	William Burnet	(b. 1688, d. 1729)
15-Apr-1728	1-Jul-1731	John Montgomerie	(b. 16.., d. 1731)
1-Jul-1731	1-Aug-1732	Rip Van Dam	(acting, b. 1660, d. 1749)
1-Aug-1732	10-Mar-1736	William Cosby	(b. 1690, d. 1736)
10-Mar-1736	22-Sep-1743	George Clarke	(b. 1676, d. 1760)
22-Sep-1743	10-Oct-1753	George Clinton	(b. 1686, d. 1761)
10-Oct-1753	12-Oct-1753	Sir Danvers Osborn	(b. 1715, d. 1753)
12-Oct-1753	3-Sep-1755	James de Lancey	(1st time, acting, b. 1703, d. 1760)
3-Sep-1755	3-Jun-1757	Sir Charles Hardy	(b. 1716, d. 1780)
3-Jun-1757	30-Jul-1760	James de Lancey	(2nd time, acting)
4-Aug-1760	26-Oct-1761	Cadwallader Colden	(1st time, acting, b. 1688, d. 1776)
26-Oct-1761	28-Jun-1763	Robert Monckton	(b. 1726, d. 1782)
28-Jun-1763	13-Nov-1765	Cadwallader Colden	(2nd time, acting)
13-Nov-1765	12-Sep-1769	Sir Henry Moore	(b. 1715, d. 1769)
12-Sep-1769	19-Oct-1770	Cadwallader Colden	(3rd time, acting)
19-Oct-1770	7-Apr-1774	John Murray	(b. 1732, d. 1809)
7-Apr-1774	3-Mar-1780	William Tryon	(b. 1729, d. 1788)
3-Mar-1780	17-Apr-1783	James Robertson	(Military Governor, b. circa 1720, d. 1788)
17-Apr-1783	25-Nov-1783	Andrew Elliott	(Acting Military Governor, d. 1783)
10-Jul-1776	10-Aug-1776	Nathaniel Woodhull	(Chairman, b. 1722, d. 1776)
10-Aug-1776	26-Sep-1776	Abraham Yates	(Chairman, b. 1724, d. 1796)
26-Sep-1776	6-Mar-1777	Peter R. Livingston	(Chairman, b. 1737, d. 1794)
6-Mar-1777	9-Apr-1777	Abraham Ten Broeck	(Chairman, b. 1734, d. 1810)
9-Apr-1777	11-Apr-1777	William Smith	(acting, Chairman)
11-Apr-1777	18-Apr-1777	Pierre Van Cortland	(acting, Chairman, b. 1721, d. 1814)
18-Apr-1777	14-May-1777	Leonard Gansevoort	(Chairman, b. 1751, d. 1810)
14-May-1777	30-Jul-1777	Pierre Van Cortland	(Chairman)
30-Jul-1777	1-Jul-1795	George Clinton	(1st time, b. 1739, d. 1812)
1-Jul-1795	1-Jul-1801	John Jay	(b. 1745, d. 1829)
1-Jul-1801	1-Jul-1804	George Clinton	(2nd time, Democrat-Republican)
1-Jul-1804	1-Jul-1807	Morgan Lewis	(b. 1754, d. 1844, Democrat-Republican)
1-Jul-1807	24-Feb-1817	Daniel D. Tompkins	(b. 1774, d. 1825, Democrat-Republican)
24-Feb-1817	1-Jul-1817	John Tayler	(acting, b. 1742, d. 1829)
1-Jul-1817	1-Jan-1823	De Witt Clinton	(1st time, b. 1769, d. 1828, Democrat-Republican)
1-Jan-1823	1-Jan-1825	Joseph C. Yates	(b. 1768, d. 1837, Democrat-Republican)
1-Jan-1825	11-Feb-1828	De Witt Clinton	(2nd time, Democrat-Republican)
11-Feb-1828	1-Jan-1829	Nathaniel Pitcher	(acting, b. 1777, d. 1836, Democrat-Republican)
1-Jan-1829	12-Mar-1829	Martin Van Buren	(b. 1782, d. 1862, Democratic)
12-Mar-1829	1-Jan-1833	Enos T. Throop	(b. 1784, d. 1874, Democratic)
1-Jan-1833	1-Jan-1839	William L. Marcy	(b. 1786, d. 1857, Democratic)
1-Jan-1839	1-Jan-1843	William Henry Seward	(b. 1801, d. 1872, Whig)
1-Jan-1843	1-Jan-1845	William C. Bouck	(b. 1786, d. 1859, Democratic)
1-Jan-1845	1-Jan-1847	Silas Wright	(b. 1795, d. 1847, Democratic)
1-Jan-1847	1-Jan-1849	John Young	(b. 1802, d. 1852, Whig)
1-Jan-1849	1-Jan-1851	Hamilton Fish	(b. 1808, d. 1893, Whig)
1-Jan-1851	1-Jan-1853	Washington Hunt	(b. 1811, d. 1867, Whig)
1-Jan-1853	1-Jan-1855	Horatio Seymour	(1st time, b. 1810, d. 1886, Democratic)
1-Jan-1855	1-Jan-1857	Myron H. Clark	(b. 1806, d. 1892, Whig)
1-Jan-1857	1-Jan-1859	John A. King	(b. 1788, d. 1867, Republican)
1-Jan-1859	1-Jan-1863	Edwin D. Morgan	(b. 1811, d. 1883, Republican)
1-Jan-1863	1-Jan-1865	Horatio Seymour	(2nd time, Democratic)
1-Jan-1865	1-Jan-1869	Reuben E. Fenton	(b. 1819, d. 1885, Republican)
1-Jan-1869	1-Jan-1873	John T. Hoffman	(b. 1828, d. 1888, Democratic)
1-Jan-1873	1-Jan-1875	John Adams Dix	(b. 1860, d. 1928, Republican)
1-Jan-1875	1-Jan-1877	Samuel J. Tilden	(b. 1814, d. 1886, Democratic)
1-Jan-1877	1-Jan-1880	Lucius Robinson	(b. 1810, d. 1886, Democratic)
1-Jan-1880	1-Jan-1883	Alonzo B. Cornell	(b. 1832, d. 1904, Republican)
1-Jan-1883	6-Jan-1885	Grover Cleveland	(b. 1837, d. 1908, Democratic)
6-Jan-1885	1-Jan-1892	David B. Hill	(b. 1843, d. 1910, Democratic)
1-Jan-1892	1-Jan-1895	Roswell P. Flower	(b. 1835, d. 1899, Democratic)
1-Jan-1895	1-Jan-1897	Levi P. Morton	(b. 1824, d. 1920, Republican)
1-Jan-1897	1-Jan-1899	Frank S. Black	(b. 1853, d. 1913, Republican)
1-Jan-1899	1-Jan-1901	Theodore Roosevelt	(b. 1858, d. 1919, Republican)
1-Jan-1901	1-Jan-1905	Benjamin B. Odell, Jr.	(b. 1854, d. 1926, Republican)
1-Jan-1905	1-Jan-1907	Frank W. Higgins	(b. 1856, d. 1907, Republican)
1-Jan-1907	6-Oct-1910	Charles Evans Hughes	(b. 1862, d. 1948, Republican)
6-Oct-1910	1-Jan-1911	Horace White	(acting, b. 1865, d. 1943, Republican)
1-Jan-1911	1-Jan-1913	John Alden Dix	(b. 1860, d. 1928, Democratic)
1-Jan-1913	17-Oct-1913	William Sulzer	(b. 1863, d. 1941, Democratic)
17-Oct-1913	1-Jan-1915	Martin Glynn	(acting, b. 1871, d. 1924, Democratic)
1-Jan-1915	1-Jan-1919	Charles S. Whitman	(b. 1868, d. 1947, Republican)
1-Jan-1919	1-Jan-1921	Alfred E. Smith	(1st time, b. 1873, d. 1944, Democratic)
1-Jan-1921	1-Jan-1923	Nathan L. Miller	(b. 1868, d. 1953, Republican)
1-Jan-1923	1-Jan-1929	Alfred E. Smith	(2nd time, Democratic)
1-Jan-1929	1-Jan-1933	Franklin D. Roosevelt	(b. 1882, d. 1945, Democratic)
1-Jan-1933	3-Dec-1942	Herbert H. Lehman	(b. 1878, d. 1963, Democratic)
3-Dec-1942	1-Jan-1943	Charles Poletti	(acting, b. 1903, d. 2002, Democratic)
1-Jan-1943	1-Jan-1955	Thomas E. Dewey	(b. 1902, d. 1971, Republican)
1-Jan-1955	1-Jan-1959	W. Averell Harriman	(b. 1891, d. 1986, Democratic)
1-Jan-1959	18-Dec-1973	Nelson Rockefeller	(b. 1908, d. 1979, Republican)
18-Dec-1973	1-Jan-1975	Malcolm Wilson	(b. 1914, d. 2000, Republican)
1-Jan-1975	1-Jan-1983	Hugh L. Carey	(b. 1919, Democratic)
1-Jan-1983	1-Jan-1995	Mario Cuomo	(b. 1932, Democratic)
1-Jan-1995	1-Jan-2007	George Pataki	(b. 1945, Republican)
1-Jan-2007	17-Mar-2008	Eliot Spitzer	(b. 1959, Democratic)
17-Mar-2008	--	David A. Paterson	(b. 1954, Democratic)

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