US GOVERNMENT OFFICE

23-May-1610	10-Jun-1610	Sir Thomas Gates	(1st, acting, b. 1560, d. 1621)
10-Jun-1610	7-Jun-1618	Thomas West, Baron de la Warr	(b. 1577, d. 1618)
28-Mar-1611	19-May-1611	George Percy	(acting)
19-May-1611	Aug-1611	Thomas Dale	(1st time, acting, b. 1565, d. 1629)
Aug-1611	Mar-1612	Sir Thomas Gates	(2nd, acting)
Mar-1612	Apr-1616	Thomas Dale	(2nd time, acting)
Apr-1616	9-Apr-1617	George Yeardley	(1st, acting, b. 1587, d. 1627)
9-Apr-1617	9-Apr-1619	Samuel Argall	(acting, b. 1572, d. 1639)
9-Apr-1619	19-Apr-1619	Nathaniel Powell	(acting, d. 1622)
19-Apr-1619	18-Nov-1621	Sir George Yeardley	(2nd time)
18-Nov-1621	24-May-1626	Sir Francis Wyatt	(b. 1588, d. 1644)
Jun-1626	14-Nov-1627	Sir George Yeardley	(3rd time)
14-Nov-1627	5-Mar-1628	Francis West	(b. 1586, d. 1634)
5-Mar-1628	Mar-1630	John Pott	(d. 1642)
Mar-1630	7-May-1635	Sir John Harvey	(1st time, acting, d. 1646)
7-May-1635	18-Jan-1637	John West	(b. 1590, d. 1659)
18-Jan-1637	Nov-1639	Sir John Harvey	(2nd time)
Nov-1639	Feb-1642	Sir Francis Wyatt	(2nd time)
Feb-1642	30-Apr-1652	Sir William Berkeley	(1st time, b. 1608, d. 1677)
Jun-1644	7-Jun-1645	Richard Kemp	(acting for Berkeley, b. 1600, d. 1649)
30-Apr-1652	13-Mar-1655	Richard Bennett	(b. 1609, d. 1675)
13-Mar-1655	Dec-1656	Edward Digges	(b. 1620, d. 1675)
Dec-1656	Jan-1660	Samuel Mathews	(b. 1600, d. 1660)
23-Mar-1660	27-Apr-1677	Sir William Berkeley	(2nd time)
30-Apr-1661	Nov-1662	Francis Moryson	(acting, b. 1628, d. 1681)
27-Apr-1677	17-Dec-1678	Herbert Jeffreys	(acting, d. 1678)
20-Jul-1677	Aug-1683	Thomas Culpeper, Baron Culpeper	(b. 1635, d. 1689)
30-Dec-1678	10-May-1680	Sir Henry Chicheley	(1st, acting, b. 1615, d. 1683)
11-Aug-1680	Dec-1682	Sir Henry Chicheley	(2nd, acting)
22-May-1683	15-Apr-1684	Nicholas Spencer	(acting, d. 1689)
28-Sep-1683	1-Mar-1692	Francis Howard	(b. 1643, d. 1694)
Jun-1684	Sep-1684	Nathaniel Bacon	(1st time, acting, b. 1619, d. 1692)
Jul-1687	Sep-1687	Nathaniel Bacon	(2nd time, acting)
Feb-1689	3-Jun-1690	Nathaniel Bacon	(3rd time, acting)
3-Jun-1690	20-Sep-1692	Francis Nicholson	(1st, acting, b. 1660, d. 1728)
20-Sep-1692	9-Dec-1698	Edmund Andros	(b. 1637, d. 1714)
Sep-1698	Oct-1698	Ralph Wormeley	(acting, b. 1650, d. 1701)
9-Dec-1698	15-Aug-1705	Francis Nicholson	(2nd time)
Sep-1700	24-Oct-1700	William Byrd	(1st time, acting, b. 1652, d. 1704)
Apr-1703	Jun-1703	William Byrd	(2nd time, acting)
Aug-1704	Sep-1704	William Byrd	(3rd time, acting)
1704	29-Jul-1737	George Hamilton Douglas	(d. 1737)
15-Aug-1705	23-Aug-1706	Edward Nott	(acting, b. 1634, d. 1706)
27-Aug-1706	23-Jun-1710	Edmund Jennings	(acting, b. 1659, d. 1727)
23-Jun-1710	8-Sep-1722	Alexander Spotswood	(acting, b. 1676, d. 1740)
8-Sep-1722	11-Jul-1726	Hugh Drysdale	(acting, d. 1726)
11-Jul-1726	8-Sep-1727	Robert Carter	(acting, b. 1663, d. 1732)
8-Sep-1727	20-Jun-1749	Sir William Gooch	(acting, b. 1681, d. 1751)
6-Sep-1737	22-Dec-1754	William Anne Keppel	(b. 1702, d. 1754)
20-Jun-1749	5-Sep-1749	John Robinson	(acting, b. 1683, d. 1749)
5-Sep-1749	14-Nov-1750	Thomas Lee	(acting, b. 1690, d. 1750)
14-Nov-1750	20-Nov-1751	Lewis Burwell	(acting, b. 1710, d. 1752)
20-Nov-1751	Jan-1758	Robert Dinwiddie	(acting, b. 1673, d. 1770)
Jul-1756	1763	John Campbell, Earl of Loudoun	(b. 1705, d. 1782)
Jan-1758	7-Jun-1758	John Blair	(acting, 1st time, b. 1687, d. 1771)
7-Jun-1758	7-Mar-1768	Francis Fauquier	(acting, b. 1704, d. 1768)
1763	28-Oct-1768	Jeffrey Amherst	(b. 1717, d. 1797)
7-Mar-1768	28-Oct-1768	John Blair	(2nd time, acting)
28-Oct-1768	15-Oct-1770	Norborne Berkeley,	(b. 1718, d. 1770)
15-Oct-1770	25-Sep-1771	William Nelson	(acting, b. 1711, d. 1772)
25-Sep-1771	29-Jun-1776	John Murray, Earl of Dunmore	(b. 1732, d. 1809)
5-Jul-1776	1-Jun-1779	Patrick Henry	(1st time, b. 1736, d. 1799)
1-Jun-1779	3-Jun-1781	Thomas Jefferson	(b. 1743, d. 1826)
3-Jun-1781	12-Jun-1781	William Fleming	(acting, b. 1736, d. 1824)
12-Jun-1781	22-Nov-1781	Thomas Nelson	(b. 1738, d. 1789)
22-Nov-1781	30-Nov-1781	David Jameson	(acting)
1-Dec-1781	29-Nov-1784	Benjamin Harrison	(b. 1726, d. 1791)
30-Nov-1784	30-Nov-1786	Patrick Henry	(2nd time)
1-Dec-1786	30-Nov-1788	Edmund Randolph	(b. 1753, d. 1813)
1-Dec-1788	1-Dec-1791	Beverley Randolph	(b. 1754, d. 1797)
1-Dec-1791	1-Dec-1794	Henry Lee	(b. 1756, d. 1818)
1-Dec-1794	1-Dec-1796	Robert Brooke	(b. 1751, d. 1799)
1-Dec-1796	1-Dec-1799	James Wood	(b. 1747, d. 1813, Democrat-Republican)
7-Dec-1799	11-Dec-1799	Hardin Burnley	(acting)
11-Dec-1799	19-Dec-1799	John Pendleton	(acting)
Dec-1799	1-Dec-1802	James Monroe	(1st time, b. 1758, d. 1831, Democrat-Republican)
1-Dec-1802	1-Dec-1805	John Page	(b. 1744, d. 1808, Democrat-Republican)
7-Dec-1805	1-Dec-1808	William H. Cabell	(b. 1772, d. 1853, Democrat-Republican)
1-Dec-1808	Jan-1811	John Tyler	(b. 1747, d. 1813, Democrat-Republican)
15-Jan-1811	19-Jan-1811	George W. Smith	(1st time, b. 1762, d. 1811, Democrat-Republican)
19-Jan-1811	3-Apr-1811	James Monroe	(2nd time, Democrat-Republican)
3-Apr-1811	26-Dec-1811	George W. Smith	(2nd time, acting, Democrat-Republican)
27-Dec-1811	3-Jan-1812	Peyton Randolph	(acting, b. 1779, d. 1828, Democrat-Republican)
3-Jan-1812	1-Dec-1814	James Barbour	(b. 1775, d. 1842, A-D)
1-Dec-1814	1-Dec-1816	Wilson C. Nicholas	(b. 1761, d. 1820, Democrat-Republican)
1-Dec-1816	1-Dec-1819	James P. Preston	(b. 1774, d. 1853, Democrat-Republican)
1-Dec-1819	1-Dec-1822	Thomas M. Randolph	(b. 1768, d. 1828, Democrat-Republican)
1-Dec-1822	Dec-1825	James Pleasants, Jr.	(b. 1769, d. 1836, Democrat-Republican)
10-Dec-1825	4-Mar-1827	John Tyler	(b. 1790, d. 1862, Democrat)
4-Mar-1827	4-Mar-1830	William B. Giles	(b. 1762, d. 1830, Democrat)
4-Mar-1830	31-Mar-1834	John Floyd	(b. 1783, d. 1837, Democrat)
31-Mar-1834	30-Apr-1836	Littleton Waller Tazewell	(b. 1774, d. 1860, Democrat)
30-Apr-1836	31-Mar-1837	Wyndham Robertson	(b. 1803, d. 1888, Whig)
31-Mar-1837	31-Mar-1840	David Campbell	(b. 1779, d. 1859, Whig)
31-Mar-1840	20-Mar-1841	Thomas W. Gilmer	(b. 1802, d. 1844, Whig)
20-Mar-1841	31-Mar-1841	John M. Patton	(acting, b. 1797, d. 1858, Whig)
31-Mar-1841	31-Mar-1842	John Rutherford	(acting, b. 1792, d. 1866, Whig)
31-Mar-1842	1-Jan-1843	John M. Gregory	(acting, b. 1804, d. 1884, Whig)
1-Jan-1843	1-Jan-1846	James McDowell	(b. 1796, d. 1851, Whig)
1-Jan-1846	1-Jan-1849	William Smith	(1st time, b. 1797, d. 1887, Democrat)
1-Jan-1849	16-Jan-1852	John B. Floyd	(b. 1806, d. 1863, Democrat)
16-Jan-1852	31-Dec-1855	Joseph Johnson	(b. 1785, d. 1877, Democrat)
1-Jan-1856	31-Dec-1859	Henry A. Wise	(b. 1806, d. 1876, Democrat)
1-Jan-1860	31-Dec-1863	John Letcher	(b. 1813, d. 1884, Democrat)
1-Jan-1864	Apr-1865	William Smith	(2nd time, Democrat)
Apr-1865	4-Apr-1868	Francis Harrison Pierpont	(b. 1814, d. 1899, Republican)
4-Apr-1868	21-Sep-1869	Henry H. Wells	(b. 1823, d. 1890, Republican)
21-Sep-1869	1-Jan-1874	Gilbert C. Walker	(b. 1833, d. 1885, Republican)
1-Jan-1874	1-Jan-1878	James L. Kemper	(b. 1823, d. 1895, Con)
1-Jan-1878	1-Jan-1882	Frederick W.M. Holliday	(b. 1828, d. 1899, DPP)
1-Jan-1882	1-Jan-1886	William E. Cameron	(b. 1842, d. 1927, Rdj)
1-Jan-1886	1-Jan-1890	Fitzhugh Lee	(b. 1835, d. 1905, Democrat)
1-Jan-1890	1-Jan-1894	Philip W. McKinney	(b. 1832, d. 1899, Democrat)
1-Jan-1894	1-Jan-1898	Charles T. O'Ferrall	(b. 1840, d. 1905, Democrat)
1-Jan-1898	1-Jan-1902	J. Hoge Tyler	(b. 1846, d. 1925, Democrat)
1-Jan-1902	1-Feb-1906	Andrew J. Montague	(b. 1862, d. 1937, Democrat)
1-Feb-1906	10-Feb-1910	Claude A. Swanson	(b. 1862, d. 1939, Democrat)
10-Feb-1910	1-Feb-1914	William H. Mann	(b. 1843, d. 1927, Democrat)
1-Feb-1914	1-Feb-1918	Henry C. Stuart	(b. 1855, d. 1933, Democrat)
1-Feb-1918	1-Feb-1922	Westmoreland Davis	(b. 1859, d. 1942, Democrat)
1-Feb-1922	1-Feb-1926	E. Lee Trinkle	(b. 1876, d. 1939, Democrat)
1-Feb-1926	15-Jan-1930	Harry F. Byrd	(b. 1887, d. 1966, Democrat)
15-Jan-1930	17-Jan-1934	John G. Pollard	(b. 1871, d. 1937, Democrat)
17-Jan-1934	18-Jan-1938	George C. Peery	(b. 1873, d. 1952, Democrat)
18-Jan-1938	21-Jan-1942	James H. Price	(b. 1878, d. 1943, Democrat)
21-Jan-1942	16-Jan-1946	Colgate W. Darden, Jr.	(b. 1897, d. 1981, Democrat)
16-Jan-1946	18-Jan-1950	Bill Tuck	(b. 1896, d. 1983, Democrat)
18-Jan-1950	20-Jan-1954	John S. Battle	(b. 1890, d. 1972, Democrat)
20-Jan-1954	11-Jan-1958	Thomas B. Stanley	(b. 1890, d. 1970, Democrat)
11-Jan-1958	13-Jan-1962	J. Lindsay Almond, Jr.	(b. 1898, d. 1986, Democrat)
13-Jan-1962	15-Jan-1966	Albertis S. Harrison, Jr.	(b. 1907, d. 1995, Democrat)
15-Jan-1966	17-Jan-1970	Mills E. Godwin, Jr.	(1st time, b. 1914, d. 1999, Democrat)
17-Jan-1970	12-Jan-1974	A. Linwood Holton, Jr.	(b. 1923, Republican)
12-Jan-1974	14-Jan-1978	Mills E. Godwin, Jr.	(2nd time, Republican)
14-Jan-1978	16-Jan-1982	John N. Dalton	(b. 1931, d. 1986, Republican)
16-Jan-1982	18-Jan-1986	Chuck Robb	(b. 1939, Democrat)
18-Jan-1986	14-Jan-1990	Gerald L. Baliles	(b. 1940, Democrat)
14-Jan-1990	15-Jan-1994	L. Douglas Wilder	(b. 1931, Democrat)
15-Jan-1994	17-Jan-1998	George Allen	(b. 1952, Republican)
17-Jan-1998	12-Jan-2002	Jim Gilmore	(b. 1949, Republican)
12-Jan-2002	14-Jan-2006	Mark Warner	(b. 1954, Democrat)
14-Jan-2006	16-Jan-2010	Tim Kaine	(b. 1958, Democrat)
16-Jan-2010	11-Jan-2014	Bob McDonnell	(b. 1954, Republican)
11-Jan-2014	--	Terry McAuliffe	(b. 1957, Democrat)

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