List of Governors of Maryland

The following is a list of all Governors of Maryland.

See also: Governor of Maryland

Colonial Period

Leader of the Protestant Associators

• John Coode, 1689 – 1690

Royal Governors

1. Nehemiah Blakiston, 1691 – 1692
2. Sir Lionel Copley, 1692 – 1693
3. Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1693 – 1694
4. Sir Edmund Andros, 1693
5. Colonel Nicholas Greenberry, 1693 -1 694
6. Sir Edmund Andros, 1694
7. Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1694
8. Sir Francis Nicholson, 1694 – 1698/99
9. Colonel Nathaniel Blakiston, 1698/99 – 1702
10. Thomas Tench, 1702 – 1704
11. Colonel John Seymour, 1704 – 1709
12. Major General Edward Lloyd, 1709 – 1714
13. John Hart, 1714 – 1715

Governors of Restored Proprietary Government

1. John Hart, 1715 – 1720
2. Thomas Brooke, 1720
3. Charles Calvert, 1721 – 1727
4. Benedict Leonard Calvert, 1727 – 1731
5. Samuel Ogle, 1731 – 1732
6. Charles Calvert, 1732 – 1733
7. Samuel Ogle, 1733 – 1742
8. Thomas Bladen, 1742 – 1746/47
9. Samuel Ogle, 1746/47 – 1752
10. Benjamin Tasker, 1752 – 1753
11. Horatio Sharpe, 1753 – 1769
12. Robert Eden, 1769 – 1776

Governors under Statehood

Governors Elected by the Legislature under the Maryland Constitution of 1776

1. Thomas Johnson 1777-1779
2. Thomas Sim Lee 1779-1782
3. William Paca 1782-1785
4. William Smallwood 1785-1788
5. John Eager Howard 1788-1791
6. George Plater 1791-1792
7. James Brice 1792-1792
8. Thomas Sim Lee 1792-1794
9. John Hoskins Stone 1794-1797
10. John Henry 1797-1798
11. Benjamin Ogle 1798-1801
12. John Francis Mercer 1801-1803
13. Robert Bowie 1803-1806
14. Robert Wright 1806-1809
15. James Butcher 1809-1809
16. Edward Lloyd 1809-1811
17. Robert Bowie 1811-1812
18. Levin Winder 1812-1816
19. Charles Carnan Ridgely 1816-1819
20. Charles Goldsborough 1819
21. Samuel Sprigg 1819-1822
22. Samuel Stevens, Jr. 1822-1826
23. Joseph Kent 1826-1829
24. Daniel Martin 1829-1830
25. Thomas King Carroll 1830-1831
26. Daniel Martin 1831-1831
27. George Howard 1831-1833
28. James Thomas 1833-1836
29. Thomas W. Veazey 1836-1839

Governors Elected by the People under the Constitutional Amendments of 1838

Governors Elected by the People under the Maryland Constitution of 1851

Governor Elected by the People under the Maryland Constitution of 1864

Governors Elected by the People under the Maryland Constitution of 1867

1. Lee served as acting governor from 1977–1979 following the resignation of Mandel in 1977 and the retraction of said resignation in 1979.