List of Governors of New Jersey

This is a list of governors of New Jersey.

Governors under the Proprietors (1665–1674)

• Philip Carteret 1665–1672
• John Berry 1672–1673
• Anthony Colve 1673–1674

Governors of East Jersey and their Deputies (1674–1702)

• Philip Carteret 1674–1682
• Robert Barclay 1682–1688
• Thomas Rudyard, Deputy 1682–1683
• Gawen Lawrie, Deputy 1683–1686
• Lord Neill Campbell, Deputy 1686–1687
• Andrew Hamilton, Deputy 1687–1690
• Edmund Andros 1688–1689
• Andrew Hamilton 1692–1697
• Jeremiah Basse 1698–1699
• Andrew Hamilton 1699–1702

Governors of West Jersey and their Deputies (1680–1702)

• Edward Byllynge 1680–1687
• Samuel Jennings, Deputy 1681–1684
• Thomas Olive, Deputy 1684–1685
• John Skene, Deputy 1685–1687
• Daniel Coxe 1687–1688
• Edmund Andros 1688–1689
• Edward Hunloke, Deputy 1690
• Andrew Hamilton 1692–1697
• Jeremiah Basse 1697–1699
• Andrew Hamilton 1699–1702 (again)

Governors under Royal Government (1703–1776)

Governors of New York and New Jersey (1703–1738)

• Edward Hyde, Lord Cornbury 1703–8
• John, Lord Lovelace 1708–9
• Richard Ingoldesby, Lieutenant and Governor 1709–10
• Robert Hunter 1710–20
• William Burnet 1720–28
• John Montgomerie 1728–31
• Lewis Morris, President Of Council 1731–1732
• William Cosby 1732–36
• John Anderson, President Of Council 1736
• John Hamilton, President Of Council 1736–1738

Governors of New Jersey only (1738–1776)

• Lewis Morris 1738–46
• John Hamilton, President Of Council 1746–1747
• John Reading, President Of Council 1747
• Jonathan Belcher 1747–57
• Thomas Pownall, Lieut. Governor 1757
• John Reading, President Of Council 1757–1758
• Francis Bernard 1758–60
• Thomas Boone 1760–61
• Josiah Hardy 1761–63
• William Franklin 1763–76

Governors under representative government (1776-present)

Governors under the 1776 N.J. Constitution (1776–1844)

• William Livingston 1776–90
• Elisha Lawrence 1790 (?)
• William Paterson 1790–93
• Thomas Henderson (Politician) 1793 (?)
• Richard Howell 1793–1801
• Joseph Bloomfield 1801–02
• John Lambert, Acting Governor 1802–03
• Joseph Bloomfield 1803–12
• Aaron Ogden 1812–13
• William S. Pennington 1813–15
• Mahlon Dickerson 1815–17
• Isaac Halstead Williamson 1817–29
• Peter Dumont Vroom 1829–32
• Samuel Lewis Southard 1832–33
• Elias P. Seeley 1833
• Peter Dumont Vroom 1833–36
• Philemon Dickerson1836–37
• William Pennington 1837–43
• Daniel Haines 1843–45

Governors under the 1844 N.J. Constitution (1844–1946)

1 Resigned as Governor to become Attorney General of the United States

2 Resigned as Governor to become President of the United States

3 Resigned as Governor to become a United States Senator

Governors under the 1947 N.J. Constitution (1947-present)

1 Resigned as Governor to become Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

2 Was one of three New Jersey State Senate Presidents who held the position of Acting Governor during this time.

3 As the New Jersey Attorney General, assumed the office of Governor for 90 minutes while a new Senate President was being sworn in for the new session.

4 Resigned as Governor in August 2004, effective November 15, 2004, after admitting that he had an affair with a man while married to his wife Dina Matos.

5 Became Acting Governor on November 15, 2004, following resignation of Gov. McGreevey. He will serve until a new Governor takes office in January 2006, following a regular election in November 2005.

• State of New Jersey website – List of Governors