List of colonial governors of Virginia
This is a list of colonial governors of Virginia. Some of these governors never visited the New World and governed through deputies resident in the colony.
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Virginia Company of London Governors (1607–1624)
- Edward Maria Wingfield (1607)
- John Ratcliffe (1608)
- Matthew Scrivener (1608)
- John Smith (1608–1609)
- George Percy (1609–1610)
- Thomas Gates (1610)
- Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr (1610–1611)
- George Percy (1611)
- Thomas Dale (1611, 1614–1616)
- Thomas Gates (1611–1614)
- George Yeardley 1616–1617, 1619–1621)
- Samuel Argall (1617–1619)
- Francis Wyatt (1621–1624)
Crown Governors (1624–1652)
- Francis Wyatt (1624–1626, 1639–1642)
- George Yeardley (1626–1627)
- Francis West (1627–1629)
- John Pott (1629–1630)
- John Harvey (1630–1635, 1637–1639)
- John West (1635–1637)
- William Berkeley (1642–1652)
- Richard Kemp (1644–1645)
Commonwealth of England Governors (1652–1660)
- Richard Bennett (1652–1655)
- Edward Digges (1655–1656)
- Samuel Mathews (1656–1660)
- William Berkeley (1660)
Crown Governors (1660–1775)
- William Berkeley (1669–1677)
- Thomas Culpeper, 2nd Baron Culpeper of Thoresway (1677–1683)
- Francis Howard, 5th Baron Howard of Effingham (1683–1692)
- Edmund Andros (1692–1698)
- Francis Nicholson (1698–1705)
- Edward Nott (1705–1706)
- Edmund Jenings (1706–1708)
- Robert Hunter (1707–1709)
- George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney (1710–1737, absentee)
- Lieutenant Governor: Alexander Spotswood (1710–1722)
- Willem Anne van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle (1737–1754)
- Lieutenant Governor: Robert Dinwiddie (1751-January 1758)
- John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun, (1756–1759)
- Lieutenant Governor: Robert Dinwiddie (1751 to January 1758)
- Jeffery Amherst (1759–1768)
- John Blair (1768)
- Norborne Berkeley, Baron de Botetourt (1768–1770)
- William Nelson (1770–1771)
- John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (1771-June 1775)
See also
Categories: Lists of office-holders | Governors of Virginia