Colors at right represent party affiliation and are keyed to the maps of the political party systems.
1789-1836
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Dates |
Name |
Party |
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1789-1792 |
Alexander Martin |
(Anti-Federalist) |
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1792-1795 |
Richard Dobbs Spaight |
Federalist |
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1795-1798 |
Samuel Ashe |
(Anti-Federalist) |
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1798-1799 |
William Richardson Davie |
Federalist |
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1799-1802 |
Benjamin Williams |
Federalist |
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1802-1805 |
James Turner |
Democratic-Republican |
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1805-1807 |
Nathaniel Alexander |
Democratic-Republican |
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1807-1808 |
Benjamin Williams |
Federalist |
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1808-1810 |
David Stone |
Democratic-Republican |
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1810-1811 |
Benjamin Smith |
Democratic-Republican |
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1811-1814 |
William Hawkins |
Democratic-Republican |
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1814-1817 |
William Miller |
Democratic-Republican |
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1817-1820 |
John Branch |
Democratic-Republican |
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1820-1821 |
Jesse Franklin |
Democratic-Republican |
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1821-1824 |
Gabriel Holmes |
Democratic-Republican |
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1824-1827 |
Hutchins Gordon Burton |
(none) |
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1827-1828 |
James Iredell, Jr. |
Democratic-Republican |
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1828-1830 |
John Owen |
Democratic |
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1830-1832 |
Montfort Stokes |
Democratic |
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1832-1835 |
David Lowry Swain |
National Republican |
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1835-1836 |
Richard Dobbs Spaight, Jr. |
Democratic |
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1877-1901
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Source: National Governor's Association |
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Dates |
Name |
Party |
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1877-1879 |
Zebulon Baird Vance |
Democratic |
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1879-1885 |
Thomas Jordan Jarvis |
Democratic |
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1885-1889 |
Alfred Moore Scales |
Democratic |
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1889-1891 |
Daniel Gould Fowle |
Democratic |
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1891-1893 |
Thomas Michael Holt |
Democratic |
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1893-1898 |
Elias Carr |
Democratic |
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1897-1901 |
Daniel Lindsay Russell |
Republican |
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1929-1945
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Source: National Governor's Association |
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Dates |
Name |
Party |
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1929-1933 |
Oliver Max Gardner |
Democratic |
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1933-1937 |
John C.B. Ehringhaus |
Democratic |
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1937-1941 |
Clyde R. Hoey |
Democratic |
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1941-1945 |
J. Melville Broughton |
Democratic |
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1945-2024
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Dates |
Name |
Party |
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1945-1949 |
Robert Gregg Cherry |
Democratic |
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1949-1953 |
William Kerr Scott |
Democratic |
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1953-1954 |
William Bradley Umstead |
Democratic |
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1954-1961 |
Luther Hartwell Hodges |
Democratic |
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1961-1965 |
James Terry Sanford |
Democratic |
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1965-1969 |
Dan Killian Moore |
Democratic |
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1969-1973 |
Robert Walter Scott |
Democratic |
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1973-1977 |
James Eubert Holshouser, Jr. |
Republican |
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1985-1993 |
James Grubbs Martin |
Republican |
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1977 - 1985 1993 - 2001 |
James Baxter Hunt |
Democratic |
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2001-2009 |
Michael Francis Easley |
Democratic |
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2009-2013 |
Beverly Eaves Perdue |
Democratic |
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2013-2016 |
Patrick Lloyd McCrory |
Republican |
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2016-2024 |
Roy Asberry Cooper III |
Democratic |
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2025- |
Joshua Harold Stein |
Democratic |
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