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COLORADO GOVERNORS SINCE 1861

The following is a list of the Governors of Colorado since 1861 and their Party affiliation. The list was compiled from various sources at the Colorado State Archives.

TERRITORIAL

GILPIN, WILLIAM               R              1861-1862

EVANS, JOHN                   R              1862-1865

CUMMINGS, ALEXANDER           R              1865-1867

HUNT, ALEXANDER C.            R              1867-1869

MC COOK, EDWARD C.            R              1869-1873

ELBERT, SAMUEL E.             R              1873-1874

MC COOK, EDWARD               R              1874-1875

ROUTT, JOHN L.                R              1875-1876

STATEHOOD 

ROUTT, JOHN L.                R              1876-1879 

PITKIN, FREDERICK W.          R              1879-1883

GRANT, JAMES B.               D              1883-1885

EATON, BENJAMIN H.            R              1885-1887

ADAMS, ALVA                   D              1887-1889

COOPER, JOB A.                R              1889-1891

ROUTT, JOHN L.                R              1891-1893

WAITE, DAVIS H.               P*             1893-1895

MC INTIRE, ALBERT W.          R              1895-1897

ADAMS, ALVA                   D              1897-1899

THOMAS, CHARLES S.            D              1899-1901

ORMAN, JAMES B.               D              1901-1903

PEABODY, JAMES H.             R              1903-1905

ADAMS, ALVA                   D                1905

PEABODY, JAMES H.             R                1905

MCDONALD, JESSE F.            R              1905-1907

BUCHTEL, HENRY A.             R              1907-1909

SHAFROTH, JOHN F.             D              1909-1913

AMMONS, ELIAS M.              D              1913-1915

CARLSON, GEORGE A.            R              1915-1917

GUNTER, JULIUS C.             D              1917-1919

SHOUP, OLIVER H.              R              1919-1923

SWEET, WILLIAM E.             D              1923-1925

MORLEY, CLARENCE J.           R              1925-1927

ADAMS, WILLIAM H.             D              1927-1933

JOHNSON, EDWIN C.             D              1933-1937

TALBOT, RAY H.                D                1937

AMMONS, TELLER                D              1937-1939

CARR, RALPH L.                R              1939-1943

VIVIAN, JOHN C.               R              1943-1947

KNOUS, WILLIAM L.             D              1947-1950

JOHNSON, WALTER W.            D              1950-1951

THORNTON, DANIEL I.J.         R              1951-1955

JOHNSON, EDWIN C.             D              1955-1957

MC NICHOLS, STEPHEN L.R.      D              1957-1963

LOVE, JOHN A.                 R              1963-1973

VANDERHOOF, JOHN D.           R              1973-1975

LAMM, RICHARD D.              D              1975-1987

ROMER, ROY R.                 D              1987-1999

OWENS, BILL                   R              1999-2007

RITTER, BILL                  D              2007 -

*P = Populist Party
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