NJ Governors' Timeline
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Timeline broken down by dates:
  1. Colonial Period:
    1665-1703 Proprietors; 1703-1776 Royal Government
    Philip Carteret East New Jersey 1665-82
    Edmund Andros East and West New Jersey 1674-81;
    1688-89
    Edward Byllynge West New Jersey 1680-87
    Robert Barclay East New Jersey 1682-90
    Daniel Coxe West New Jersey 1687-92
    Andrew Hamilton East and West New Jersey 1692-98, 1699-1703
    Jeremiah Basse East and West New Jersey 1698-99
    Edward Hyde,
    Lord Cornbury     		New York and New Jersey 1703-8
    John Lovelace New York and New Jersey 1708-9
    Richard Ingoldesby New York and New Jersey 1709-10
    Robert Hunter New York and New Jersey 1710-20
    William Burnet New York and New Jersey 1720-28
    John Montgomerie New York and New Jersey 1728-31
    William Cosby New York and New Jersey 1732-36
    Lewis Morris New Jersey 1738-46
    Jonathan Belcher New Jersey 1747-57
    Francis Bernard New Jersey 1758-60
    Thomas Boone New Jersey 1760-61
    Josiah Hardy New Jersey 1761-63
    William Franklin New Jersey 1763-76
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  2. Governors Under Constitution 1776

    William Livingston Patriot 1776-90
    William Paterson Federalist 1790-93
    Richard Howell Federalist 1793-1801
    Joseph Bloomfield Jeffersonian-Republican 1801-2; 1803-12
    Aaron Ogden Federalist 1812-13
    William S. Pennington Jeffersonian-Republican 1813-15
    Mahlon Dickerson Jeffersonian-Republican 1815-17
    Isaac H. Williamson Jeffersonian-Republican 1817-29
    Peter D. Vroom Democrat 1829-32; 1833-36
    Samuel L. Southard Whig 1832-33
    Elias P. Seeley Whig 1833
    Philemon Dickerson Democrat 1836-37
    William Pennington Whig 1837-43
    Daniel Haines Democrat 1843-45; 1848-51
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  3. Governors Under Constitution of 1844

    Charles C. Stratton Whig 1845-48
    George F. Fort Democrat 1851-54
    Rodman M. Price Democrat 1854-57
    William A. Newell Republican 1857-60
    Charles S. Olden Republican 1860-63
    Joel Parker Democrat 1863-66; 1872-75
    Marcus L. Ward Republican 1866-69
    Theordore F. Randolph Democrat 1869-72
    Joseph D. Bedle Democrat 1875-78
    George B. McClellan Democrat 1878-81
    George C. Ludlow Democrat 1881-84
    Leon Abbett Democrat 1884-87; 1890-93
    Robert S. Green Democrat 1887-90
    George T. Werts Democrat 1893-96
    John W. Griggs Republican 1896-98
    Foster M. Vorhees Republican 1898-1902
    Franklin Murphy Republican 1902-05
    Edward C. Stokes Republican 1905-08
    John Franklin Fort Republican 1908-11
    Woodrow Wilson Democrat 1911-13
    James F. Fielder Democrat 1913-17
    Walter E. Edge Republican 1917-19; 1944-47
    Edward I. Edwards Democrat 1920-23
    George S. Silzer Democrat 1923-26
    A. Harry Moore Democrat 1926-29; 1932-35; 1938-41
    Morgan F. Larson Republican 1929-32
    Harold Hoffman Republican 1935-38
    Charles Edison Democrat 1941-44
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  4. Governors Under Constitution of 1947

    Alfred E. Driscoll Republican 1947-54
    Robert B. Meyner Democrat 1954-62
    Richard J. Hughes Democrat 1962-70
    William T. Cahill Republican 1970-74
    Brendan Byrne Democrat 1974-82
    Thomas Kean Republican 1982-90
    James Florio Democrat 1990-94
    Christine Whitman Republican 1994-2001
    Donald T. Di Francesco Republican 2001-02
    James McGreevey Democrat 2002-04
    Richard CodeyDemocrat2004-06
    Jon CorzineDemocrat2006-present
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