1731-1734 George Burrington
1734-1734 Nathaniel Rice
1734-1752 Gabriel Johnston
1752-1753 Nathaniel Rice
1753-1754 Matthew Rowan
1753-1763 Arthur Dobbs
1765-1771 William Tryon
1771-1771 James Hasell
1771-1775 Josiah Martin
State Governors
1776-1780 Richard Caswell
1780-1781 Abner Nash
1781-1782 Thomas Burke
1782-1785 Alexander Martin
1784-1787 Richard Caswell
1787-1789 Samuel Johnston
1789-1792 Alexander Martin
1792-1795 Richard Dobbs Spaight, Sr.
1795-1798 Samuel Ashe
1798-1799 William Richardson Davie
1799-1802 Benjamin Williams
1802-1805 James Turner
1805-1807 Nathaniel Alexander
1807-1808 Benjamin Williams
1808-1810 David Stone
1810-1811 Benjamin Smith
1811-1814 William Hawkins
1814-1817 William Miller
1817-1820 John Branch
1820-1821 Jesse Franklin
1821-1824 Gabriel Holmes
1824-1827 Hutchins Gordon Burton
1827-1828 James Iredell, Jr.
1828-1830 John Owen
1830-1832 Montford Stokes
1832-1835 David Lowry Swain
1835-1836 Richard Dobbs Spaight, Jr.
1836-1841 Edward Bishop Dudley
1841-1845 John Motley Morehead,
1845-1849 William Alexander Graham
1849-1850 Charles Manly
1851-1854 David Settle Reid
1854-1855 Warren Winslow
1855-1859 Thomas Bragg
1859-1861 John Willis Ellis
1861-1862 Henry Toole Clark
1862-1865 Zebulon Baird Vance
1865-1865 William Woods Holden
1865-1868 Jonathan Worth
1868-1870 William Woods Holden
1870-1874 Tod Robinson Caldwell
1874-1877 Curtis Hooks Brogden
1877-1879 Zebulon Baird Vance
1879-1885 Thomas Jordan Jarvis
1885-1889 Alfred Moore Scales
1889-1891 Daniel Gould Fowle
1891-1893 Thomas Michael Holt
1893-1897 Elias Carr
1897-1901 Daniel Lindsay Russell
1901-1905 Charles Brantley Aycock
1905-1909 Robert Broadnax Glenn
1909-1913 William Walton Kitchin
1913-1917 Locke Craig
1917-1921 Thomas Walter Bickett
1921-1925 Cameron Morrison
1925-1929 Angus Wilton McLean
1929-1933 Oliver Max Gardner
1933-1937 John Christoph Blucher Ehringhaus
1937-1941 Clyde Roark Hoey
1941-1945 Joseph Melville Broughton
1945-1949 Robert Gregg Cherry
1949-1953 William Kerr Scott
1953-1954 William Bradley Umstead
1954-1961 Luther Hartwell Hodges
1961-1965 Terry Sanford
1965-1969 Dan Killian Moore
1969-1973 Robert Walter Scott
1973-1977 James Eubert Holshouser, Jr.
1977-1985 James Baxter Hunt, Jr.
1985-1993 James Grubbs Martin
1993-2001 James Baxter Hunt, Jr.
2001-2009 Michael F. Easley
2009 now Beverly Perdue
Reference
State Library of North Carolina, North Carolina Governors
