1776-1779 Patrick Henry
1779-1781 Thomas Jefferson
1781-1781 William Fleming (Acting)
1781-1781 Thomas Nelson, Jr.
1781-1781 David Jameson (Acting)
1781-1784 Benjamin Harrison
1784-1786 Patrick Henry
1786-1788 Edmund Randolph
1788-1791 Beverley Randolph
1791-1794 Henry Lee
1794-1796 Robert Brooke
1796-1799 James Wood
1799-1799 Hardin Burnley (Acting)
1799-1799 John Pendleton (Acting)
1799-1802 James Monroe
1802-1805 John Page
1805-1808 William H. Cabell
1808-1811 John Tyler, Sr.
1811-1811 George William Smith (Acting)
1811-1811 James Monroe
1811-1811 George William Smith (Acting)
1811-1811 George William Smith
1811-1812 Peyton Randolph (Acting)
1812-1814 James Barbour
1814-1816 Wilson Cary Nicholas
1816-1819 James P. Preston
1819-1822 Thomas Mann Randolph
1822-1825 James Pleasants
1825-1827 John Tyler, Jr.
1827-1830 William B. Giles
1830-1834 John Floyd
1834-1836 Littleton Waller Tazewell
1836-1837 Wyndham Robertson, (Acting)
1837-1840 David Campbell
1840-1841 Thomas Walker Gilmer
1841-1841 John Mercer Patton (Acting)
1841-1842 John Rutherford (Acting)
1842-1843 John M. Gregory (Acting)
1843-1846 James McDowell
1846-1849 William Smith
1849-1852 John Buchanan Floyd
Commonwealth Governors (Elected by Popular Vote)
1852-1856 Joseph Johnson
1856-1860 Henry Alexander Wise
1860-1864 John Letcher
1864-1865 William Smith
1865-1868 Francis Harrison Pierpont (Provisional)
1868-1869 Henry H. Wells (Provisional)
1869-1869 Gilber C. Walker (Provisional)
1870-1874 Gilbert C. Walker
1874-1878 James Lawson Kemper
1878-1882 Frederick W. M. Holliday
1882-1886 William E. Cameron,
1886-1890 Fitzhugh Lee
1890-1894 Philip W. McKinney
1894-1898 Charles T. O’Ferrall
1898-1902 James Hoge Tyler
1902-1906 Andrew Jackson Montague
1906-1910 Claude A. Swanson
1910-1914 William Hodges Mann
1914-1918 Henry Carter Stuart
1918-1922 Westmoreland Davis
1922-1926 E. Lee Trinkle
1926-1930 Harry F. Byrd
1930-1934 John Garland Pollard
1934-1938 George C. Peery
1938-1942 James H. Price
1942-1946 Colgate W. Darden, Jr.
1946-1950 William M. Tuck,
1950-1954 John Stewart Battle
1954-1958 Thomas B. Stanley
1958-1962 J. Lindsay Almond, Jr.
1962-1966 Albertis S. Harrison, Jr.
1966-1970 Mills E. Godwin, Jr.
1970-1974 A. Linwood Holton
1974-1978 Mills E. Godwin, Jr.
1978-1982 John N. Dalton
1982-1986 Charles S. Robb
1986-1990 Gerald L. Baliles
1990-1994 Lawrence Douglas Wilder
1994-1998 George Allen
1998-2002 James S.Gilmore III
2002-2006 Mark R. Warner
2006-2010 Tim Kaine
2010 now Bob McDonnell
References
Virginia, The Governors of Virginia
The Political Graveyard, Index to Politicians: Gilmore
Official Website of the Governor of Virginia
