List of Governors of Maryland

The following is a list of all Governors of Maryland.

See Governor of Maryland for more information on the office.

Contents

Colonial Period

Leader of the Protestant Associators

Royal Governors

  1. Nehemiah Blakiston, 1691 - 1692
  2. Sir Lionel Copley, 1692 - 1693
  3. Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1693 - 1694
  4. Sir Edmund Andros, 1693
  5. Colonel Nicholas Greenberry, 1693 -1 694
  6. Sir Edmund Andros, 1694
  7. Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1694
  8. Sir Francis Nicholson, 1694 - 1698/99
  9. Colonel Nathaniel Blakiston, 1698/99 - 1702
  10. Thomas Tench, 1702 - 1704
  11. Colonel John Seymour, 1704 - 1709
  12. Major General Edward Lloyd, 1709 - 1714
  13. John Hart, 1714 - 1715

Governors of Restored Proprietary Government

  1. John Hart, 1715 - 1720
  2. Thomas Brooke, 1720
  3. Charles Calvert, 1721 - 1727
  4. Benedict Leonard Calvert, 1727 - 1731
  5. Samuel Ogle, 1731 - 1732
  6. Charles Calvert, 1732 - 1733
  7. Samuel Ogle, 1733 - 1742
  8. Thomas Bladen, 1742 - 1746/47
  9. Samuel Ogle, 1746/47 - 1752
  10. Benjamin Tasker, 1752 - 1753
  11. Horatio Sharpe, 1753 - 1769
  12. Robert Eden, 1769 - 1776

Governors under Statehood

Governors Elected by the Legislature under the Maryland Constitution of 1776

  1. Thomas Johnson 1777-1779
  2. Thomas Sim Lee 1779-1782
  3. William Paca 1782-1785
  4. William Smallwood 1785-1788
  5. John Eager Howard 1788-1791
  6. George Plater 1791-1792
  7. James Brice 1792-1792
  8. Thomas Sim Lee 1792-1794
  9. John Hoskins Stone 1794-1797
  10. John Henry 1797-1798
  11. Benjamin Ogle 1798-1801
  12. John Francis Mercer 1801-1803
  13. Robert Bowie 1803-1806
  14. Robert Wright 1806-1809
  15. James Butcher 1809-1809
  16. Edward Lloyd 1809-1811
  17. Robert Bowie 1811-1812
  18. Levin Winder 1812-1816
  19. Charles Carnan Ridgely 1816-1819
  20. Charles Goldsborough 1819
  21. Samuel Sprigg 1819-1822
  22. Samuel Stevens, Jr. 1822-1826
  23. Joseph Kent 1826-1829
  24. Daniel Martin 1829-1830
  25. Thomas King Carroll 1830-1831
  26. Daniel Martin 1831-1831
  27. George Howard 1831-1833
  28. James Thomas 1833-1836
  29. Thomas W. Veazey 1836-1839

Governors Elected by the People under the Constitutional Amendments of 1838


# Name Party Term
1 William Grason Democrat 18391841
2 Francis Thomas Democrat 18411845
3 Thomas G. Pratt Whig 18451848
4 Phillip F. Thomas Democrat 18481851
5 Enoch Louis Lowe Democrat 18511854

Governors Elected by the People under the Maryland Constitution of 1851


# Name Party Term
1 Thomas W. Ligon Democrat 18541858
2 Thomas H. Hicks Democrat; later Republican 18581862
3 Augustus Bradford Unionist 18621866

Governor Elected by the People under the Maryland Constitution of 1864

# Name Party Term
1 Thomas Swann Democrat 18661869

Governors Elected by the People under the Maryland Constitution of 1867


# Name Party Term
1 Oden Bowie Democrat 18691872
2 William Pinkney Whyte Democrat 18721874
3 James B. Groome Democrat 18741876
4 John Lee Carroll Democrat 18761880
5 William T. Hamilton Democrat 18801884
6 Robert Milligan McLane Democrat 18841885
7 Henry Lloyd Democrat 18851888
8 Elihu Emory Jackson Democrat 18881892
9 Frank Brown Democrat 18821896
10 Lloyd Lowndes, Jr. Republican 18961900
11 John Walter Smith Democrat 19001904
12 Edwin Warfield Democrat 19041908
13 Austin Lane Crothers Democrat 19081912
14 Phillips Lee Goldsborough Republican 19121916
15 Emerson C. Harrington Democrat 19161920
16 Albert C. Ritchie Democrat 19201935
17 Harry W. Nice Republican 19351939
18 Herbert R. O'Conor Democrat 19391947
19 William Preston Lane, Jr. Democrat 19471951
20 Theodore R. McKeldin Republican 19511959
21 J. Millard Tawes Democrat 19591967
22 Spiro Agnew Republican 19671969
23 Marvin Mandel1 Democrat 19691979
24 Blair Lee III1 Democrat 19771979
25 Harry R. Hughes Democrat 19791987
26 William Donald Schaefer Democrat 19871995
27 Parris N. Glendening Democrat 19952003
28 Robert L. Ehrlich Republican 2003–present

1. Lee served as acting governor from 1977-1979 following the resignation of Mandel in 1977 and the retraction of said resignation in 1979.de:Liste der Gouverneure von Maryland

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