See also: History of Governorship in North Carolina, Places named for Governors
NCpedia has one and in many cases two articles for many of North Carolina's Governors. Many of these entries have been contributed by historians from the Research Branch at the NC Office of Research and History or from the University of North Carolina Press volumes the Dictionary of North Carolina Biography. Other essays have been contributed by other researchers or institutional partners.
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Years in Office |
Biographical entry in NCpedia |
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Roy Cooper |
2017 - present |
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Patrick McCrory |
2013 - 2016 |
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Beverly Eaves Perdue |
2009 - 2012 |
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Michael F. Easley |
2001 - 2009 |
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James Baxter Hunt, Jr. |
1993 - 2001 |
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James Grubbs Martin |
1985 - 1993 |
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James Baxter Hunt, Jr. |
1977 - 1985 |
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James Eubert Holshouser, Jr. |
1973 - 1977 |
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Robert Walter Scott |
1969 - 1973 |
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Dan Killian Moore |
1965 - 1969 |
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Terry Sanford |
1961 - 1965 |
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Luther Hartwell Hodges |
1954 - 1961 |
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William Bradley Umstead |
1953 - 1954 |
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William Kerr Scott |
1949 - 1953 |
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Robert Gregg Cherry |
1945 - 1949 |
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Joseph Melville Broughton |
1941 - 1945 |
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Clyde Roark Hoey |
1937 - 1941 |
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John Christoph Blucher Ehringhaus |
1933 - 1937 |
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Oliver Max Gardner |
1929 - 1933 |
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Angus Wilton McLean |
1925 - 1929 |
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Cameron Morrison |
1921 - 1925 |
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Thomas Walter Bickett |
1917 - 1921 |
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Locke Craig |
1913 - 1917 |
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William Walton Kitchin |
1909 - 1913 |
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Robert Brodnax Glenn |
1905 - 1909 |
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Charles Brantley Aycock |
1901 - 1905 |
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Daniel Lindsay Russell, Jr. |
1897 - 1901 |
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Elias Carr |
1893 - 1897 |
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Thomas Michael Holt |
1891 - 1893 |
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Daniel Gould Fowle |
1889 - 1891 |
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Alfred Moore Scales |
1885 - 1889 |
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Thomas Jordan Jarvis |
1879 - 1885 |
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Zebulon Baird Vance |
1877 - 1879 |
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Curtis Hooks Brogden |
1874 - 1877 |
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Tod Robinson Caldwell |
1870 - 1874 |
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William Woods Holden |
1868 - 1870 |
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Jonathan Worth |
1865 - 1868 |
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William Woods Holden |
1865 |
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Zebulon Baird Vance |
1862 - 1865 |
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Henry Toole Clark |
1861 - 1862 |
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John Willis Ellis |
1859 - 1861 |
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Thomas Bragg |
1855 - 1859 |
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Warren Winslow |
1854 - 1855 |
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David Settle Reid |
1851 - 1854 |
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Charles Manly |
1849 - 1851 |
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William Alexander Graham |
1845 - 1849 |
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John Motley Morehead |
1841 - 1845 |
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Edward Bishop Dudley |
1836 - 1841 |
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Richard Dobbs Spaight, Jr. |
1835 - 1836 |
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David Lowry Swain |
1832 - 1835 |
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Montfort Stokes |
1830 - 1832 |
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John Owen |
1828 - 1830 |
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James Iredell, Jr. |
1827 - 1828 |
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Hutchins Gordon Burton |
1824 - 1827 |
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Gabriel Holmes |
1821 - 1824 |
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Jesse Franklin |
1820 - 1821 |
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John Branch |
1817 - 1820 |
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William Miller |
1814 - 1817 |
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William Hawkins |
1811 - 1814 |
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Benjamin Smith |
1810 - 1811 |
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David Stone |
1808 - 1810 |
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Benjamin Williams |
1807 - 1808 |
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Nathaniel Alexander |
1805 - 1807 |
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James Turner |
1802 - 1805 |
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Benjamin Williams |
1799 - 1802 |
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William Richardson Davie |
1798 - 1799 |
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Samuel Ashe |
1795 - 1798 |
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Richard Dobbs Spaight, Sr. |
1792 - 1795 |
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Alexander Martin |
1789 - 1792 |
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Samuel Johnston |
1787 - 1789 |
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Richard Caswell |
1784 - 1787 |
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Alexander Martin |
1782 - 1785 |
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Thomas Burke |
1781 - 1782 |
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Abner Nash |
1780 - 1781 |
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Richard Caswell |
1776 - 1780 |
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North Carolina's Colonial Governors |
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Josiah Martin |
1771 - 1775 |
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James Hasell |
1771 |
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William Tryon |
1765 - 1771 |
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Arthur Dobbs |
1753 - 1763 |
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Matthew Rowan |
1753 - 1754 |
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Nathaniel Rice |
1752 - 1753 |
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Gabriel Johnston |
1734 - 1752 |
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Nathaniel Rice |
1734 |
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George Burrington |
1731 - 1734 |
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Richard Everard |
1725 - 1731 |
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George Burrington |
1724 - 1725 |
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William Reed |
1722 - 1724 |
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Thomas Pollock |
1722 |
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Charles Eden |
1714 - 1722 |
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Thomas Pollock |
1712 - 1714 |
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Edward Hyde |
1711 - 1712 |
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William Glover |
1706 - 1710 |
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Thomas Cary |
1705 - 1711 |
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Robert Daniel |
1703 - 1705 |
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Henderson Walker |
1699 - 1703 |
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John Archdale |
1695 - 1696 |
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Thomas Harvey |
1694 - 1699 |
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Philip Ludwell |
1690 - 1691, |
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Thomas Jarvis |
1690 - 1694 |
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John Gibbs |
1689 - 1690 |
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John Archdale |
1683 - 1686 |
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Seth Sothel |
1682 - 1689 |
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John Jenkins |
1680 - 1681 |
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Henry Wilkinson |
1680 |
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John Harvey |
1679 |
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Thomas Miller |
1677 |
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John Jenkins |
1676 - 1677 |
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Thomas Eastchurch |
1675 - 1676 |
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John Jenkins |
1672 - 1675 |
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Peter Carteret |
1670 - 1672 |
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Samuel Stephens |
1667 - 1669 |
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William Drummond |
1664 - 1667 |
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Governor of the County of Clarendon |
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John Yeamans |
1665-1667 |
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Samuel Stephens |
1662 - 1664 |
DNCB |
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John White |
1587 |
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Ralph Lane |
1585 - 1586 |
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