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#	Governor	Took office	Left office	Party	Lt. Governor	Terms
1	George Clinton	July 30, 1777	June 30, 1795	Democratic-Republican	Pierre Van Cortlandt	6
2	John Jay	July 1, 1795	June 30, 1801	Federalist	Stephen Van Rensselaer III	2
1	George Clinton	July 1, 1801	June 30, 1804	Democratic-Republican	Jeremiah Van Rensselaer	1
3	Morgan Lewis	July 1, 1804	June 30, 1807	Democratic-Republican	John Broome	1
4	Daniel D. Tompkins	July 1, 1807	February 24, 1817	Democratic-Republican	John Broome John Tayler (Acting) DeWitt Clinton John Tayler	3 1/2
5	John Tayler (Acting)	February 24, 1817	June 30, 1817	Democratic-Republican	Philetus Swift (Acting)	1/2
6	DeWitt Clinton	July 1, 1817	December 31, 1822	Democratic-Republican	John Tayler	2
7	Joseph C. Yates	January 1, 1823	December 31, 1824	Democratic-Republican	Erastus Root	1
6	DeWitt Clinton	January 1, 1825	February 11, 1828	Democratic-Republican	James Tallmadge, Jr. Nathaniel Pitcher	1 1/2
8	Nathaniel Pitcher	February 11, 1828	December 31, 1828	Democratic-Republican	Peter R. Livingston (Acting) Charles Dayan	1/2
9	Martin Van Buren	January 1, 1829	March 12, 1829	Democratic	Enos T. Throop	1/2
10	Enos T. Throop	March 12, 1829	December 31, 1832	Democratic	Charles Stebbins (Acting) William M. Oliver Edward Philip Livingston	1 1/2
11	William L. Marcy	January 1, 1833	December 31, 1838	Democratic	John Tracy	3
12	William H. Seward	January 1, 1839	December 31, 1842	Whig	Luther Bradish	2
13	William C. Bouck	January 1, 1843	December 31, 1844	Democratic	Daniel S. Dickinson	1
14	Silas Wright	January 1, 1845	December 31, 1846	Democratic	Addison Gardiner	1
15	John Young	January 1, 1847	December 31, 1848	Whig	Addison Gardiner Albert Lester Hamilton Fish	1
16	Hamilton Fish	January 1, 1849	December 31, 1850	Whig	George Washington Patterson	1
17	Washington Hunt	January 1, 1851	December 31, 1852	Whig	Sanford E. Church	1
18	Horatio Seymour	January 1, 1853	December 31, 1854	Democratic	Sanford E. Church	1
19	Myron H. Clark	January 1, 1855	December 31, 1856	Whig (Fusion)	Henry Jarvis Raymond	1
20	John Alsop King	January 1, 1857	December 31, 1858	Republican	Henry R. Selden	1
21	Edwin D. Morgan	January 1, 1859	December 31, 1862	Republican	Robert Campbell	2
18	Horatio Seymour	January 1, 1863	December 31, 1864	Democratic	David R. Floyd-Jones	1
22	Reuben Fenton	January 1, 1865	December 31, 1868	Union	Thomas G. Alvord Stewart L. Woodford	2
23	John Thompson Hoffman	January 1, 1869	December 31, 1872	Democratic	Allen C. Beach	2
24	John Adams Dix	January 1, 1873	December 31, 1874	Republican	John C. Robinson	1
25	Samuel J. Tilden	January 1, 1875	December 31, 1876	Democratic	William Dorsheimer	1
26	Lucius Robinson	January 1, 1877	December 31, 1879	Democratic	William Dorsheimer	1
27	Alonzo B. Cornell	January 1, 1880	December 31, 1882	Republican	George Gilbert Hoskins	1
28	Grover Cleveland	January 1, 1883	January 6, 1885	Democratic	David B. Hill	1/2
29	David B. Hill	January 6, 1885	December 31, 1891	Democratic	Dennis McCarthy (Acting) Edward F. Jones	2 1/2
30	Roswell P. Flower	January 1, 1892	December 31, 1894	Democratic	William F. Sheehan	1
31	Levi P. Morton	January 1, 1895	December 31, 1896	Republican	Charles T. Saxton	1
32	Frank S. Black	January 1, 1897	December 31, 1898	Republican	Timothy L. Woodruff	1
33	Theodore Roosevelt	January 1, 1899	December 31, 1900	Republican	Timothy L. Woodruff	1
34	Benjamin Barker Odell, Jr.	January 1, 1901	December 31, 1904	Republican	Timothy L. Woodruff Frank W. Higgins	2
35	Frank W. Higgins	January 1, 1905	December 31, 1906	Republican	M. Linn Bruce John Raines (Acting)	1
36	Charles Evans Hughes	January 1, 1907	October 6, 1910	Republican	Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler Horace White	1 1/2
37	Horace White>	October 6, 1910	December 31, 1910	Republican	George H. Cobb (Acting)	1/2
38	John Alden Dix	January 1, 1911	December 31, 1912	Democratic	Thomas F. Conway	1
39	William Sulzer	January 1, 1913	October 17, 1913	Democratic	Martin H. Glynn	1/2
40	Martin H. Glynn	October 17, 1913	December 31, 1914	Democratic	Robert F. Wagner (Acting)	1/2
41	Charles S. Whitman	January 1, 1915	December 31, 1918	Republican	Edward Schoeneck	2
42	Al Smith	January 1, 1919	December 31, 1920	Democratic	Harry C. Walker	1
43	Nathan Lewis Miller	January 1, 1921	December 31, 1922	Republican	Jeremiah Wood Clayton R. Lusk	1
42	Al Smith	January 1, 1923	December 31, 1928	Democratic	George R. Lunn Seymour Lowman Edwin Corning	3
44	Franklin D. Roosevelt	January 1, 1929	December 31, 1932	Democratic	Herbert H. Lehman	2
45	Herbert H. Lehman	January 1, 1933	December 3, 1942	Democratic	M. William Bray Charles Poletti	3 1/2
46	Charles Poletti	December 3, 1942	December 31, 1942	Democratic	Joe R. Hanley (Acting)	1/2
47	Thomas Dewey	January 1, 1943	December 31, 1954	Republican	Thomas W. Wallace Joe R. Hanley Frank C. Moore Arthur H. Wicks Walter J. Mahoney (Acting)	3
48	W. Averell Harriman	January 1, 1955	December 31, 1958	Democratic	George DeLuca	1
49	Nelson Rockefeller	January 1, 1959	December 18, 1973	Republican	Malcolm Wilson	3 1/2
50	Malcolm Wilson	December 18, 1973	December 31, 1974	Republican	Warren M. Anderson (Acting)	1/2
51	Hugh Carey	January 1, 1975	December 31, 1982	Democratic	Mary Anne Krupsak Mario Cuomo	2
52	Mario Cuomo	January 1, 1983	December 31, 1994	Democratic	Alfred DelBello Warren M. Anderson Stan Lundine (Acting)	3
53	George Pataki	January 1, 1995	December 31, 2006	Republican	Betsy McCaughey Ross Mary O. Donohue	3
54	Eliot Spitzer	January 1, 2007	March 17, 2008	Democratic	David Paterson	1/2
55	David Paterson	March 17, 2008	December 31, 2010	Democratic	Joseph Bruno (Acting) Dean Skelos Malcolm Smith (Acting) Pedro Espada (Acting) Richard Ravitch Malcolm Smith (Acting) Richard Ravitch	1/2
56	Andrew Cuomo	January 1, 2011	Incumbent	Democratic	Robert Duffy	1

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