Governor

Party

Dates

John N. Goodwin (1824-1887)
appointed March 6, 1863, by President Lincoln as chief justice of Arizona Territory and on August 21, 1863, as the first Governor of the Territory; entered the Territory and formally proclaimed its organization at Navajo Springs, December 29, 1863; elected as a Republican Delegate from Arizona Territory to the Thirty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1865-March 3, 1867); was not a candidate for reelection and did not return to Arizona.

Republican

1863-1865

Richard Cunningham McCormick (1832-1901)
appointed by President Lincoln secretary of Arizona Territory in 1863 and by President Johnson governor of the Territory in 1866; established the Prescott Arizona Miner in 1864 and the Tucson Arizona Citizen in 1870; elected as a Unionist as Delegate from the Territory of Arizona to the Forty-first, Forty-second, and Forty-third Congresses (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1875); was not a candidate for renomination in 1874; delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1872, 1876, and 1880; returned to New York;

Republican

1865-1869

Anson P.K. Safford (1828?-1891)

Republican

1869-1877

John P. Hoyt (1841-1926)

Republican

1877-1878

John Charles Fremont (1813-1890)
5th Territorial Governor of Arizona. Married Jessie Ann Benton 19 October 1841 in Washington, D.C.; unsuccessful as the first Republican candidate for president of the United States in 1856; appointed major general in the United States Army by President Abraham Lincoln in May 1861; again nominated for president in 1864; Governor of Arizona Territory 1878-1881; appointed a major general in the United States Army on the retired list 1890; died in New York City on July 13, 1890. Read

Republican

1878-1882

Frederick A. Tritle (1833-1906)

Republican

1882-1885

C. Meyer Zulick (1838-1926)

Democrat

1885-1889

Lewis Wolfley (1839-1910)

Republican

1889-1890

John N. Irwin (1845?-1905)

Republican

1890-1892

Nathan Oakes Murphy (1849-1908)
Born in Jefferson, Lincoln County, Maine, October 14, 1849; taught school in Wisconsin; went to the western frontier and settled in Prescott, Arizona, in April 1883 where he engaged in mining and the real estate business; secretary to the Governor of Arizona Territory in 1885; appointed secretary of Arizona Territory March 21, 1889; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1892; Governor of Arizona Territory 1892-1894; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1897); was not a candidate for renomination in 1896; again Governor of Arizona Territory and served from 1898 to 1902, when he resigned; died in Coronado, San Diego County, California, August 22, 1908.

Republican

1892-1893

Louis C. Hughes (1842-1915)

Democrat

1893-1896

Benjamin J. Franklin (1839-1898)

Democrat

1896-1897

Myron Hawley McCord (1840-1908)
born in Ceres, McKean County, Pennsylvania, November 26, 1840;appointed by President McKinley as Governor of Arizona Territory in 1897; resigned in 1898 and organized the Territorial Regiment for the Spanish-American War; appointed United States marshal for the district of Arizona May 1, 1902, and served until July 1, 1905; later appointed collector of customs for the port of Nogales, Arizona; died in Phoenix, Arizona, on April 27, 1908; interment in Merrill Cemetery, Merrill, Lincoln County, Wisconsin.

Republican

1897-1898

Nathan O. Murphy (1849-1908)

Republican

1898-1902

Alexander O. Brodie (1849-1918)

Republican

1902-1905

Joseph H. Kibbey (1853-1924)

Republican

1905-1909

Richard E. Sloan (1857-1933)

Republican

1909-1912

Governor

Party

Dates

George W. P. Hunt (1859-1934)

Democrat

1912-1917

Thomas E. Campbell (1878-1944)

Republican

1917-

George W. P. Hunt (1859-1934)

Democrat

1917-1919

Thomas E. Campbell (1878-1944)

Republican

1919-1923

George W. P. Hunt (1859-1934)

Democrat

1923-1929

John C. Phillips (1870-1943)

Republican

1929-1931

George W. P. Hunt (1859-1934)

Democrat

1931-1933

Benjamin B Moeur (1869-1937)

Democrat

1933-1937

Rawghlie C. Stanford (1878-1962)

Democrat

1937-1939

Robert T. Jones (1884-1958)

Democrat

1939-1941

Sidney P. Osborne (1884-1948)

Democrat

1941-1948

Dan E. Garvey (1886-1974)

Democrat

1948-1951

Howard Pyle (1906-1987)

Republican

1951-1955

Ernest W. McFarland (1894-1984)

Democrat

1955-1959

Paul Jones Fannin (1907-2002)
born in Ashland, Boyd County, Ky., January 29, 1907; moved to Phoenix, Ariz., in October 1907;elected Governor of Arizona in 1958 and reelected in 1960 and 1962; was a resident of Phoenix, Arizona, until his death due to a stroke on January 13, 2002.

Republican

1959-1965

Samuel P. Goddard (1919- )

Democrat

1965-1967

John R. (Jack) Williams (1909- )

Republican

1967-1975

Raul H. Castro (1916- )

Democrat

1975-1977

Wesley H. Bolin (1908-1978)

Democrat

1977-1978

Bruce E. Babbitt (1938- )

Democrat

1978-1988

Evan Mecham (1924- )

Republican

1987-1988

Rose Mofford (1922- )

Democrat

1988-1991

J. Fife Symington III

Republican

1991-1997

Jane Hull

Republican

1997- present

Delegate

Party

Dates

Charles D. Poston (1825-1902)
Sometimes referred to as "The Father of Arizona"

Republican

1864-1865

John N. Goodwin (1824-1887)

Republican

1865-1867

COLES, Bashford (1816-1878)
moved to Arizona in 1863; first attorney general of Arizona 1864-1866; presiding officer of first Territorial Council in 1865; elected as an Independent to the Fortieth Congress (March 4, 1867-March 3, 1869); secretary of state of Arizona 1869-1876; resigned and moved to Prescott, Ariz., in 1876, where he engaged in business; died in Prescott, Ariz., April 25, 1878; interment in Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif.

Independent

1867-1869

Richard C. McCormick (1832-1901)

Unionist

1869-1875

Hiram S. Stevens (1832-1893)

Democrat

1875-1879

John G. Campbell (1827-1903)

Democrat

1879-1881

Granville H. Oury (1825-1891)

Democrat

1881-1885

Curtis C. Bean (1828-1904)

Republican

1885-1887

Marcus A Smith (1851-1924)

Democrat

1887-1895

Nathan O Murphy (1849-1908)

Republican

1895-1897

Marcus A Smith (1851-1924)

Democrat

1897-1899

John Frank Wilson (1846-1911)
born near Pulaski, Giles County, Tenn., May 7, 1846; moved with his parents to Alabama; served in the Confederate Army as a member of Company B, First Battalion, Volunteer Infantry, and later on staff duty under General Hindman until 1863, after which he served as lieutenant colonel of a regiment; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1866; moved to the Territory of Arizona; settled in Prescott in 1887 and continued the practice of law; member of the constitutional convention in 1891; probate judge of Yavapai County 1893-1895; appointed attorney general of the Territory of Arizona by Governor Franklin and served during 1896 and 1897; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1901); elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1905); was not a candidate for renomination in 1900 and 1904; died in Prescott, Ariz., April 7, 1911; interment in Mountain View Cemetery.

Democrat

1899-1901

Marcus Aurelius Smith (1851-1924)
born near Cynthiana, Harrison County, Kentucky, January 24, 1851; moved to Tombstone, Arizona, in 1881 and continued the practice of law; prosecuting attorney for the Tombstone district 1882; elected as a Democrat as Delegate to the Fiftieth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1895); elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1899); elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1901-March 3, 1903); elected to the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses (March 4, 1905-March 3, 1909); was not a candidate for election to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-eighth Congresses; upon the admission of Arizona as a State into the Union was elected as a Democrat in 1912 to the United States Senate for the term ending March 3, 1915; reelected in 1914 and served from March 27, 1912, to March 3, 1921; appointed in 1921 by President Woodrow Wilson as a member of the International Joint Commission created to prevent disputes regarding the use of the boundary waters between the United States and Canada, and served until his death in Washington, D.C., April 7, 1924; interment in Battle Grove Cemetery, Cynthiana, Kentucky.

Democrat

1901-1903

John F. Wilson (1846-1911)

Democrat

1903-1905

Marcus A Smith (1851-1924)

Democrat

1905-1909

Ralph Henry Cameron (1863-1953)
of Grand Canyon, Coconino County, and Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona. Born in Southport, Lincoln County, Maine, October 21, 1863. Republican. Delegate to U.S. Congress from Arizona Territory, 1909-12; member of Republican National Committee from Arizona, 1912; U.S. Senator from Arizona, 1921-27; defeated, 1911, 1926, 1928, 1932. Member, Freemasons; Shriners. Died in Washington, D.C., February 12, 1953. Interment at American Legion Cemetery, Grand Canyon, Arizona.

Democrat

1909-1912