Washington Territorial and State Governors

 

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Territory Governors

Name	Affiliation	Assumed Office	Term(s)	Birth	Death
Isaac Ingalls Stevens	Democrat	03/17/1853	1853-1857	03/25/1818	09/01/1862
Charles H. Mason (Acting)	Democrat	03/26/1854 05/12/1855 08/1857	03/1854 - 12/1854 05/1855 - 01/19/1856 08/1857 - 09/1857	1830	07/29/1859
Fayette McMullen	Democrat	09/1857	1857-1859	1810	11/08/1880
Charles H. Mason (Acting)	Democrat	08/1858	08/1858 - 07/1859	1830	07/29/1859
Richard D. Gholson	Democrat	07/1859	1859 - 1861	01/31/1802	08/28/1861
Henry M McGill (Acting)		05/1860	1860 - 1861	1831	1915
William Henson Wallace	Republican	04/1861	1861	07/19/1811	02/07/1879
L. Jay S. Turney (Acting)		1861	1861 - 1862		05/20/1881
William Pickering	Republican	06/1862	1862 - 1866	1798	04/22/1873
George E. Cole	Democrat	11/21/1866	1866 - 1867	12/23/1826	12/03/1906
Marshall F. Moore	Republican	03/04/1867	1867 - 1869	02/12/1829	02/26/1870
Alvan Flanders	Republican	1869	1869 - 1870	08/02/1825	03/14/1894
Edward Selig Salomon	Republican	04/1870	1870 - 1872	12/25/1836	07/18/1913
Elisha Peyre Ferry	Republican	04/1872	1872 - 1880	08/09/1825	10/14/1895
William Augustus Newell	Republican	04/1880	1880 - 1884	09/05/1817	08/08/1901
Watson Carvosso Squire	Republican	04/1884	1884 - 1887	05/18/1836	06/07/1926
Eugene Semple	Democrat	04/1887	1887 - 1889	06/12/1840	08/28/1908
Miles Conway Moore	Republican	03/1889	1889	04/17/1845	12/18/1919

STATE GOVERNORS

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Name	Affiliation	Assumed Office	Website	Term(s)	Birth	Death
Elisha Peyre Ferry	Republican	11/11/1889		1889 - 1897	08/09/1825	10/14/1895
John Harte McGraw	Republican	01/09/1893		1893 - 1897	10/04/1850	06/23/1910
John Rankin Rogers	Populist / Democrat	01/11/1897 01/14/1901		1897 - 1901	09/04/1838	12/26/1901
Henry McBride	Republican	12/26/1901		1901 - 1905	02/07/1856	10/06/1937
Albert Edward Mead	Republican	01/09/1905		1905 - 1909	12/14/1861	03/19/1913
Samuel Goodlove Cosgrove	Republican	01/27/1909		1909	04/10/1847	03/28/1909
Marion E. Hay	Republican	03/28/1909		1909 - 1913	12/09/1865	11/21/1933
Ernest Lister	Democrat	01/11/1913 01/08/1917		1913 - 1919	06/15/1870	06/14/1919
Louis Folwell Hart	Republican	06/14/1919 01/10/1921		1919 - 1925	01/04/1862	12/05/1929
Roland Hill Hartley	Republican	01/12/1925 01/14/1929		1925 - 1933	06/26/1864	09/21/1952
Clarence Daniel Martin	Democrat	01/09/1933 01/11/1937		1933 - 1941	06/29/1864	08/11/1955
Arthur Bernard Langlie	Republican	01/13/1941		1941 - 1945	07/25/1900	07/24/1966
Monrad Charles Wallgren	Democrat	01/10/1945		1945 - 1949	04/17/1891	09/18/1961
Arthur Bernard Langlie	Republican	01/12/1949 01/12/1953		1949 - 1957	07/25/1900	07/24/1966
Albert Dean Rosellini	Democrat	01/14/1957 01/09/1961		1957 - 1965	01/21/1910	10/10/2011
Daniel Jackson Evans	Republican	01/11/1965 01/13/1969 01/08/1973		1965 - 1977	10/16/1925
Dixy Lee Ray	Democrat	01/12/1977		1977 - 1981	09/03/1914	01/02/1994
John Dennis Spellman	Republican	01/14/1981		1981 - 1985	12/29/1926
Booth Gardner	Democrat	01/16/1985  01/11/1989		1985 - 1993	08/21/1936	03/15/2013
Michael Edward Lowry	Democrat	01/13/1993	Link	1993 - 1997	03/08/1939
Gary Locke	Democrat	01/15/1997 01/10/2001	Link	1997 - 2005	01/21/1950
Christine Gregoire	Democrat	01/12/2005 01/14/2009	Link	2005 - 2013	03/24/1947
Jay Inslee	Democrat	01/16/2013		2013 -	02/09/1951