| S.no. |
Governor |
Term start |
Term end |
Party |
Place |
| 1 |
George Clinton |
30 July 1777 |
30 June 1795 |
Democratic-Republican |
Little Britain, Province of New York |
| 2 |
John Jay |
1 July 1795 |
30 June 1801 |
Federalist |
New York City, New York, British America |
| 1 |
George Clinton |
1 July 1801 |
30 June 1804 |
Democratic-Republican |
Little Britain, Province of New York |
| 3 |
Morgan Lewis |
1 July 1804 |
30 June 1807 |
Democratic-Republican |
New York City, New York |
| 4 |
Daniel D. Tompkins |
1 July 1807 |
24 February 1817 |
Democratic-Republican |
Scarsdale, Province of New York |
| 5 |
John Tayler (Acting) |
24 February 1817 |
30 June 1817 |
Democratic- Republican |
New York City, New York |
| 6 |
DeWitt Clinton |
1 July 1817 |
31 December 1822 |
Democratic-Republican |
Little Britain, Province of New York |
| 7 |
Joseph C. Yates |
1 January 1823 |
31 December 1824 |
Democratic-Republican |
Schenectady, New York |
| 6 |
DeWitt Clinton |
1 January 1825 |
11 February 1828 |
Democratic-Republican |
Little Britain, Province of New York |
| 8 |
Nathaniel Pitcher |
11 February 1828 |
31 December 1828 |
Democratic-Republican |
Litchfield, Connecticut |
| 9 |
Martin Van Buren |
1 January 1829 |
12 March 1829 |
Democratic |
Kinderhook, New York United States |
| 10 |
Enos T. Throop |
12 March 1829 |
31 December 1832 |
Democratic |
Johnstown, New York |
| 11 |
William L. Marcy |
1 January 1833 |
31 December 1838 |
Democratic |
Southbridge, Massachusetts |
| 12 |
William H. Seward |
1 January 1839 |
31 December 1842 |
Whig |
Florida, New York |
| 13 |
William C. Bouck |
1 January 1843 |
31 December 1844 |
Democratic |
Schoharie District, Albany County, New York |
| 14 |
Silas Wright |
1 January 1845 |
31 December 1846 |
Democratic |
Amherst, Massachusetts |
| 15 |
John Young |
1 January 1847 |
31 December 1848 |
Whig |
Chelsea, Vermont |
| 16 |
Hamilton Fish |
1 January 1849 |
31 December 1850 |
Whig |
New York City, New York |
| 17 |
Washington Hunt |
1 January 1851 |
31 December 1852 |
Whig |
Windham, New York, U.S |
| 18 |
Horatio Seymour |
1 January 1853 |
31 December 1854 |
Democratic |
Pompey Hill, New York, U.S. |
| 19 |
Myron H. Clark |
1 January 1855 |
31 December 1856 |
Whig (fusion) |
Naples, New York |
| 20 |
John Alsop King |
1 January 1857 |
31 December 1858 |
Republican |
New York City |
| 21 |
Edwin D. Morgan |
1 January 1859 |
31 December 1862 |
Republican |
Washington, Massachusetts |
| 18 |
Horatio Seymour |
1 January 1863 |
31 December 1864 |
Democratic |
Pompey Hill, New York, U.S. |
| 22 |
Reuben Fenton |
1 January 1865 |
31 December 1868 |
Union |
Carroll, New York, U.S. |
| 23 |
John Thompson Hoffman |
1 January 1869 |
31 December 1872 |
Democratic |
Ossining, New York |
| 24 |
John Adams Dix |
1 January 1873 |
31 December 1874 |
Republican |
Boscawen, New Hampshire |
| 25 |
Samuel J. Tilden |
1 January 1875 |
31 December 1876 |
Democratic |
New Lebanon, New York, US |
| 26 |
Lucius Robinson |
1 January 1877 |
31 December 1879 |
Democratic |
Windham, New York |
| 27 |
Alonzo B. Cornell |
1 January 1880 |
31 December 1882 |
Republican |
Ithaca, New York, USA |
| 28 |
Grover Cleveland |
1 January 1883 |
6 January 1885 |
Democratic |
Caldwell, New Jersey, U.S. |
| 29 |
David B. Hill |
6 January 1885 |
31 December 1891 |
Democratic |
Havana, New York |
| 30 |
Roswell P. Flower |
1 January 1892 |
31 December 1894 |
Democratic |
Theresa, New York |
| 31 |
Levi P. Morton |
1 January 1895 |
31 December 1896 |
Republican |
Shoreham, Vermont, U.S. |
| 32 |
Frank S. Black |
1 January 1897 |
31 December 1898 |
Republican |
York County, Maine, U.S. |
| 33 |
Theodore Roosevelt |
1 January 1899 |
31 December 1900 |
Republican |
New York City, New York, US |
| 34 |
Benjamin Barker Odell, Jr. |
1 January 1901 |
31 December 1904 |
Republican |
Newburgh, New York |
| 35 |
Frank W. Higgins |
1 January 1905 |
31 December 1906 |
Republican |
Rushford, New York, U.S. |
| 36 |
Charles Evans Hughes |
1 January 1907 |
6 October 1910 |
Republican |
Glens Falls, New York, U.S. |
| 37 |
Horace White |
6 October 1910 |
31 December 1910 |
Republican |
Buffalo, New York |
| 38 |
John Alden Dix |
1 January 1911 |
31 December 1912 |
Democratic |
Glens Falls, New York |
| 39 |
William Sulzer |
1 January 1913 |
17 October 1913 |
Democratic |
Elizabeth, New Jersey |
| 40 |
Martin H. Glynn |
17 October 1913 |
31 December 1914 |
Democratic |
Valatie, New York |
| 41 |
Charles S. Whitman |
1 January 1915 |
31 December 1918 |
Republican |
Hanover, Sprague, Connecticut, U.S. |
| 42 |
Al Smith |
1 January 1919 |
31 December 1920 |
Democratic |
Manhattan, New York City |
| 43 |
Nathan Lewis Miller |
1 January 1921 |
31 December 1922 |
Republican |
Solon, New York |
| 42 |
Al Smith |
1 January 1923 |
31 December 1928 |
Democratic |
Manhattan, New York City |
| 44 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
1 January 1929 |
31 December 1932 |
Democratic |
Hyde Park, New York, U.S. |
| 45 |
Herbert H. Lehman |
1 January 1933 |
3 December 1942 |
Democratic |
New York City, New York |
| 46 |
Charles Poletti |
3 December 1942 |
31 December 1942 |
Democratic |
Barre, Vermont, United States |
| 47 |
Thomas Dewey |
1 January 1943 |
31 December 1954 |
Republican |
Owosso, Michigan, U.S. |
| 48 |
W. Averell Harriman |
1 January 1955 |
31 December 1958 |
Democratic |
New York City, New York, U.S. |
| 49 |
Nelson Rockefeller |
1 January 1959 |
18 December 1973 |
Republican |
Bar Harbor, Maine, U.S. |
| 50 |
Malcolm Wilson |
18 December 1973 |
31 December 1974 |
Republican |
New York City |
| 51 |
Hugh Carey |
1 January 1975 |
31 December 1982 |
Democratic |
Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| 52 |
Mario Cuomo |
1 January 1983 |
31 December 1994 |
Democratic |
Briarwood, Queens, New York, U.S. |
| 53 |
George Pataki |
1 January 1995 |
31 December 2006 |
Republican |
Peekskill, New York, U.S. |
| 54 |
Eliot Spitzer |
1 January 2007 |
17 March 2008 |
Democratic |
Bronx, New York |
| 55 |
David Paterson |
17 March 2008 |
31 December 2010 |
Democratic |
Brooklyn, New York City, New York |
| 56 |
Andrew Cuomo |
1 January 2011 |
23 August 2021 |
Democratic |
Queens, New York City, New York, U.S. |
| 57 |
Kathy Hochul |
24 August 2021 |
Incumbent |
Democratic |
Buffalo, New York, United States |