Who is the current governor of New York?

Answer 1

As of Jan. 1, 2007, the current governor is Eliot Spitzer.

Answer 2

Eliot Spitzer was elected governor by the people of the state of New York on November 7, 2006. On January 1st, 2007 he was inaugurated as the fifty-fourth governor of NY.

Answer 3

This is a list of the Governors of New York. The Governor of the U.S. state of New York is the highest executive officer of the state, was originally chosen for a term of two years. In 1877 the term of office was extended to three years, in 1895 reduced back to two years, and in 1938 it was extended to the current four-year term.

For colonial governors see List of Colonial Governors of New York




# Governor Party County (Modern) Term Lt. Governor(s)
1 George Clinton Democratic-Republican Orange 1777–1795 Pierre Van Cortlandt
2 John Jay Federalist New York 1795–1801 Stephen Van Rensselaer
3 George Clinton Democratic-Republican Orange 1801–1804 Jeremiah Van Rensselaer
4 Morgan Lewis Democratic-Republican New York 1804–1807 John Broome
5 Daniel D. Tompkins Democratic-Republican Westchester 1807–1817 John Broome (-1811)
John Tayler (1811)
DeWitt Clinton (1811-1813)
John Tayler (1813-)
6 John Tayler Democratic-Republican Albany 1817 Vacant
7 DeWitt Clinton Democratic-Republican Orange 1817–1823 John Tayler
8 Joseph C. Yates Democratic-Republican Schenectady 1823–1825 Erastus Root
9 DeWitt Clinton Clinton Republican Orange 1825–1828 James Tallmadge, Jr. (-1827)
Nathaniel Pitcher (1827-)
10 Nathaniel Pitcher Democratic-Republican Washington 1828– 1829 Peter R. Livingston (1828)
Charles Dayan (1828)
11 Martin Van Buren Jacksonian Democratic Columbia Jan-March 1829 Enos T. Throop
12 Enos T. Throop Jacksonian Democratic Cayuga 1829–1833 Charles Stebbins (-1831)
William M. Oliver (1831)
Edward P. Livingston (1831-)
13 William L. Marcy Democratic Rensselaer 1833–1839 John Tracy (-1835)
Luther Bradish (1835-1836)
John Tracy (1836-37)
Luther Bradish (1837-)
14 William H. Seward Whig Cayuga 1839–1843 Luther Bradish
15 William C. Bouck Democratic Schoharie 1843–1845 Daniel S. Dickinson
16 Silas Wright Democratic St. Lawrence 1845–1847 Addison Gardiner
17 John Young (1802-1852) Whig Livingston 1847–1849 Addison Gardiner (1847)
Hamilton Fish (1849)
18 Hamilton Fish Whig New York 1849–1851 George Washington Patterson
19 Washington Hunt Whig Anti-Rent Niagara 1851–1853 Sanford E. Church
20 Horatio Seymour Democratic Oneida 1853–1855 Sanford E. Church
21 Myron H. Clark Fusion Republican Ontario 1855–1857 Henry J. Raymond
22 John A. King Republican Queens 1857–1859 Henry R. Selden
23 Edwin D. Morgan Republican New York 1859–1863 Robert Campbell
24 Horatio Seymour Democratic Oneida 1863–1865 David R. Floyd-Jones
25 Reuben E. Fenton Union Chautauqua 1865–1869 Thomas G. Alvord (-1867)
Stewart L. Woodford (1867-)
26 John T. Hoffman Democratic New York 1869–1873 Allen C. Beach
27 John Adams Dix Republican New York 1873–1875 John Cleveland Robinson
28 Samuel J. Tilden Democratic Columbia 1875–1877 William Dorsheimer
29 Lucius Robinson Democratic Chemung 1877–1880 William Dorsheimer
30 Alonzo B. Cornell Republican New York 1880–1883 George Gilbert Hoskins
31 Grover Cleveland Democratic Erie 1883–1885 David B. Hill
32 David B. Hill Democratic Chemung 1885–1891 Dennis McCarthy (1885)
Edward F. Jones (1885-)
33 Roswell P. Flower Democratic Jefferson 1891–1895 William F. Sheehan
34 Levi P. Morton Republican Dutchess 1895–1897 Charles T. Saxton
35 Frank S. Black Republican Rensselaer 1897–1899 Timothy L. Woodruff
36 Theodore Roosevelt Republican New York 1899–1901 Timothy L. Woodruff
37 Benjamin B. Odell, Jr. Republican Orange 1901–1905 Timothy L. Woodruff (-1903)
Frank W. Higgins (1903-)
38 Frank W. Higgins Republican Cattaraugus 1905–1907 M. Linn Bruce
39 Charles Evans Hughes Republican New York 1907–1910 Lewis S. Chanler (-1909)
Horace White (1909-)
40 Horace White Republican Erie 1910– 1910 George H. Cobb
41 John Alden Dix Democratic Warren 1911–1912 Thomas F. Conway
42 William Sulzer Democratic New York Jan.1-Oct.17,1913 Martin H. Glynn
43 Martin H. Glynn Democratic Columbia 1913–1914 Robert F. Wagner
44 Charles S. Whitman Republican New York 1915–1918 Edward Schoeneck
45 Alfred E. Smith Democratic New York 1919–1920 Harry C. Walker
46 Nathan L. Miller Republican Cortland 1921–1922 Jeremiah Wood
47 Alfred E. Smith Democratic New York 1923–1928 George R. Lunn (-1925)
Seymour Lowman (1925-27)
Edwin Corning (1927-)
48 Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Dutchess 1929–1932 Herbert H. Lehman
49 Herbert H. Lehman Democratic New York 1933–1942 M. William Bray (-1939)
Charles Poletti (1939-)
50 Charles Poletti Democratic New York December 3-31,1942 Vacant
51 Thomas E. Dewey Republican New York 1943–1955 Thomas W. Wallace(Jan-July 1943) Joe R. Hanley (-1951)
Frank C. Moore (1951-)
52 W. Averell Harriman Democratic New York 1955–1959 George DeLuca
53 Nelson A. Rockefeller Republican New York 1959–1973 Malcolm Wilson
54 Malcolm Wilson Republican Bronx 1973–1974 Warren M. Anderson
55 Hugh L. Carey Democratic Kings 1975–1982 Mary Anne Krupsak (-1979)
Mario M. Cuomo (1979-)
56 Mario M. Cuomo Democratic Queens 1983–1994 Alfred B. DelBello (-1985)
Warren M. Anderson (1985-1987)
Stanley N. Lundine (1987-95)
57 George E. Pataki Republican Putnam 1995-2006 Betsy McCaughey Ross (1995-1998)
Mary O. Donohue (1999-2006)
58 Eliot Spitzer Democratic Bronx 2007-present David Paterson

Answer 4

Eliot Spitzer

Answer 5

Elliot Spitzer

Answer 6

Paris Hilton