NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR BIOGRAPHIES

New Jersey Governor Genealogies by Surname:

Colonial New Jersey Proprietor Governors with Dates:

Carteret, Philip 1665-1672

Berry, John 1672-1673

Colonial East Jersey Governors with Dates:

Andros, Edmund 1674-1681, 1688-89

Barclay, Robert 1682-1688 (absentee)

Colonial West Jersey Governors with Dates:

Byllynge, Edward 1680-1687

Jennings, Samuel 1683-1684 (disputed)

Coxe, Daniel 1687-1692

Colonial East and West Jersey Governors with Dates:

Hamilton, Andrew 1692-1697, 1699-1703

Basse, Jeremiah 1698-1699

Colonial New Jersey Governors with Dates:

Hyde, Edward (Lord Cornbury) 1703-1708

Lovelace, John 1708-1709

Ingoldesby, Richard 1709-1710

Hunter, Robert 1710-1720

Burnet, William 1720-1728

Montgomerie, John 1728-1731

Cosby, William 1732-1736

Hamilton, John, 1736-1738, 1746

Morris, Lewis 1738-1746

Reading, John 1747, 1757-1758 (President of Council)

Belcher, Jonathan 1747-1757

Bernard, Francis 1758-1760

Boone, Thomas 1760-1761

Hardy, Josiah 1761-1763

Franklin, William 1763-1776

State of New Jersey Governors with Dates:

Livingston, William 1776-1790

Paterson, William 1790-1793

Henderson, Thomas (Acting Governor) 1793

Howell I, Richard 1793-1801

Bloomfield, Joseph 1801-1802, 1803-1812

Lambert, John 1802-1803 (Acting Governor)

Ogden, Aaron 1812-1813

Pennington, William Sanford I 1813-1815

Dickerson, Mahlon 1815-1817

Williamson, Isaac H. 1817-1829

Vroom II, Peter Dumont 1829-1832, 1833-1836

Southard, Samuel L. 1832-1833

Seeley, Elias Pettit 1833

Dickerson, Philemon 1836-1837

Pennington, William Sanford II 1837-1843

Haines, Daniel 1843-1845, 1848-1851

Stratton, Charles Creighton 1845-1848

Fort, George Franklin 1851-1854

Price, Rodman McCamley 1854-1857

Newell, William Augustus 1857-1860

Olden, Charles Smith 1860-1863

Parker, Joel 1863-1866, 1872-1875

Ward, Marcus Lawrence 1866-1869

Randolph, Theodore Fitz 1869-1872

Bedle, Joseph Dorsett 1875-1878

McClellan, George Brinton 1878-1881

Ludlow, George Craig 1881-1884

Abbett, Leon 1884-1887, 1890-1893

Green, Robert Stockton 1887-1890

Werts, George Theodore 1893-1896

Griggs, John William of NJ 1896-1898

Voorhees, Foster MacGowen 1898, 1899-1902

Murphy, Franklin 1902-1905

Stokes, Edward C. 1905-1908

Fort, John Franklin 1908-1911

Wilson, Thomas Woodrow 1911-1913

Fielder, James F. 1913-1917

Edge, Walter Evans 1917-1919, 1944-1947

Edwards, Edward I. 1920-1923

Silzer, George S. 1923-1926

Moore, A. Harry 1926-1929, 1932-1935, 1938-1941

Larson, Morgan F. 1929-1932

Hoffman, Harold Giles 1935-1938

Edison, Charles 1941-1944

Driscoll, Alfred E. 1947-1954

Meyner, Robert B. 1954-1962

Hughes III, Richard Joseph 1962-1970

Cahill, William T. 1970-1974

Byrne, Brendan 1974-1982

Kean, Thomas 1982-1990

Florio, James 1990-1994

Whitman, Christine 1994-2001

Di Francesco, Donald T. 2001-2002

McGreevey , James 2002-2004

Codey, Richard James (Acting) 2004-2006, 2007

Corzine, Jon S. 2006-2009

U.S. Senators from New Jersey, Genealogies by Surname, With Dates of Service:

Paterson, William 1789-1790

Elmer, Jonathan 1789-1791

Dickinson, Philemon 1790-1793

Rutherfurd, John 1791-1798

Frelinghuysen, Frederick Theodore

Stockton II, Richard 1796-1799

Davenport, Franklin 1798-1799

Schureman, James 1799-1801

Dayton, Jonathan 1799-1805

Ogden, Aaron 1801-1803

Condit, John 1803-1809, 1809-1817

Kitchell, Aaron 1805-1809

Lambert, John 1809-1815

Wilson, James Jefferson 1815-1821

Dickerson, Mahlon 1817-1829, 1829-1833

Southard, Samuel Lewis 1821-1823, 1833-1842

McIlvaine II, Joseph 1823-1826

Bateman, Ephraim 1826-1829

Frelinghuysen, Theodore 1829-1835

Wall, Garret Dorset 1835-1841

Miller, Jacob Welsh 1841-1853

Dayton I, William Lewis 1842-1851

Stockton I, Robert Field 1851-1853

Wright II, William 1853-1859, 1863-1866

Thomson, John Renshaw 1853-1862

Ten Eyck, John Conover 1859-1865

Field, Richard Stockton. 1862-1863

Wall, James Walter 1863

Stockton, John Potter 1865-1866, 1869-1875

Frelinghuysen III, Frederick Theodore 1866-1869, 1871-1877

Cattell, Alexander Gilmore 1866-1871

Randolph, Theodore Fitz 1875-1881

McPherson, John Rhoderic 1877-1895

Sewell, William Joyce 1881-1887, 1895-1901

Blodgett, Rufus 1887-1893

Smith II, James 1893-1899

Kean II, John 1899-1911

Dryden, John F. 1902-1907

Briggs, Frank Obadiah 1907-1913

Martine, James E. 1911-1917

Hughes, William 1913-1918

Frelinghuysen, Joseph Sherman 1917-1923

Baird, David 1918-1919

Edge, Walter Evans 1919-1929

Edwards, Edward I. 1923-1929

Baird II, David 1929-1930

Kean, Hamilton Fish 1929-1935

Morrow, Dwight W. 1930-1931

Barbour, William W. 1931-1937, 1938-1943

Moore, Arthur H. 1935-1938

Smathers, William H. 1937-1943

Milton, John G. 1938

Walsh, Arthur 1943-1944

Hawkes, Albert W. 1943-1949

Smith, Howard A. 1944-1959

Hendrickson, Robert C. 1949-1955

Case, Clifford P. 1955-1979

Williams, Harrison A. 1959-1982

Bradley, William Warren "Bill" 1979-1997

Brady, Nicholas F. 1982

Lautenberg, Frank R. 1982-2001, 2003-at least 2011

Torricelli, Robert G. 1997-2003

Corzine, Jon S. 2001-2006

Menendez, Robert 2006-at least 2011

New Jersey Other Genealogies by Surname:

Abbett-NJ-1

Alito II, Samuel

Boudinot IV, Elias

Bradley, Joseph Philo

Brearley II, David

Brennan II, William Joseph

Chertoff, Michael B.

Clark, Abraham

Dayton, Jonathan

Donovan, Raymond James

Garrison, Lindley Miller

Gilbert, Carl Joyce

Hart, John

Hobart, Garret Augustus

Hopkinson, Francis

Hughes, Rowland Roberts

Katzenbach, Nicholas de Belleville

Lauenstein Ann (Dore) (McLaughlin) (Korologos)

Pitney, Mahlon

Robeson, George Maxwell

Scalia, Antonin Gregory

Scudder, Nathaniel

Schwartzkopf II, H. Norman

Simon I, William Edward

Stevens III, John

Witherspoon, John

Wright II, William

New Jersey Genealogies by File Name

Alito-NJ-1

Baird-NJ-1

Barbour-NJ-1

Barclay-NJ-1

Basse-NJ-1

Bateman-NJ-1

Bedle-NJ-1

Berry-NJ-1

Blodgett-NJ-1

Bloomfield-NJ-1

Boudinot-NJ-1

Bradley-NJ-1

Bradley-NJ-2

Brady-NJ-1

Brearley-NJ-1

Brennan-NJ-1

Briggs-NJ-1

Burnet-NJ-1

Byllynge-NJ-1

Byrne-NJ-1

Cahill-NJ-1

Carteret-NJ-1

Case-NJ-1

Cattell-NJ-1

Chertoff-NJ-1

Christie-NJ-1

Clark-NJ-1

Codey-NJ-1

Condit-NJ-1

Corzine-NJ-1

Coxe-NJ-1

Davenport-NJ-1

Dayton-NJ-1

Dickerson-NJ-1

Dickinson-NJ-1

DiFrancesco-NJ-1

Donovan-NJ-2

Driscoll-NJ-1

Dryden-NJ-1

Edge-NJ-1

Edison-NJ-1

Edwards-NJ-1

Elmer-NJ-1

Field-NJ-1

Florio-NJ-1

Fort-NJ-1

Frelinghuysen-NJ-1

Garrison-NJ-1

Gilbert-NJ-1

Green-NJ-1

Griggs-NJ-1

Haines-NJ-1

Hamilton-NJ-1

Hart-NJ-1

Hawkes-NJ-1

Henderson-NJ-1

Hendrickson-NJ-1

Hobart-NJ-1

Hoffman-NJ-1

Hopkinson-NJ-1

Howell-NJ-1

Hughes-NJ-1

Hughes-NJ-2

Hughes-NJ-3

Jennings-NJ-1

Katzenbach-NJ-1

Kean-NJ-1

Kitchell-NJ-1

Lambert-NJ-1

Larson-NJ-1

Lauenstein-NJ-1

Lautenberg-NJ-1

Lawrence-NJ-1

Livingston-NJ-1

Ludlow-NJ-1

Martine-NJ-1

McClellan-NJ-1

McGreevey-NJ-1

McIlvaine-NJ-1

McPherson-NJ-1

Menendez-NJ-1

Meyner-NJ-1

Miller-NJ-1

Milton-NJ-1

Montgomerie-NJ-1

Moore-NJ-1

Morrow-NJ-1

Murphy-NJ-1

Newell-NJ-1

Ogden-NJ-1

Olden-NJ-1

Parker-NJ-1

Paterson-NJ-1

Pennington-NJ-1

Pitney-NJ-1

Price-NJ-1

Randolph-NJ-1

Reading-NJ-1

Robeson-NJ-1

Rutherfurd-NJ-1

Scalia-NJ-1

Schureman-NJ-1

Schwartzkopf-NJ-1

Scudder-NJ-1

Seeley-NJ-1

Sewell-NJ-1

Silzer-NJ-1

Simon-NJ-1

Smathers-NJ-1

Smith-NJ-1

Southard-NJ-1

Stevens-NJ-1

Stockton-NJ-1

Stockton-NJ-2

Stockton-NJ-3

Stokes-NJ-1

Stratton-NJ-1

Ten Eyck-NJ-1

Thomson-NJ-1

Todd-NJ-1

Torricelli-NJ-1

Voorhees-NJ-1

Vroom-NJ-1

Wall-NJ-1

Walsh-NJ-1

Ward-NJ-1

Werts-NJ-1

Williams-NJ-1

Williamson-NJ-1

Wilson-NJ-1

Witherspoon-NJ-1

Wright-NJ-2