List of Governors of Maryland

List of Governors of Maryland:

Colonial Period

Leader of the Protestant Associators

• John Coode, 1689 - 1690

Royal Governors

• Nehemiah Blakiston, 1691 - 1692
• Sir Lionel Copley, 1692 - 1693
• Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1693 - 1694
• Sir Edmund Andros, 1693
• Colonel Nicholas Greenberry, 1693 -1 694
• Sir Edmund Andros, 1694
• Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1694
• Sir Francis Nicholson, 1694 - 1698/99
• Colonel Nathaniel Blakiston, 1698/99 - 1702
• Thomas Tench, 1702 - 1704
• Colonel John Seymour, 1704 - 1709
• Major General Edward Lloyd, 1709 - 1714
• John Hart, 1714 - 1715

Governors of Restored Proprietary Government

• John Hart, 1715 - 1720
• Thomas Brooke, 1720
• Charles Calvert, 1721 - 1727
• Benedict Leonard Calvert, 1727 - 1731
• Samuel Ogle, 1731 - 1732
• Charles Calvert, 1732 - 1733
• Samuel Ogle, 1733 - 1742
• Thomas Bladen, 1742 - 1746/47
• Samuel Ogle, 1746/47 - 1752
• Benjamin Tasker, 1752 - 1753
• Horatio Sharpe, 1753 - 1769
• Robert Eden, 1769 - 1776

Governors under Statehood

1. Thomas Johnson 1777-1779
2. Thomas Sim Lee 1779-1782
3. William Paca 1782-1785
4. William Smallwood 1785-1788
5. John Eager Howard 1788-1791
6. George Plater 1791-1792
7. James Brice 1792-1792
8. Thomas Sim Lee 1792-1794
9. John Hoskins Stone 1794-1797
10. John Henry 1797-1798
11. Benjamin Ogle 1798-1801
12. John Francis Mercer 1801-1803
13. Robert Bowie 1803-1806
14. Robert Wright 1806-1809
15. James Butcher 1809-1809
16. Edward Lloyd 1809-1811
17. Robert Bowie 1811-1812
18. Levin Winder 1812-1816
19. Charles Carnan Ridgely 1816-1819
20. Charles Goldsborough 1819
21. Samuel Sprigg 1819-1822
22. Samuel Stevens, Jr. 1822-1826
23. Joseph Kent 1826-1829
24. Daniel Martin 1829-1830
25. Thomas King Carroll 1830-1831
26. Daniel Martin 1831-1831
27. George Howard 1831-1833
28. James Thomas 1833-1836
29. Thomas W. Veazey 1836-1839
30. William Grason 1839-1841
31. Francis Thomas 1841-1845
32. Thomas G. Pratt 1845-1848
33. Phillip Francis Thomas 1848-1851
34. Enoch Louis Lowe 1851-1854
35. Thomas Watkins Ligon 1854-1858
36. Thomas Holliday Hicks 1858-1862
37. Augustus Williamson Bradford 1862-1866
38. Thomas Swann 1866-1869
39. Oden Bowie 1869-1872
40. William Pinkney Whyte 1872-1874
41. James B. Groome 1874-1876
42. John Lee Carroll 1876-1880
43. William T. Hamilton 1880-1884
44. Robert Milligan McLane 1884-1885
45. Henry Lloyd 1885-1888
46. Elihu Emory Jackson 1888-1892
47. Frank Brown 1892-1896
48. Lloyd Lowndes, Jr. 1896-1900
49. John Walter Smith 1900-1904
50. Edwin Warfield 1904-1908
51. Austin Lane Crothers 1908-1912
52. Phillips Lee Goldsborough 1912-1916
53. Emerson C. Harrington 1916-1920
54. Albert C. Ritchie 1920-1935
55. Harry W. Nice 1935-1939
56. Herbert R. O'Conor 1939-1947
57. William Preston Lane, Jr. 1947-1951
58. Theodore R. McKeldin 1951-1959
59. J. Millard Tawes 1959-1967
60. Spiro Theodore Agnew Republican 1967-1969
61. Marvin Mandel Democratic 1969-1977
62. Blair Lee III Democratic 1977-1979
63. Marvin Mandel Democratic 1979
64. Harry R. Hughes Democratic 1979-1987
65. William Donald Schaefer Democratic 1987-1995
66. Parris N. Glendening Democratic 1995-2003
67. Robert L. Ehrlich Republican 2003-