List of Governors of Maryland

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This is a list of the Governors of the State of Maryland in the United States:

Colonial Period

Leader of the Protestant Associators

• John Coode, 1689 - 1690

Royal Governors

1. Nehemiah Blakiston, 1691 - 1692
2. Sir Lionel Copley, 1692 - 1693
3. Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1693 - 1694
4. Sir Edmund Andros, 1693
5. Colonel Nicholas Greenberry, 1693 -1 694
6. Sir Edmund Andros, 1694
7. Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1694
8. Sir Francis Nicholson, 1694 - 1698/99
9. Colonel Nathaniel Blakiston, 1698/99 - 1702
10. Thomas Tench, 1702 - 1704
11. Colonel John Seymour, 1704 - 1709
12. Major General Edward Lloyd, 1709 - 1714
13. John Hart, 1714 - 1715

Governors of Restored Proprietary Government

1. John Hart, 1715 - 1720
2. Thomas Brooke, 1720
3. Charles Calvert, 1721 - 1727
4. Benedict Leonard Calvert, 1727 - 1731
5. Samuel Ogle, 1731 - 1732
6. Charles Calvert, 1732 - 1733
7. Samuel Ogle, 1733 - 1742
8. Thomas Bladen, 1742 - 1746/47
9. Samuel Ogle, 1746/47 - 1752
10. Benjamin Tasker, 1752 - 1753
11. Horatio Sharpe, 1753 - 1769
12. Robert Eden, 1769 - 1776

Governors under Statehood

Governors Elected by the Legislature under the Maryland Constitution of 1776

Thomas Johnson, governor from 1777-1779

Oden Bowie, governor from 1869-1872

Frank Brown, governor from 1892-1896

Spiro Agnew, governor from 1967-1969

Robert L. Ehrlich, current governor

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

Governors Elected by the People under the Constitutional Amendments of 1838

1. William Grason 1839-1841
2. Francis Thomas 1841-1845
3. Thomas G. Pratt 1845-1848
4. Phillip Francis Thomas 1848-1851
5. Enoch Louis Lowe 1851-1854

Governors Elected by the People under the Maryland Constitution of 1851

1. Thomas Watkins Ligon 1854-1858
2. Thomas Holliday Hicks 1858-1862
3. Augustus Williamson Bradford 1862-1866

Governor Elected by the People under the Maryland Constitution of 1864

• Thomas Swann 1866-1869

Governors Elected by the People under the Maryland Constitution of 1867

1. Oden Bowie 1869-1872
2. William Pinkney Whyte 1872-1874
3. James B. Groome 1874-1876
4. John Lee Carroll 1876-1880
5. William T. Hamilton 1880-1884
6. Robert Milligan McLane 1884-1885
7. Henry Lloyd 1885-1888
8. Elihu Emory Jackson 1888-1892
9. Frank Brown 1892-1896
10. Lloyd Lowndes, Jr. 1896-1900
11. John Walter Smith 1900-1904
12. Edwin Warfield 1904-1908
13. Austin Lane Crothers 1908-1912
14. Phillips Lee Goldsborough 1912-1916
15. Emerson C. Harrington 1916-1920
16. Albert C. Ritchie 1920-1935
17. Harry W. Nice 1935-1939
18. Herbert R. O'Conor 1939-1947
19. William Preston Lane, Jr. 1947-1951
20. Theodore R. McKeldin 1951-1959
21. J. Millard Tawes 1959-1967
22. Spiro Theodore Agnew 1967-1969
23. Marvin Mandel 1969-1977
24. Blair Lee III 1977-1979
25. Harry R. Hughes 1979-1987
26. William Donald Schaefer 1987-1995
27. Parris N. Glendening 1995-2003
28. Robert L. Ehrlich 2003-