Governors of California

Name

Party

Term of Office

Peter H. Burnett Democrat
1849-1851
John McDougal (acting) Democrat
1851-1852
John Bigler Democrat
1852-1856
John N. Johnson Know Nothing
1856-1858
John B. Weller Democrat
1858-1860
Milton S. Latham Democrat
1860-1860
John G. Downey (acting) Democrat
1860-1862
Leland Stanford Republican
1862-1863
Frederick F. Low Union
1863-1867
Henry H. Haight Democrat
1867-1871
Newton Booth Republican
1871-1875
Romualdo Pacheco (acting) Republican
1875-1875
William Irwin Democrat
1875-1880
George C. Perkins Republican
1880-1883
George Stoneman Democrat
1883-1887
Washington Bartlett Democrat
1887-1887
Robert W. Waterman (acting) Republican
1887-1891
Henry H. Markham Republican
1891-1895
James H. Budd Democrat
1895-1899
Henry T. Gage Republican
1899-1903
George C. Pardee Republican
1903-1907
James N. Gillett Republican
1907-1911
Hiram W. Johnson Republican
1911-1917
William D. Stephens Republican
1917-1923
Friend W. Richardson Republican
1923-1927
Clement C. Young Republican
1927-1931
James Rolph, Jr. Republican
1931-1934
Frank F. Merriam Republican
1934-1939
Culbert L. Olson Democrat
1939-1943
Earl Warren Republican
1943-1953
Goodwin J. Knight Democrat
1953-1959
Edmund G. Brown Democrat
1959-1967
Ronald W. Reagan Republican
1967-1975
Edmund G. Brown, Jr. Democrat
1975-1983
George Deukmejian Republican
1983-1991
Pete Wilson Republican
1991-1999
Gray Davis, Jr. Democrat
1999-Present