Former Governors - Massachusetts

Governor's Name State Time in Office Party
Gov. Charlie Baker Massachusetts 2019 - 2023
2015 - 2019
Republican
Gov. Deval Patrick Massachusetts 2007 - 2015
Democratic
Gov. Mitt Romney Massachusetts 2003 - 2007
Republican
Gov. Jane Maria Swift Massachusetts 2001 - 2003
Republican
Gov. Argeo Paul Cellucci Massachusetts 1997 - 2001
Republican
Gov. William Floyd Weld Massachusetts 1991 - 1997
Republican
Gov. Michael Stanley Dukakis Massachusetts 1983 - 1991
1975 - 1979
Democratic
Gov. Edward J. King Massachusetts 1979 - 1983
Democratic
Gov. Francis Williams Sargent Massachusetts 1969 - 1975
Republican
Gov. John Anthony Volpe Massachusetts 1965 - 1969
1961 - 1963
Republican
Gov. Endicott Peabody Massachusetts 1963 - 1965
Democratic
Gov. Foster John Furcolo Massachusetts 1957 - 1961
Democratic
Gov. Christian Archibald Herter Massachusetts 1953 - 1957
Republican
Gov. Paul Andrew Dever Massachusetts 1949 - 1953
Democratic
Gov. Robert Fiske Bradford Massachusetts 1947 - 1949
Republican
Gov. Maurice Tobin Massachusetts 1945 - 1947
Democratic
Gov. Marcus Morton Massachusetts 1843 - 1844
1940 - 1841
1825 - 1825
Democratic-Republican
Gov. Leverett Saltonstall Massachusetts 1939 - 1945
Republican
Gov. Charles Francis Hurley Massachusetts 1937 - 1939
Democratic
Gov. James Michael Curley Massachusetts 1935 - 1937
Democratic
Gov. Joseph Buell Ely Massachusetts 1931 - 1935
Democratic
Gov. Frank G. Allen Massachusetts 1929 - 1931
Republican
Gov. Alvan Tufts Fuller Massachusetts 1925 - 1929
Republican
Gov. Channing Harris Cox Massachusetts 1921 - 1925
Republican
Gov. John Calvin Coolidge Massachusetts 1919 - 1921
Republican
Gov. Samuel Walker McCall Massachusetts 1916 - 1919
Republican
Gov. David Ignatius Walsh Massachusetts 1914 - 1916
Democratic
Gov. Eugene Noble Foss Massachusetts 1911 - 1914
Democratic
Gov. Ebenezer Sumner Draper Massachusetts 1909 - 1911
Republican
Gov. Curtis Guild Massachusetts 1906 - 1909
Republican
Gov. William Lewis Douglas Massachusetts 1905 - 1906
Democratic
Gov. John Lewis Bates Massachusetts 1903 - 1905
Republican
Gov. Winthrop Murray Crane Massachusetts 1900 - 1903
Republican
Gov. Roger Wolcott Massachusetts 1896 - 1900
Republican
Gov. Frederic Thomas Greenhalge Massachusetts 1894 - 1896
Republican
Gov. William Eustis Russell Massachusetts 1891 - 1894
Democratic
Gov. John Quincy Adams Brackett Massachusetts 1890 - 1891
Republican
Gov. Oliver Ames Massachusetts 1887 - 1890
Republican
Gov. George Dexter Robinson Massachusetts 1884 - 1887
Republican
Gov. Benjamin Franklin Butler Massachusetts 1883 - 1884
Democratic, National
Gov. John Davis Long Massachusetts 1880 - 1883
Republican
Gov. Thomas Talbot Massachusetts 1879 - 1880
1874 - 1875
Republican
Gov. Alexander Hamilton Rice Massachusetts 1876 - 1879
Republican
Gov. William Gaston Massachusetts 1875 - 1876
Democratic
Gov. William Barrett Washburn Massachusetts 1872 - 1874
Republican
Gov. William Claflin Massachusetts 1869 - 1872
Republican
Gov. Alexander Hamilton Bullock Massachusetts 1866 - 1869
Whig, Republican
Gov. John Albion Andrew Massachusetts 1861 - 1866
Whig, Republican
Gov. Nathaniel Prentice Banks Massachusetts 1858 - 1861
Republican
Gov. Henry Joseph Gardner Massachusetts 1855 - 1858
American (Know-Nothing)
Gov. Emory Washburn Massachusetts 1854 - 1855
Whig
Gov. John Henry Clifford Massachusetts 1853 - 1854
Whig
Gov. George Sewall Boutwell Massachusetts 1851 - 1853
Republican
Gov. George Nixon Briggs Massachusetts 1844 - 1851
Anti-Jacksonian, Whig
Gov. John Davis Massachusetts 1841 - 1843
1834 - 1835
Whig
Gov. Edward Everett Massachusetts 1836 - 1840
Whig
Gov. Samuel Turell Armstrong Massachusetts 1835 - 1836
Whig
Gov. Levi Lincoln Jr. Massachusetts 1825 - 1834
Democratic-Republican
Gov. William Eustis Massachusetts 1823 - 1825
Republican
Gov. John Brooks Massachusetts 1816 - 1823
Federalist
Gov. Caleb Strong Massachusetts 1812 - 1816
1800 - 1807
Federalist
Gov. Elbridge Gerry Massachusetts 1810 - 1812
Democratic-Republican
Gov. Christopher Gore Massachusetts 1809 - 1810
Federalist
Gov. Levi Lincoln Sr. Massachusetts 1808 - 1809
Democratic-Republican
Gov. James Sullivan Massachusetts 1807 - 1808
Democratic-Republican
Gov. Increase Sumner Massachusetts 1797 - 1799
Federalist
Gov. Samuel Adams Massachusetts 1793 - 1797
Democratic-Republican
Gov. John Hancock Massachusetts 1787 - 1793
1780 - 1785
Federalist

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