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Governors of Washington

Term
Governor
Party
Under Territorial Government:
1853-1857
Isaac Ingalls Stevens
Democrat
3/1854 - 12/1854
5/1855 - 1/19/1856
8/1857 - 9/1857
Charles H. Mason (Acting)
Democrat
1857-1859
Fayette McMullen
Democrat
8/1858 - 7/1859
Charles H. Mason (Acting)
Democrat
1859 - 1861
Richard D. Gholson
Democrat
1860 - 1861
Henry M. McGill (Acting)

1861
William Henson Wallace
Republican
1861 - 1862
L. Jay S. Turney (Acting)

1862 - 1866
William Pickering
Republican
1866 - 1867
George E. Cole
Democrat
1867 - 1869
Marshall F. Moore
Republican
1869 - 1870
Alvan Flanders
Republican
1870 - 1872
Edward Selig Salomon
Republican
1872 - 1880
Elisha Peyre Ferry
Republican
1880 - 1884
William Augustus Newell
Republican
1884 - 1887
Watson Carvosso Squire
Republican
1887 - 1889
Eugene Semple
Democrat
1889
Miles Conway Moore
Republican
Under State Government:
1889 - 1893
Elisha Peyre Ferry
Republican
1893 - 1897
John Harte McGraw
Republican
1897 - 1901
John Rankin Rogers
Populist / Democrat
1901 - 1905
Henry McBride
Republican
1905 - 1909
Albert Edward Mead
Republican
1909
Samuel Goodlove Cosgrove
Republican
1909 - 1913
Marion E. Hay
Republican
1913 - 1919
Ernest Lister
Democrat
1919 - 1925
Louis Folwell Hart
Republican
1925 - 1933
Roland Hill Hartley
Republican
1933 - 1941
Clarence Daniel Martin
Democrat
1941 - 1945
Arthur Bernard Langlie
Republican
1945 - 1949
Monrad Charles Wallgren
Democrat
1949 - 1957
Arthur Bernard Langlie
Republican
1957 - 1965
Albert Dean Rosellini
Democrat
1965 - 1977
Daniel Jackson Evans
Republican
1977 - 1981
Dixy Lee Ray
Democrat
1981 - 1985
John Dennis Spellman
Republican
1985 - 1993
Booth Gardner
Democrat
1993 - 1997
Michael Edward Lowry
Democrat
1997 -
Gary Locke
Democrat


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