List of California governors from first to last

Peter Burnett became the first elected governor of Califonia on December 20, 1849. This was about one year after California was admitted into the Union as the 31st state.

Califonia is a very significant state politically and economically.

Here is a chronological list of the governors of California from First to last.

S/N	Governor	Term(s)	Party
1	Peter Burnett	1849-1851	Democrat
2	John McDougal	1851-1852	Democrat
3	John Bigler	1852-1856	Democrat
4	J. Neely Johnson	1856-1858	American
5	John B. Weller	1858-1860	Democrat
6	Milton Latham	1860	Democrat
7	John G. Downey	1860-1861	Democrat
8	Leland Stanford	1861-1862	Republican
9	Frederick F. Low	1862-1863	Union
10	Henry H. Haight	1867-1871	Unionist, Democrat
11	Newton Booth	1871-1875	Republican
12	Romualdo Pacheco	1875	Republican
13	William Irwin	1875-1880	Democrat
14	George C. Perkins	1880-1883	Republican
15	George Stoneman	1883-1887	Democrat
16	Washington Bartlett	1887	Democrat
17	Robert W. Waterman	1887-1891	Republican
18	Henry H. Markham	1891-1895	Republican
19	James H. Budd	1895-1899	Democrat
20	Henry T. Gage	1899-1903	Republican
21	George C. Pardee	1903-1907	Republican, Progressive
22	James N. Gillett	1907-1911	Republican
23	Hiram W. Johnson	1911-1917	Republican, Progressive
24	William D. Stephens	1917-1923	Republican
25	Friend W. Richardson	1923-1927	Republican
26	Clement C. Young	1927-1931	Republican
27	James Rolph Jr.	1931-1934	Republican
28	Frank F. Merriam	1934-1939	Republican
29	Culbert L. Olson	1939-1943	Democrat
30	Earl Warren	1943-1953	Republican
31	Goodwin J. Knight	1953-1959	Republican
32	Edmund G. “Pat” Brown Sr.	1959-1967	Democrat
33	Ronald Reagan	1967-1975	Republican
34	Jerry Brown	1975-1983	Democrat
35	George Deukmejian	1983-1991	Republican
36	Pete Wilson	1991-1999	Republican
37	Gray Davis	1999-2003	Democrat
38	Arnold Schwarzenegger	2003-2011	Republican
39	Jerry Brown	2011-2019	Democrat
40	Gavin Newsom	2019-Present	Democrat