List of Connecticut governors from first to last

Connecticut joined the Union on January 9, 1788, becoming the fifth state to do so. This was after the ratification of the United States Constitution, which officially established the United States of America under its current system of government. Connecticut’s ratification of the Constitution was a pivotal moment in the early history of the United States, contributing to the establishment of a stronger federal government in contrast to the looser confederation of states that existed under the Articles of Confederation.

Here is a chronological list of former governors of Connecticut down to the current.

Governor’s Name	Time in Office	Party
Samuel Huntington	1786 – 1796	Federalist
Oliver Wolcott Sr.	1796 – 1797	Federalist
Jonathan Trumbull, Jr.	1797 – 1809	Federalist
Jonathan Trumbull	1797 – 1809	Federalist
John Treadwell	1809 – 1811	Federalist
Roger Griswold	1811 – 1812	Federalist
John Cotton Smith	1812 – 1817	Federalist
Oliver Wolcott Jr.	1817 – 1827	Jeffersonian-Republican
Gideon Tomlinson	1827 – 1831	Jeffersonian-Republican
John Samuel Peters	1831 – 1833	National – Republican
Samuel Augustus Foot(e)	1834 – 1835	Whig
Henry Waggaman Edwards	1833 – 1834, 1835 – 1838	Democrat
William Wolcott Ellsworth	1838 – 1842	Whig
Chauncey Fitch Cleveland	1842 – 1844	Democrat
Roger Sherman Baldwin	1844 – 1846	Whig
Isaac Toucey	1846 – 1847	Democrat
Clark Bissell	1847 – 1849	Whig
Joseph Trumbull	1849 – 1850	Whig
Thomas H. Seymour	1850 – 1853	Democrat
Charles Hobby Pond	1853 – 1854	Democrat
Henry Dutton	1854 – 1855	Whig
William Thomas Minor	1855 – 1857	American
Alexander Hamilton Holley	1857 – 1858	Whig
William Alfred Buckingham	1858 – 1866	Republican
Joseph Roswell Hawley	1866 – 1867	Republican
James Edward English	1867 – 1869, 1870 – 1871	Democrat
Marshall Jewell	1869 – 1870, 1871 – 1873	Republican
Charles Robert Ingersoll	1873 – 1877	Democrat
Richard Dudley Hubbard	1877 – 1879	Democrat
Charles Bartlett Andrews	1879 – 1881	Republican
Hobart Baldwin Bigelow	1881 – 1883	Republican
Thomas MacDonald Waller	1883 – 1885	Democrat
Henry Baldwin Harrison	1885 – 1887	Republican
Phineas Chapman Lounsbury	1887 – 1889	Republican
Morgan Gardner Bulkeley	1889 – 1893	Republican
Luzon Burritt Morris	1893 – 1895	Democrat
Owen Vincent Coffin	1895 – 1897	Republican
Lorrin Alamson Cooke	1897 – 1899	Republican
George Edward Lounsbury	1899 – 1901	Republican
George Payne McLean	1901 – 1903	Republican
Abiram Chamberlain	1903 – 1905	Republican
Henry Roberts	1905 – 1907	Republican
Rollin Simmons Woodruff	1907 – 1909	Republican
George Leavens Lilley	1909 – 1909	Republican
Frank Bentley Weeks	1909 – 1911	Republican
Simeon Eben Baldwin	1911 – 1915	Democrat
Marcus Hensey Holcomb	1915 – 1921	Republican
Everett John Lake	1921 – 1923	Republican
Charles Augustus Templeton	1923 – 1925	Republican
Hiram Bingham	1925 – 1925	Republican
John Harper Trumbull	1925 – 1931	Republican
Wilbur Lucius Cross	1931 – 1939	Democrat
Raymond Early Baldwin	1939 – 1941	Republican
Robert Augustine Hurley	1941 – 1943	Democrat
Charles Wilbert Snow	1946 – 1947	Democrat
James Lukens McConaughy	1947 – 1948	Republican
James Coughlin Shannon	1948 – 1949	Republican
Chester Bliss Bowles	1949 – 1951	Democrat
John Davis Lodge	1951 – 1955	Republican
Abraham Alexander Ribicoff	1955 – 1961	Democrat
John Dempsey	1961 – 1971	Democrat
Thomas J. Meskill	1971 – 1975	Republican
Ella T. Grasso	1975 – 1980	Democrat
William A. O’Neill	1980 – 1991	Democrat
Lowell P. Weicker	1991 – 1995	Independent
John G. Rowland	1995 – 2004	Republican
M. Jodi Rell	2004 – 2011	Republican
Dannel Malloy	2011 – 2015, 2015 – 2019	Democrat
Ned Lamont	2019 –	Democrat