List of Maine governors from first to last

Maine joined the Union on March 15, 1820, as the 23rd state. This event was part of the Missouri Compromise, a significant legislative agreement in the United States Congress that aimed to maintain the balance of power between slave and free states. Maine’s admission as a free state was balanced by the admission of Missouri as a slave state in 1821.

William King became the first governor of the state of Maine on May 31, 1820.

Here is a chronological list of the governors of Maine from first to last.

Governor’s Name	Time in Office	Party
William King	1820 – 1821	Democratic-Republican
William Durkee Williamson	1821 – 1821	Democratic-Republican
Benjamin Ames	1821 – 1822	Democratic-Republican
Daniel Rose	1822 – 1822	Democratic-Republican
Albion Keith Parris	1822 – 1827	Democratic-Republican
Enoch Lincoln	1827 – 1829	Democratic-Republican
Nathan Cutler	1829 – 1830	Democratic-Republican
Joshua Hall	1830 – 1830	National-Republican
Jonathan Glidden Hunton	1830 – 1831	National-Republican
Samuel Emerson Smith	1831 – 1834	Democratic-Republican
Robert Pinckney Dunlap	1834 – 1838	Democratic
Richard H. Vose	1841 – 1841	Whig
Edward Kent	1841 – 1842 1838 – 1839	Whig
John Fairfield	1842 – 1843 1839 – 1841	Democratic
Edward Kavanagh	1843 – 1844	Democratic
David Dunn	1844 – 1844	Democratic
Hugh Johnson Anderson	1844 – 1847	Democratic
John Winchester Dana	1847 – 1850 1844 – 1844	Democratic
John Hubbard	1850 – 1853	Democratic
William George Crosby	1853 – 1855	Whig
Anson Peaslee Morrill	1855 – 1856	Republican
Samuel Wells	1856 – 1857	Democratic
Hannibal Hamlin	1857 – 1857	Republican
Joseph Hartwell Williams	1857 – 1858	Republican
Lot Myrick Morrill	1858 – 1861	Republican
Israel Washburn, Jr.	1861 – 1863	Republican
Abner Coburn	1863 – 1864	Republican
Samuel Cony	1864 – 1867	Republican
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain	1867 – 1871	Republican
Sidney Perham	1871 – 1874	Republican
Nelson Dingley	1874 – 1876	Republican
Seldon Connor	1876 – 1879	Republican
Alonzo Garcelon	1879 – 1880	Democratic
Daniel Franklin Davis	1880 – 1881	Republican
Harris Merrill Plaisted	1881 – 1883	Greenback
Frederick Robie	1883 – 1887	Republican
Joseph Robinson Bodwell	1887 – 1887	Republican
Sebastian Streeter Marble	1887 – 1889	Republican
Edwin Chick Burleigh	1889 – 1893	Republican
Henry B. Cleaves	1893 – 1897	Republican
Llewellyn Powers	1897 – 1901	Republican
John Fremont Hill	1901 – 1905	Republican
William Titcomb Cobb	1905 – 1909	Republican
Bert Manfred Fernald	1909 – 1911	Republican
Frederick William Plaisted	1911 – 1913	Democratic
William Thomas Haines	1913 – 1915	Republican
Oakley Chester Curtis	1915 – 1917	Democratic
Carl Elias Milliken	1917 – 1921	Republican
Frederic Hale Parkhurst	1921 – 1921	Republican
Percival Proctor Baxter	1921 – 1925	Republican
Ralph Owen Brewster	1925 – 1929	Republican
William Tudor Gardiner	1929 – 1933	Republican
Louis Jefferson Brann	1933 – 1937	Democratic
Lewis Orin Barrows	1937 – 1941	Republican
Sumner Sewall	1941 – 1945	Republican
Horace Augustus Hildreth	1945 – 1949	Republican
Frederick George Payne	1949 – 1952	Republican
Burton Melvin Cross	1953 – 1955	Republican
Edmund Sixtus Muskie	1955 – 1959	Democratic
Robert N. Haskell	1959 – 1959	Republican
Clinton Amos Clauson	1959 – 1959	Democratic
John Hathaway Reed	1959 – 1967	Republican
Kenneth Merwin Curtis	1967 – 1975	Democratic
James Bernard Longley	1975 – 1979	Independent
Joseph Edward Brennan	1979 – 1987	Democratic
John Rettie McKernan	1987 – 1995	Republican
Angus S. King	1995 – 2003	Independent
John E. Baldacci	2003 – 2011	Democratic
Paul LePage	2011 – 2019	Republican
Janet Mills	2019 –	Democratic