List of Massachusetts governors from first to last

Massachusetts joined the Union on February 6, 1788. It was the sixth state to do so after ratifying the United States Constitution. The state is home to significant historical events, including the Boston Tea Party, the Battle of Lexington and Concord, and the first meeting of the Continental Congress, which played crucial roles in the American fight for independence.

John Hancock became the first governor of Massachusetts on Oct 25, 1780.

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

S/N	Name	Time in Office	Party
1	John Hancock	1787 – 1793, 1780 – 1785	Federalist
2	Samuel Adams	1793 – 1797	Democratic-Republican
3	Increase Sumner	1797 – 1799	Federalist
4	James Sullivan	1807 – 1808	Democratic-Republican
5	Levi Lincoln Sr.	1808 – 1809	Democratic-Republican
6	Christopher Gore	1809 – 1810	Federalist
7	Elbridge Gerry	1810 – 1812	Democratic-Republican
8	Caleb Strong	1812 – 1816, 1800 – 1807	Federalist
9	John Brooks	1816 – 1823	Federalist
10	William Eustis	1823 – 1825	Republican
11	Levi Lincoln Jr.	1825 – 1834	Democratic-Republican
12	Samuel Turell Armstrong	1835 – 1836	Whig
13	Edward Everett	1836 – 1840	Whig
14	John Davis	1841 – 1843, 1834 – 1835	Whig
15	George Nixon Briggs	1844 – 1851	Anti-Jacksonian, Whig
16	George Sewall Boutwell	1851 – 1853	Republican
17	John Henry Clifford	1853 – 1854	Whig
18	Emory Washburn	1854 – 1855	Whig
19	Henry Joseph Gardner	1855 – 1858	American (Know-Nothing)
20	Nathaniel Prentice Banks	1858 – 1861	Republican
21	John Albion Andrew	1861 – 1866	Whig, Republican
22	Alexander Hamilton Bullock	1866 – 1869	Whig, Republican
23	William Claflin	1869 – 1872	Republican
24	William Barrett Washburn	1872 – 1874	Republican
25	William Gaston	1875 – 1876	Democratic
26	Alexander Hamilton Rice	1876 – 1879	Republican
27	Thomas Talbot	1879 – 1880, 1874 – 1875	Republican
28	John Davis Long	1880 – 1883	Republican
29	Benjamin Franklin Butler	1883 – 1884	Democratic, National
30	George Dexter Robinson	1884 – 1887	Republican
31	Oliver Ames	1887 – 1890	Republican
32	John Quincy Adams Brackett	1890 – 1891	Republican
33	William Eustis Russell	1891 – 1894	Democratic
34	Frederic Thomas Greenhalge	1894 – 1896	Republican
35	Roger Wolcott	1896 – 1900	Republican
36	Winthrop Murray Crane	1900 – 1903	Republican
37	John Lewis Bates	1903 – 1905	Republican
38	William Lewis Douglas	1905 – 1906	Democratic
39	Curtis Guild	1906 – 1909	Republican
40	Ebenezer Sumner Draper	1909 – 1911	Republican
41	Eugene Noble Foss	1911 – 1914	Democratic
42	David Ignatius Walsh	1914 – 1916	Democratic
43	Samuel Walker McCall	1916 – 1919	Republican
44	John Calvin Coolidge	1919 – 1921	Republican
45	Channing Harris Cox	1921 – 1925	Republican
46	Alvan Tufts Fuller	1925 – 1929	Republican
47	Frank G. Allen	1929 – 1931	Republican
48	Joseph Buell Ely	1931 – 1935	Democratic
49	James Michael Curley	1935 – 1937	Democratic
50	Charles Francis Hurley	1937 – 1939	Democratic
51	Leverett Saltonstall	1939 – 1945	Republican
52	Marcus Morton	1843 – 1844, 1940 – 1841, 1825 – 1825	Democratic-Republican
53	Maurice Tobin	1945 – 1947	Democratic
54	Robert Fiske Bradford	1947 – 1949	Republican
55	Paul Andrew Dever	1949 – 1953	Democratic
56	Christian Archibald Herter	1953 – 1957	Republican
57	Foster John Furcolo	1957 – 1961	Democratic
58	Endicott Peabody	1963 – 1965	Democratic
59	John Anthony Volpe	1965 – 1969, 1961 – 1963	Republican
60	Francis Williams Sargent	1969 – 1975	Republican
61	Edward J. King	1979 – 1983	Democratic
62	Michael Stanley Dukakis	1983 – 1991, 1975 – 1979	Democratic
63	William Floyd Weld	1991 – 1997	Republican
64	Argeo Paul Cellucci	1997 – 2001	Republican
65	Jane Maria Swift	2001 – 2003	Republican
66	Mitt Romney	2003 – 2007	Republican
67	Deval Patrick	2007 – 2015	Democratic
68	Charlie Baker	2019 – 2023, 2015 – 2019	Republican
69	Maura Healey	2023 –	Democratic