List of New Hampshire governors from first to last

New Hampshire joined the Union on June 21, 1788, as the ninth state to ratify the United States Constitution. This act followed shortly after the Constitution was signed on September 17, 1787, and required nine out of the thirteen original colonies to ratify it in order to become effective. New Hampshire’s ratification played a crucial role in the establishment of the United States as it brought into effect the Constitution, marking the beginning of the new federal government.

Meshech Weare became the first governor of the state of New Hampshire. Note that this position was previously known as president of New Hampshire.

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

Name	Time in Office	Party
Meshech Weare	1776 – 1785
John Sullivan	1789 – 1790, 1786 – 1788	Federalist
Josiah Bartlett	1790 – 1794	Democratic-Republican
John Taylor Gilman	1794 – 1805	Federalist
John Langdon	1805 – 1809, 1788 – 1789, 1785 – 1786	Democratic-Republican
Jeremiah Smith	1809 – 1810	Federalist
William Plumer	1812 – 1813	Democratic-Republican
Samuel Bell	1819 – 1823	Democratic-Republican
Levi Woodbury	1823 – 1824	Democratic-Republican
David Lawrence Morril	1824 – 1827	Democratic-Republican
Benjamin Pierce	1827 – 1828	Democratic-Republican
John Bell	1828 – 1829	National Republican
Matthew Harvey	1830 – 1831	Democratic
Joseph Morrill Harper	1831 – 1831	Democratic
Samuel Dinsmoor	1831 – 1834	Democratic
William Badger	1834 – 1836	Democratic
Isaac Hill	1836 – 1839	Democratic
John Page	1839 – 1842	Democratic
Henry Hubbard	1842 – 1844	Democratic
John Hardy Steele	1844 – 1846	Democratic
Anthony Colby	1846 – 1847	Whig
Jared Warner Williams	1847 – 1849	Democratic
Samuel Dinsmoor Jr.	1849 – 1852	Democratic
Noah Martin	1852 – 1854	Democratic
Nathaniel Bradley Baker	1854 – 1855	Democratic
Ralph Metcalf	1855 – 1857	Know-Nothing
William Haile	1857 – 1859	Republican
Icabod Goodwin	1859 – 1861	Republican
Nathaniel Springer Berry	1861 – 1863
Joseph Albree Gilmore	1863 – 1865	Republican
Frederick Smyth	1865 – 1867	Republican
Walter Harriman	1867 – 1869	Republican
Onslow Stearns	1869 – 1871	Republican
Ezekiel Albert Straw	1872 – 1874	Republican
James Adams Weston	1874 – 1875, 1871 – 1872	Democratic
Person Colby Cheney	1875 – 1877	Republican
Benjamin Franklin Prescott	1877 – 1879	Republican
Nathaniel Head	1879 – 1881	Republican
Charles Henry Bell	1881 – 1883	Republican
Samuel Whitney Hale	1883 – 1885	Republican
Moody Currier	1885 – 1887	Republican
Charles Henry Sawyer	1887 – 1889	Republican
David Harvey Goodell	1889 – 1891	Republican
Hiram Americus Tuttle	1891 – 1893	Republican
John Butler Smith	1893 – 1895	Republican
Charles Albert Busiel	1895 – 1897	Republican
George Ramsdell	1897 – 1899	Republican
Frank West Rollins	1899 – 1901	Republican
Chester Bradley Jordan	1901 – 1903	Republican
Nahum Josiah Bachelder	1903 – 1905	Republican
John McLane	1905 – 1907	Republican
Charles Miller Floyd	1907 – 1909	Republican
Henry Brewer Quinby	1909 – 1911	Republican
Robert Perkins Bass	1911 – 1913	Republican
Samuel Demeritt Felker	1913 – 1915	Democratic
Rolland Harty Spaulding	1915 – 1917	Republican
Henry Wilder Keyes	1917 – 1919	Republican
John Henry Bartlett	1919 – 1921	Republican
Albert Oscar Brown	1921 – 1923	Republican
Fred Herbert Brown	1923 – 1925	Democratic
Huntley Nowell Spaulding	1927 – 1929	Republican
Charles William Tobey	1929 – 1931	Republican
John Gilbert Winant	1931 – 1935, 1925 – 1927	Republican
Henry Styles Bridges	1935 – 1937	Republican
Francis Parnell Murphy	1937 – 1941	Republican
Robert Oscar Blood	1941 – 1945	Republican
Charles Milby Dale	1945 – 1949	Republican
Llewelyn Sherman Adams	1949 – 1953
Hugh Gregg	1953 – 1955	Republican
Lane Dwinell	1955 – 1959	Republican
Wesley Powell	1959 – 1963	Republican
John William King	1963 – 1969	Democratic
Walter Peterson	1969 – 1973	Republican
Meldrim Thomson	1973 – 1979	Republican
Hugh J. Gallen	1979 – 1982	Democratic
Vesta M. Roy	1982 – 1983	Republican
John H. Sununu	1983 – 1989	Republican
Judd Gregg	1989 – 1993	Republican
Stephen Merrill	1993 – 1997	Republican
Jeanne Shaheen	1997 – 2003	Democratic
Craig Benson	2003 – 2005	Republican
John Lynch	2005 – 2013	Democratic
Maggie Hassan	2013 – 2017	Democratic
Chuck Morse	2017 – 2017	Republican
Chris Sununu	2017	Republican