Georgia
State Governors
1777-1778 John Adam Treutlen
1778-1779 John Houstoun
1779-1780 James Wright
1780-1780 Richard Howley
1780-1781 Stephen Heard
1781-1782 Nathan Brownson
1782-1783 John Martin
1783-1784 Lyman Hall
1784-1785 John Houstoun
1785-1786 Samuel Elbert
1786-1787 Edward Telfair
1787-1788 George Mathews
1788-1789 George Handley
1789-1789 George Walton
1789-1793 Edward Telfair
1793-1796 George Mathews
1796-1798 Jared Irwin
1798-1801 James Jackson
1801-1801 David Emanuel
1801-1802 Josiah Tattnall, Jr.
1802-1806 John Milledge
1806-1809 Jared Irwin
1809-1813 David Brydie Mitchell
1813-1817 Peter Early
1817-1819 William Rabun
1819-1819 Matthew Talbot
1819-1823 John Clark
1823-1827 George Michael Troup
1827-1829 John Forsyth
1829-1831 George Gilmer
1831-1835 Wilson Lumpkin
1835-1837 William Schley
1837-1839 George Rockingham Gilmer
1839-1843 Charles James McDonald
1843-1847 George Walker Crawford
1847-1851 George Washington Towns
1851-1853 Howell Cobb
1853-1857 Herschel Vespasian Johnson
1857-1865 Joseph Emerson Brown
1865-1865 James Johnson (Appointed by President Andrew Johnson)
1865-1868 Charles Jones Jenkins
1868-1868 Thomas Ruger (Provisional)
1868-1871 Rufus Bullock
1871-1872 Benjamin Conley
1872-1877 James Milton Smith
1877-1882 Alfred Holt Colquitt
1882-1883 Alexander Hamilton Stephens
1883-1883 James Stoddard Boynton
1883-1886 Henry Dickerson McDaniel
1886-1890 John Brown Gordon
1890-1894 William Jonathan Northen
1894-1898 William Yates Atkinson
1898-1902 Allen Daniel Candler
1902-1907 Joseph Meriwether Terrell
1907-1909 Hoke Smith
1909-1911 Joseph Mackey Brown
1911-1911 Hoke Smith
1911-1912 John Marshall Slaton
1912-1913 Joseph Mackey Brown
1913-1915 John Marshall Slaton
1915-1917 Nathaniel Edwin Harris
1917-1921 Hugh M. Dorsey
1921-1923 Thomas W. Hardwick
1923-1927 Clifford Mitchell Walker
1927-1931 Lamartine Griffin Hardman
1931-1933 Richard B. Russell, Jr.
1933-1937 Eugene Talmadge
1937-1941 E. D. Rivers
1941-1943 Eugene Talmadge
1943-1947 Ellis Gibbs Arnall
1947-1947 Herman E. Talmadge
1947-1948 Melvin Ernest Thompson
1948-1955 Herman E. Talmadge
1955-1959 Marvin Griffin
1959-1963 S. Ernest Vandiver, Jr.
1963-1967 Carl Edward Sanders
1971-1975 Lester Maddox
1967-1971 Jimmy Carter
1975-1983 George Dekle Busbee
1983-1991 Joe Frank Harris
1991-1999 Zell Miller
1999-2003 Roy E. Barnes
2003 now Sonny Perdue
References
Our Georgia History, Governors of Georgia, 1733-1800
Our Georgia History, Governors of Georgia, 1801-1900
The Political Graveyard, Georgia: Governors
Sonny Perdue, Georgia Govenor
