Rhode Island

Royal Charter Governors
1663-1666   Benedict Arnold
1666-1669   William Brenton
1669-1672   Benedict Arnold
1672-1674   Nicholas Easton
1674-1676   William Coddington, Sr.
1676-1677   Walter Clarke
1677-1678   Benedict Arnold
1678-1678   William Coddington, Sr.
1678-1680   John Cranston
1680-1683   Peleg Sanford
1683-1685   William Coddington, Jr.
1685-1686   Henry Bull
1686-1686   Walter Clarke
1686-1689   Sir Edmund Andros
1689-1690   Henry Bull
1690-1695   John Easton
1695-1695   Caleb Carr
1696-1698   Walter Clarke
1698-1727   Samuel Cranston
1727-1732   Joseph Jencks
1732-1733   William Wanton
1734-1740   John Wanton
1740-1743   Richard Ward
1743-1745   William Greene
1745-1746   Gideon Wanton
1746-1747   William Greene
1747-1748   Gideon Wanton
1748-1755   William Greene
1755-1757   Stephen Hopkins
1757-1758   William Greene
1758-1762   Stephen Hopkins
1762-1763   Samuel Ward
1763-1765   Stephen Hopkins
1765-1767   Samuel Ward
1768-1769   Josias Lyndon
1769-1775   Joseph Wanton
1775-1778   Nicholas Cooke
1778-1786   William Greene, Jr.
1786-1790   John Collins
1790-1805   Arthur Fenner
1806-1807   Isaac Wilbour

State Governors, First Constitution
1807-11   James Fenner
1811-17   William Jones
1817-21   Nehemiah R. Knight
1821-24   William C. Gibbs
1824-31   James Fenner
1831-33   Lemuel H. Arnold
1833-38   John B. Francis
1838-39   William Sprague
1840-43   Samuel W. King

State Governors, Constitution 1843
1843-1845   James Fenner
1845-1846   Charles Jackson
1846-1847   Byron Diman
1847-1849   Elisha Harris
1849-1851   Henry B. Anthony
1851-1853   Philip Allen
1853-1854   Francis M. Dimond
1854-1857   William W. Hoppin
1857-1859   Elisha Dyer, Sr
1859-1860   Thomas G. Turner
1860-1863   William Sprague II
1863-1863   William C. Cozzens
1863-1866   James Y. Smith
1866-1869   Ambrose E. Burnside
1869-1873   Seth Padelford, Taunton
1873-1875   Henry Howard
1875-1877   Henry Lippitt
1877-1880   Charles C. Van Zandt
1880-1883   Alfred H. Littlefield
1883-1885   Augustus O. Bourn
1885-1887   George P. Wetmore
1887-1888   John W. Davis
1888-1889   Royal C. Taft
1889-1890   Herbert W. Ladd
1890-1891   John W. Davis
1891-1892   Herbert W. Ladd
1892-1895   D. Russell Brown
1895-1897   Charles W. Lippitt
1897-1900   Elisha Dyer, Jr.
1900-1901   William Gregory
1901-1903   Charles D. Kimball
1903-1905   Lucius F. C. Garvin
1905-1907   George H. Utter
1907-1909   James H. Higgins
1909-1915   Aram J. Pothier
1915-1921   R. Livingston Beeckman
1921-1923   Emery J. San Souci
1923-1925   William S. Flynn
1925-1928   Aram J. Pothier
1928-1933   Norman S. Case
1933-1937   Theodore F. Green
1937-1939   Robert E. Quinn
1939-1941   William H. Vanderbilt
1941-1945   J. Howard McGrath
1945-1950   John O. Pastore
1950-1951   John S. McKiernan
1951-1959   Dennis J. Roberts
1959-1961   Christopher Del Sesto
1961-1963   John A. Notte, Jr.
1963-1969   John H. Chafee
1969-1973   Frank Licht
1973-1977   Philip W. Noel
1977-1985   J. Joseph Garrahy
1985-1991   Edward D. DiPrete
1991-1995   Bruce G. Sundlun
1995-2003   Lincoln C. Almond
2003 now   Donald L. Carcieri

References
Office of the Secretary of State, Rhode Island Governors
Rhode Island Presidents and Governors