Virginia

Commonwealth Governors (Chosen by the State Legislature)
1776-1779   Patrick Henry
1779-1781   Thomas Jefferson
1781-1781   William Fleming (Acting)
1781-1781   Thomas Nelson, Jr.
1781-1781   David Jameson (Acting)
1781-1784   Benjamin Harrison
1784-1786   Patrick Henry
1786-1788   Edmund Randolph
1788-1791   Beverley Randolph
1791-1794   Henry Lee
1794-1796   Robert Brooke
1796-1799   James Wood
1799-1799   Hardin Burnley (Acting)
1799-1799   John Pendleton (Acting)
1799-1802   James Monroe
1802-1805   John Page
1805-1808   William H. Cabell
1808-1811   John Tyler, Sr.
1811-1811   George William Smith (Acting)
1811-1811   James Monroe
1811-1811   George William Smith (Acting)
1811-1811   George William Smith
1811-1812   Peyton Randolph (Acting)
1812-1814   James Barbour
1814-1816   Wilson Cary Nicholas
1816-1819   James P. Preston
1819-1822   Thomas Mann Randolph
1822-1825   James Pleasants
1825-1827   John Tyler, Jr.
1827-1830   William B. Giles
1830-1834   John Floyd
1834-1836   Littleton Waller Tazewell
1836-1837   Wyndham Robertson, (Acting)
1837-1840   David Campbell
1840-1841   Thomas Walker Gilmer
1841-1841   John Mercer Patton (Acting)
1841-1842   John Rutherford (Acting)
1842-1843   John M. Gregory (Acting)
1843-1846   James McDowell
1846-1849   William Smith
1849-1852   John Buchanan Floyd

Commonwealth Governors (Elected by Popular Vote)
1852-1856   Joseph Johnson
1856-1860   Henry Alexander Wise
1860-1864   John Letcher
1864-1865   William Smith
1865-1868   Francis Harrison Pierpont (Provisional)
1868-1869   Henry H. Wells (Provisional)
1869-1869   Gilber C. Walker (Provisional)
1870-1874   Gilbert C. Walker
1874-1878   James Lawson Kemper
1878-1882   Frederick W. M. Holliday
1882-1886   William E. Cameron,
1886-1890   Fitzhugh Lee
1890-1894   Philip W. McKinney
1894-1898   Charles T. O'Ferrall
1898-1902   James Hoge Tyler
1902-1906   Andrew Jackson Montague
1906-1910   Claude A. Swanson
1910-1914   William Hodges Mann
1914-1918   Henry Carter Stuart
1918-1922   Westmoreland Davis
1922-1926   E. Lee Trinkle
1926-1930   Harry F. Byrd
1930-1934   John Garland Pollard
1934-1938   George C. Peery
1938-1942   James H. Price
1942-1946   Colgate W. Darden, Jr.
1946-1950   William M. Tuck,
1950-1954   John Stewart Battle
1954-1958   Thomas B. Stanley
1958-1962   J. Lindsay Almond, Jr.
1962-1966   Albertis S. Harrison, Jr.
1966-1970   Mills E. Godwin, Jr.
1970-1974   A. Linwood Holton
1974-1978   Mills E. Godwin, Jr.
1978-1982   John N. Dalton
1982-1986   Charles S. Robb
1986-1990   Gerald L. Baliles
1990-1994   Lawrence Douglas Wilder
1994-1998   George Allen
1998-2002   James S.Gilmore III
2002 now   Mark R. Warner

References
Virginia, The Governors of Virginia
The Political Graveyard, Index to Politicians: Gilmore
Official Website of the Governor of Virginia