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All Governors of North Carolina

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Years Served
Party
Governor
1776 - 1780
None
Richard Caswell
1780 - 1781
None
Abner Nash
1781 - 1782
None
Thomas Burke
1782 - 1785
None
Alexander Martin
1785 - 1787
None
Richard Caswell
1787 - 1789
Federalist
Samuel Johnston
1789 - 1792
Federalist
Alexander Martin
1792 - 1795
Federalist
Richard Dobbs Spaight
1795 - 1798
Democratic Republican
Samuel Ashe
1798 - 1799
Federalist
William Richardson Davie
1799 - 1802
Federalist
Benjamin Williams
Candidate who died before taking office
Democratic Republican
John Baptista Ashe
1802 - 1805
Democratic Republican
James Turner
1805 - 1807
Democratic Repblican
Nathaniel Alexander
1807 - 1808
Federalist
Benjamin Williams
1808 - 1810
Democratic Republican
David Stone
1810 - 1811
Democratic Republican
Benjamin Smith
181 - 1814
Democratic Republican
William Hawkins
1814 - 1817
Democratic Republican
William Miller
1817 - 1820
Democratic Republican
John Branch
1820 - 1821
Democratic Republican
Jesse Franklin
1821 - 1824
Democratic Republican
Gabriel Holmes
1824 - 1827
Democratic Republican
Hutchins Gordon Burton
1827 - 1828
Democratic Republican
James Iredell Jr.
1828 - 1830
Democratic Republican
John Owen
1830 - 1832
Democratic Republican
Montfort Stokes
1832 - 1835
Whig
David Lowry Swain
1835 - 1836
Democrat
Richard Dobbs Spaight Jr.
1836 - 1841
Whig
Edward Bishop Dudley
1841 - 1845
Whig
John Motley Morehead
1845 - 1849
Whig
William Alexander Graham
1849 - 1851
Whig
Charles Manly
1851 - 1854
Democrat
David Settle Reid
1854 - 1855
Democrat
Warren Winslow
1855 - 1859
Democrat
Thomas Bragg
1859 - 1861
Democrat
John Willis Ellis
1861 - 1862
Democrat
Henry Toole Clark
1862 - 1865
Conservative
Zebulon Baird Vance
1865
Not Applicable
William Woods Holden
Years Served
Party
Governor
1865 - 1868
Conservative
Jonathan Worth
1868 - 1871
Republican
William Woods Holden
1871 - 1874
Republican
Tod Robinson Caldwell
1874 - 1877
Republican
Curtis Hooks Brogden
1877 - 1879
Democrat
Zebulon Baird Vance
1879 - 1885
Democrat
Thomas Jordan Jarvis
1885 - 1889
Democrat
Alfred Moore Scales
1889 - 1891
Democrat
Daniel Gould Fowle
1891 - 1893
Democrat
Thomas Michael Holt
1893 - 1897
Democrat
Elias Carr
1897 - 1901
Republican
Daniel Lindsay Russell
1901 - 1905
Democrat
Charles Brantley Aycock
1905 - 1909
Democrat
Robert Broadnax Glenn
1909 - 1913
Democrat
William Walton Kitchin
1913 - 1917
Democrat
Locke Craig
1917 - 1921
Democrat
Thomas Walter Bickett
1921 - 1925
Democrat
Cameron A. Morrison
1925 - 1929
Democrat
Angus Wilton McLean
1929 - 1933
Democrat
Oliver Max Gardner
1933 - 1937
Democrat
John C. B. Ehringhaus
1937 - 1941
Democrat
Clyde R. Hoey
1941 - 1945
Democrat
J. Melville Broughton
1945 - 1949
Democrat
R. Gregg Cherry
1949 - 1953
Democrat
W. Kerr Scott
1953 - 1954
Democrat
William B. Umstead
1954 - 1961
Democrat
Luther H. Hodges
1961 - 1964
Democrat
Terry Sanford
1965 - 1969
Democrat
Dan K. Moore
1969 - 1973
Democrat
Robert W. Scott
1973 - 1977
Republican
James Holshouser
1977 - 1985
Democrat
Jim Hunt
1985 - 1993
Republican
James G. Martin
1993 - 2001
Democrat
Jim Hunt
2001 - 2009
Democrat
Mike Easley
2009 - 2013
Democrat
Bev Perdue
2013 - 2017
Republican
Pat McCrory
2017 - 2025
Democrat
Roy Cooper
2025 - Present
Democrat
Josh Stein
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Level 82
Apr 10, 2026
Quiz says James Holshouser was governer from 1873 - 1977. That's a very long time.