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A history of Virginia

from its discovery and settlement by Europeans to the present time
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
LIST OF PRESIDENTS, GOVERNORS, ETC, OF VIRGINIA,

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LIST OF PRESIDENTS, GOVERNORS, ETC, OF VIRGINIA,

DURING HER EXISTENCE AS A COLONY AND A STATE.

                                                                         

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1607. Edward Maria Wingfield,  President 
1607. John Ratcliffe,  President 
1608. John Smith,  President 
1609. George Percy,  President 
1609. Thomas West, Lord Delaware,  Governor. 
1611. Thomas Dale,  High Marshal 
1616. George Yeardley,  Lieutenant-Governor 
1617. Samuel Argal,  Lieutenant-Governor 
1619. George Yeardley,  Governor. 
1621. Francis Wyatt,  Governor. 
1626. George Yeardley,  Governor. 
1627. Francis West,  Governor. 
1628. John Potts,  Governor. 
1629. John Hervey,  Governor. 
1635. John West,  Governor. 
1635. John Hervey,  Governor. 
1639. Francis Wyatt,  Governor. 
1641. William Berkeley,  Governor. 
1645. Richard Kemp,  Lieutenant-Governor 
1645. William Berkeley,  Governor 
1652. Richard Bennett,  Governor 
1656. Edward Digges,  Governor 
1658. Samuel Matthews,  Governor 
1660. William Berkeley,  Governor 
1677. Herbert Jeffries,  Lieutenant-Governor. 
1677. Herbert Jeffries,  Governor. 
1678. Henry Chicheley,  Governor. 
1679. Thomas, Lord Culpeper,  Governor. 
1680. Henry Chicheley,  Lieutenant-Governor. 
1684. Lord Howard of Effingham,  Governor. 
1689. Nathaniel Bacon,  Lieutenant-Governor. 
1690. Francis Nicholson,  Lieutenant-Governor. 
1692. Edmund Andros,  Governor. 
1698. Francis Nicholson,  Governor. 
1704. Earl of Orkney,  Governor. 
1705. Edward Nott,  Lieutenant-Governor. 
1706. Edmund Jennings,  Lieutenant-Governor. 
1710. Robert Hunter,  Lieutenant-Governor 
1710. Alexander Spotswood,  Lieutenant-Governor 
1722. Hugh Drysdale,  Lieutenant-Governor 
1726. Robert Carter,  Lieutenant-Governor 
1727. William Gooch,  Lieutenant-Governor 
1749. William Robinson,  Lieutenant-Governor 
1749. Lord Albemarle,  Governor. 
1750. Louis Burwell,  Lieutenant-Governor. 
1752. Robert Dinwiddie,  Lieutenant-Governor. 
1758. John Blair,  Lieutenant-Governor. 
1758. Francis Fauquier,  Governor. 
1768. John Blair,  Lieutenant-Governor. 
1768. Norborne Berkeley De Botetourt,  Governor. 
1770. William Nelson,  Lieutenant-Governor. 
1772. John, Lord Dunmore,  Governor 
1776. Patrick Henry,  (State)  Governor 
1779. Thomas Jefferson,  (State)  Governor 
1781. Thomas Nelson,  (State)  Governor 
1781. Benjamin Harrison,  (State)  Governor 
1784. Patrick Henry,  (State)  Governor 
1786. Edmund Randolph,  (State)  Governor 
1788. Beverley Randolph,  (State)  Governor 
1791. Henry Lee,  (State)  Governor 
1794. Robert Brooke,  (State)  Governor 
1796. James Wood,  (State)  Governor 
1799. James Monroe,  (State)  Governor 
1802. John Page,  (State)  Governor 
1805. William H. Cabell,  (State)  Governor 
1808. John Tyler,  (State)  Governor 
1811. James Monroe,  (State)  Governor 
1811. George W. Smith,  (State)  Governor 
1812. James Barbour,  (State)  Governor 
1814. Wilson Carey Nicholas,  (State)  Governor 
1816. James P. Preston,  (State)  Governor 
1819. Thomas M. Randolph,  (State)  Governor 
1822. James Pleasants,  (State)  Governor 
1825. John Tyler,  (State)  Governor 
1827. William B. Giles,  (State)  Governor 
1830. John Floyd,  (State)  Governor 
1834. Littleton W. Tazewell,  (State)  Governor 
1836. Wyndham Robertson,  (State)  Lieutenant-Governor 
1837. David Campbell,  (State)  Governor 
1840. Thomas W. Gilmer,  (State)  Governor 
1841. John M. Patton,  (State)  Lieutenant-Governor 
1841. John Rutherford,  (State)  Lieutenant-Governor 
1842. John M. Gregory,  (State)  Lieutenant-Governor 
1843. James McDowell,  (State)  Governor. 
1846. William Smith,  (State)  Governor.