Table of contents
1 Governors under the Proprietors (1665-1674)
2 Governors of East Jersey and their Deputies (1674-1702)
3 Governors of West Jersey and their Deputies (1680-1702)
4 Governors under Royal Government (1703-1776)
5 Governors under the U.S. Constitution (1776-present)

Governors under the Proprietors (1665-1674)

  • Philip Carteret 1665-1672
  • John Berry 1672-1673
  • Anthony Colve 1673-1674

Governors of East Jersey and their Deputies (1674-1702)

  • Philip Carteret 1674-1682
  • Robert Barclay 1682-1688
  • Thomas Rudyard, Deputy 1682-1683
  • Gawen Lawrie, Deputy 1683-1686
  • Lord Neill Campbell, Deputy 1686-1687
  • Andrew Hamilton, Deputy 1687-1690
  • Edmund Andros 1688-1689
  • Andrew Hamilton 1692-1697
  • Jeremiah Basse 1698-1699
  • Andrew Hamilton 1699-1702

Governors of West Jersey and their Deputies (1680-1702)

Governors under Royal Government (1703-1776)

Governors of New York and New Jersey (1703-1738)

  • Edward Hyde, Lord Cornbury 1703-8
  • John, Lord Lovelace 1708-9
  • Richard Ingoldesby, Lieutenant and Governor 1709-10
  • Robert Hunter 1710-20
  • William Burnet 1720-28
  • John Montgomerie 1728-31
  • Lewis Morris, President Of Council 1731-1732
  • William Cosby 1732-36
  • John Anderson, President Of Council 1736
  • John Hamilton, President Of Council 1736-1738

Governors of New Jersey Only (1738-1776)

Governors under the U.S. Constitution (1776-present)

Governors under the 1776 N.J. Constitution (1776-1844)

  • William Livingston 1776-90
  • Elisha Lawrence 1790 (?)
  • William Paterson 1790-93
  • Thomas Henderson 1793 (?)
  • Richard Howell 1793-1801
  • Joseph Bloomfield 1801-02
  • John Lambert, Acting Governor 1802-03
  • Joseph Bloomfield 1803-12
  • Aaron Ogden 1812-13
  • William S. Pennington 1813-15
  • William Kennedy 1815 (?)
  • Mahlon Dickerson 1815-17
  • Isaac Halstead Williamson 1817-29
  • Peter Dumont Vroom 1829-32
  • Samuel Lewis Southard 1832-33
  • Elias P. Seeley 1833
  • Peter Dumont Vroom 1833-36
  • Philemon Dickerson1836-37
  • William Pennington 1837-43
  • Daniel Haines 1843-45

Governors under the 1844 N.J. Constitution (1844-1946)

Governors under the 1947 N.J. Constitution (1947-present)