Governors of Georgia

Archibald Bulloch

None

1776 - 1777

Button Gwinnett

None

1777 - 1777

John A. Treutlen

None

1777 - 1778

John Houstoun

None

1778 - 1778

John Wereat

None

1779 - 1779

George Walton

None

1779 - 1780

George Wells

None

1780 - 1780

Stephen Heard

None

1780 - 1781

Nathan Brownson

None

1781 - 1782

John Martin

None

1782 - 1783

Lyman Hall

None

1783 - 1784

John Houstoun

None

1784 - 1785

Samuel Elbert

None

1785 - 1786

Edward Telfair

None

1786 - 1787

George Mathews

None

1787 - 1788

George Handley

None

1788 - 1789

George Walton

Democratic-Republican

1789 - 1789

Edward Telfair

Democratic-Republican

1789 - 1793

George Mathews

Democratic-Republican

1793 - 1796

Jared Irwin

Democratic-Republican

1796 - 1798

James Jackson

Democratic-Republican

1798 - 1801

David Emanuel

Democratic-Republican

1801 - 1801

Josiah Tattnall

Democratic-Republican

1801 - 1802

John Milledge

Democratic-Republican

1802 - 1806

Jared Irwin

Democratic-Republican

1806 - 1809

David Brydie Mitchell

Democratic-Republican

1809 - 1813

Peter Early

Democratic-Republican

1813 - 1815

David Brydie Mitchell

Democratic-Republican

1815 - 1817

William Rabun

Democratic-Republican

1817 - 1819

Matthew Talbot

Democratic-Republican

1819 - 1819

John Clark

Democratic-Republican

1819 - 1823

George Troup

Democratic-Republican

1823 - 1827

John Forsyth

Democratic-Republican

1827 - 1829

George Rockingham Gilmer

Democratic-Republican

1829 - 1831

Wilson Lumpkin

Union (Democratic)

1831 - 1835

William Schley

Union (Democratic)

1835 - 1837

George Rockingham Gilmer

State Rights (Whig)

1837 - 1839

Charles James McDonald

Union (Democratic)

1839 - 1843

George W. Crawford

Whig

1843 - 1847

George W. Towns

Democratic

1847 - 1851

Howell Cobb

Constitutional Union

1851 - 1853

Herschel Vespasian Johnson

Democratic

1853 - 1857

Joseph E. Brown

Democratic

1857 - 1865

James Johnson

Democratic

1865 - 1865

Charles J. Jenkins

Democratic

1865 - 1868

Thomas H. Ruger

None

1868 - 1868

Rufus Bullock

Republican

1868 - 1871

Benjamin F. Conley

Republican

1871 - 1872

James Milton Smith

Democratic

1872 - 1877

Alfred H. Colquitt

Democratic

1877 - 1882

Alexander H. Stephens

Democratic

1882 - 1883

James S. Boynton

Democratic

1883 - 1883

Henry Dickerson McDaniel

Democratic

1883 - 1886

John Brown Gordon

Democratic

1886 - 1890

William J. Northen

Democratic

1890 - 1894

William Yates Atkinson

Democratic

1894 - 1898

Allen D. Candler

Democratic

1898 - 1902

Joseph M. Terrell

Democratic

1902 - 1907

M. Hoke Smith

Democratic

1907 - 1909

Joseph Mackey Brown

Democratic

1909 - 1911

M. Hoke Smith

Democratic

1911 - 1911

John M. Slaton

Democratic

1911 - 1912

Joseph Mackey Brown

Democratic

1912 - 1913

John M. Slaton

Democratic

1913 - 1915

Nathaniel Edwin Harris

Democratic

1915 - 1917

Hugh Dorsey

Democratic

1917 - 1921

Thomas W. Hardwick

Democratic

1921 - 1923

Clifford Walker

Democratic

1923 - 1927

Lamartine Griffin Hardman

Democratic

1927 - 1931

Richard Russell Jr.

Democratic

1931 - 1933

Eugene Talmadge

Democratic

1933 - 1937

Eurith D. Rivers

Democratic

1937 - 1941

Eugene Talmadge

Democratic

1941 - 1943

Ellis Arnall

Democratic

1943 - 1947

Herman Talmadge

Democratic

1947 - 1947

Melvin E. Thompson

Democratic

1947 - 1948

Herman Talmadge

Democratic

1948 - 1955

Marvin Griffin

Democratic

1955 - 1959

Ernest Vandiver

Democratic

1959 - 1963

Carl Sanders

Democratic

1963 - 1967

Lester Maddox

Democratic

1967 - 1971

Jimmy Carter

Democratic

1971 - 1975

George Busbee

Democratic

1975 - 1983

Joe Frank Harris

Democratic

1983 - 1991

Zell Miller

Democratic

1991 - 1999

Roy Barnes

Democratic

1999 - 2003

Sonny Perdue

Republican

2003 - 2011

Nathan Deal

Republican

2011 - 2019

Brian Kemp

Republican

2019 -