| Under the Crown | ||
| Sir Francis Wyatt, Governor | 1624–1626 | |
| Sir George Yeardley, Governor | 1626–1627 | |
| Francis West (elected by Council) | 1627–1628 | |
| John Pott (elected by Council) | 1628–1629 | |
| Sir John Harvey, Governor | 1629–1635 | |
| John West (elected by Council) | 1635–1636 | |
| Sir John Harvey, Governor | 1636–1639 | |
| Sir Francis Wyatt, Governor | 1639–1641 | |
| Sir William Berkeley, Governor | 1641–1644 | |
| Richard Kemp (elected by Council) | 1644–1645 | |
| Sir William Berkeley, Governor | 1645–1652 | |
| Under the Commonwealth | ||
| Richard Bennett(elected by General Assembly) | 1652–1655 | |
| Edward Digges (elected by House of Burgesses) | 1655–1657 | |
| Samuel Mathews (elected by House of Burgesses) | 1657–1660 | |
| Under the Crown | ||
| Sir William Berkeley, Governor | 1660–1677 | |
| Francis Morrison (or Moryson), Deputy Governor | 1661–1662 | |
| Herbert Jeffreys, Lieutenant Governor | 1677–1678 | |
| Sir Henry Chicheley, Deputy Governor | 1678–1680 | |
| Thomas, Lord Culpeper, Governor | 1680–1683 | |
| Nicholas Spencer, President of the Council | 1683–1684 | |
| Francis, Lord Howard of Effingham, Lieutenant Governor | 1684–1687 | |
| Nathaniel Bacon, President of the Council | 1687–1690 | |
| Francis Nicholson, Lieutenant Governor | 1690–1692 | |
| Sir Edmund Andros, Governor | 1692–1698 | |
| Francis Nicholson, Lieutenant Governor | 1698–1704 | |
| George Hamilton Douglas, Earl of Orkney, Governor-in-Chief | 1704–1737 | |
| Edward Nott, Lieutenant Governor | 1705–1706 | |
| Edmund Jenings, President of the Council | 1706–1710 | |
| Robert Hunter, Lieutenant Governor[1] | 1707 | |
| Alexander Spotswood, Lieutenant Governor | 1710–1722 | |
| Hugh Drysdale, Lieutenant Governor | 1722–1726 | |
| Robert Carter, President of the Council | 1726–1727 | |
| William Gooch, Lieutenant Governor | 1727–1740 | |
| William Anne Keppel, Earl of Albemarle, Governor-in-Chief[1] | 1737–1754 | |
| James Blair, President of the Council | 1740–1741 | |
| Sir William Gooch, Governor | 1741–1749 | |
| John Robinson, President of the Council | 1749 (June to Sept.) | |
| Thomas Lee, President of the Council | 1749–1750 | |
| Lewis Burwell, President of the Council | 1750–1751 | |
| Robert Dinwiddie, Lieutenant Governor | 1751–1758 | |
| John Campbell, Earl of London, Governor General of the American Colonies[1] | 1756–1763 | |
| John Blair, President of the Council | 1758 (Jan. to June) | |
| Francis Fauquier, Lieutenant Governor | 1758–1768 | |
| Sir Jeffrey Amherst, Governor-in-Chief[1] | 1763–1768 | |
| John Blair, President of the Council | 1768 (March to Oct.) | |
| Norborne Berkeley, Baron de Botetourt, Governor-in-Chief | 1768–1770 | |
| William Nelson, President of the Council | 1770–1771 | |
| John Murray, Earl of Dunmore, Governor-in-Chief | 1771–1775 | |
| State | ||
| Patrick Henry | 1776–1779 | |
| Thomas Jefferson | 1779–1781 | |
| Thomas Nelson, jun. | 1781 | |
| Benjamin Harrison | 1781–1784 | |
| Patrick Henry | 1784–1786 | |
| Edmund Randolph | 1786–1788 | |
| Beverley Randolph | 1788–1791 | |
| Henry Lee | 1791–1794 | |
| Robert Brooke | 1794–1796 | |
| James Wood, | Democratic Republican | 1796–1799 |
| James Monroe, | ”” | 1799–1802 |
| John Page, | ”” | 1802–1805 |
| William H. Cabell, | ”” | 1805–1808 |
| John Tyler, sen., | ”” | 1808–1811 |
| James Monroe, | ”” | 1811 |
| George Wm. Smith (acting), | Democratic Republican | 1811 |
| Peyton Randolph (acting) | 1811–1812 | |
| James Barbour, | Anti-Democrat | 1812–1814 |
| Wilson Cary Nicholas, | Republican | 1814–1816 |
| James Patton Preston, | ” | 1816–1819 |
| Thomas Mann Randolph, | ” | 1819–1822 |
| James Pleasants, jun., | ” | 1822–1825 |
| John Tyler, | State Rights Democrat | 1825–1827 |
| William Branch Giles, | Democrat | 1827–1830 |
| John Floyd, | Democrat | 1830–1834 |
| Littleton Waller Tazewell, | Democrat | 1834–1836 |
| Wyndham Robertson (acting), | Democrat | 1836–1837 |
| David Campbell, | Whig | 1837–1840 |
| Thomas W. Gilmer, | Whig | 1840–1841 |
| John M. Patton (acting), | ” | 1841 |
| John Rutherford (acting), | ” | 1841–1842 |
| John Munford Gregory (acting), | Whig | 1842–1843 |
| James McDowell, | ” | 1843–1846 |
| William Smith, | Democrat | 1846–1849 |
| John Buchanan Floyd, | Democrat | 1849–1852 |
| Joseph Johnson, | ” | 1852–1856 |
| Henry Alexander Wise, | ” | 1856–1860 |
| John Letcher, | ” | 1860–1864 |
| William Smith, | ” | 1864–1865 |
| Francis H. Pierpont (provisional), | Republican | 1865–1867 |
| Henry Horatio Wells, (provisional), | ” | 1868–1870 |
| Gilbert Carlton Walker, | ” | 1870–1874 |
| James Lawson Kemper, | Conservative | 1874–1878 |
| Frederick Wm. Mackey Holliday, | “Debt-Paying” | 1878–1882 |
| William Ewan Cameron, | Readjuster | 1882–1886 |
| Fitzhugh Lee, | Democrat | 1886–1890 |
| Philip W. McKinney, | Democrat | 1890–1894 |
| Charles Triplett O'Ferrall, | Democrat | 1894–1898 |
| James Hoge Tyler, | ” | 1898–1902 |
| Andrew Jackson Montague, | ” | 1902–1906 |
| Claude Augustus Swanson, | ” | 1906–1910 |
| William Hodges Mann, | ” | 1910 |
Bibliography.—For physical description see Henry Gannett, Gazetteer of Virginia (Washington, 1904), U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 232; W. B. Rogers, Geology of the Virginias (New York, 1884); N. H. Darton and M. L. Fuller in Water Supply and Irrigation Paper No. 114 (Washington, 1905) of the U.S. Geological Survey; G. T. Surface, “Physiography of Virginia,” pp. 741–53, vol. 38 (1906), Bulletin, Am. Geog. Soc., and “Geography of Virginia,” pp. 1–60, vol. 5 (1907), Bulletin, Philadelphia Geog. Soc.; T. L. Watson et all., Mineral Resources of Virginia (Lynchburg, 1907). On fisheries see the Report of the Commission of Fisheries, 1908–9 (Richmond, 1909). For administration see J. G. Pollard (ed.), Code of Virginia (2 vols., St Paul, 1904); and on finance, W. L. Royall, History of the Virginia Debt Controversy (Richmond, 1897). History.—General histories are: Robert Beverley, History of Virginia in Four Parts (Richmond, 1855); R. R. Howison, History of Virginia (2 vols., ibid., 1849); S. Kercheval, History of the Valley of Virginia (Woodstock, Va., 1850); and J. E. Cook, Virginia: a History of the People (Boston, 1900). On the earlier period see W. A. Clayton Torrence, “A Trial Bibliography of Colonial Virginia” (Richmond, 1910), in the Report of the Virginia State Librarian; L. G. Tyler (ed.), Narratives of Early Virginia, 1606–25 (New York, 1907); W. Stith, History of the First Discovery and Settlement of Virginia (ibid., 1865); Susan M. Kingsbury (ed.), Records of the Virginia Company of London (2 vols., Washington, 1906); Alexander Brown, The First Republic in America (Boston, 1898); idem (ed.), Genesis of the United States (2 vols., ibid., 1890), J. S. Bassett, The Writings of Colonel William Byrd of Westover (New York, 1901); John Fiske, Old Virginia and her Neighbors (ibid., 1897); P. A. Bruce, Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century (2 vols., New York, 1895); J. P. Kennedy and H. R. McIlwaine, Journals of the House of Burgesses, 1742–76 (Richmond, 1905–7); Charles Campbell, History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia (Philadelphia, 1859); E. I. Miller, Legislature of the Province of Virginia (New York, 1908); and, for religious and social conditions, Rt. Rev. W. Meade, Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia (ibid., 1857); and H. J. Eckenrode, “Separation of Church and State in Virginia” (Richmond, 1909) in the 5th Report of the Virginia State Librarian. For the more recent period see Chas. H. Ambler, Sectionalism in Virginia 1770–1861 (Chicago, 1910), a valuable study; P. L. Ford, Writings of Thomas Jefferson (10 vols., New York, 1892–99); W. C. Ford, Writings of George Washington (14 vols., ibid., 1889–93); W. W. Henry, Life, Correspondence and Speeches of Patrick Henry (3 vols., ibid., 1891); J. Elliott, Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution (Philadelphia, 1861); T. R. Dew, Review of the Debate in the Virginia Legislature, 1831–32 (Richmond, 1832), important for a comprehension of the slavery issue; J. C. Ballagh, A History of Slavery in Virginia (Baltimore, 1902); B. B. Munford, Virginia’s Attitude toward Slavery (New York, 1909), and the Debates of the Virginia Conventions, 1776, 1829, 1850, which are very important, especially for 1829. See also R. A. Brock (ed.), Virginia Historical Collections (11 vols., Richmond, 1882–92); P. A. Bruce and W. G. Stanard, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (ibid., 1893 sqq.); W. W, Hening, The Statutes at Large (13 vols, ibid., 1819–23); and W. P. Palmer, Calendar of Virginia State Papers (11 vols., ibid., 1874).
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