Governor of South Carolina
Governor History95
Henry McMasterRepublican • Jan 2023 – Present
Henry McMasterRepublican • Jan 2019 – Jan 2023
Henry McMasterRepublican • Jan 2017 – Jan 2019
Nikki R. HaleyRepublican • Jan 2011 – Dec 2017
Mark SanfordRepublican • Jan 2003 – Dec 2011
Jim HodgesDemocratic • Jan 1999 – Dec 2003
David M. BeasleyRepublican • Jan 1995 – Dec 1999
Carroll A. CampbellRepublican • Jan 1987 – Dec 1995
Richard Wilson RileyDemocratic • Jan 1979 – Dec 1987
James Burrows EdwardsRepublican • Jan 1975 – Dec 1979
John Carl WestDemocratic • Jan 1971 – Dec 1975
Robert Evander McNairDemocratic • Jan 1965 – Dec 1971
Donald Stuart RussellDemocratic • Jan 1963 – Dec 1965
Ernest F. HollingsDemocratic • Jan 1959 – Dec 1963
George Bell TimmermanDemocratic • Jan 1955 – Dec 1959
James Francis ByrnesDemocratic • Jan 1951 – Dec 1955
Strom ThurmondDemocratic • Jan 1947 – Dec 1951
Ransome Judson WilliamsDemocratic • Jan 1945 – Dec 1947
Olin De Witt Talmadge JohnstonDemocratic • Jan 1943 – Dec 1945
Richard Manning JeffriesDemocratic • Jan 1942 – Dec 1943
Joseph Emile HarleyDemocratic • Jan 1941 – Dec 1942
Burnet Rhett MaybankDemocratic • Jan 1939 – Dec 1941
Olin De Witt Talmadge JohnstonDemocratic • Jan 1935 – Dec 1939
Ibra Charles BlackwoodDemocratic • Jan 1931 – Dec 1935
John Gardiner RichardsDemocratic • Jan 1927 – Dec 1931
Thomas Gordon McLeodDemocratic • Jan 1923 – Dec 1927
Wilson Godfrey HarveyDemocratic • Jan 1922 – Dec 1923
Robert Archer CooperDemocratic • Jan 1919 – Dec 1922
Charles A. SmithDemocratic • Jan 1915 – Dec 1915
Richard Irvine Manning IIIDemocratic • Jan 1915 – Dec 1919
Coleman Livingston BleaseDemocratic • Jan 1911 – Dec 1915
Martin Frederick AnselDemocratic • Jan 1907 – Dec 1911
Duncan Clinch HeywardDemocratic • Jan 1903 – Dec 1907
Miles Benjamin McSweeneyDemocratic • Jan 1899 – Dec 1903
William Haselden EllerbeDemocratic • Jan 1897 – Dec 1899
John Gary EvansDemocratic • Jan 1894 – Dec 1897
Benjamin Ryan TillmanDemocratic • Jan 1890 – Dec 1894
John Calhoun SheppardDemocratic • Jan 1886 – Dec 1886
John Peter RichardsonDemocratic • Jan 1886 – Dec 1890
Hugh Smith ThompsonDemocratic • Jan 1882 – Dec 1886
Thomas Bothwell JeterDemocratic • Jan 1880 – Dec 1880
Johnson HagoodDemocratic • Jan 1880 – Dec 1882
William Dunlap SimpsonDemocratic • Jan 1879 – Dec 1880
Wade Hampton IIIDemocratic • Jan 1876 – Dec 1879
Daniel Henry ChamberlainRepublican • Jan 1874 – Dec 1876
Franklin J. MosesRepublican • Jan 1872 – Dec 1874
Robert C. "Bobby" ScottRepublican • Jan 1868 – Dec 1872
Edward R. S. CanbyJan 1868 – Dec 1868
James Lawrence OrrConservative • Jan 1865 – Dec 1868
Benjamin Franklin PerryDemocratic • Jan 1865 – Dec 1865
Andrew Gordon MacGrathDemocratic • Jan 1864 – Dec 1865
Milledge Luke BonhamDemocratic • Jan 1862 – Dec 1864
Francis Wilkinson PickensJan 1860 – Dec 1862
William Henry GistDemocratic • Jan 1858 – Dec 1860
Robert Francis Withers AllstonDemocratic • Jan 1856 – Dec 1858
James Hopkins AdamsDemocratic • Jan 1854 – Dec 1856
John Laurence ManningDemocratic • Jan 1852 – Dec 1854
John Hugh MeansDemocratic • Jan 1850 – Dec 1852
Whitemarsh Benjamin SeabrookDemocratic • Jan 1848 – Dec 1850
David JohnsonDemocratic • Jan 1846 – Dec 1848
William AikenDemocratic • Jan 1844 – Dec 1846
James Henry HammondDemocratic • Jan 1842 – Dec 1844
John Peter Richardson IIDemocratic • Jan 1840 – Dec 1842
Barnabas Kelet HenaganDemocratic • Jan 1840 – Dec 1840
Patrick NobleDemocratic • Jan 1838 – Dec 1840
Pierce Mason ButlerDemocratic • Jan 1836 – Dec 1838
George McDuffieDemocratic • Jan 1834 – Dec 1836
Robert Young HayneDemocratic • Jan 1833 – Dec 1834
James Jr. HamiltonDemocratic • Jan 1830 – Dec 1832
Stephen MillerDemocratic • Jan 1828 – Dec 1830
John TaylorDemocratic-Republican • Jan 1826 – Dec 1828
Richard Irvine ManningDemocratic-Republican • Jan 1824 – Dec 1826
John Lyde WilsonDemocratic-Republican • Jan 1822 – Dec 1824
Thomas BennettDemocratic-Republican • Jan 1820 – Dec 1822
Geddes JohnDemocratic-Republican • Jan 1818 – Dec 1820
Andrew PickensDemocratic-Republican • Jan 1816 – Dec 1818
David Rogerson WilliamsDemocratic-Republican • Jan 1814 – Dec 1816
Joseph AlstonDemocratic-Republican • Jan 1812 – Dec 1814
Henry MiddletonDemocratic-Republican • Jan 1810 – Dec 1812
John DraytonDemocratic-Republican • Jan 1808 – Dec 1810
Charles PinckneyDemocratic-Republican • Jan 1806 – Dec 1808
Paul HamiltonDemocratic-Republican • Jan 1804 – Dec 1806
James Burchill RichardsonDemocratic-Republican • Jan 1802 – Dec 1804
John DraytonDemocratic-Republican • Jan 1800 – Dec 1802
Edward RutledgeFederalist • Jan 1798 – Dec 1800
Charles PinckneyDemocratic-Republican • Jan 1796 – Dec 1798
Arnoldus VandershorstFederalist • Jan 1794 – Dec 1796
Charles PinckneyDemocratic-Republican • Jan 1789 – Dec 1792
Thomas PinckneyFederalist • Jan 1787 – Dec 1789
William MoultrieFederalist • Jan 1785 – Dec 1794
Benjamin GuerardJan 1783 – Dec 1785
John MathewsJan 1782 – Dec 1783
John RutledgeJan 1779 – Dec 1782
Rawlins LowndesJan 1778 – Dec 1779
John RutledgeJan 1776 – Dec 1778