SC – Governors – In Chronological Order By Terms Served

• John Rutledge - 1776-1778
  

• Rawlins Lowndes - 1778-1779
  

• John Rutledge - 1779-1782
  

• John Mathews - 1782-1783
  

• Benjamin Guerard - 1783-1785
  

• William Moultrie - 1785-1787
  

• Thomas Pinckney - 1787-1789
  

• Charles Pinckney - 1789-1792
  

• William Moultrie - 1792-1794
  

• Arnoldus Vanderhorst - 1794-1796
  

• Charles Pinckney - 1796-1798
  

• Edward Rutledge - 1798-1800
  

• John Drayton - 1800-1802
  

• James Burchill Richardson - 1802-1804
  

• Paul Hamilton - 1804-1806
  

• Charles Pinckney - 1806-1808
  

• John Drayton - 1808-1810
  

• Henry Middleton - 1810-1812
  

• Joseph Alston - 1812-1814
  

• David Rogerson Williams - 1814-1816
  

• Andrew Pickens - 1816-1818
  

• John Geddes - 1818-1820
  

• Thomas Bennett Jr. - 1820-1822
  

• John Lyde Wilson - 1822-1824
  

• Richard Irvine Manning I - 1824-1826
  

• John Taylor - 1826-1828
  

• Stephen Decatur Miller - 1828-1830
  

• James Hamilton Jr. - 1830-1832
  

• Robert Young Hayne - 1832-1834
  

• George McDuffie - 1834-1836
  

• Pierce Mason Butler - 1836-1838
  

• Patrick Noble - 1838-1840
  

• Barnabus Kelet Henagan - 1840
  

• John Peter Richardson - 1840-1842
  

• James Henry Hammond - 1842-1844
  

• William Aiken - 1844-1846
  

• David Johnson - 1846-1848
  

• Whitemarsh Benjamin Seabrook - 1848-1850
  

• John Hugh Means - 1850-1852
  

• John Lawrence Manning - 1852-1854
  

• James Hopkins Adams - 1854-1856
  

• Robert Francis Withers Allston - 1856-1858
  

• William Henry Gist - 1858-1860
  

• Francis Wilkinson Pickens - 1860-1862
  

• Milledge Luke Bonham - 1862-1864
  

• Andrew Gordon Magrath - 1864-1865
  

• Benjamin Franklin Perry - 1865
  

• James Lawrence Orr - 1865-1868
  

• Robert Kingston Scott - 1868-1872
  

• Franklin J. Moses Jr. - 1872-1874
  

• Daniel Henry Chamberlain - 1874-1877
  

• Wade Hampton III - 1877-1879
  

• William Dunlap Simpson - 1879-1880
  

• Thomas Bothwell Jeter - 1880
  

• Johnson Hagood - 1880-1882
  

• Hugh Smith Thompson - 1882-1886
  

• John Calhoun Sheppard - 1886
  

• John Peter Richardson - 1886-1890
  

• Benjamin Ryan Tillman - 1890-1894
  

• John Gary Evans - 1894-1897
  

• William Haselden Ellerbe - 1897-1899
  

• Miles Benjamin McSweeney - 1899-1903
  

• Duncan Clinch Heyward - 1903-1907
  

• Martin Frederick Ansel - 1907-1911
  

• Coleman Livingston Blease - 1911-1915
  

• Charles Aurelius Smith - 1915
  

• Richard Irvine Manning III - 1915-1919
  

• Robert Archer Cooper - 1919-1922
  

• Wilson Godfrey Harvey - 1922-1923
  

• Thomas Gordon McLeod - 1923-1927
  

• John Gardiner Richards - 1927-1931
  

• Ibra Charles Blackwood - 1931-1935
  

• Olin Dewitt Talmadge Johnston - 1935-1939
  

• Burnett Rhett Maybank - 1939-1941
  

• Joseph Emile Harley - 1941-1942
  

• Richard Manning Jefferies - 1942-1943
  

• Olin Dewitt Talmadge Johnston - 1943-1945
  

• Ransome Judson Williams - 1945-1947
  

• James Strom Thurmond - 1947-1951
  

• James Francis Byrnes - 1951-1955
  

• George Bell Timmerman - 1955-1959
  

• Ernest Frederick Hollings - 1959-1963
  

• Donald Stuart Russell - 1963-1965
  

• Robert Evander McNair - 1965-1971
  

• John Carl West - 1971-1975
  

• James Burrows Edwards - 1975-1979
  

• Richard Wilson Riley - 1979-1987
  

• Carroll Ashmore Campbell, Jr. - 1987-1995
  

• David Muldrow Beasley - 1995-1999
  

• James Hovis Hodges - 1999-2003
  

• Mark Sanford - 2003-Present