List of Leaders of America
Here is the list of American leaders from colonial governors of Virginia to presidents of United States
Governor of Virginia (1585–1590)[change]
The first English attempt to colonize Virginia was the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke. Unsuccessful settlements were established under two different governors, and the final fate of the colonists remains unknown.
- Sir Walter Raleigh, governor of Virginia (1585–1590, absentee)
- Sir Ralph Lane, governor of Roanoke (Virginia) (1585–1586)
- John White, governor of Raleigh (Virginia) (1587–1590)
Virginia Company of London Governors (1607–1624)[change]
- President of the Council Edward Maria Wingfield (1607)
- President of the Council John Ratcliffe (1608) (real name "Capt. John Sicklemore"(?))
- Matthew Scrivener (1608)
- President of the Council John Smith (1608–1609)
- President of the Council George Percy (1609–1610)
- Governor Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr (1609–1618, sometimes absentee)
- Deputy Governor Sir Thomas Gates (May–June 1610)
- Deputy Governor George Percy (March–May 1611)
- Acting Governor Sir Thomas Dale (May–August 1611)
- Acting Governor Sir Thomas Gates (1611–1613)
- Acting Governor Sir Thomas Dale (1613–1616)
- Lieutenant Governor Sir George Yeardley (1616–1617)
- Lieutenant Governor Sir Samuel Argall (1617–1619)
- Governor Sir George Yeardley (1619–1621)
- Governor Sir Francis Wyatt (1621–1624)
Crown Governors (1624–1652)[change]
- Governor Sir Francis Wyatt (1624–1626)
- Governor Sir George Yeardley (1626–1627)
- Acting Governor Francis West (1627–1629)
- Governor Sir John Harvey (1628–1639)
- Acting Governor John Pott (1629–1630)
- Acting Governor John West (1635–1636)
- Acting Governor Col. George Reade (1638–1639)
- Governor Sir Francis Wyatt (1639–1642)
- Governor Sir William Berkeley (1642–1652)
- Acting Governor Sir Richard Kemp (1644–1645)
Commonwealth and Protectorate Governors (1652–1660)[change]
- Governor Richard Bennett (1652–1655)
- Governor Edward Digges (1655–1656)
- Governor Lt. Col. Samuel Mathews of Mathews County, Virginia (1656–1660, died in office)
Crown Governors (1660–1775)[change]
- Governor Sir William Berkeley (1660–1677)
- Lieutenant Governor Francis Moryson (1661–1662)
- Governor Col. Herbert Jeffreys (1677–1678)
- Governor Thomas Culpeper, 2nd Baron Culpeper of Thoresway (1677–1683)
- Lieutenant Governor Sir Henry Chicheley (1678–1680)
- Acting Governor Col. Nicholas Spencer (September 1683–April 1684)
- Governor Francis Howard, 5th Baron Howard of Effingham (1684–1692, absentee from 1688)
- Gen. Joseph Bridger (1684)
- President of the Council Nathaniel Bacon (1688–1690)
- Lieutenant Governor Francis Nicholson (1690–1692)
- Governor Sir Edmund Andros (1692–1698)
- Governor George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney (1698–1737, absentee)
- Lieutenant Governor Francis Nicholson (1698–1705)
- Lieutenant Governor Col. Edward Nott (1705–1706)
- Acting Governor Edmund Jenings (1706–1710)
- Lieutenant Governor General Robert Hunter (1707, captured at sea and never served)
- Lieutenant Governor Lt. Col. Alexander Spotswood (1710–1722)
- Lieutenant Governor Col. Hugh Drysdale (1722–1726)
- President of the Council Robert "King" Carter (1726–September 1727)
- Lieutenant Governor Sir William Gooch, 1st Baronet (1727–1740)
- Governor Willem Anne van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle (1737–1754, absentee)
- Acting Governor James Blair (1740–1741) (acting for Lt. Gov. Gooch while latter out-of-country)
- Lieutenant Governor Sir William Gooch, 1st Baronet (1741–1749)
- Acting Governor John Robinson Sr. died months after being sworn in as President {Acting Governor} August 1749; father of Speaker of the VA House of Burgess John Robinson (Virginia politician) Jr (1705–1766) and Colonel Beverley Robinson (1721–1792)
- Acting Governor Thomas Lee (1749–1750)
- Acting Governor Lewis Burwell (1750–1751)
- Lieutenant Governor Robert Dinwiddie (1751–1756)
- Governor John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun (1756–1759)
- Lieutenant Governor Robert Dinwiddie (1756–January 1758)
- Lieutenant Governor Francis Fauquier (1758–1768)
- Governor Jeffery Amherst (1759–1768, absentee)
- Acting Governor John Blair, Sr. (1768)
- Governor Norborne Berkeley, Baron de Botetourt (1768–1770)
- Acting Governor William Nelson (1770–1771)
- Governor John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (1771–June 1775)
president of the United States in Congress Assembled[change]
Terms and backgrounds of the 14 men who served as president of the Continental Congress
Portrait | Name | State/colony | Term | Length | Previous position |
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Peyton Randolph (1721–1775) | Virginia | September 5, 1774 – October 22, 1774 | 47 days | Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses | |
Henry Middleton (1717–1784) | South Carolina | October 22, 1774 – October 26, 1774 | 4 days | Speaker, S.C. Commons House of Assembly | |
Peyton Randolph (1721–1775) | Virginia | May 10, 1775 – May 24, 1775 | 14 days | Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses | |
John Hancock (1737–1793) | Massachusetts | May 24, 1775 – October 29, 1777 | 2 years, 158 days | President, Massachusetts Provincial Congress | |
Henry Laurens (1724–1792) | South Carolina | November 1, 1777 – December 9, 1778 | 1 year, 38 days | President, S.C. Provincial Congress, Vice President, S.C. | |
John Jay (1745–1829) | New York | December 10, 1778 – September 28, 1779 | 292 days | Chief Justice New York Supreme Court | |
Samuel Huntington (1731–1796) | Connecticut | September 28, 1779 – July 10, 1781 | 1 year, 285 days | Associate Judge, Connecticut Superior Court | |
Thomas McKean (1734–1817) | Delaware | July 10, 1781 – November 5, 1781 | 118 days | Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court | |
John Hanson (1721–1783) | Maryland | November 5, 1781 – November 4, 1782 | 364 days | Maryland House of Delegates | |
Elias Boudinot (1740–1821) | New Jersey | November 4, 1782 – November 3, 1783 | 364 days | Commissary of Prisoners for the Continental Army | |
Thomas Mifflin (1744–1800) | Pennsylvania | November 3, 1783 – June 3, 1784 | 213 days | Quartermaster General of Continental Army, Board of War | |
Richard Henry Lee (1732–1794) | Virginia | November 30, 1784 – November 4, 1785 | 339 days | Virginia House of Burgesses | |
John Hancock (1737–1793) | Massachusetts | November 23, 1785 – June 5, 1786 | 194 days | Governor of Massachusetts | |
Nathaniel Gorham (1738–1796) | Massachusetts | June 6, 1786 – February 2, 1787 | 241 days | Board of War | |
Arthur St. Clair (1737–1818) | Pennsylvania | February 2, 1787 – November 4, 1787 | 275 days | Major General, Continental Army | |
Cyrus Griffin (1748–1810) | Virginia | January 22, 1788 – November 2, 1788 | 298 days | Judge, Virginia Court of Appeals |
presidents of the United States[change]
GEORGE WASHINGTON | 1789-1797
JOHN ADAMS | 1797-1801
THOMAS JEFFERSON | 1801-1809
JAMES MADISON | 1809-1817
JAMES MONROE | 1817-1825
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS | 1825-1829
ANDREW JACKSON | 1829-1837
MARTIN VAN BUREN | 1837-1841
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON | 1841
JOHN TYLER | 1841-1845
JAMES K. POLK | 1845-1849
ZACHARY TAYLOR | 1849-1850
MILLARD FILLMORE | 1850-1853
FRANKLIN PIERCE | 1853-1857
JAMES BUCHANAN | 1857-1861
ABRAHAM LINCOLN | 1861-1865
ANDREW JOHNSON | 1865-1869
ULYSSES S. GRANT | 1869-1877
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES | 1877-1881
JAMES A. GARFIELD | 1881
CHESTER A. ARTHUR | 1881-1885
GROVER CLEVELAND | 1885-1889 / 1893-1897
BENJAMIN HARRISON | 1889-1893
WILLIAM MCKINLEY | 1897-1901
THEODORE ROOSEVELT | 1901-1909
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT | 1909-1913
WOODROW WILSON | 1913-1921
WARREN G. HARDING | 1921-1923
CALVIN COOLIDGE | 1923-1929
HERBERT HOOVER | 1929-1933
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT | 1933-1945
HARRY S. TRUMAN | 1945-1953
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER | 1953-1961
JOHN F. KENNEDY | 1961-1963
LYNDON B. JOHNSON | 1963-1969
RICHARD M. NIXON | 1969-1974
GERALD R. FORD | 1974-1977
JIMMY CARTER | 1977-1981
RONALD REAGAN | 1981-1989
GEORGE BUSH | 1989-1993
WILLIAM J. CLINTON | 1993-2001
GEORGE W. BUSH | 2001-2009
BARACK OBAMA | 2009-2017
DONALD J. TRUMP | 2017-2021
JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR. | 2021-