View a list of South Carolina Governors since 1776
Governor John Rutledge
Term: 1776 - 1778
Party: No party
Governor Rawlins Lowndes
Term: 1778 - 1779
Party: No party
Governor John Rutledge
Term: 1779 - 1782
Party: No party
Governor John Mathews
Term: 1782 - 1783
Party: No party
Governor Benjamin Guerard
Term: 1783 - 1785
Party: No party
Governor William Moultrie
Term: 1785 - 1794
Party: Federalist
Governor Thomas Pinckney
Term: 1787 - 1789
Party: Federalist
Governor Charles Pinckney
Term: 1789 - 1792
Party: Democratic-Republican
Governor Arnoldus Vandershorst
Term: 1794 - 1796
Party: Federalist
Governor Charles Pinckney
Term: 1796 - 1798
Party: Democratic-Republican
Governor Edward Rutledge
Term: 1798 - 1800
Party: Federalist
Governor John Drayton
Term: 1800 - 1802
Party: Democratic-Republican
Governor James Burchill Richardson
Term: 1802 - 1804
Party: Democratic-Republican
Governor Paul Hamilton
Term: 1804 - 1806
Party: Democratic-Republican
Governor Charles Pinckney
Term: 1806 - 1808
Party: Democratic-Republican
Governor John Drayton
Term: 1808 - 1810
Party: Democratic-Republican
Governor Henry Middleton
Term: 1810 - 1812
Party: Democratic-Republican
Governor Joseph Alston
Term: 1812 - 1814
Party: Democratic-Republican
Governor David Rogerson Williams
Term: 1814 - 1816
Party: Democratic-Republican
Governor Andrew Pickens
Term: 1816 - 1818
Party: Democratic-Republican
Governor Geddes John
Term: 1818 - 1820
Party: Democratic-Republican
Governor Thomas Bennett
Term: 1820 - 1822
Party: Democratic-Republican
Governor John Lyde Wilson
Term: 1822 - 1824
Party: Democratic-Republican
Governor Richard Irvine Manning
Term: 1824 - 1826
Party: Democratic-Republican
Governor John Taylor
Term: 1826 - 1828
Party: Democratic-Republican
Governor Stephen Decatur Miller
Term: 1828 - 1830
Party: Democratic
Governor James Hamilton Jr.
Term: 1830 - 1832
Party: Democratic
Governor Robert Young Hayne
Term: 1833 - 1834
Party: Democratic
Governor George McDuffie
Term: 1834 - 1836
Party: Democratic
Governor Pierce Mason Butler
Term: 1836 - 1838
Party: Democratic
Governor Patrick Noble
Term: 1838 - 1840
Party: Democratic
Governor Barnabas Kelet Henagan
Term: 1840 - 1840
Party: Democratic
Governor John Peter Richardson II
Term: 1840 - 1842
Party: Democratic
Governor James Henry Hammond
Term: 1842 - 1844
Party: Democratic
Governor William Aiken
Term: 1844 - 1846
Party: Democratic
Governor David Johnson
Term: 1846 - 1848
Party: Democratic
Governor Whitemarsh Benjamin Seabrook
Term: 1848 - 1850
Party: Democratic
Governor John Hugh Means
Term: 1850 - 1852
Party: Democratic
Governor John Laurence Manning
Term: 1852 - 1854
Party: Democratic
Governor James Hopkins Adams
Term: 1854 - 1856
Party: Democratic
Governor Robert Francis Withers Allston
Term: 1856 - 1858
Party: Democratic
Governor William Henry Gist
Term: 1858 - 1860
Party: Democratic
Governor Francis Wilkinson Pickens
Term: 1860 - 1862
Party: No party
Governor Milledge Luke Bonham
Term: 1862 - 1864
Party: Democratic
Governor Andrew Gordon MacGrath
Term: 1864 - 1865
Party: Democratic
Governor Benjamin Franklin Perry
Term: 1865 - 1865
Party: Democratic
Governor James Lawrence Orr
Term: 1865 - 1868
Party: Conservative
Governor Robert Kingston Scott
Term: 1868 - 1872
Party: Republican
Governor Franklin J. Moses
Term: 1872 - 1874
Party: Republican
Governor Daniel Henry Chamberlain
Term: 1874 - 1876
Party: Republican
Governor Wade Hampton III
Term: 1876 - 1879
Party: Democratic
Governor William Dunlap Simpson
Term: 1879 - 1880
Party: Democratic
Governor Thomas Bothwell Jeter
Term: 1880 - 1880
Party: Democratic
Governor Johnson Hagood
Term: 1880 - 1882
Party: Democratic
Governor Hugh Smith Thompson
Term: 1882 - 1886
Party: Democratic
Governor John Calhoun Sheppard
Term: 1886 - 1886
Party: Democratic
Governor John Peter Richardson
Term: 1886 - 1890
Party: Democratic
Governor Ben Tillman
Term: 1890 - 1894
Party: Democratic
Governor John Gary Evans
Term: 1894 - 1897
Party: Democratic
Governor William Haselden Ellerbe
Term: 1897 - 1899
Party: Democratic
Governor Miles Benjamin McSweeney
Term: 1899 - 1903
Party: Democratic
Governor Duncan Clinch Heyward
Term: 1903 - 1907
Party: Democratic
Governor Martin Frederick Ansel
Term: 1907 - 1911
Party: Democratic
Governor Coleman Livingston Blease
Term: 1911 - 1915
Party: Democratic
Governor Charles A. Smith
Term: 1915 - 1915
Party: Democratic
Governor Richard Irvine Manning III
Term: 1915 - 1919
Party: Democratic
Governor Robert Archer Cooper
Term: 1919 - 1922
Party: Democratic
Governor Wilson Godfrey Harvey
Term: 1922 - 1923
Party: Democratic
Governor Thomas Gordon McLeod
Term: 1923 - 1927
Party: Democratic
Governor John Gardiner Richards
Term: 1927 - 1931
Party: Democratic
Governor Ibra Charles Blackwood
Term: 1931 - 1935
Party: Democratic
Governor Olin Johnston
Term: 1935 - 1939
Party: Democratic
Governor Burnet Maybank
Term: 1939 - 1941
Party: Democratic
Governor Joseph Emile Harley
Term: 1941 - 1942
Party: Democratic
Governor Richard Manning Jeffries
Term: 1942 - 1943
Party: Democratic
Governor Olin Johnston
Term: 1943 - 1945
Party: Democratic
Governor Ransome Judson Williams
Term: 1945 - 1947
Party: Democratic
Governor Strom Thurmond
Term: 1947 - 1951
Party: Democratic
Governor James Francis Byrnes
Term: 1951 - 1955
Party: Democratic
Governor George Bell Timmerman
Term: 1955 - 1959
Party: Democratic
Governor Ernest Hollings
Term: 1959 - 1963
Party: Democratic
Governor Donald Stuart Russell
Term: 1963 - 1965
Party: Democratic
Governor Robert McNair
Term: 1965 - 1971
Party: Democratic
Governor John Carl West
Term: 1971 - 1975
Term: Democratic
Governor James Edwards
Term: 1975 - 1979
Party: Republican
Governor Richard Riley
Term: 1979 - 1987
Party: Democratic
Governor Carroll Campbell
Term: 1987 - 1995
Party: Republican
Governor David Beasley
Term: 1995 - 1999
Party: Republican
Governor Jim Hodges
Term: 1999 - 2003
Party: Democratic
Governor Mark Sanford
Term: 2003 - 2011
Party: Republican
Governor Nikki R. Haley
Term: 2011 - 2017
Party: Republican
Henry McMaster
Term: 2017-Present
Party: Republican
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