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This is a list of governors of the US state of California. Governors of the State of California [a] ↑ "Peter Hardeman Burnett". National Governors Association. 3 January 2011. Retrieved July 10, 2019. ↑ Durham, Walter T. (1997). Volunteer Forty-niners: Tennesseans and the California Gold Rush. Vanderbilt University Press. p. 193.
The current governor is Gavin Newsom, who has been in office since 2019. Thirty-nine people have served as governor, over 40 distinct terms. Many have been influential nationwide in areas far-flung from state politics. Leland Stanford founded Stanford University in 1891.
Governor's Name State Time in Office Party; Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. California: 2011 - 2019 1975 - 1983 : Democrat: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
A list of California Governors from the birth of the state in 1849 to the present.
There have been 40 governors of California since 1849. Of the 40 officeholders, 20 were Republican, 16 were Democratic, two were Independent Democrat, one was Union, and one was American Know-Nothing. #
The race is wide open since Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom is serving his second term as California governor and by law cannot run again.
He was replaced by Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was the first time that a California governor was voted out of office. [4] In addition to the successful 2003 recall, current governor Gavin Newsom faced a recall election in 2021, which he defeated. [5]
Voting ends Tuesday in California's recall election, where voters are deciding whether or not to remove Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom from office. If he loses, Republican Larry Elder is the...
An increasingly politically active Republican during the 1990s, Schwarzenegger ran for the California governorship and won when Gray Davis was recalled in 2003. Schwarzenegger was sworn in as the 38th Governor of California on November 17, 2003, following careers in body building, business and entertainment.
Pages in category "Republican Party governors of California" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.