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Timeline broken down by dates:
- Colonial Period:
1665-1703 Proprietors; 1703-1776 Royal Government
| Philip Carteret | East New Jersey | 1665-82 |
| Edmund Andros | East and West New Jersey | 1674-81;
1688-89 |
| Edward Byllynge | West New Jersey | 1680-87 |
| Robert Barclay | East New Jersey | 1682-90 |
| Daniel Coxe | West New Jersey | 1687-92 |
| Andrew Hamilton | East and West New Jersey | 1692-98, 1699-1703 |
| Jeremiah Basse | East and West New Jersey | 1698-99 |
Edward Hyde,
Lord Cornbury | New York and New Jersey | 1703-8 |
| John Lovelace | New York and New Jersey | 1708-9 |
| Richard Ingoldesby | New York and New Jersey | 1709-10 |
| Robert Hunter | New York and New Jersey | 1710-20 |
| William Burnet | New York and New Jersey | 1720-28 |
| John Montgomerie | New York and New Jersey | 1728-31 |
| William Cosby | New York and New Jersey | 1732-36 |
| Lewis Morris | New Jersey | 1738-46 |
| Jonathan Belcher | New Jersey | 1747-57 |
| Francis Bernard | New Jersey | 1758-60 |
| Thomas Boone | New Jersey | 1760-61 |
| Josiah Hardy | New Jersey | 1761-63 |
| William Franklin | New Jersey | 1763-76 |
- Governors Under Constitution 1776
| William Livingston | Patriot | 1776-90 |
| William Paterson | Federalist | 1790-93 |
| Richard Howell | Federalist | 1793-1801 |
| Joseph Bloomfield | Jeffersonian-Republican | 1801-2; 1803-12 |
| Aaron Ogden | Federalist | 1812-13 |
| William S. Pennington | Jeffersonian-Republican | 1813-15 |
| Mahlon Dickerson | Jeffersonian-Republican | 1815-17 |
| Isaac H. Williamson | Jeffersonian-Republican | 1817-29 |
| Peter D. Vroom | Democrat | 1829-32; 1833-36 |
| Samuel L. Southard | Whig | 1832-33 |
| Elias P. Seeley | Whig | 1833 |
| Philemon Dickerson | Democrat | 1836-37 |
| William Pennington | Whig | 1837-43 |
| Daniel Haines | Democrat | 1843-45; 1848-51 |
- Governors Under Constitution of 1844
| Charles C. Stratton | Whig | 1845-48 |
| George F. Fort | Democrat | 1851-54 |
| Rodman M. Price | Democrat | 1854-57 |
| William A. Newell | Republican | 1857-60 |
| Charles S. Olden | Republican | 1860-63 |
| Joel Parker | Democrat | 1863-66; 1872-75 |
| Marcus L. Ward | Republican | 1866-69 |
| Theordore F. Randolph | Democrat | 1869-72 |
| Joseph D. Bedle | Democrat | 1875-78 |
| George B. McClellan | Democrat | 1878-81 |
| George C. Ludlow | Democrat | 1881-84 |
| Leon Abbett | Democrat | 1884-87; 1890-93 |
| Robert S. Green | Democrat | 1887-90 |
| George T. Werts | Democrat | 1893-96 |
| John W. Griggs | Republican | 1896-98 |
| Foster M. Vorhees | Republican | 1898-1902 |
| Franklin Murphy | Republican | 1902-05 |
| Edward C. Stokes | Republican | 1905-08 |
| John Franklin Fort | Republican | 1908-11 |
| Woodrow Wilson | Democrat | 1911-13 |
| James F. Fielder | Democrat | 1913-17 |
| Walter E. Edge | Republican | 1917-19; 1944-47 |
| Edward I. Edwards | Democrat | 1920-23 |
| George S. Silzer | Democrat | 1923-26 |
| A. Harry Moore | Democrat | 1926-29; 1932-35; 1938-41 |
| Morgan F. Larson | Republican | 1929-32 |
| Harold Hoffman | Republican | 1935-38 |
| Charles Edison | Democrat | 1941-44 |
- Governors Under Constitution of 1947
| Alfred E. Driscoll | Republican | 1947-54 |
| Robert B. Meyner | Democrat | 1954-62 |
| Richard J. Hughes | Democrat | 1962-70 |
| William T. Cahill | Republican | 1970-74 |
| Brendan Byrne | Democrat | 1974-82 |
| Thomas Kean | Republican | 1982-90 |
| James Florio | Democrat | 1990-94 |
| Christine Whitman | Republican | 1994-2001 |
| Donald T. Di Francesco | Republican | 2001-02 |
| James McGreevey | Democrat | 2002-04 |
| Richard Codey | Democrat | 2004-06 |
| Jon Corzine | Democrat | 2006-present |
