States · Governors

U.S. State Governors

Every individual currently serving as the governor of a U.S. state or territory, grouped by the state they lead. A governor is the elected head of a state government — the chief executive who signs or vetoes state legislation, commands the state National Guard, appoints state officials and judges, and sets the executive budget. The fifty states each elect a governor (most to a four-year term; a handful to two-year terms), as do the five inhabited U.S. territories with a popularly elected governorship (American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands). The District of Columbia is led by a mayor rather than a governor and so is not listed here. Each profile below links to a sourced page covering the governor’s biography, the state they lead, their party, term history, and the external authority records (Wikipedia, Wikidata, Ballotpedia) that back every fact. Open a state to see its sitting governor alongside the lineage of former governors we cover. The full machine-readable roster is published per state as a versioned JSON dataset for downstream researchers and language models, and the rendered pages and the read API share the same row shape.