Earliest serving United States governor

This page contains a list of the individuals, who, at the time of their deaths, were the earliest serving governor of any U.S. state who was still living. The current earliest serving U.S. governor is Mike Stepovich.^{[citation needed]}

America's fascination with the last surviving governor from a certain era has probably most recently highlighted by the death of Governor/Senator Strom Thurmond who was remembered as the last of 10 South Carolina governors from Edgefield, South Carolina who were (at some time in life) segregationists. Thurmond's death was seen as the final closing of an era.^{[citation needed]}

• 1797–1838 — Isaac Tichenor — Vermont
• 1838–1844 — Morgan Lewis — New York
• 1844–1853 — William H. Cabell — Virginia
• 1853–1853 — Mahlon Dickerson — New Jersey
• 1853–1854 — Nehemiah R. Knight — Rhode Island
• 1854–1863 — John Branch — North Carolina
• 1863–1865 — Thomas Bennett, Jr. — South Carolina
• 1865–1871 — William C. Gibbs — Rhode Island
• 1871–1874 — Enos T. Throop — New York
• 1874–1888 — Wyndham Robertson — Virginia
• 1888–1894 — David Dunn — Maine
• 1894–1896 — Alpheus Felch — Michigan
• 1896–1898 — Peter H. Bell — Texas
• 1898–1905 — George S. Boutwell — Massachusetts
• 1905–1915 — William Sprague IV — Rhode Island
• 1915–1933 — Adelbert Ames — Mississippi
• 1933–1938 — Joseph W. Fifer — Illinois
• 1938–1939 — Roswell K. Colcord — Nevada
• 1939–1943 — John E. Osborne — Wyoming
• 1943–1944 — Frederick B. Fancher — North Dakota
• 1944–1946 — John L. Bates — Massachusetts
• 1946–1958 — Fenimore Chatterton — Wyoming
• 1958–1960 — George L. Sheldon — Nebraska
• 1960–1964 — John G. Townsend, Jr. — Delaware
• 1964–1968 — William H. McMaster — South Dakota
• 1968–1984 — George Alexander Parks — Alaska
• 1984–1987 — Alf Landon — Kansas
• 1987–1991 — A. B. "Happy" Chandler I — Kentucky
• 1991–2001 — Harold E. Stassen — Minnesota
• 2001–2002 — Charles Poletti — New York
• 2002–2003 — J. Strom Thurmond — South Carolina
• 2003–2003 — Sid McMath — Arkansas — 1st served January 11, 1949
• 2003–2005 — Elbert N. Carvel — Delaware — 1st served January 18, 1949
• 2005–2013 — George M. Leader — Pennsylvania
• 2013–present — Michael Anthony Stepovich — Alaska

Current Living Earliest Serving U.S. Governors

1. Michael Anthony Stepovich — Alaska — April 12, 1957
2. John Malcolm Patterson — Alabama — January 19, 1959
3. Ernest Hollings — South Carolina — January 20, 1959
4. David P. Buckson — Delaware — December 30, 1960
5. F. Ray Keyser, Jr. — Vermont — January 5, 1961
6. John Anderson, Jr. — Kansas — January 9, 1961
7. Tim M. Babcock — Montana — January 26, 1962
8. George Nigh — Oklahoma — January 6, 1963
9. Philip Hoff — Vermont — January 10, 1963
10. Tie:

• Carl Sanders — Georgia — January 15, 1963
• William Scranton — Pennsylvania — January 15, 1963

See also

• List of the oldest United States Governors
• Oldest living United States president
• List of oldest surviving members of the House of Representatives
• Dean of the United States House of Representatives
• Dean of the United States Senate
• Longest living United States Senator
• Earliest serving United States Senator
• Oldest living United States governor
• List of members of the United States Congress by longevity of service

References

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