The Following Is A List Of Governors Of The State Of Arizona And The Arizona Territory

The governor's powers are established by Article 5 of the Arizona Constitution. They are elected for four year terms, but may not serve more than two consecutive terms (part of a term counts as a full term). The governor must be at least 25 years old, have been a US citizen for ten years and an Arizona citizen for five years. The governor has a line-item veto on money appropriations, but otherwise the veto power and procedure is the same as for the president of the United States. (However, they can not veto emergency measures or bills that were voted for by the people in a referendum.) In the event of a vacancy in the office, the Arizona secretary of state, if elected, succeeds to the office (otherwise the next elected state officer succeeds). If impeached the governor is suspended, and the next elected officer in the line of succession becomes acting governor.

The Governor of Arizona is limited to eight years in office.

There have been 21 people who have served as governor, in 25 distinct terms. Arizona is one of only two states to have elected women of both parties to the governorship, is the only state where a woman has succeeded a woman as governor, and has had the most female governors in the country with three.

• Arizona was part of New Mexico Territory from 1850 to 1863; see List of Governors of New Mexico. The Confederate Territory of Arizona, south of the 34th parallel, existed from March 1861 to July 1862. From March to August 1861 Dr. Lewis Owings of Mesilla was the Governor of the Confederate Territory of Arizona. From August 1861 to July 1862 Lt. Colonel John Baylorwas the Governor of the Confederate Territory of Arizona. Owings was reappointed the Governor of the Confederate Territory of Arizona following the defeat at the Battle of Glorietta Pass and served, in exile, from San Antonio until the end of the war.

• Prior to the Mexican Cession and Gadsden Purchase, the land that became Arizona was part of the Mexican state of Sonora (see Governor of Sonora) and the Mexican territory of Alta California (see List of pre-statehood governors of California).

Governors of Arizona Territory

Arizona Territory was formed on February 24, 1863 from New Mexico Territory.

Name	Term	Party
John Noble Goodwin	1863-1866	Republican
Richard Cunningham McCormick	1866-1868	Republican
James P.T. Carter	1868-1869	Republican
Anson P.K. Safford	1869-1877	Republican
John Philo Hoyt	1877-1878	Republican
John Charles Frémont	1878-1881	Republican
John Jay Gosper	1881	Republican
Frederick Augustus Tritle	1882-1885	Republican
C. Meyer Zulick	1885-1889	Democratic
Lewis Wolfley	1889-1890	Republican
John Nichol Irwin	1890-1892	Republican
Nathan Oakes Murphy	1892-1893	Republican
Louis Cameron Hughes	1893-1896	Democratic
Charles Morelle Bruce	1896	Democratic
Benjamin Joseph Franklin	1896-1897	Democratic
Myron Hawley McCord	1897-1898	Republican
Nathan Oakes Murphy	1898-1902	Republican
Alexander Oswald Brodie	1902-1905	Republican
William Francis Nichols	1905	Republican
Joseph Henry Kibbey	1905-1909	Republican
Richard Elihu Sloan	1909-1912	Republican

Governors of Arizona

The State of Arizona was admitted to the union on February 14, 1912.

No.	Name	Took office	Left office	Party
1	George W.P. Hunt	February 14, 1912	January 1, 1917	Democratic
2	Thomas Edward Campbell	January 1, 1917	December 25, 1917	Republican
3	George W.P. Hunt	December 25, 1917	January 6, 1919	Democratic
4	Thomas Edward Campbell	January 6, 1919	January 29, 1923	Republican
5	George W.P. Hunt	January 29, 1923	January 7, 1929	Democratic
6	John Calhoun Phillips	January 7, 1929	January 5, 1931	Republican
7	George W.P. Hunt	January 5, 1931	January 2, 1933	Democratic
8	Benjamin Baker Moeur	January 2, 1933	January 4, 1937	Democratic
9	Rawghlie Clement Stanford	January 4, 1937	January 2, 1939	Democratic
10	Robert Taylor Jones	January 2, 1939	January 6, 1941	Democratic
11	Sidney Preston Osborn	January 6, 1941	May 25, 1948	Democratic
12	Dan Edward Garvey	May 25, 1948	January 1, 1951	Democratic
13	John Howard Pyle	January 1, 1951	January 3, 1955	Republican
14	Ernest W. McFarland	January 3, 1955	January 5, 1959	Democratic
15	Paul Jones Fannin	January 5, 1959	January 4, 1965	Republican
16	Samuel Pearson Goddard, Jr.	January 4, 1965	January 2, 1967	Democratic
17	Jack Richard Williams	January 2, 1967	January 6, 1975	Republican
18	Raul Hector Castro	January 6, 1975	October 20, 1977	Democratic
19	Wesley Bolin	October 20, 1977	March 4, 1978	Democratic
20	Bruce Babbitt	March 4, 1978	January 5, 1987	Democratic
21	Evan Mecham	January 5, 1987	April 4, 1988	Republican
22	Rose Perica Mofford	April 4, 1988	March 6, 1991	Democratic
23	Fife Symington	March 6, 1991	September 8, 1997	Republican
24	Jane Dee Hull	September 8, 1997	January 6, 2003	Republican
25	Janet Napolitano	January 6, 2003	Incumbent	Democratic

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