1849-1851	Peter H. Burnett (Democrat)
1851-1852	John McDougal (Democrat)
1852-1856	John Bigler (Democrat)
1856-1858	J. Neely Johnson (Know-nothing)
1858-1860	John B. Weller (Democrat)
1860	Milton S. Latham (Democrat)
1860-1862	John G. Downey (Democrat)
1862-1863	Leland Stanford (Republican)
1863-1867	Frederick F. Low (Union)
1867-1871	Henry H. Haight (Democrat)
1871-1875	Newton Booth (Republican)
1875	Romualdo Pacheco (Republican)
1875-1880	William Irwin (Democrat)
1880-1883	George C. Perkins (Republican)
1883-1887	George Stoneman (Democrat)
1887	Washington Bartlett (Democrat)
1887-1891	Robert W. Waterman (Democrat)
1891-1895	Henry H. Markham (Republican)
1895-1899	James H. Budd (Democrat)
1899-1903	Henry T. Gage (Republican)
1903-1907	George C. Pardee (Republican)
1907-1911	James N. Gillett (Republican)
1911-1915	Hiram W. Johnson (Prog.)
1915-1917	Hiram W. Johnson (Republican)
1917-1923	William D. Stephens (Republican)
1923-1927	Friend W. Richardson (Republican)
1927-1931	Clement C. Young (Republican)
1931-1934	James Rolph, Jr. (Republican)
1934-1939	Frank F. Merriam (Republican)
1939-1943	Culbert L. Olson (Democrat)
1943-1953	Earl F. Warren (Republican)
1953-1959	Goodwin J. Knight (Republican)
1959-1967	Edmund G. "Pat" Brown (Democrat)
1967-1975	Ronald Wilson Reagan (Republican)
1975-1983	Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown, Jr. (Democrat)
1983-1991	George Deukmejian (Republican)
1991-1999	Pete Wilson (Republican)
1999-2003	Joseph Graham "Gray" Davis (Democrat)
2003-	Arnold Schwarzenegger (Republican)

[This list of California Governors has been expanded beyond Pourade's original listing]

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