Historical Record
Previous Governors of South Carolina
Governors who previously held office in South Carolina, with term dates and party affiliation.
← View all statesHenry McMasterRepublican2017–2027
Nikki HaleyRepublican2011–2017
Mark SanfordRepublican2003–2011
Jim HodgesDemocrat1999–2003
David BeasleyRepublican1995–1999
Carroll A. Campbell Jr.Republican1987–1995
Richard RileyDemocrat1979–1987
James B. EdwardsDemocrat1975–1979
John C. WestDemocrat1971–1975
Robert Evander McNairDemocrat1965–1971
Donald S. RussellDemocrat1963–1965
Fritz HollingsDemocrat1959–1963
George Bell Timmerman Jr.Democrat1955–1959
James F. ByrnesDemocrat1951–1955
Strom ThurmondDemocrat1947–1951
Ransome Judson WilliamsDemocrat1945–1947
Olin D. JohnstonDemocrat1943–1945
Richard Manning JefferiesDemocrat1942–1943
Joseph Emile HarleyDemocrat1941–1942
Burnet R. MaybankDemocrat1939–1941
Olin D. JohnstonDemocrat1935–1939
Ibra Charles BlackwoodDemocrat1931–1935
John Gardiner Richards Jr.Democrat1927–1931
Thomas Gordon McLeodDemocrat1923–1927
Wilson Godfrey HarveyDemocrat1922–1923
Robert Archer CooperDemocrat1919–1922
Richard Irvine Manning IIIDemocrat1915–1919
Charles Aurelius SmithDemocrat1915–1915
Cole L. BleaseDemocrat1911–1915
Martin Frederick AnselDemocrat1907–1911
Duncan Clinch HeywardDemocrat1903–1907
Miles Benjamin McSweeneyDemocrat1899–1903
William Haselden EllerbeDemocrat1897–1899
John Gary EvansDemocrat1894–1897
Benjamin TillmanDemocrat1890–1894
John Peter Richardson IIIDemocrat1886–1890
John Calhoun SheppardDemocrat1886–1886
Hugh Smith ThompsonDemocrat1882–1886
Johnson HagoodDemocrat1880–1882
William Dunlap SimpsonDemocrat1879–1880
Thomas Bothwell JeterDemocrat1880–1880
Wade Hampton IIIDemocrat1876–1879
Daniel Henry ChamberlainRepublican1874–1877
Franklin J. Moses Jr.Republican1872–1874
Robert Kingston ScottRepublican1868–1872
James Lawrence OrrDemocrat1865–1868
Benjamin Franklin PerryIndependent1865–1865
Andrew Gordon MagrathDemocrat1864–1865
Milledge Luke BonhamDemocrat1862–1864
Francis Wilkinson PickensDemocrat1860–1862
William Henry GistDemocrat1858–1860
Robert Francis Withers AllstonDemocrat1856–1858
James Hopkins AdamsDemocrat1854–1856
John Lawrence ManningDemocrat1852–1854
John Hugh MeansDemocrat1850–1852
Whitemarsh Benjamin SeabrookDemocrat1848–1850
David JohnsonDemocrat1846–1848
William Aiken Jr.Democrat1844–1846
James H. HammondDemocrat1842–1844
John Peter Richardson IIDemocrat1840–1842
Barnabas Kelet HenaganDemocrat1840–1840
Patrick NobleDemocrat1838–1840
Pierce Mason ButlerDemocrat1836–1838
George McDuffieDemocrat1834–1836
Robert Y. HayneIndependent1832–1834
James Hamilton Jr.Independent1830–1832
Stephen Decatur MillerIndependent1828–1830
John TaylorIndependent1826–1828
Richard Irvine Manning IIndependent1824–1826
John Lyde WilsonIndependent1822–1824
Thomas Bennett Jr.Independent1820–1822
John GeddesIndependent1818–1820
Andrew PickensIndependent1816–1818
David Rogerson WilliamsIndependent1814–1816
Joseph AlstonIndependent1812–1814
Henry MiddletonIndependent1810–1812
John DraytonIndependent1808–1810
Charles PinckneyIndependent1806–1808
Paul HamiltonIndependent1804–1806
James Burchill RichardsonIndependent1802–1804
John DraytonIndependent1800–1802
Edward RutledgeIndependent1798–1800
Charles PinckneyIndependent1796–1798
Arnoldus VanderhorstIndependent1794–1796
William MoultrieIndependent1792–1794
Charles PinckneyIndependent1789–1792
Thomas PinckneyIndependent1787–1789
William MoultrieIndependent1785–1787
Benjamin GuerardIndependent1783–1785
John MathewsIndependent1782–1783
John RutledgeIndependent1779–1782
Rawlins LowndesIndependent1778–1779
John RutledgeIndependent1776–1778