| # !! Name !! Party !! Term | | 1 | George Clinton (1739-1812) | Democratic-Republican | 1777–1795 |
| 2 | John Jay (1745-1829) | Federalist | 1795–1801 |
| 3 | George Clinton (1739-1812) | Democratic-Republican | 1801–1804 |
| 4 | Morgan Lewis | Democratic-Republican | 1804–1807 |
| 5 | Daniel D. Tompkins (1774-1825) | Democratic-Republican | 1807–1817 |
| 6 | John Tayler | Democratic-Republican | 1817 |
| 7 | De Witt Clinton (1769-1828) | Democratic-Republican | 1817–1822 |
| 8 | Joseph C. Yates | Democratic-Republican | 1823–1824 |
| 9 | De Witt Clinton (1769-1828) | Clinton Republican | 1825–1828 |
| 10 | Nathaniel Pitcher | Democratic-Republican | 1828 |
| 11 | Martin Van Buren (1782-1862) | Jacksonian Democratic | 1829 |
| 12 | Enos T. Throop | Jacksonian Democratic | 1829–1832 |
| 13 | William L. Marcy | Democratic | 1833–1838 |
| 14 | William H. Seward (1801-1872) | Whig | 1839–1842 |
| 15 | William C. Bouck | Democratic | 1843–1844 |
| 16 | Silas Wright | Democratic | 1845–1846 |
| 17 | John Young (1802-1852) | Whig | 1847–1848 |
| 18 | Hamilton Fish (1808-1893) | Whig | 1849–1850 |
| 19 | Washington Hunt | Whig Anti-Rent | 1851–1852 |
| 20 | Horatio Seymour (1810-1886) | Democratic | 1853–1854 |
| 21 | Myron H. Clark | Fusion Republican | 1855–1856 |
| 22 | John A. King | Republican | 1857–1858 |
| 23 | Edwin D. Morgan | Republican | 1859–1862 |
| 24 | Horatio Seymour (1810-1886) | Democratic | 1863–1864 |
| 25 | Reuben E. Fenton | Union | 1865–1868 |
| 26 | John T. Hoffman | Democratic | 1869–1872 |
| 27 | John Adams Dix | Republican | 1873–1874 |
| 28 | Samuel J. Tilden (1814-1886) | Democratic | 1875–1876 |
| 29 | Lucius Robinson | Democratic | 1877–1879 |
| 30 | Alonzo B. Cornell | Republican | 1880–1882 |
| 31 | Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) | Democratic | 1883–1884 |
| 32 | David B. Hill | Democratic | 1885–1891 |
| 33 | Roswell P. Flower | Democratic | 1892–1894 |
| 34 | Levi P. Morton (1824-1920) | Republican | 1895–1896 |
| 35 | Frank S. Black | Republican | 1897–1898 |
| 36 | Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) | Republican | 1899–1900 |
| 37 | Benjamin B. Odell, Jr. (1854-1926) | Republican | 1901–1904 |
| 38 | Frank W. Higgins (1856-1907) | Republican | 1905–1906 |
| 39 | Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948) | Republican | 1907–1910 |
| 40 | Horace White | Republican | 1910 |
| 41 | John Alden Dix (1860-1928) | Democratic | 1911–1912 |
| 42 | William Sulzer (1863-1941) | Democratic | 1913 |
| 43 | Martin H. Glynn (1871-1924) | Democratic | 1913–1914 |
| 44 | Charles S. Whitman (1868-1947) | Republican | 1915–1918 |
| 45 | Alfred E. Smith (1873-1944) | Democratic | 1919–1920 |
| 46 | Nathan L. Miller (1868-1953) | Republican | 1921–1922 |
| 47 | Alfred E. Smith (1873-1944) | Democratic | 1923–1928 |
| 48 | Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) | Democratic | 1929–1932 |
| 49 | Herbert H. Lehman (1878-1963) | Democratic | 1933–1942 |
| 50 | Charles Poletti (1903-2002) | Democratic | 1942 |
| 51 | Thomas E. Dewey (1902-1971) | Republican | 1943–1954 |
| 52 | W. Averell Harriman (1891-1986) | Democratic | 1955–1958 |
| 53 | Nelson A. Rockefeller (1908-1979) | Republican | 1959–1973 |
| 54 | Malcolm Wilson (1914-2000) | Republican | 1973–1974 |
| 55 | Hugh L. Carey (1919—) | Democratic | 1975–1982 |
| 56 | Mario M. Cuomo (1932—) | Democratic | 1983–1994 |
| 57 | George E. Pataki (1945—) | Republican | 1995— |