Governors

Governors. Forty-two governors of nineteen states have been alumni of Princeton, ranging from eighteenth-century figures like ``Light-horse Harry'' Lee 1773 of Virginia and William Richardson Davie 1776 of North Carolina to twentieth-century notables such as Woodrow Wilson 1879 of New Jersey and Adlai E. Stevenson '22 of Illinois.

The complete list follows:

CONNECTICUT
Henry Waggaman Edwards 1797 (1835-37)

DELAWARE
Pierre S. duPont IV '56 (1976- )

GEORGIA
Peter Early 1792 (1814-15)
George McIntosh Troup 1797 (1823-27)
John Forsyth 1799 (1827-29)
George Washington Crawford 1820 (1843-47)
Alfred Holt Colquitt 1844 (1876-82)

ILLINOIS
Adlai Ewing Stevenson '22 (1949-53)

MARYLAND
John Henry 1769 (1797-98)
Samuel Sprigg 1806 (1819-22)

MICHIGAN
G. Mennen Williams '33 (1949-60)

MISSOURI
Christopher S. Bond '60 (1972-1976)

NEW HAMPSHIRE
John Gilbert Winant '13 (1925-27, 1931-35)

NEW JERSEY
William Paterson 1763 (1790-92)
Aaron Ogden 1773 (1812-13)
Mahlon Dickerson 1789 (1815-17)
Samuel Lewis Southard 1804 (1832-33)
William Pennington 1813 (1837-43)
Daniel Haines 1820 (1843-44, 1848-51)
Joel Parker 1839 (1863-66, 1872-75)
Robert Stockton Green 1850 (1887-90)
Woodrow Wilson 1879 (1911-13)
Brendan T. Byrne '49 (1974- )

NEW YORK
Morgan Lewis 1773 (1804-07)

NORTH CAROLINA
Alexander Martin 1756 (1782-85)
Nathaniel Alexander 1776 (1805-07)
William Richardson Davie 1776 (1798-99)
David Stone 1788 (1808-10)
James Iredell 1806 (1827-28)
Daniel Gould Fowle 1851 (1888-91)

OHIO
George White 1895 (1931-35)

OKLAHOMA
Dewey Follett Bartlett '42 (1967-1971)

PENNSYLVANIA
James Pollock 1831 (1855-58)
James H. Duff '04 (1947-51)

RHODE ISLAND
William Henry Vanderbilt '25 (1939-41)

SOUTH CAROLINA
John Taylor 1790 (1826-28)
Patrick Noble 1806 (1838-40)

TENNESSEE
William Prentice Cooper, Jr. '17 (1939-45)

VERMONT
Isaac Tichenor 1775 (1797-1809)

VIRGINIA
Henry Lee, Jr. 1773 (1792-95)
William Branch Giles 1781 (1826-29)
John Rutherfoord 1810 (1841-42)

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From Alexander Leitch, A Princeton Companion, copyright Princeton University Press (1978).