Governor of Alaska

This is a list of the governors of the U.S. state of Alaska, of Alaska Territory and of the District of Alaska, and the military commanders of the District of Alaska. Also listed are the governors of Russian America.

Russian America (1790-1867)

• Alexsandr Andreevich Baranof 1790-1818
• Leonti Andreanovich Hagemeister 1818
• Semen Ivanovich Yanovski 1818-20
• Matvei I. Muraviev 1820-25
• Peter Egorovich Chistiakov 1825-30
• Baron F.P. Wrangell 1830-35
• Ivan Antonovich Kupreanov 1835-40
• Adolph Karlovich Etolin 1840-45
• Michael D. Tebenkov 1845-50
• Nikolai Y. Rosenberg 1850-53
• Alexsandr Ilich Rudakov 1853-54
• Stephen Vasili Voevodski 1854-59
• Ivan V. Furnhelm 1859-63
• Prince Dmitri Maksutov 1863-67

War Department (1867-1877)

• Brevet Major General Jefferson C. Davis 1867-1870
• Brevet Lieutenant Colonel George K. Brady 1870
• Major John C. Tidball 1870-1871
• Major Harvey A. Allen 1871-1872
• Major Joseph Steward 1872-1874
• Captain George B. Rodney 1874
• Captain Joseph B. Campbell 1874-1876
• Captain John Mendenhall 1876-1877
• Captain Arthur Morris 1877

Treasury Department (1877-1884)

• Commander Lester A. Beardslee 1879-1881
• Commander Henry Glass 1881
• Lieutenant Commander Edward P. Lull 1881-1882
• Commander Henry Glass 1881-1882
• Commander Frederick Pearson 1882
• Commander Edgar C. Merriman 1882-1883
• Commander Joseph B. Coghlan 1883-1884
• Commander Albert G. Caldwell
• Lieutenant Commander Henry E. Nichols 1884

District Governors

• John Henry Kinkead (Rep.) 1884-1885
• Alfred P. Swineford (Dem.) 1885-1889
• Lyman Enos Knapp (Rep.) 1889-1893
• James Sheakley (Dem.) 1893-1897
• John Green Brady 1897-1906
• Wilford Bacon Hoggatt (Rep.) 1906-1909
• Walter Eli Clark (Rep.) 1909-1912

Territorial Governors

• Walter Eli Clark (Rep.) 1912-1913
• John Franklin Alexander Strong (Dem.) 1913-1918
• Thomas Christmas Riggs, Jr. (Dem.) 1918-1921
• Scott Cordelle Bone (Rep.) 1921-1925
• George Alexander Parks (Rep.) 1925-1933
• John Weir Troy (Dem.) 1933-1939
• Ernest Gruening (Dem.) 1939-1953
  • Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. 1941-1944 (1)
• Benjamin Franklin Heintzleman (Rep.) 1953-1957
• Waino Edward Hendrickson (Rep.) 1957
• Michael Anthony Stepovich (Rep.) 1957-1958
• Waino Edward Hendrickson (Rep.) 1958-1959

State Governors

Alaska became a state on January 3 1959. The four-year term of governor begins and ends on the first Monday of December.

• William A. Egan (Dem.) 1959-1966
• Walter Joseph Hickel (Rep.) 1966-1969 (2)
• Keith Harvey Miller (Rep.) 1969-1970
• William A. Egan (Dem.) 1970-1974
• Jay Sterner Hammond (Rep.) 1974-1982
• William Jennings Sheffield (Dem.) 1982-1986
• Steve Camberling Cowper (Dem.) 1986-1990
• Walter Joseph Hickel (Alaskan Independence, Rep.) 1990-1994 (3)
• Tony Knowles (Dem.) 1994-2002
• Frank H. Murkowski (Rep.) 2002-present

Footnotes

1. Bruckner was the military commander of Alaska during most of World War II.
2. Resigned to become Secretary of the Interior on January 29 1969.
3. Switched to the Republican Party in April 1994.