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New York was one of the original Thirteen Colonies on the east coast of North America, and was admitted as a state on July 26, 1788. Prior to declaring its independence, New York was a colony of the Kingdom of Great Britain, which it in turn obtained from the Dutch as the colony of New Netherland; see the list of colonial governors and the list of directors-general of New Netherland for the ...
This article is a list of governors of New York by time in office. In New York, the governor is elected to a four-year term, which is 1,461 days long. There is no term limit Prior to 1938, governors were elected to a two-year term, which is 730 or 731 days long. The longest-serving governor of New York is the first officeholder: George Clinton.
1877 – Rutherford B. Hayes, Governor of Ohio (March 2), to take office as President of the United States. 1880 – James Garfield, United States Representative (November 8), to take office as President of the United States. 1885 – Grover Cleveland, Governor of New York (January 6), to take office as President of the United States.
In 1817, following the resignation of Daniel D. Tompkins after serving only eight months of his term, there was a new election, since the 1777 Constitution did not give the lieutenant governor the right to succeed to the governor's office, and DeWitt Clinton was elected for a whole three-year-term.
David Alexander Paterson (born May 20, 1954) [1] is an American politician and attorney who served as the 55th governor of New York, succeeding Eliot Spitzer, who resigned, and serving out nearly three years of Spitzer's term from March 2008 to December 2010.
The key people who resigned from Eric Adams' office ahead of the New York City Mayor's indictment. Mikhaila Friel. ... In a resignation letter cited by CBS, Banks, 62, ...
The governor of New York is the highest paid governor in the country. The current governor is Kathy Hochul , a member of the Democratic Party who took office on August 24, 2021, following the resignation of Andrew Cuomo . [ 1 ]
The only instance since at least 1980 in which the second in line reached a state governorship was on January 8, 2002, when New Jersey Attorney General John Farmer Jr. acted as governor for 90 minutes between Donald DiFrancesco and John O. Bennett's terms in that capacity as president of the Senate following governor Christine Todd Whitman's ...