Governor of New York
The Governor of New York State is, more often than not, the beneficiary of a Columbia education:
- John Jay, KC 1764, Governor 1795-1801
- Daniel Tompkins, CC 1795, Governor 1807-1817
- DeWitt Clinton, CC 1786, Governor 1817-1822, 1825-1828
- Hamilton Fish, CC 1827, Governor 1849-1850
- Theodore Roosevelt, CLS 1890-1892, Governor 1899-1900
- Charles Evans Hughes, CLS 1884, Governor 1907-1910
- Horace White, CLS 1889, Governor 1910
- William Sulzer, CC 1884, Governor 1913
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, CLS 1905-1907, Governor 1929-1933
- Thomas Dewey, CLS 1925, Governor 1943-1955
- George Pataki, CLS 1970, Governor 1995-2006
- David Paterson, CC 1977, Governor 2008-
NB: The interregna between the above-listed governors have typically been dominated by products of Princeton, Harvard, and darkness.
