WV History - Governors By jojomarshallproject Period: Jun 1, 1863 to Sep 30, 2013 West Virginia Governors Jun 20, 1863 Governor Boreman Jun 20, 1863 West Virginia became a state Jan 1, 1869 Governor Farnsworth May 1, 1869 Governor Stevenson Jan 1, 1871 Governor John Jacob Jan 1, 1877 Governor Henry Matthews Jan 1, 1881 Governor Jacob Jackson Jan 1, 1885 Governor Emanuel Wilson Jan 1, 1890 Governor Aretas Fleming Jan 1, 1893 Governor William MacCorkle Jan 1, 1897 Governor George Atkinson Jan 1, 1901 Governor Albert White Jan 1, 1905 Governor William Dawson Jan 1, 1909 Governor William Glasscock Jan 1, 1913 Governor Henry Hatfield Jan 1, 1913 Governor Henry Hatfield Jan 1, 1917 Governor John Cornwell Jan 1, 1921 Governor Ephraim Morgan Jan 1, 1925 Governor Howard Gore Jan 1, 1929 Governor William Conley Jan 1, 1933 Governor Herman Kump Jan 1, 1937 Governor Homer Holt May 1, 1941 Governor Matthew Neely Jan 1, 1945 Governor Clarence Meadows Jan 1, 1949 Governor Okey Patteson Jan 1, 1953 Governor William Marland Jan 1, 1957 Governor Cecil Underwood - First Term Jan 1, 1961 Governor William Barron Jan 1, 1965 Governor Hulett Smith Jan 1, 1969 Governor Arch Moore Jan 1, 1977 Governor John Rockefeller IV Jan 1, 1985 Governor Arch Moore - 2nd Term Jan 1, 1989 Governor William Caperton Jan 1, 1997 Governor Cecil Underwood - 2nd Term Jan 1, 2001 Governor Bob Wise Jan 1, 2005 Governor Joe Manchin Jan 1, 2010 Governor Earl Ray Tomblin
