Statistics for Historical U.S. Governors

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State, Political Party, Term Year(s), and Hints	Governor	% Correct
New York, Democrat, 1929-1932, New Deal President	Franklin Roosevelt	95%
Georgia, Democrat, 1971-1975, Peanut farmer	Jimmy Carter	95%
Arkansas, Democrat, 1979-1981, 1983-1992, 42nd president	Bill Clinton	89%
California, Republican, 2003-2011, the Governator	Arnold Schwarzenegger	87%
Florida, Republican, 1999-2007, part of a large multi-state political dynasty	Jeb Bush	87%
Texas, Republican, 1995-2000, both a president and a president's son	George W. Bush	86%
Indiana, Republican, 2013-2017, Trump's VP	Mike Pence	85%
California, Republican, 1967-1975, former actor	Ronald Reagan	85%
West Virginia, Democrat, 1977-1985, Great-grandson of oil tycoon	Jay Rockefeller	84%
Alaska, Republican, 2006-2009, McCain's VP nominee	Sarah Palin	84%
Ohio, Republican, 1892-1896, Spanish-American War President	William McKinley	83%
New York, Republican, 1899-1900, Bull Moose	Theodore Roosevelt	81%
Alabama, Democrat, 1963-1967, 1971-1979, 1983-1987, "segregation forever"	George Wallace	80%
New York, Democrat, 1883-1885, served non-consecutive presidential terms	Grover Cleveland	80%
Massachusetts, Independent, 1780-1785, 1787-1793, Famous signatory	John Hancock	80%
Massachusetts, Republican, 2003-2007, Mormon	Mitt Romney	79%
New York, Republican, 1943-1954, Surprisingly lost to Truman	Thomas Dewey	79%
Massachusetts, Republican, 1919-1921, Silent President	Calvin Coolidge	78%
Maryland, Republican, 1967-1969, 39th VP	Spiro Agnew	78%
Massachusetts, Democrat, 1983-1991, Lost to H.W. Bush	Michael Dukakis	77%
Minnesota, Reform/Independence, 1999-2003, former professional wrestler	Jesse Ventura	76%
New Jersey, Republican, 2010-2018, Governor during Hurricane Sandy	Chris Christie	75%
South Carolina, Republican, 2011-2017, Trump's first UN Ambassador	Nikki Haley	74%
New Jersey, Democrat, 1911-1913, "The Schoolmaster"	Woodrow Wilson	74%
Louisiana, Democrat, 1928-1932, "The Kingfish"	Huey Long	71%
Arkansas, Republican, 1996-2007, minister and Fox News host	Mike Huckabee	71%
Virginia, Democrat, 2006-2010, Hillary's VP Nominee	Tim Kaine	71%
Tennessee, Democratic-Republican, 1827-1829, Texas, Independent, 1859-1861, First President of Texas	Sam Houston	69%
California, Democrat, 1975-1983, 2011-2019, famous opponent of death penalty, proponent of environmental causes	Jerry Brown	68%
Virginia, Democratic-Republican, 1799-1802, 1811, Era of Good Feelings President	James Monroe	65%
New York, Republican, 1959-1973, Ford's VP	Nelson Rockefeller	63%
California, Republican, 1943-1953, Eisenhower-appointed Chief Justice	Earl Warren	62%
New York, Democrat, 1829, Old Kinderhook	Martin Van Buren	61%
Massachusetts, Democratic-Republican, 1810-1812, Redistricting	Elbridge Gerry	60%
Texas, Republican, 2000-2015, Trump's former Secretary of Energy	Rick Perry	59%
New York, Federalist, 1795-1801, 1st Chief Justice	John Jay	57%
Vermont, Democrat, 1991-2003, Loud scream ruined his presidential campaign	Howard Dean	56%
Ohio, Republican, 2011-2019, 2016 Republican primary contender	John Kasich	56%
Massachusetts, Independent, 1793-1797, Sons of Liberty	Samuel Adams	52%
Illinois, Democrat, 2003-2009, impeached, removed, and imprisoned for corruption	Rod Blagojevich	50%
Virginia, Democratic-Republican, 1825-1827, W.H. Harrison's VP	John Tyler	48%
Tennessee, Democrat/Unionist, 1853-1857, 1862-1865, former tailor	Andrew Johnson	46%
New Mexico, Democrat, 2003-2011, U.S. Ambassador to the UN and Energy Secretary in the Clinton administration	Bill Richardson	44%
Wisconsin, Republican, 1901-1906, "Fighting Bob", Progressive candidate for president	Robert La Follette	43%
Michigan, Republican, 1963-1969, Nixon's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development	George Romney	42%
Kansas, Republican, 1933-1937, lost in a landslide to FDR	Alf Landon	41%
New York, Democrat, 1919-1920, 1923-1928, Catholic	Al Smith	40%
Tennessee, Democrat, 1839-1841, Young Hickory	James Polk	39%
New Hampshire, Republican, 1983-1989, H.W. Bush's Chief of Staff	John Sununu	39%
Nebraska, Democrat, 1923-1925, 1931-1935, younger brother to the Great Commoner	Charles W. Bryan	38%
Ohio, Republican, 1868-1872, 1876-1877, His Fraudulency	Rutherford Hayes	38%
New York, Democratic-Republican, 1777-1795, 1801-1804, 4th VP	George Clinton	36%
New Jersey, Democrat, 1878-1881, 2-time commander of the Army of the Potomac	George McClellan	35%
Maine, Democrat, 1955-1959, Hubert Humphrey's VP nominee	Edmund Muskie	32%
Arizona, Democrat, 2003-2009, Obama's first Secretary of Homeland Security	Janet Napolitano	28%
Virginia, Anti-Federalist, 1776-1779, 1784-1786, the Constitution's biggest opponent	Patrick Henry	26%
Utah, Republican, 2005-2009, has served in the administration of 5 U.S. presidents	Jon Huntsman	25%
New York, Democratic-Republican, 1817-1822, 1825-1828, Erie Canal	DeWitt Clinton	24%
Ohio, Republican, 1856-1860, Lincoln-appointed Chief Justice	Salmon Chase	24%
Rhode Island, Republican, 1866-1869, Union General at Fredricksburg	Ambrose Burnside	21%
Maine, Republican, 1867-1871, Gettysburg hero	Joshua Chamberlain	20%
Indiana, Democrat, 1909-1913, Wilson's VP	Thomas Marshall	20%
Delaware, Independent, 1778-1781, Signer of the Declaration of Independence	Caesar Rodney	14%
Pennsylvania, Republican, 1923-1927, 1931-1935, First Chief of the U.S. Forest Service	Gifford Pinchot	11%
Wyoming, Democrat, 1925-1927, first female governor of any state	Nellie Tayloe Ross	11%
North Carolina, Conservative/Democrat, 1862-1865, 1877-1879, influential leader in the New South	Zebulon Vance	8%
Connecticut, Independent, 1769-1784, Only Patriot colonial governor	Jonathan Trumbull	5%