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Pennsylvania Governors
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GOVERNORS.
Under Dutch Rule (1624-1664).' Cornelis Jacobsen Mey Director..1624-1625William van Hu1st „1625-1626Peter Minuit. Governor1626-1632David Pieterzen de Vries.1632-1633Wouter van Twiller William Kieft. 1638-1647-1638
1633 - Peter Stuyvesant1647-1664Under Swedish Rule (1638-1655).2 the Duke of York (1664-1673).
. Deputy. Commander on the Delaware Commander on the Delaware Under Dutch Rule (1673-1674).
Anthony Colve Peter Alrichs.. Deputy on the Delaware1673-1674-1673-1674 Under the Duke of York (1674-1681).
Sir Edmund Andros1674-1681Under the Proprietors (1681-1693).
William Markham Deputy-Governor1681-1682William Penn1682-1684Thomas Lloyd. President of the Council1684-1686Thomas Lloyd Robert Turner Arthur Cook. Executive Commissioners1686-1688John Simcock John Eckley John Blackwell Deputy-Governor.1688-1690' Governors of New Netherland and of the Dutch settlements on the Delaware.
2 The Swedish colonies on the Delaware conquered by the Dutch in 1655.
Thomas Lloyd President of the Council Thomas Lloyd. .. Deputy-Governor. William Markham 3. .
Under1759-1763„1763-1771
President of the Council 1771
Lieutenant-Governor1771-1773-1773-1776 Period of Sta Benjamin Franklin, Chairman of Thomas Wharton, Jr... George Bryan 4.. Acting Joseph Reed William Moore John Dickinson Benjamin Franklin Thomas Mifflin Thomas Mifflin Thomas McKean Simon Snyder William Finley Joseph Heister John A. Shulze George Wolf Joseph Ritner D. R. Porter F. R. Shunk W. F. Johnston 5 William Bigler James Pollock W. F. Packer A. G. Curtin John W. Geary John F. Hartranft .
Henry M. Hoyt. Robert E. Pattison. James A. Beaver. Robert E. Pattison. Daniel H. Hastings. .
William A. Stone. Samuel W. Pennypacker Edwin S. Stuart John K. Tener Bibliography. - For the physiography of Pennsylvania, see W. S. Tower's " Regional and Economic Geography of Pennsylvania,'
in the Bulletins of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia, vols. iv., v. and vi. (Philadelphia, 1904-1908); J. P. Lesley, A Summary Description of the Geology of Pennsylvania (Harrisburg, 1892-1895) C. B. Trego, A Geography of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, 1843) and Topographic and Geologic Survey of Pennsylvania,1906-1908 (Harrisburg, 1909). For industrial statistics see reports of the Twelfth United States Census, the Special Reports on Manufactures in 1905, by the United States Census Bureau, the annual reports on the Mineral Resources of the United States, by the United States Geological Survey, and the Year Book of the United States Department of Agriculture. For the administration of the state see: The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, adopted December 16, 1873, amended November 5, 1901 (Harrisburg, 1902); S. George et al. (editors), Laws of Pennsylvania, 1682-1700, preceded by the Duke of York's Laws, 1676-1682 (Harrisburg, 1879); A. J. Dallas (editor), Laws of Pennsylvania, 1700-1801 (Philadelphia and Lancaster, 1797-1801); Laws of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania 3 Lloyd was deputy-governor of the province, the present state of Pennsylvania; Markham of the lower counties, the present state of Delaware.
4 The state was governed by a supreme executive council in 1777-1790.
5 Governor Shunk resigned in July 1848 and was succeeded by W. F. Johnston, president of the state senate.
Peter Minuit Peter Hollender John Printz. John Pappegoya John Claude Rysingh Under Richard Nicolls Robert Carr. Robert Needham Francis Lovelace John Carr .
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