Best Nicknames

William and George are the top names of all the Governors of the State of New Jersey, with 3 more Williams than Georges.  So far, there has only been one woman governor, Christine Todd Whitman, who goes by the nickname “Christie.” Woodrow Wilson, (we put him under Thomas because that was his real first name), became the 28th President of the USA in 1913. Civil War General George McClellan served one 4 year term, 13 years after the end of the war.

William: 8 NJ Governors

• William Livingston 1776-90
• William Paterson 1790-93
• William Sanford Pennington 1813-15
• William Kennedy 1815
• William Pennington 1837-43
• William Augustus Newell 1857-60
• William Nelson Runyon 1919-1920
• William T. Cahill 1970 1974

George: 5 NJ Governors

• George Franklin Fort 1851-54
• George B. McClellan 1878-81
• George C. Ludlow 1881-84
• George Theodore Werts 1893-96
• George Sebastian Silzer 1923-26

John: 4 NJ Governors

• John Lambert 1802-03
• John W. Griggs 1896-1898
• John Franklin Fort 1908-11
• Jon Stevens Corzine 2006-10

Charles: 3 NJ Governors

• Charles Creighton Stratton 1845-48
• Charles Smith Olden 1860-63
• Charles Edison 1941-1944

James: 3 NJ Governors

• James Fairman Fielder 1913, 1914-17
• James Joseph Florio 1990-1994
• James Edward McGreevey 2002-04

Richard: 3 NJ Governors

• Richard Howell 1793-1801
• Richard Joseph Hughes 1962-70
• Richard James Codey 2002, 2004-06

Thomas: 3 NJ Governors

• Thomas Henderson 1793-93
• Thomas Woodrow Wilson 1911-13
• Thomas Kean 1982-1990

Joseph: 2 NJ Governors

• Joseph Bloomfield 1801-02 and 1803-12
• Joseph D. Bedle 1875 1878

Robert: 2 NJ Governors

• Robert Stockton Green 1887-90
• Robert B. Meyner 1954 1962

Edward: 2 NJ Governors

• Edward C. Stokes 1905-08
• Edward I. Edwards 1920 1923

Leon: 2 NJ Governors

• Leon Abbett 1884-87, 1890-93
• Leon Rutherford Taylor 1913-14

Only one:

• Aaron Ogden 1812-13
• Alfred E. Driscoll 1947-1954
• Arthur Harry Moore 1926-29, 1932-35, 1938-41
• Brendan Byrne 1974-1982
• Christine Todd Whitman 1994-01
• Christopher James “Chris” Christie 2010-
• Clarence E. Case 1920
• Clifford Ross Powell 1935
• Daniel Haines 1843-45 and 1848-51
• David Ogden Watkins 1898-99
• Donald DiFrancesco 2001-02
• Elias Petty Seeley 1833
• Elisha Lawrence 1790
• Foster MacGowan Voorhees 1898, 1899-02
• Franklin Murphy 1902-05
• Garret D. Wall elected, declined to serve
• Harold G. Hoffman 1935-38
• Horace Griggs Prall 1935
• Isaac Halstead Williamson 1817-29
• Joel Parker 1863-66, 1872-75
• Mahlon Dickerson 1815-17
• Marcus Lawrence Ward 1866-69
• Morgan Foster Larson 1929-32
• Peter Dumont Vroom 1829-36
• Philemon Dickerson 1836-37
• Rodman McCamley Price 1854-57
• Samuel Lewis Southard 1832-33
• Theodore Fitz Randolph 1869-72
• Walter Evans Edge 1917-19 , 1944-47