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page 1Colonial governors of Massachusetts

John Winthrop
Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay and Author of "City upon a Hill" (1588-1649)

Thomas Gage
British general (1721-1787)
Thomas Hutchinson
last civilian Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, historian (1711-1780)
Edmund Andros
British governor of several North American colonies (1637–1714)
William Shirley
British governor of Massachusetts and then of the Bahamas (1694-1771)
Henry Vane the Younger
Seventeenth century English politician
Simon Bradstreet
last governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony; husband of poet Anne Bradstreet
Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet
British colonial administrator (1712-1779)
William Phips
First royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (1651-1695)
Joseph Dudley
Royal governor of Massachusetts (1647-1720)
William Stoughton
Salem witch trial magistrate, Massachusetts colonial official (1631–1701)
John Endecott
governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (1600-1664)

Thomas Dudley
Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (1576-1653)
William Dummer
Lieutenant Governor of colonial Massachusetts, acting governor during Dummer's War, benefactor of The Governor's Academy
Richard Bellingham
Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
John Leverett
English-American colonist (1616–1679); governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony
Richard Coote, 1st Earl of Bellomont
Colonial governor of New York, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts
Thomas Pownall
British colonial official, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Province (1722-1805)
William Burnet
British governor of New York and New Jersey
Jonathan Belcher
American merchant and politician (1682–1757)

Samuel Shute
English military officer and governor of Massachusetts and New Hampshire
John Haynes
English colonial magistrate and co-founder of Connecticut Colony