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This list contains the 50 governors of states in the United States who have served for the longest years consecutively or otherwise. Territorial and colonial governors are not included.
There have been 69 governors of North Carolina, with six serving non-consecutive terms, totaling 75 terms. The current governor is Democrat Roy Cooper, who took office on January 1, 2017.
James Baxter Hunt Jr. (born May 16, 1937) is an American politician and retired attorney who was the 69th and 71st governor of North Carolina (1977–1985, and 1993–2001). He is the longest-serving governor in the state's history.
Gabriel Johnston (ca. 1698-17 July 1752) served longer than any Governor in North Carolina’s history, eighteen years. Even more remarkable is that, due to problems collecting the quitrents that paid his salary, he was uncompensated for thirteen of those years.
Samuel Johnston, one of early North Carolina’s most durable politicians, served as governor during the debate over the ratification of the United States Constitution. Born in Scotland, Johnston came to North Carolina as an infant while his uncle, Gabriel Johnston, was serving as royal governor.
On 27 Mar. 1733 Johnston was appointed governor of North Carolina, taking his oaths of office in London that August. But he did not arrive in Brunswick Town, at the mouth of the Cape Fear River, until 27 Oct. 1734 to assume his duties on 2 November.
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The first North Carolina governor elected to consecutive four-year terms and the state’s longest serving chief executive with sixteen years in office, James B. Hunt, Jr. (1937- ) assumed the moderately progressive mantle of his Democratic predecessors by placing emphasis on education, economic development, and highways.
