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United States Governors 1775-2020

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Jacob Kaplan, University of Pennsylvania

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united_states_governors_1775_2020.csv	text/csv	686.3 KB	07/01/2020 05:56:PM
united_states_governors_1775_2020.dta	application/x-stata	1.9 MB	07/01/2020 05:56:PM
united_states_governors_1775_2020.rda	application/x-rlang-transport	55.2 KB	07/01/2020 05:56:PM

Project Citation:

Kaplan, Jacob. United States Governors 1775-2020. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2020-07-01. https://doi.org/10.3886/E102000V2

Project Description

Summary:

Version 2 Release Notes:

Adds 2019 and 2020 (current) governor data.
Adds data as R and Stata formats.

This data contains the governor of every state or territory from 1775 to 2020. The governor's political party is included. Some governors were in multiple political parties during their lives so this variable may have multiple values for a single governor.

Parties prior to 1950 are completely unchanged.

For parties in years 1950-2018 I standardized spelling of some parties (e.g. "Democratic" to "Democrat") and if a governor was reported to be in multiple parties, set the party for a given year to the party that governor was in during that year.

All data comes from the National Governors Association website. https://www.nga.org/cms/home

For code used to scrape the website and clean the data, see here. https://github.com/jacobkap/governors

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: governors; politicians; united states governors; US governors; state politics; state government

Geographic Coverage: United States

Time Period(s): 1775 – 2020

Methodology

Data Source: https://www.nga.org/cms/home

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Published Versions

V3 [2021-01-16]

V2 [2020-07-01]

V1 [2018-03-17]

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