List of Jewish American politicians

This is a list of notable Jewish American politicians, arranged chronologically. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans.

State	Name	Party	Assumed office	Left office	Notes
Georgia	David Emanuel^[3]	Democratic-Republican	March 3, 1801	November 7, 1801	Emanuel may not have been an openly practicing Jew. As an adult he became a Presbyterian, but modern historians accept he was Jewish.^[4]
Wisconsin	Edward Salomon^[5]	Republican	April 19, 1862	January 4, 1864
Washington	Edward Salomon^[6]^[7]	Republican	March 4, 1870	May 26, 1872
California	Washington Bartlett^[8]	Democratic	January 8, 1887	September 12, 1887	California's first and only Jewish governor
Idaho	Moses Alexander^[3]	Democratic	January 4, 1915	January 6, 1919	Idaho's first and only Jewish governor
Utah	Simon Bamberger^[3]	Democratic	January 1, 1917	January 1, 1921	Utah's first and only Jewish governor
New Mexico	Arthur Seligman^[3]	Democratic	January 1, 1931	September 25, 1933	New Mexico's first Jewish governor
Oregon	Julius Meier^[3]	Independent	January 12, 1931	January 14, 1935	Oregon's first Jewish governor
New York	Herbert Lehman^[3]	Democratic	January 1, 1933	December 3, 1942	New York's first Jewish governor
Florida	David Sholtz^[9]	Democratic	January 3, 1933	January 5, 1937	Florida's first Jewish governor
Illinois	Henry Horner^[3]	Democratic	January 9, 1933	October 6, 1940	Illinois' first Jewish governor
Wisconsin	Julius Heil^[10]	Republican	January 2, 1939	January 4, 1943
Alaska	Ernest Gruening^[3]	Democratic	December 6, 1939	April 10, 1953	Alaska's first and only Jewish governor
Connecticut	Abe Ribicoff^[3]	Democratic	January 5, 1955	January 21, 1961	Connecticut's first and only Jewish governor
Illinois	Samuel Shapiro^[3]	Democratic	May 21, 1968	January 13, 1969
Rhode Island	Frank Licht^[3]	Democratic	January 7, 1969	January 2, 1973	Rhode Island's first Jewish governor
Maryland	Marvin Mandel^[3]	Democratic	January 7, 1969	January 17, 1979	Maryland's first and only Jewish governor *Blair Lee III served as Acting Governor from June 4, 1977, to January 15, 1979
Pennsylvania	Milton Shapp^[3]	Democratic	January 19, 1971	January 16, 1979	Pennsylvania's first Jewish governor
Vermont	Madeleine Kunin^[3]	Democratic	January 10, 1985	January 10, 1991	Vermont's first Jewish governor
Oregon	Neil Goldschmidt^[3]	Democratic	January 12, 1987	January 14, 1991
Rhode Island	Bruce Sundlun^[3]	Democratic	January 1, 1991	January 3, 1995
Hawaii	Linda Lingle^[11]	Republican	December 2, 2002	December 6, 2010	Hawaii's first Jewish governor
Pennsylvania	Ed Rendell^[12]	Democratic	January 21, 2003	January 18, 2011
New York	Eliot Spitzer^[13]	Democratic	January 1, 2007	March 17, 2008
Delaware	Jack Markell^[3]	Democratic	January 20, 2009	January 17, 2017	Delaware's first Jewish governor
Vermont	Peter Shumlin^[14]	Democratic	January 6, 2011	January 5, 2017
Missouri	Eric Greitens^[15]	Republican	January 9, 2017	June 1, 2018	Missouri's first Jewish governor
Colorado	Jared Polis^[16]	Democratic	January 8, 2019	Incumbent	Colorado's first Jewish governor
Illinois	J. B. Pritzker^[17]	Democratic	January 14, 2019	Incumbent
Hawaii	Josh Green	Democratic	December 5, 2022	Incumbent
Pennsylvania	Josh Shapiro	Democratic	January 17, 2023	Incumbent
North Carolina	Josh Stein	Democratic	January 1, 2025	Incumbent	North Carolina's first Jewish Governor
Delaware	Matt Meyer	Democratic	January 21, 2025	Incumbent

State	Name	Party	Assumed office	Left office
Louisiana	Henry Hyams^[3]	Democratic	January 23, 1860	January 25, 1864
New York	Herbert Lehman^[3]	Democratic	January 1, 1929	December 31, 1932
Illinois	Samuel Shapiro^[3]	Democratic	January 9, 1961	May 21, 1968
Vermont	Madeleine Kunin^[3]	Democratic	January 10, 1979	January 10, 1983
Missouri	Ken Rothman^[18]	Democratic	January 12, 1981	January 15, 1985
Rhode Island	Richard Licht^[19]	Democratic	January 1, 1985	January 1, 1989
Missouri	Harriett Woods^[3]	Democratic	January 14, 1985	January 9, 1989
Maryland	Melvin Steinberg^[3]	Democratic	January 21, 1987	January 18, 1995
Pennsylvania	Robert Jubelirer^[20]	Republican	October 5, 2001	January 21, 2003
Ohio	Lee Fisher^[21]	Democratic	January 8, 2007	January 10, 2011
Delaware	Matthew Denn^[22]	Democratic	January 20, 2009	January 6, 2015
New York	Richard Ravitch^[23]	Democratic	July 9, 2009	December 31, 2010
Louisiana	Jay Dardenne^[24]	Republican	November 22, 2010	January 11, 2016
Hawaii	Brian Schatz^[25]	Democratic	December 6, 2010	December 26, 2012
Connecticut	Nancy Wyman^[26]	Democratic	January 5, 2011	January 9, 2019
Kentucky	Jerry Abramson^[27]	Democratic	December 13, 2011	November 13, 2014
Florida	Carlos Lopez-Cantera^[28]	Republican	February 3, 2014	January 7, 2019
Vermont	David Zuckerman^[29]	Vermont Progressive Party	January 5, 2017	January 7, 2021
Hawaii	Josh Green^[30]	Democratic	December 3, 2018	December 5, 2022
Vermont	David Zuckerman	Vermont Progressive Party	January 5, 2023	January 9, 2025

State	Name	Party	Assumed office	Left office
New York	Simon Rosendale^[31]	Democratic	January 1, 1892	December 31, 1893
Maryland	Isidor Rayner^[32]	Democratic	1899	1903
Maryland	Isaac Straus^[3]	Democratic	1907	1911
New York	Carl Sherman^[33]	Democratic	January 1, 1923	December 31, 1924
New York	Albert Ottinger^[34]	Republican	January 1, 1925	December 31, 1928
Ohio	Gilbert Bettman^[3]	Republican	January 14, 1929	January 12, 1933
New Jersey	David Wilentz^[35]	Democratic	1934	1944
New York	Nathaniel Goldstein^[3]	Republican	January 1, 1943	December 31, 1954
Delaware	Albert Young^[36]	Independent	1951	1955
Massachusetts	George Fingold^[37]	Republican	January 8, 1953	August 31, 1958
New York	Jacob Javits^[3]	Republican	January 1, 1955	January 9, 1957
New York	Louis Lefkowitz^[3]	Republican	January 10, 1957	December 31, 1978
California	Stanley Mosk^[3]	Democratic	January 5, 1959	1964
New Hampshire	Warren Rudman^[3]	Republican	1970	1976
Rhode Island	Richard Israel^[3]	Republican	January 5, 1971	January 7, 1975
Florida	Robert Shevin^[3]	Democratic	January 5, 1971	January 2, 1979
Vermont	Jerome Diamond^[3]	Democratic	1975	1981
Rhode Island	Julius Michaelson^[3]	Democratic	January 7, 1975	January 2, 1979
New York	Robert Abrams^[3]	Democratic	January 1, 1979	January 31, 1993
Maryland	Stephen Sachs^[3]	Democratic	January 17, 1979	January 21, 1987
Connecticut	Joe Lieberman^[3]	Democratic	January 5, 1983	January 3, 1989
Connecticut	Richard Blumenthal^[3]	Democratic	January 9, 1991	January 5, 2011
Ohio	Lee Fisher^[3]	Democratic	January 14, 1991	January 9, 1995
New York	G. Oliver Koppell^[38]	Democratic	January 1, 1993	December 31, 1994
Rhode Island	Jeffrey Pine^[3]	Republican	January 5, 1993	January 2, 1999
New Jersey	Deborah Poritz^[39]	Republican	1994	1996
New York	Eliot Spitzer^[3]	Democratic	January 1, 1999	December 31, 2006
New Jersey	David Samson^[40]	Independent	January 15, 2002	February 15, 2003
New Jersey	Stuart Rabner^[41]	Democratic	September 26, 2006	June 26, 2007
Maryland	Doug Gansler^[42]	Democratic	January 17, 2007	January 21, 2015
Louisiana	Buddy Caldwell^[43]	Democratic	January 14, 2008	February 2, 2011
Louisiana	Buddy Caldwell^[43]	Republican	February 2, 2011	January 11, 2016
New York	Eric Schneiderman^[44]	Democratic	January 1, 2011	May 8, 2018
Arizona	Tom Horne^[45]	Republican	January 3, 2011	January 5, 2015
Georgia	Sam Olens^[46]	Republican	January 10, 2011	November 1, 2016
Oregon	Ellen Rosenblum^[47]	Democratic	June 29, 2012	December 31, 2024
Delaware	Matthew Denn^[22]	Democratic	January 6, 2015	January 1, 2019
Maryland	Brian Frosh^[48]	Democratic	January 21, 2015	January 3, 2023
North Carolina	Josh Stein^[49]	Democratic	January 1, 2017	January 1, 2025
Pennsylvania	Josh Shapiro^[50]	Democratic	January 17, 2017	January 17, 2023
Michigan	Dana Nessel^[51]	Democratic	January 1, 2019	Incumbent
Colorado	Phil Weiser^[52]	Democratic	January 8, 2019	Incumbent
Washington D.C.	Brian Schwalb	Democratic	January 2, 2023	Incumbent

State	Name	Party	Assumed office	Left office
New York	Samuel Koenig^[3]	Republican	January 1, 1909	December 31, 1910
New York	Mitchell May^[3]	Democratic	January 1, 1913	December 31, 1914
New York	Caroline Simon^[53]	Republican	1959	1963
Connecticut	Mildred Allen	Republican	January 3, 1955	January 3, 1959
Florida	Richard Stone^[3]	Democratic	January 5, 1971	July 8, 1974
Florida	George Firestone^[3]	Democratic	1979	1989
Vermont	Deborah Markowitz^[3]	Democratic	January 1999	January 2011
Louisiana	Jay Dardenne^[24]	Republican	November 10, 2006	November 22, 2010
Missouri	Jason Kander^[54]	Democratic	January 14, 2013	January 9, 2017
Colorado	Jena Griswold^[55]	Democratic	January 8, 2019	Incumbent

State	Name	Party	Assumed office	Left office
New Jersey	David Naar	Democratic	1865	1865
New Jersey	Katharine White^[3] Acting	Democratic	1961	1961
Maine	Samuel Shapiro^[3]	Democratic	1981	1996
Rhode Island	Nancy Mayer^[3]	Republican	1993	1997
Delaware	Jack Markell^[3]	Democratic	January 16, 1999	January 20, 2009
Kentucky	Jonathan Miller^[3]	Democratic	December 1999	December 11, 2007
Massachusetts	Steve Grossman^[56]	Democratic	January 17, 2011	January 21, 2015
Ohio	Josh Mandel^[57]	Republican	January 10, 2011	January 14, 2019
Nevada	Dan Schwartz^[58]	Republican	January 5, 2015	January 7, 2019
Rhode Island	Seth Magaziner^[59]	Democratic	January 6, 2015	January 3, 2023
Massachusetts	Deb Goldberg^[60]	Democratic	January 21, 2015	Incumbent

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