In 1776 the "Three Lower Counties" of the British colony of Pennsylvania - Kent,
New Castle and Sussex upon Delaware - declared their independence and became the
State of Delaware, one of the original member-states of the Union.
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STATE OFFICERS
Governors
1847 - 1851 William Tharp 1803 - 1865
1851 - 1855 William Henry Harrison Ross 1814 - 1877
1855 - 1859 Peter Foster Causey 1801 - 1871
1859 - 1863 William Burton 1789 - 1866
1863 - 1865 William Cannon 1809 - 1865
1865 - 1871 Gove Saulsbury 1815 - 1881
1871 - 1875 James Ponder 1819 - 1897
1875 - 1879 John Polk Cochran 1809 - 1898
1879 - 1883 John Wood Hall 1817 - 1892
1883 - 1887 Charles Clark Stockley 1819 - 1901
1887 - 1891 Benjamin Thomas Biggs 1821 - 1893
1891 - 1895 Robert John Reynolds 1838 - 1909
1895 Joshua Hopkins Marvil 1825 - 1895
1895 - 1897 William Thorp Watson* 1849 - 1917
1897 - 1901 Ebe Walter Tunnell 1844 - 1917
1901 - 1905 John Hunn 1849 - 1926
1905 - 1909 Preston Lea 1841 - 1916
1909 - 1913 Simeon Selby Pennewill 1867 - 1935
1913 - 1917 Charles Robert Miller 1857 - 1927
1917 - 1921 John Gillis Townsend Jr. 1871 - 1964
1921 - 1925 William du Hamel Denney 1873 - 1953
1925 - 1929 Robert Pyle Robinson 1869 - 1939
1929 - 1937 Clayton Douglass Buck 1890 - 1965
1937 - 1941 Richard Cann McMullen 1868 - 1944
1941 - 1949 Walter Wolfkiel Bacon 1880 - 1962
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