When Roy Cooper was sworn in as Governor of North Carolina on January 1st, he became the 32nd North Carolina Governor to have attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Here’s the full list.
William Miller | Attended 1802 | In office 1814- 1817 |
John Branch | Class of 1801 | In office 1817-1820 |
John Owen | Attended 1804 | In office 1828-1830 |
David Lowry Swain | Attended 1821-1822 | In office 1832-1835 |
Richard Dobbs Spaight | Class of 1815 | In office 1835-1836 |
John Motley Morehead | Class of 1817 | In office 1841-1845 |
William Alexander Graham | Class of 1824 | In office 1845-1849 |
Charles Manly | Class of 1814 | In office 1849-1851 |
Warren Winslow | Class of 1827 | In office 1854-1855 |
John Willis Ellis | Class of 1841 | In office 1859-1861 |
Henry Toole Clark | Class of 1826 | In office 1861-1862 |
Zebulon Vance | Attended 1851-1852 | In office 1862-1865; 1877-1879 |
Tod Robinson Caldwell | Class of 1840 | In office 1871-1874 |
Alfred Moore Scales | Attended 1888-1890 | In office 1885-1889 |
Thomas Michael Holt | Attended 1849-1850 | In office 1891-1893 |
Elias Carr | Attended 1855-1857 | In office 1893-1897 |
Daniel Lindsay Russell | Attended 1860-1862 (honorary degree given 1911) | In office 1897-1901 |
Charles Brantley Aycock | Class of 1880 | In office 1901-1905 |
William Walton Kitchin | School of Law, Class of 1910 | In office 1909-1913 |
Locke Craig | Class of 1880 | In office 1913-1917 |
Angus Wilton McLean | Attended the School of Law 1890-1892 | In office 1925-1929 |
O. Max Gardner | Attended 1905-1906 | In office 1929-1933 |
John C.B. Ehringhaus | Class of 1901 | In office 1933-1937 |
Clyde R. Hoey | Attended the School of Law 1899 | In office 1937-1941 |
William B. Umstead | Class of 1916 | In office 1953-1954 |
Luther H. Hodges | Class of 1919 | In office 1954-1961 |
Terry Sanford | Class of 1941 | In office 1961-1965 |
Dan K. Moore | Class of 1927 | In office 1965-1969 |
James Holshouser | School of Law, Class of 1960 | In office 1973-1977 |
James B. Hunt, Jr. | School of Law, Class of 1964 | In office 1977-1985; 1993-2001 |
Mike Easley | Class of 1972 | In office 2001-2009 |
Roy Cooper | Class of 1979 | Currently in office |