National Governors Association

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The National Governors Association (NGA) is an organization of the governors of the fifty U.S. states and five U.S. territories (American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands). NGA is one of Washington's most respected public policy organizations and serves as a key liaison between the state governments and the federal government. NGA provides governors and their senior staff members with services that range from representing states on Capitol Hill and at the White House when discussing federal issues to developing policy reports on state programs and hosting networking seminars for state executive branch officials. The NGA Center for Best Practices focuses on state innovations and best practices on issues that range from education and health to technology, welfare reform, and the environment. NGA also provides management and technical assistance to both new and incumbent governors.

The current chair of NGA is Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee. His predecessor was Mark Warner of Virginia.

Chairmen

2005-06 Mike Huckabee, Arkansas

2004-05 Mark Warner, Virginia

2003-04 Dirk Kempthorne, Idaho

2002-03 Paul E. Patton, Kentucky

2001-02 John Engler, Michigan

2000-01 Parris N. Glendening, Maryland

1999-00 Michael O. Leavitt, Utah

1998-99 Thomas R. Carper, Delaware

1997-98 George V. Voinovich, Ohio

1996-97 Bob Miller, Nevada

1995-96 Tommy G. Thompson, Wisconsin

1994-95 Howard Dean, Vermont

1993-94 Carroll A. Campbell, Jr., South Carolina

1992-93 Roy Romer, Colorado

1991-92 John Ashcroft, Missouri

1990-91 Booth Gardner, Washington

1989-90 Terry E. Branstad, Iowa

1988-89 Gerald L. Baliles, Virginia

1987-88 John H. Sununu, New Hampshire

1986-87 Bill Clinton, Arkansas

1985-86 Lamar Alexander, Tennessee

1984-85 John W. Carlin, Kansas

1983-84 James R. Thompson, Illinois

1982-83 Scott M. Matheson, Utah

1981-82 Richard Snelling, Vermont

1980-81 George Busbee, Georgia

1979-80 Otis R. Bowen, Indiana

1978-79 Julian M. Carroll, Kentucky

1977-78 William G. Milliken, Michigan

1977 Reubin O'D. Askew, Florida

1976-77 Cecil D. Andrus, Idaho

1975-76 Robert D. Ray, Iowa

1974-75 Calvin L. Rampton, Utah

1973-74 Daniel J. Evans, Washington

1972-73 Marvin Mandel, Maryland

1971-72 Arch A. Moore, Jr., West Virginia

1970-71 Warren E. Hearnes, Missouri

1969-70 John A. Love, Colorado

1968-69 Buford Ellington, Tennessee

1967-68 John A. Volpe, Massachusetts

1966-67 William L. Guy, North Dakota

1965-66 John H. Reed, Maine

1964-65 Grant Sawyer, Nevada

1963-64 John Anderson, Jr., Kansas

1962-63 Albert D. Rosellini, Washington

1961-62 Wesley Powell, New Hampshire

1960-61 Stephen McNichols, Colorado

1959-60 J. Caleb Boggs, Delaware

1958-59 LeRoy Collins, Florida

1957-58 William G. Stratton, Illinois

1956-57 Thomas B. Stanley, Virginia

1955-56 Arthur B. Langlie, Washington

1954-55 Robert F. Kennon, Louisiana

1953-54 Dan Thornton, Colorado

1952-53 Allan Shivers, Texas

1951-52 Val Peterson, Nebraska

1950-51 Frank J. Lausche, Ohio

1949-50 Frank Carlson, Kansas

1949 William P. Lane, Jr., Maryland

1948 Lester C. Hunt, Wyoming

1947-48 Horace A. Hildreth, Maine

1946-47 Milard F. Caldwell, Florida

1945-46 Edward Martin, Pennsylvania

1944-45 Herbert B. Maw, Utah

1943-44 Leverett Saltonstall, Massachusetts

1942-43 Herbert R. O'Conor, Maryland

1941-42 Harold E. Stassen, Minnesota

1940-41 William H. Vanderbilt, Rhode Island

1939-40 Lloyd C. Stark, Missouri

1937-39 Robert L. Cochran, Nebraska

1936-37 George C. Peery, Virginia

1934-36 Paul V. McNutt, Indiana

1933-34 James Rolph, California

1932-33 John G. Pollard, Virginia

1930-32 Norman S. Case, Rhode Island

1928-30 George H. Dern, Utah

1927-28 Adam McMullen, Nebraska

1925-27 Ralph Owen Brewster, Maine

1924-25 E. Lee Trinkle, Virginia

1922-24 Channing H. Cox, Massachusetts

1919-22 William C. Sproul, Pennsylvania

1919 Henry J. Allen, Kansas

1918 Emerson C. Harrington, Maryland

1916-17 Arthur Capper, Kansas

1915-16 William Spry, Utah

1914-15 David I. Walsh, Massachusetts

1911-14 Francis E. McGovern, Wisconsin

1910 Augustus E. Wilson, Kentucky

Equivalent organisations

Several other countries, including Japan and Canada, have similar organizations.

Canada - Council of the Federation.
Australia - Council of Australian Governments (COAG) (unlike the NGA and the Council of the Federation, the COAG also includes representatives of the federal government.)

External links

[National Governors Association] - official homepage of the American NGA.

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