Governors - Governor of Alabama: Edward A. O'Neal (Democratic)
- Governor of Arkansas: Thomas James Churchill (Democratic) (until January 13), James Henderson Berry (Democratic) (starting January 13)
- Governor of California: George Clement Perkins (Republican) (until January 10), George Stoneman (Republican) (starting January 10)
- Governor of Colorado: Frederick Walker Pitkin (Republican) (until January 9), James Benton Grant (Democratic) (starting January 9)
- Governor of Connecticut: Hobart B. Bigelow (Republican) (until January 3), Thomas M. Waller (Democratic) (starting January 3)
- Governor of Delaware: John W. Hall (Democratic) (until January 16), Charles C. Stockley (Democratic) (starting January 16)
- Governor of Florida: William D. Bloxham (Democratic)
- Governor of Georgia:
- Governor of Illinois: Shelby Moore Cullom (Republican) (until February 16), John Marshall Hamilton (Republican) (starting February 16)
- Governor of Indiana: Albert G. Porter (Republican)
- Governor of Iowa: Buren R. Sherman (Republican)
- Governor of Kansas: John P. St. John (Republican) (until January 8), George W. Glick (Democratic) (starting January 8)
- Governor of Kentucky: Luke P. Blackburn (Democratic) (until September 5), J. Proctor Knott (Democratic) (starting September 5)
- Governor of Louisiana: Samuel D. McEnery (Democratic)
- Governor of Maine: Harris M. Plaisted (Democratic) (until January 3), Frederick Robie (Republican) (starting January 3)
- Governor of Maryland: William T. Hamilton (Democratic)
- Governor of Massachusetts: John Davis Long (Republican) (until January 4), Benjamin F. Butler (Democratic) (starting January 4)
- Governor of Michigan: David Jerome (Republican) (until January 1), Josiah Begole (Democratic) (starting January 1)
- Governor of Minnesota: Lucius F. Hubbard (Republican)
- Governor of Mississippi: Robert Lowry (Democratic)
- Governor of Missouri: Thomas Theodore Crittenden (Democratic)
- Governor of Nebraska: Albinus Nance (Republican) (until January 4), James W. Dawes (Republican) (starting January 4)
- Governor of Nevada: John Henry Kinkead (Republican) (until January 1), Jewett W. Adams (Democratic) (starting January 1)
- Governor of New Hampshire: Charles H. Bell (Republican) (until June 7), Samuel W. Hale (Republican) (starting June 7)
- Governor of New Jersey: George C. Ludlow (Democratic)
- Governor of New York: Grover Cleveland (Democratic) (starting January 1)
- Governor of North Carolina: Thomas Jordan Jarvis (Democratic)
- Governor of Ohio: Charles Foster (Republican)
- Governor of Oregon: Z. F. Moody (Republican)
- Governor of Pennsylvania: Henry M. Hoyt (Republican) (until January 16), Robert E. Pattison (Democratic) (starting January 16)
- Governor of Rhode Island: Alfred H. Littlefield (Republican) (until May 29), Augustus O. Bourn (Republican) (starting May 29)
- Governor of South Carolina: Hugh Smith Thompson (Democratic)
- Governor of Tennessee: Alvin Hawkins (Republican) (until January 15), William B. Bate (Democratic) (starting January 15)
- Governor of Texas: Oran M. Roberts (Democratic) (until January 16), John Ireland (Democratic) (starting January 16)
- Governor of Vermont: John L. Barstow (Republican)
- Governor of Virginia: William E. Cameron (Re-adjuster)
- Governor of West Virginia: Jacob B. Jackson (Democratic)
- Governor of Wisconsin: Jeremiah McLain Rusk (Republican)
Lieutenant governors - Lieutenant Governor of California: John Mansfield (Republican) (until January 10), John Daggett (Democratic) (starting January 10)
- Lieutenant Governor of Colorado: Horace Austin Warner Tabor (Republican) (until January 9), William H. Meyer (Republican) (starting January 9)
- Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: William H. Bulkeley (Republican) (until January 3), George G. Sumner (Democratic) (starting January 3)
- Lieutenant Governor of Florida: Livingston W. Bethel (no political party)
- Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: John Marshall Hamilton (Republican) (until February 6), William J. Campbell (Republican) (starting month and day unknown)
- Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: Thomas Hanna (Republican)
- Lieutenant Governor of Iowa: Orlando H. Manning (Republican)
- Lieutenant Governor of Kansas: David Wesley Finney (Republican)
- Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: James E. Cantrill (Democratic) (until September 5), James R. Hindman (Democratic) (starting September 5)
- Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana: vacant
- Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Byron Weston (Republican) (until January 4), Oliver Ames (Republican) (starting January 4)
- Lieutenant Governor of Michigan: Moreau S. Crosby (Republican)
- Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota: Charles A. Gilman (Republican)
- Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: G. D. Shands (Democratic)
- Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: Robert Alexander Campbell (Democratic)
- Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska: Edmund C. Carns (Republican) (until January 4), Alfred W. Agee (Republican) (starting January 4)
- Lieutenant Governor of Nevada: Jewett W. Adams (Democratic) (until month and day unknown), Charles E. Laughton (Republican) (starting month and day unknown)
- Lieutenant Governor of New York: David B. Hill (Republican) (starting January 1)
- Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina: James L. Robinson (Democratic)
- Lieutenant Governor of Ohio: Rees G. Richards (Republican)
- Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania: Charles Warren Stone (Republican) (until January 16), Chauncey Forward Black (Democratic) (starting January 16)
- Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Henry Fay (political party unknown) (until May 29), Oscar Rathbun (political party unknown) (starting May 29)
- Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: John Calhoun Sheppard (Democratic)
- Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee: George H. Morgan (Democratic) (until month and day unknown), Benjamin F. Alexander (Democratic) (starting month and day unknown)
- Lieutenant Governor of Texas: Leonidas J. Storey (Democratic) (until January 16), Francis M. Martin (Democratic) (starting January 16)
- Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Samuel E. Pingree (Republican)
- Lieutenant Governor of Virginia: John F. Lewis (Republican)
- Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin: Sam S. Fifield (Republican)
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