Capital: Albany

State Nickname: Empire State

State Bird: Bluebird

State Flower: Rose

Admitted to the Union: July 26, 1788

July 9, 1777 to July 1, 1795:

George Clinton

July 1, 1795 to July 1, 1801:

John Jay

July 1, 1801 to July 1, 1804:

George Clinton

July 1, 1804 to July 1, 1807:

Morgan Lewis

July 1, 1807 to February 24, 1817:

Daniel D. Tompkins*

* Resigned to take office of Vice-President of U.S.A.

February 24, 1817 to July 1, 1817:

John Tayler

July 1, 1817 to January 1, 1823:

De Witt Clinton

January 1, 1823 to January 1, 1825:

Joseph C. Yates

January 1, 1825 to February 11, 1828:

De Witt Clinton*

* Died in office

February 11, 1828 to January 1, 1829:

Nathaniel Pitcher

January 1, 1829 to March 12, 1829:

Martin Van Buren*

* Resigned from office

March 12, 1829 to January 1, 1833:

Eros T. Throop

January 1, 1833 to January 1, 1839:

William L. Marcy

January 1, 1839 to January 1, 1843:

William H. Seward

January 1, 1843 to January 1, 1845:

William C. Bouck

January 1, 1845 to January 1, 1847:

Silas Wright

January 1, 1847 to January 1, 1849:

John Young

January 1, 1849 to January 1, 1851:

Hamilton Fish

January 1, 1851 to January 1, 1853:

Washington Hunt

January 1, 1853 to January 1, 1855:

Horatio Seymour

January 1, 1855 to January 1, 1857:

Myron H. Clark

January 1, 1857 to January 1, 1859:

John A. King

January 1, 1859 to January 1, 1863:

Edwin D. Morgan

January 1, 1863 to January 1, 1865:

Horatio Seymour

January 1, 1865 to January 1, 1869:

Rueben E. Fenton

January 1, 1869 to January 1, 1873:

John T. Hoffman

January 1, 1873 to January 1, 1875:

John A. Dix

January 1, 1875 to January 1, 1877:

Samuel J. Tilden

January 1, 1877 to January 1, 1880:

Lucius Robninson*

* Terms of office changed from 2 years to 3 years

January 1, 1880 to January 1, 1883:

Alonzo B. Cornell

January 1, 1883 to January 6, 1885:

Grover Cleveland*

* Resigned to take office of President of the United States

January 6, 1885 to January 1, 1892:

David B. Hill

January 1, 1892 to January 1, 1895:

Roswell P. Flower

January 1, 1895 to January 1, 1897:

Levi P. Morton

January 1, 1897 to January 1, 1899:

Frank S. Black

January 1, 1899 to January 1, 1901:

Theodore Roosevelt

January 1, 1901 to January 1, 1905:

Benjamin B. Odell, Jr.

January 1, 1905 to January 1, 1907:

Frank W. Higgins

January 1, 1907 To October 6, 1910:

Charles Evans Hughes*

* Resigned from office

October 6, 1910 to January 1, 1911:

Horace White

January 1, 1911 to January 1, 1913:

John A. Dix

January 1, 1913 to October 17, 1913:

William Sulzer

* Removed from officw

October 17, 1913 to Janauary 1, 1915:

Martin H. Gylnn

January 1, 1915 to January 1, 1919:

Charles S. Whitman

January 1, 1919 to January 1, 1921:

Alfred E. Smith

January 1, 1921 to January 1, 1923:

Nathan L. Miller

January 1, 1923 to January 1, 1929:

Alfred E. Smith

January 1, 1929 to January 1, 1933:

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

January 1, 1933 to December 3, 1942:

Herbert H. Lehman*

* Resigned from office

December 3, 1942 to January 1, 1943:

Charles Poletti

January 1, 1943 to January 1, 1955:

Thomas E. Dewey

January 1, 1955 to January 1, 1959:

W. Averell Harriman

January 1, 1959 to December 18, 1973:

Nelson A. Rockefeller*

* Resigned from office

December 18, 1973 to January 1, 1975:

Malcolm Wilson

January 1, 1975 to January 1, 1983:

Hugh Carey

January 1, 1983 to January 1, 1995:

Mario M. Cuomo

January 1, 1995 --

George E. Pataki

There isn't another like it.
No matter where you go.
And nobody can compare it.
It's win and place and show.
New York is special.
New York is diff'rent' cause there's no place else
on earth quite like New York and that's why

I LOVE NEW YORK
(repeat 3 times)

1790: 340,241

1800: 586,182

1810: 959,049

1820: 1,372,812

1830: 1,918,608

1840: 2,428,921

1850: 3,097,394

1860: 3,880,726

1870: 4,382,759

1880: 5,082,871

1890: 5,997,853

1900: 7,268,894

1910: 9,113,614

1920: 10,385,227

1930: 12,588,066

1940: 13,469,142

1950: 14,830,192

1960: 16,782,304

1970: 18,241,391

1980: 17,558,072

1990: 17,990,455

2000: 18,976,821