# | Governor | Took Office | Left Office | Lt. Governor | Party | Notes
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74 |  | Robert Kingston Scott | July 6, 1868 | December 7, 1872 | Lemuel Boozer Alonzo J. Ransier | Republican |
75 |  | Franklin J. Moses, Jr. | December 7, 1872 | December 1, 1874 | Richard Howell Gleaves | Republican |
76 |  | Daniel Henry Chamberlain | December 1, 1874 | December 14, 1876 | Richard Howell Gleaves | Republican | Claimed Governorship after 1876 election
77 |  | Wade Hampton III | December 14, 1876 | February 26, 1879 | William Dunlap Simpson | Democratic | Resigned
78 |  | William Dunlap Simpson | February 26, 1879 | September 1, 1880 | John D. Kennedy | Democratic | Not elected
79 |  | Thomas Bothwell Jeter | September 1, 1880 | November 30, 1880 | vacant | Democratic |
80 |  | Johnson Hagood | November 30, 1880 | December 1, 1882 | John D. Kennedy | Democratic |
81 |  | Hugh Smith Thompson | December 1, 1882 | July 10, 1886 | John Calhoun Sheppard | Democratic | Resigned
82 |  | John Calhoun Sheppard | July 10, 1886 | November 30, 1886 | vacant | Democratic | Not elected
83 |  | John Peter Richardson III | November 30, 1886 | December 4, 1890 | William Mauldin | Democratic |
84 |  | Benjamin Ryan Tillman | December 4, 1890 | December 4, 1894 | Eugene Gary W.H. Timmerman | Democratic |
85 |  | John Gary Evans | December 4, 1894 | January 18, 1897 | W.H. Timmerman | Democratic |