This is a list of governadores (Portuguese "governors"), interventores ("inspectors") and presidents of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Governors Cláudio Castro (2021–present) PL Wilson Witzel (2019–2021) PSC Francisco Dornelles (interim) (2018) PP Luiz Fernando Pezão (2016–2018) PMDB Francisco Dornelles (interim) (2016) PP Luiz Fernando Pezão (2014–2016) PMDB Sérgio Cabral Filho (2011–2014) PMDB Sérgio Cabral Filho (2007–2010) PMDB Rosinha Garotinho (2003–2007) PSB Benedita da Silva (2002–2003) PT Anthony Garotinho (1999–2002) PDT Marcello Alencar (1995–1999) PSDB Nilo Batista (1994–1995) PDT Leonel Brizola (1991–1994) PDT Moreira Franco (1987–1991) PMDB Leonel Brizola (1983–1987) PDT Antônio Chagas Freitas (1979–1983) PDS Floriano P. Faria Lima (1974–1979) Raimundo Padilha (1971–1974) Mattos Fontes (1967–1971) Teotônio Ferreira (1966–1967) Paulo Francisco Torres (1964–1966) Cordolino José Ambrósio (1964) Badger Silveira (1963–1964) Luís Miguel Pinaud (1963) José de Carvalho Jannotti (1962–1963) Celso Peçanha (1961–1962) Roberto Silveira (1959–1961) PTB Togo de Póvoa de Barros (1958–1959) Miguel Couto Filho (1955–1958) Ernani do Amaral Peixoto (1951–1955) PSD Edmundo Macedo e Silva (1947 António Pais de Sande1951) (1695–1697) André Cusaco (1694–1695) (1693–1694) Interventors Álvaro Rocha Pereira da Silva (1947) F. de Paula Lupério Santos (1947) Hugo Silva (1946–1947) Lucio Martins Meira (1946) Abel Sauerbronn (1945–1946) Ernani do Amaral Peixoto (1937–1945) Protógenes Guimarães (1935–1937) Newton Cavalcanti (1935) Ari Parreiras (1931–1935) Pantaleão Pesoa (1931) João Mena Barreto (1931) Plínio de Castro Casado (1930–1931) Presidents of the State Demécrito Barbosa (1930) Manuel de M. D. Silva (1927–1930) Feliciano P. Abreu Sodré (1923–1927) Aurelino de Araújo Leal (1923) Feliciano P. Abreu Sodré (1922–1923) Raul de Morais Veiga (1918–1922) Angelo Geraque Collet (1917–1918) F. Xavier da S. Guimarães (1917) Nilo Peçanha (1914–1917) Chaves de Oliveira (1910–1914) A. A. Guimarães Backer (1906–1910) Chaves de Oliveira (1906) Nilo Peçanha (1903–1906) Quintino Bocaiúva (1900–1903) Rio de Janeiro Governors