Joshua Clayton1789-1796 Federalist
Gunning Bedford1796-1797   ”
Daniel Rogers[1]1797-1799   ”
Richard Bassett1799-1801   ”
James Sykes[2]1801-1802   ”
David Hall1802-1805 Federalist
Nathaniel Mitchell1805-1808   ”
George Truett1808-1811   ”
Joseph Haslett1811-1814   ”
Daniel Rodney1814-1817   ”
John Clarke1817-1820   ”
Henry Malleston[3]1820      ”
Jacob Stout[4]1820-1821   ”
John Collins1821-1822 Democratic-Republican
Caleb Rodney[5]1822      ”
Joseph Haslett1822-1823 Democratic-Republican
Charles Thomas[6]1823-1824   ”
Samuel Paynter1824-1827 Federalist
Charles Polk1827-1830   ”
David Hazzard1830-1833 American-Republican
Caleb P. Bennett1833-1836 Democrat
Charles Polk[7]1836-1837   ”
Cornelius P. Comegys1837-1841 Whig
William B. Cooper1841-1845  ”
Thomas Stockton1845-1846  ”
Joseph Maul[8]1846     ”
William Temple[9]1846-1847  ”
William Tharp1847-1851 Democrat
William H. Ross1851-1855   ”
Peter F. Causey1855-1859 Whig-Know-Nothing
William Burton1859-1863 Democrat
William Cannon1863-1865 Republican
Gove Saulsbury[10]1865-1871 Democrat
James Ponder1871-1875   ”
John P. Cockran1875-1879   ”
John W. Hall1879-1883   ”
Charles C. Stockley1883-1887   ”
Benjamin T. Biggs1887-1891   ”
Robert J. Reynolds1891-1895   ”
Joshua H. Marvil1895 Republican
William T. Watson[11]1895-1897 Democrat
Ebe W. Tunnell1897-1901   ”
John Hunn1901-1905 Republican “
Preston Lea1905-1909   ”
Simeon S. Pennewill1909      ”

Bibliography.—Information about manufactures, mining and agriculture may be found in the reports of the Twelfth Census of the United States, especially Bulletins 69 and 100. The Agricultural Experiment Station, at Newark, publishes in its Annual Report a record of temperature and rainfall. For law and administration see Constitution of Delaware (Dover, 1899) and the Revised Code of 1852, amended 1893 (Wilmington, 1893). For education see L. B. Powell, History of Education in Delaware (Washington, 1893), and a sketch in the Annual Report for 1902 of the United States Commissioner of Education. The most elaborate history is that of John Thomas Scharf, History of the State of Delaware (2 vols., Philadelphia, 1888); the second volume is entirely biographical. Claes T. Odhner’s brief sketch, Kolonien Nya Sveriges Grundläggning, 1637-1642 (Stockholm, 1876; English translation in the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vol. iii.), and Carl K. S. Sprinchorn’s Kolonien Nya Sveriges Historia (1878; English translation in the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vols. vii. and viii.) are based, in part, on documents in the Swedish Royal Archives and at the universities of Upsala and Lund, which were unknown to Benjamin Ferris (History of the Original Settlements of the Delaware, Wilmington, 1846) and Francis Vincent (History of the State of Delaware, Philadelphia, 1870), which ends with the English occupation in 1664. In vol. iv. of Justin Winsor’s Narrative and Critical History of America (Boston, 1884) there is an excellent chapter by Gregory B. Keen on “New Sweden, or the Swedes on the Delaware,” to which a bibliographical chapter is appended. The Papers of the Historical Society of Delaware (1879 seq.) contain valuable material. In part ii. of the Report of the Superintendent of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey for 1893 (Washington, 1905) there is “A Historical Account of the Boundary Line between the States of Pennsylvania and Delaware, by W. C. Hodgkins.” The colonial records are preserved with those of New York and Pennsylvania; only one volume of the State Records has been published, and Minutes of the Council of Delaware State, 1776-1792 (Dover, 1886). For political conditions since the Civil War see vol. 141 of the North American Review, vol. 32 of the Forum, and vol. 73 of the Outlook—all published in New York.

[1] Speaker of the senate. Filled unexpired term of Gunning Bedford (d. 1797).

[2] Speaker of senate. Filled unexpired term of Richard Bassett, who resigned 1801.

[3] Died before he was inaugurated.

[4] Speaker of the senate.

[5] Speaker of the senate, John Collins dying in 1822.

[6] Speaker of senate, Haslett dying in 1823.