MARYLAND.  John Francis Mercer (1759-1821), eleventh Governor (1801-03), was a descendant of the Mercers of Aldie, Perthshire.  Robert Bowie (1749-1818), twelfth and fifteenth Governor (1803-06, 1811-12), and Robert Milligan McLane (1815-98), forty-second Governor (1884-85), were of direct Scottish descent.  Frank Brown, forty-fifth Governor (1892-96), was descended from Abel Brown who emigrated from Dumfries, c. 1730.

VIRGINIA.  James Barbour (1776-1842) was eleventh Governor (1812-14).  Barbour County, Florida, was named in his honor.  David Campbell (1779-1859), twenty-first Governor (1837-40), was of Scottish descent on both sides.  Thomas Walker Gilmer (1802-44), twenty-second Governor (1840-41) was a descendant of the Scottish physician, Dr. George Gilmer.  John Mercer Patton (1797-1858), Lieutenant-Governor and acting Governor (1841), was son of Robert Patton who emigrated from Scotland.  His mother was a daughter of Gen. Hugh Mercer.  John Rutherford (1792-1865), twenty-third Governor (1841-42), was most probably of Scottish descent.  William Ewan Cameron, thirty-sixth Governor (1882-86) descended from the Rev. John Cameron, a graduate of Aberdeen University, who came to America, c. 1770.  Henry Carter Stuart (b. 1855), Governor (1914-18), descended from Archibald Stuart who fled from Scotland for political reasons and settled in Virginia in 1726.

WEST VIRGINIA.  William Erskine Stevenson (1820-1883), second Governor (1869-71) was born of Ulster Scot parentage.  William Alexander Mac Corkle (b. 1857), eighth Governor (1893-97) is of Scottish descent.  His grandfathers, Captain John MacCorkle and Captain John McNutt, fell at the battle of Cowpens, 1781.

NORTH CAROLINA.  Nathaniel Alexander (1756-1808), thirteenth Governor (1805-07), was of Scottish descent.  William Alexander Graham (1804-75), thirtieth Governor (1845-49), was son of Gen. Joseph Graham, a Revolutionary officer.  He was also Secretary of the Navy in 1850, and projected the expedition to Japan under Commodore Perry.  Tod R. Caldwell (1818-74), fortieth Governor (1871-74), and David Lindsay Russell, forty-eighth Governor (1897-1901), were both of direct Scottish descent.

SOUTH CAROLINA.  General William Moultrie, son of Dr. Moultrie, was Governor in 1785-87 and 1794-96.  Edward Rutledge, tenth Governor (1798-1800), is already noticed under the Signers of the Declaration of Independence.  “No measure of importance was adopted by the legislature without his taking part in it, while many originated with himself.”  Andrew Pickens, (1779-1838), nineteenth Governor (1816-18), was a son of Andrew Pickens, the noted Revolutionary general.  John Geddes (1777-1828), twentieth Governor (1818-20), was of Scottish descent.  Stephen Decatur Miller (1787-1838), twenty-fifth Governor (1828-30), also served as United States Senator.  George McDuffie (1790-1851), twenty-eighth Governor, the greatest orator and statesman of Georgia, was of Scottish parentage on both sides.  McDuffie County in Georgia is so named in his honor.  Patrick Noble (1787-1840), thirtieth Governor (1838-40), was grandson of an Ulster Scot immigrant.  Robert Kingston Scott (1826-1900), forty-fifth Governor (1868-72), was the grandson or great-grandson of a refugee from Culloden.