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NEW York has a new governor. David Paterson was sworn in Monday to replace Eliot Spitzer, whose hubris landed him in the middle of a prostitution investigation that led to his resignation last week.

It was a spectacular fall, but Spitzer has plenty of company in the annals of governors dispatched in disgrace. Indeed 21 other governors in U.S. history, including two Oklahomans, have seen scandal drive then from office before their terms were completed.

Oklahomans on the list are Jack C. Walton and Henry S. Johnston. Walton was in office just 10 months — from Jan. 8 to Nov. 19, 1923, when he was impeached and convicted of general incompetency. Johnston took office in January 1927, but was bounced out in March 1929 after also being impeached and convicted of incompetency.

Of 22 governors cited by stateline.org, 13 have been Democrats, eight have been Republicans and one (from North Dakota during the 1930s) was aligned with the Non-Partisan League. Eight of the 10 governors impeached or legally removed from office served prior to World War II. Political scandal of one sort or another, as opposed to legal trouble, has undone seven governors since then.

Spitzer was the latest Northeastern governor to make an early exit. In 2004, James McGreevey of New Jersey resigned after acknowledging an affair with another man. The same year, John Rowland of Connecticut left amid impeachment proceedings and a federal investigation into sweetheart deals for associates.

Leaving office under a cloud doesn't necessarily mean the end of a career. Johnston vowed after his conviction to be heard from again, and in 1933 he returned to the state Senate, where his political career had begun at the dawn of statehood. Walton's impeachment didn't hurt him much, either. He went on to serve on the Corporation Commission and later practice law.