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Governors
1505
Vicente
Yáñez Pinzón
(b. 1463 - d. 1514)
(did not take office)
12 Aug 1508 - 28 Oct 1509 Juan
Ponce de León (1st time) (b. 1460 -
d. 1521)
28 Oct 1509 - 2 Mar 1510
Juan Cerón (1st time)(alcalde mayor)
2 Mar 1510 - 1511
Juan Ponce de León (2nd time)
(s.a.)
1511 - 1513
Juan Cerón (2nd time)
Feb 1513 - 15 Jul 1515
Rodrigo Moscoso
1514 -
1515
Cristóbal de Mendoza
15 Jul 1515 - 12 Sep 1519 Juan
Ponce de León (3rd time) (s.a.)
Sep 1519 - 15 Jan
1521 Antonio de la Gama (1st
time)
15 Jan 1521 - May
1523 Pedro Moreno (1st
time)
May 1523 -
1524
Alonso Manso, arzobispo
(b. 1460 - d. 1539)
de San Juan (acting)
1524 - Jun
1529
Pedro Moreno (2nd time)
1529 -
1530
Antonio de la Gama (2nd time)
1530 - Jul
1536
Francisco Manuel de Lando
Aug 1536 - 28 Sep
1537 Vasco de Tiedra
1537
Jerónimo de Ortal
1537 -
1544
Alcaldes Ordinarios
1544 - 1545
Jerónimo Lebrón de Quinóñes
(d. 1545)
6 Jul 1545 - 6 Jul 1546 Iñigo
López Cervantes de Loaisa
1546 - 1548
Diego de Caraza (1st time)
1548 - 1550
Alcaldes Ordinarios
1550 -
1555
Luis de Vallejo
1555
Alonso Estéves
12 Aug 1555 - 1561
Diego de
Caraza (2nd time)
1561 -
1564
Antonio de la Llama Vallejo
20 Mar 1564 -
1568
Francisco Bahamonde de Lugo
31 Dec 1568 - Dec
1574 Francisco de Solís
1575 -
1579
Francisco de Obando y Mejía
(d. 1579)
1579
Juan
Ponce de León II (acting) (b.
1524 - d. 1591)
1580
Jerónimo de Agüero
Campuzano (acting)
24 Apr 1580 - 2 Aug 1581
Juan de Céspedes
1581 - 18 Apr
1582 Juan López
Melgarejo
12 Jun 1582 - 11 May 1593 Diego
Menéndez de Valdés
11 May 1593 - 18 Dec 1597
Pedro Suárez de Coronel (1st time)
18 Dec 1597 - 21
Jun 1598 Antonio de
Mosquera
21 Jun 1598 - 23 Nov 1598 Sir
George Clifford, Earl of (b.
1558 - d. 1605)
Cumberland -English commander
26 Dec 1598 -
1599
Pedro Suárez de Coronel (2nd time)
23 Mar 1599 - 8 Aug 1602
Alonso de Mercado
8 Aug 1602 - 22 Jul 1608
Sancho Ochóa de Castro, conde de
Salvatierra
22 Jul 1608 - 15
May 1614 Gabriel de Rojas Páramo
15 May 1614 - 21 May
1620 Felipe de Beaumont y Navarra
21 May 1620 - 29 Aug
1625 Juan de Vargas y Asejas
29 Aug 1625 - 2 Aug 1631
Juan de Haro y Sanvitores
2 Aug 1631 - 30 Jun 1635
Enrique Enríquez de Sotomayor
30 Jun 1635 - 2 Jul
1641 Iñigo de la Mota Sarmiento
2 Jul 1641 - 2
Dec 1641 Agustín de Silva y
Figueroa (d.
1641)
2 Dec 1641 - 9
Jun 1643 Juan de Bolaños (acting)
9 Jun 1643 - 12 Jul 1650
Fernando de la Riva Agüero
Jul 1650 - 24 Mar 1656
Diego de Aguilera y Gamboa
24 Mar 1656 - 26 Aug 1661 José
de Novoa y Moscoso
26 Aug 1661 - 22 Nov 1664 Juan
Pérez de Guzmán y Chagoyen
23 Nov 1664 - 16 Aug 1670
Jerónimo de Velasco
16 Aug 1670 - 7 Mar 1674
Gaspar de Arteaga
Mar 1674 - Jul 1674
Diego de Robledillo y Velasco
(acting)
20 Aug 1674 - 2 Apr 1675
Baltasar Figueroa y Castilla
(acting)
2 Apr 1675 -
1678
Alonso de Campos y Espinosa
1678 - 14 Jul
1683
Juan de Robles Lorenzana
14 Jul 1683 - 5 May 1690
Gaspar Martínez de Andino
5 May 1690 - 11 Aug 1695
Gaspar de Arredondo y Valle
(1st time)
21 Aug 1695 - 16 May 1698 Juan
Fernández Franco de
Medina
19 May 1698 - 17 Oct 1699
Antonio de Robles Silva (acting)
17 Oct 1699 - Jun
1700 Gaspar de Arredondo y
Valle
(2nd time)
Jun 1700 - 23 Jul
1703 Gabriel Gutiérrez de
Riva
(b. 16.. - d. 1703)
24 Jul 1703 - 12 Oct 1703 Diego
Jiménez de Villarán (acting)
12 Oct 1703 - 25 Oct 1703 Gaspar
de Olivares
+ Andrés Montañez
(alcaldes ordinarios)
25 Oct 1703 - 27 Jul 1705
Francisco Sánchez Calderón (acting)
27 Jul 1705 - 26 Mar 1706 Pedro
de Arroyo Guerrero (acting)
26 Mar 1706 - 24 Dec 1708 Juan
López de Morla (acting)
24 Dec 1708 - 18 Jul 1711
Francisco Danío Granados (1st time)
18 Jul 1711 - 12 Feb 1716 Juan
de Rivera
12 Feb 1716 - 30 Aug 1716 José
Francisco Carreño (acting)
30 Aug 1716 - 7 Apr 1720
Alberto Bertodano
7 Apr 1720 -
1724
Francisco Danío Granados (2nd time)
1724
Antonio de Isasi
22 Aug 1724 - 11 Oct 1731 José
Antonio de Mendizábal y Azcue
11 Oct 1731 - 28 Jun 1743 Matías
de Abadía
28 Jun 1743 - 29 Oct 1743
Domingo Pérez de Mandares (acting)
29 Oct 1743 - 31 Dec 1750 Juan
José Colomo
Jan 1751 - 8 Jul
1751 Agustín de
Pareja
(d. 1751)
8 Jul 1751 - 1 May
1753 Esteban Bravo de Rivero (1st time)
(acting)
1 May 1753 - 30 Aug 1757
Felipe Ramírez de Estenos
30 Aug 1757 - 3 Jun 1759
Esteban Bravo de Rivero (2nd time)
(acting)
3 Jun 1759 - 7 Mar
1760 Mateo de Guazo
Calderón
(d. 1760)
7 Mar 1760 - 29 Nov 1760
Esteban Bravo de Rivero (3rd time)
(acting)
29 Nov 1760 - 12 Mar 1766
Ambrosio de Benavides Medina Liñán (b. 1718 - d. 1787)
y
Torres
12 Mar 1766 - 22 Oct 1768 Marcos
de Vergara
22 Oct 1768 - 29 Jul 1769 José
Tentor (acting)
29 Jul 1769 - 2 Jun 1776
Miguel de Muesas
2 Jun 1776 - 9 Apr
1783 José Dufresne
9 Apr 1783 - 27 Mar 1789
Juan Andrés Dabán y Busterino
(b. 1724 - d. 1793)
27 Mar 1789 - 8 Jul 1789
Francisco Torralbo (1st time)
(acting)
8 Jul 1789 - 8 Jul
1792 Miguel Antonio de Ustáriz
(d. 1792)
8 Jul 1792 -
1794
Francisco Torralbo (2nd time)
(acting)
1794 - 21 Mar
1795
Enrique Grimarest
21 Mar 1795 - 12 Nov 1804 Ramón
de Castro y Gutiérrez, (b.
1751 - d. 1809)
marqués de Lorca
12 Nov 1804 - 3 Jun 1809 Toribio de
Montes
30 Jun 1809 - 24 Mar 1820
Salvador Meléndez y Ruíz
12 Feb 1813 - 1814
Alejandro Ramírez -Intendent
24 Mar 1820 - 7 Aug 1820
Juan Vasco y Pascual
7 Aug 1820 - 11 Feb 1822
Gonzalo de Arístegui y Herrera
12 Feb 1822 - 30 May 1822 José
de Navarro (acting)
30 May 1822 - 2 Dec 1823
Francisco González de Linares
2 Dec 1823 - 14 Jan 1837
Miguel Luciano de la Torre y (b.
1786 - d. 1843)
Pando, (from 1836) conde de
Torrepando
14 Jan 1837 - Mar 1838
Francisco Javier de Moreda y
Prieto
Mar 1838 - Feb 1841
Miguel Lopéz de
Baños
Feb 1841 - 11 Mar 1844
Santiago Méndez de Vigo
(b. 1790 - d. 1860)
11 Mar 1844 - 14 Dec 1847 Rafael Arístegui y
Vélez, (b. 1794 - d.
1863)
conde de Mirasol
15 Dec 1847 - 12 Sep 1848 Juan Prim de Prats y
González (b. 1814 - d.
1870)
12 Sep 1848 - 23 Apr 1851 Juan González de la
Pezuela y (b. 18.. - d.
1907)
Ceballos, marqués de la
Pezuela
23 Apr 1851 - May 1852 Enrique
de España y Taberner, (b. 1801 - d.
1878)
marqués de España, barón de
Ramefort
4 May 1852 - 30 Jan 1855 Fernando de
Norzagaray y Escudero (b. 1808 - d. 1860)
31 Jan 1855 - Aug 1855 Andrés
García Camba
(b. 1793 - d. 1861)
Aug 1855 - 28 Jan 1857 José de
Lemery Ibrarrola Ney y (b. 1811
- d. 1886)
Gonzáles
28 Jan 1857 - Jul 1860
Fernando Cotoner y Chacón
(b. 1817 - d. 1888)
Jul 1860 - Aug
1861 Sabino
Gamir Maladeñ (acting)
Aug 1861 - 17 Feb 1862 Rafael
Echagüe y Bermingham (b.
1815 - d. 1887)
17 Feb 1862 - Apr 1862 Rafael
Izquierdo y Gutiérrez (b. 1820 - d.
1882)
(acting)
Apr 1862 - Nov
1865 Félix
María de Messina e Iglesias (b. 1798 - d. 1872)
18 Nov 1865 - 17 Dec 1867 José María Marchesi y
Oleaga (b. 1801 - d. 1879)
17 Dec 1867 - 30 Dec 1868 Julián Juan Pavía y
Lacy
24 Sep 1868 - Oct 1868
Francisco Ramírez
Medina
(b. c.1828 - d. ...)
(president; in rebellion)
30 Dec 1868 - 26 May 1870 José Laureano Sanz y
Posse
(b. 1822 - d. 1898)
(1st time)
26 May 1870 - 27 Sep 1871 Gabriel Baldrich i
Palau
(b. 1814 - d. 1885)
27 Sep 1871 - Jun 1872 Ramón
Gómez Pulido
Jul 1872 - 5 Nov 1872
Simón de la Torre
5 Nov 1872 - 14 Feb 1873 Joaquín Eurile
Hernán
14 Feb 1873 - 25 Mar 1873 Juan Martínez Plowes
25 Mar 1873 - 2 Feb 1874 Rafael Primo de
Rivera y (b. 1813 -
d. 1902)
Sobremonte
2 Feb 1874 - 15 Dec 1875 José Laureano
Sanz y
Posse
(s.a.)
(2nd time)
16 Dec 1875 - 24 Jun 1877 Segundo de la Portilla
Gutiérrez
(1st time)
24 Jun 1877 - 26 Apr 1878 Manuel de la Serna y
Hernández (b. 1804 - d. 1878)
Pinzón, marqués de Irún
26 Apr 1878 - 24 Jun 1878 José Gamir Maladeñ
(acting)
24 Jun 1878 - 7 Jul 1881 Eulogio Despujol
y Dussay, (b. 1834 - d.
1907)
conde de Caspe
7 Jul 1881 - 23 Nov 1882 Segundo de la
Portilla Gutiérrez
(2nd time)
23 Nov 1882 - Jul 1884 Miguel
de la Vega Inclán y Palma, (b. 1820 - d. 1884)
marqués de la Vega Inclán
Jul 1884 - 2 Aug 1884
Carlos Suances Campos (1st time)
(acting)
2 Aug 1884 - 1 Nov 1884 Ramón
Fajardo y Izquierdo (acting) (b. 1826 - d. 1888)
1 Nov 1884 - 23 Nov 1884 Carlos Suances
Campos (2nd time)
(acting)
23 Nov 1884 - 10 Jan 1887 Luis Dabán y Ramírez
de Arellanó (b. 1844 - d. 1892)
10 Jan 1887 - 23 Mar 1887 Juan Contreras
Martínez (1st time)
23 Mar 1887 - 11 Nov 1887 Romualdo Palacios
González
11 Nov 1887 - 25 Feb 1888 Juan Contreras
Martínez (2nd time)
(acting)
25 Feb 1888 - 18 Apr 1890 Pedro Ruíz Dana
18 Apr 1890 - 22 Apr 1890 José Pascual Bonanza
(acting)
22 Apr 1890 - 10 Jan 1893 José Lasso y Pérez
10 Jan 1893 - 22 Jun 1895 Antonio Dabán y
Ramírez de (b. 1844 - d.
1902)
Arrellanó
22 Jun 1895 - 17 Jan 1896 José Gamir
17 Jan 1896 - 13 Feb 1896 Emilio March (acting)
Governors-general
18 Feb 1896 - 4 Jan 1898 Sabas Marín
y González
(b. 1828 - d. 1901)
4 Jan 1898 - 11 Jan 1898 Ricardo de Ortega
y Diez (1st time)(b. 1838 - d. 1917)
(acting)
11 Jan
1898
Andrés González
Muñoz
(b. 1840 - d. 1898)
11 Jan 1898 - 3 Feb 1898 Ricardo de Ortega
y Diez (2nd time)(s.a.)
(acting)
3 Feb 1898 - 14 Oct 1898 Manuel Macías
Casado
(b. 1845 - d. 1937)
14 Oct 1898 - 18 Oct 1898 Ricardo de Ortega y
Diez (3rd time)(s.a.)
(acting)
Military Commandant
25 Jul 1898 - 21 Oct 1898 Nelson
Appleton
Miles
(b. 1835 - d. 1925)
Governors
21 Oct 1898 - 9 Dec 1898
John Ruller
Brooke
(b. 1838 - d. 1926)
9 Dec 1898 - 9 May
1899 Guy Vernor
Henry
(b. 1839 - d. 1899)
9 May 1899 - 1 May
1900 George Whitefield
Davis
(b. 1839 - d. 1918)
1 May 1900 - 15 Sep 1901
Charles Herbert
Allen
(b. 1848 - d. 1934)
15 Sep 1901 - 4 Jul 1904
William Henry
Hunt
(b. 1857 - d. 1949)
4 Jul 1904 - 18 Apr 1907
Beekman
Winthrop
(b. 1874 - d. 1940)
18 Apr 1907 - 6 Nov 1909
Regis Henry
Prost
(b. 1870 - d. 1944)
6 Nov 1909 - 15 Nov 1913
George Radcliffe
Colton
(b. 1866 - d. 1916)
15 Nov 1913 - 15 May 1921 Arthur
Yager
(b. 1857 - d. 1941)
15 May 1921 - 30 Jul 1921
José E. Benedicto (acting)
30 Jul 1921 - Mar
1923 Emmet Montgomery
Reily
(b. 1866 - d. 1954)
(took
oath in Wasthington, DC on 16 May 1921)
Mar 1923 - 6 Apr
1923 Juan Bernardo Huyke
(acting) (b. 1880 -
d. 1961)
6 Apr 1923 -
1929
Horace Mann
Towner
(b. 1855 - d. 1937)
1929
James R. Beverly (1st time)(acting)(b. 1894 - d. 1967)
9 Sep 1929 - Jan 1932
Theodore Roosevelt,
Jr.
(b. 1887 - d. 1944)
Jan 1932 - Jul
1933 James R.
Beverly (2nd time)(acting)(s.a.)
Jul 1933 - Jan
1934 Robert
Hayes
Gore
(b. 1886 - d. 1972)
Jan 1934 - 5 Feb 1934
Benjamin Jason Horton (acting)
(b. 1873 - d. 1963)
5 Feb 1934 - 25 Jun 1939 Blanton C.
Winship
(b. 1869 - d. 1947)
25 Jun 1939 - 11 Sep 1939 José E. Colón (acting)
11 Sep 1939 - 28 Nov 1940 William D.
Leahy
(b. 1875 - d. 1959)
28 Nov 1940 - 3 Feb 1941 José Miguel
Gallardo (1st time) (b. 1897 - d.
1976)
(acting)
3 Feb 1941 - 24 Jul 1941 Guy J. Swope
(acting)
(b. 1892 - d. 1969)
24 Jul 1941 - 19 Sep 1941 José Miguel Gallardo
(2nd time) (s.a.)
(acting)
19 Sep 1941 - 3 Sep 1946 Rexford Guy
Tugwell
(b. 1891 - d. 1979)
3 Sep 1946 - 2 Jan 1949 Jesús
Toribio
Piñero
(b. 1897 - d. 1952)
2 Jan 1949 - 2 Jan 1965 José Luis
Alberto Muñoz Marín (b.
1898 - d. 1980) PPD
2 Jan 1965 - 2 Jan 1969 Roberto
Sánchez
Vilella
(b. 1913 - d. 1997) PPD
2 Jan 1969 - 2 Jan 1973 Luis Alberto
Ferré
Aguayo
(b. 1904 - d. 2003) PNP
2 Jan 1973 - 2 Jan 1977 Rafael
Hernández Colón (1st time) (b.
1936)
PPD
2 Jan 1977 - 2 Jan 1985 Carlos
Antonio Romero Barceló (b.
1932)
PNP
2 Jan 1985 - 2 Jan 1993 Rafael
Hernández Colón (2nd time)
(s.a.)
PPD
2 Jan 1993 - 2 Jan 2001 Pedro Juan
Rosselló González
(b.
1944)
PNP
2 Jan 2001 - 2 Jan 2005 Sila María
Calderón Serra (f) (b.
1942)
PPD
2 Jan 2005 - 2 Jan 2009 Aníbal
Salvador Acevedo
Vilá (b.
1962)
PPD
2 Jan 2009 - 2 Jan 2013 Luis Guillermo
Fortuño Burset (b. 1960)
PNP
2 Jan 2013 -
Alejandro Javier García Padilla
(b. 1971)
PPD
Presidents of the Cabinet
11 Feb 1898 - 21 Jul 1898 Francisco Mariano
Quiñones
(b. 1830 - d. 1908) PAO
21 Jul 1898 - 6 Feb 1899 Luis Muñoz
Rivera
(b. 1859 - d. 1916) PLF
(suspended from 9 Dec 1898)
Party Abbreviations: PNP = Partido
Nuevo Progresivo (New Progressive Party, pro-statehood,
affiliated with U.S. Republican Party);
PPD = Partido Popular Democrático (Popular
Democratic Party, pro-commonwealth, affiliated with U.S.
Democratic Party);
- Former parties: PLF = Partido
Liberal Fusionista Puertorriqueño (Puerto Rican
Liberal Fusionist Party, 1897-99, named Partido
Autonomista Puertorriqueño [Puerto Rican Autonomist
Party] 1887-1897); PAO = Partido
Autonomista Ortodoxo (Orthodox Autonomist Party,
1898-1899)
24 Sep
1494
Discovered and claimed for Spain by Columbus (Isla
de la Mona).
1515 - 1516
Ownership of island under
Fernando II de Aragón.
1516 - 1520
Ownership of island transferred to
Francisco Jiménez Cardenal
Cisneros.
1520
Annexed to Puerto Rico.
1520 - 1524
Ownership passes to Francisco de
Barrionuevo.
1578 -
1843
Abandoned.
22 Dec 1919 - 1945
Administered
by U.S. Forest Service.
1937 -
1942
Civilian Conservation Corps projects.
1945 - 1955
Leased to U.S. Air Force.
Culebra
16 Nov
1493 Discovered
and claimed for Spain (Isla Pasaje).
1874 -
1875
Attempt to impose formal Spanish administration.
27 Oct
1880
Annexed to Puerto Rico as a dependency.
1902 - 1917
Part of Vieques.
26 Jun 1903 - 1 Jul 1975 U.S. Navy
annexes large parts of the island
as Culebra Naval Reservation.
1917
Created a separate island municipality.
Governors
1874 -
1875
Stevens
(d. 1875)
1875 - 27 Oct
1880 Vacant
27 Oct 1880 - 2 Aug 1881 Cayetano
Escudero Sanz
Delegates
2 Aug 1881 - 1891?
Cayetano Escudero
Sanz
1891 -
1892
Florentino Flaile Moscat
1893 -
1894
Ramiro Matute de Tejada
1895 -
1896
Antonio Moreno y Ramírez
1897 -
1898
Manuel Vázquez Alayón
1899 -
1905
Leopoldo Padrón Rivera
1906 -
1912
Pedro Márquez Morales
1913 -
1916
Alejandro Márquez Laureano
Vieques
19 Nov
1493
Discovered and claimed for Spain by Columbus.
.... - 1647
Attempted French settlement.
1688 - Dec 1689
Attempted English settlement
under William Pellet (Crab Island).
26 Aug 1717 - 10 Feb 1718 Attempted
British settlement under Abraham
Howell (Crab Island).
c.1745 - 1751
Attempted British settlement.
1811
Spanish administration begins (previously claimed by
Britain, Denmark and France).
1854
Annexed to Puerto Rico, becoming an island municipality.
10 Dec 1941 - 1 May 2003 2/3 of
island under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Navy as part
of
Roosevelt Roads Naval Station.
Commanders
1811 -
1828
Juan Roselló
1828 -
1829
Francisco Roselló
(d. 1832)
1829 -
1832
José Moyano
1 May 1832 - 8 Jul 1843 Teófilo
José Jaime María
Le (d. 1843)
Guillou
Mayors (Alcaldes)
1843 -
1852
Francisco Sáenz (Sainz)
1852 -
1854
José Astorga
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