List of United States Virgin Islands Governors

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The following is a list of Governors of the United States Virgin Islands. For Governors of the territory that is now the U.S. Virgin Islands prior to United States administration, see List of Governors of the Danish West Indies.

Appointed Governors (1917-1969)

• 1917 - 1917 Edwin Taylor Pollock
• 1917 - 1919 James Harrison Oliver
• 1919 - 1921 Joseph Wallace Oman
• 1921 - 1922 Sumner Ely Wetmore Kittelle
• 1922 - 1923 Henry Hughes Hough
• 1923 - 1925 Philip Williams
• 1925 - 1927 Martin Edwin Trench
• 1927 - 1931 Waldo A. Evans
• 1931 - 1935 Paul Martin Pearson
• 1935 - 1935 Robert Herrick (acting)
• 1935 - 1940 Lawrence William Cramer
• 1940 - 1941 Robert Morss Lovett (acting)
• 1941 - 1945 Charles Harwood
• 1946 - 1949 William H. Hastie
• 1949 - 1954 Morris Fidanque de Castro
• 1954 - 1955 Archibald A. Alexander
• 1955 - 1955 Charles K. Claunch (acting)
• 1955 - 1958 Walter A. Gordon
• 1958 - 1961 John David Merwin
• 1961 - 1969 Ralph Moses Paiewonsky
• 1969 - 1969 Cyril Emanuel King (acting)

Elected Governors (1969-present)

• 1969 - 1975 Melvin Herbert Evans (Republican)
• 1975 - 1978 Cyril Emanuel King (ICM)
• 1978 - 1987 Juan Francisco Luis (ICM)
• 1987 - 1995 Alexander Anthony Farrelly (Democrat)
• 1995 - 1999 Roy Lester Schneider (Democrat)
• 1999 - 2007 Charles Wesley Turnbull (Democrat)
• 2007 - Present John de Jongh (Democrat)

Living former governors

As of September 2009^[update], four former governors were alive, the oldest being John David Merwin (1958–1961, born 1921). Merwin is also the only living appointed governor of the territory. The most recent governor to die was Alexander A. Farrelly (1987–1995), on September 10, 2002. Farrelly was also the most recently-serving governor to die.

External links

• Office of the Governor

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