Edward Ord was appointed as the first military governor of Mississippi during the reconstruction period
Mississippi
A military Governor.
Joseph E. Brown
the military reconstruction act was enacted.
the military reconstruction act was enacted.
The youngest elected governor was Henry Clay Warmoth (1842-1931) who took office on July 13, 1868 at the age of 26. The military governor of the region had been replaced and the practically powerless appointed governor, Joshua Baker, had resigned. (Baker was appointed Mayor of New Orleans by Warmoth and later elected to that office.)
Leonard Wood, a physician who served in the United States Army, was appointed as the Military Governor of Cuba. He passed away in 1927.
The first state re-admitted to the Union was Tennessee on 24 July 1866. A week before its readmittance, Tennessee ratified the 14th Amendment. As a result, Tennessee became the sole state during Reconstruction that did not have an appointed military governor.
Because they refused to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1866. That led the Congress to pass a Reconstruction Act imposing its desired version of the reconstruction on the former Confederate States by means of a diktat, which contemplated inter alia that they had to be grouped into five military districts, each ruled by a military governor.
GEN Douglas MacArthur became, in a sense, the appointed (by the president of the US) military governor of Japan.
Southern military leaders weren't allowed to hold office during reconstruction.
the first military governor of Florida was William P. DuVal