List of governors of Puerto Rico
Template:Short description Template:See also Template:Featured list Template:Use mdy dates Template:History of Puerto Rico This list of governors of Puerto Rico includes all persons who have held the office of Governor of Puerto Rico since its establishment under the rule of the Spanish Empire (1508–1898) to the present under the sovereignty of the United States (1898–present).
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The archipelago and island of Puerto Rico was annexed by the United States during the Spanish-American War in 1898, ending 390 years of active rule by the Spanish Empire, which began the European exploration, colonization, and settlement of the main island under conquistador Juan Ponce de León in 1508.<ref name=":8">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Ponce de León was the first person to hold the title and office of governor by orders of King Ferdinand II of Aragon in 1509.<ref name=":5" /> The governor remained an appointee of the Spanish Crown during Spanish rule, and was an appointee of the President of the United States during American rule until 1948, when the residents of Puerto Rico began to popularly elect the governor, starting with Luis Muñoz Marín, who took office in 1949.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":02" /><ref name=":1" />
Since 1508, 167 persons (164 men and 3 women), have served in 190 formal, interim, or de facto governorships, as 17 governors have served twice nonconsecutively and 3 have served thrice nonconsecutively. Of the 190 governors, 175 have been appointed (149 by the Spanish Crown and 26 by the President of the United States), 14 elected through popular vote by the residents of Puerto Rico, and one constitutionally appointed after the resignation of an elected governor.
The governorship has been vacant twice, as two municipal administrators, called alcaldes ordinarios, served in place of a governor each year from 1537 to 1544 and 1548 to 1550.<ref name=":6" /> The shortest-serving governor was Andrés González Muñoz, who died hours after the start of his second interim governorship on January 11, 1898.<ref name=":2" /> Luis Muñoz Marín served the longest, having held the office for 16 consecutive years, or four terms of four years each, from 1949 to 1965, after he decided not to seek re-election.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Ricardo Rosselló, who left office prematurely as a result of the Telegramgate scandal in 2019, is the first and only elected governor to have resigned.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> No elected governor has been impeached.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The first governor born in Puerto Rico was Ponce de León’s grandchild, Juan Ponce de León II, who served as interim governor from 1578 to 1580.<ref name=":02" /> He was the only Puerto Rican-born person to occupy the office until Ángel Rivero Méndez, who served in an interim capacity as the last governor under Spanish rule for two days from October 16 to 18, 1898.<ref name="DC" /> Several Puerto Ricans also briefly served as interim governors from 1921 to 1941. During the direct Spanish and American control of the governorship from 1508 to 1948, the first and only native Puerto Rican to have held the office in a formal capacity was Jesús T. Piñero, who served as the last appointed governor of Puerto Rico from 1946 to 1949.<ref name=":7">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Since 1949, the governor of Puerto Rico has served by popular election as the head of government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States organized under the Constitution of Puerto Rico since its establishment in 1952. The incumbent governor is Jenniffer González, who was elected on November 5, 2024, and sworn in on January 2, 2025.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
History
Spanish Empire rule
With the European discovery of Puerto Rico during the second voyage of Christopher Columbus in November 1493, the archipelagic island was claimed by the Spanish Crown. In 1505, Spanish King Ferdinand II of Aragon ordered the colonization of Puerto Rico, appointing Spanish conquistador Vicente Yáñez Pinzón as its captain and corregidor to essentially serve as a de facto governor. However, Yáñez Pinzón never fulfilled the commission.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Puerto Rico remained unexplored and unsettled by the Spanish Empire from 1493 to 1508.
In 1508, the King ordered Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León to conquer Puerto Rico, becoming the first European to explore, colonize, and settle the archipelago and island.<ref name=":8" /> In 1509, the title and position of governor of Puerto Rico was officially established by King Ferdinand II of Aragon, who appointed Ponce de León as the first holder of the office.<ref name=":5">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The governor continued to be appointed by the Spanish Crown for 390 years, serving under various administrative entities: the Viceroyalty of the Indies (1508–1535), the Viceroyalty of New Spain (1535–1582), the Captaincy General of Puerto Rico (1582–1897), and the Autonomous Province of Puerto Rico (1897–1898).<ref name=":2">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=":02">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="statesmen">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
From 1537 to 1544 and 1548 to 1550, the governorship remained vacant, as alcaldes ordinarios served in place of a governor. By order of King Charles I of Spain, two alcaldes ordinarios, one for the eastern cabildo of Partido de San Juan and the other for the western cabildo of Partido de San Germán, were elected each year by the regidores of each cabildo. The alcaldes ordinarios, who could only be re-elected two years after the end of their one-year term, served as municipal administrators and not governors.<ref name=":6">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
From 1578 to 1580, Juan Ponce de León’s grandchild, Juan Ponce de León II, served as interim governor, becoming the first Puerto Rican-born person to served as governor of the archipelago and island.<ref name=":02" /> He was the only Puerto Rican-born person to occupy the office until Ángel Rivero Méndez, who served for three days as interim governor from October 16 to October 18, 1898.<ref name="DC" />
With the English occupation of San Juan, the capital city of Puerto Rico, from June to November 1598, which was the only complete takeover of the city by a foreign power before its peaceful transfer to the Americans after hostilities stopped during the Spanish–American War in October 1898, the govenor, Antonio de Mosquera, surrendered and was exiled to Cartagena de Indias in Colombia. However, the English, led by George Clifford and John Berkeley, failed to keep the city and to gain control of the main island. From November 1598 to March 1599, former governor Pedro Suárez Coronel, who had been imprisoned in San Juan’s El Morro fortress, assumed the governorship after the retreat of the English and arrival of Mosquera’s formal replacement, Alonso de Mercado.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
United States sovereignty
In 1898, the President of the United States assumed the authority to appoint the person occupying the office as a result of the annexation of the archipelago and island by the United States during Spanish American War.
While General Nelson A. Miles led the American invasion and occupation of Puerto Rico from July 25 to August 13, 1898, he never served as governor, as that responsibility was assigned to fellow General John R. Brooke, who was head of the American delegation to the commission for the peaceful transfer of sovereignty over Puerto Rico from Spain to the United States, as stipulated in the armistice signed by the two countries on August 12. After the departure of the Spanish officials from San Juan on October 16, Brooke became the first American governor of the archipelago and island on October 18, 1898, succeeding interim governor Ángel Rivero Méndez, who was the last governor under Spanish administration.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":2" />
Under the military (1898–1900) and insular civil governments (1900–1952) of Puerto Rico, the latter of which was established by the Foraker Act of 1900 and expanded by the Jones–Shafroth Act of 1917, the governor remained an appointee of the American president from 1898 to 1948. While several Puerto Ricans briefly served as interim governors during this period, the only native Puerto Rican to be appointed to the governorship was Jesús T. Piñero, who served as the last appointed governor of Puerto Rico from 1946 to 1949. Piñero was the first and only native Puerto Rican to held the office in a formal, not interim capacity during the direct Spanish and American control of the governorship from 1508 to 1948.<ref name=":7" />
In 1947, the Elective Governor Act granted the residents of Puerto Rico the power to elect the governor through popular vote. The first election for the governorship was held in 1948, resulting in the victory of Luis Muñoz Marín, who became the first democratically elected governor. Since 1949, the governor of Puerto Rico has served by popular election as the head of government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States organized under the Constitution of Puerto Rico since 1952.
In 2019, governor Ricardo Rosselló, alongside other members of his cabinet, including the Secretary of State, resigned as a result of the Telegramgate scandal, becoming the first elected governor to step down. Before leaving office, Rosselló named Pedro Pierluisi as state secretary, with the intention of making Pierluisi his successor, as the state secretary is the first official in the gubernatorial line of succession. Pierluisi was sworn in as governor after Rosselló’s resignation. However, his tenure only lasted five days, as the Supreme Court ruled that his assumption of the office was unconstitutional because his nomination as state secretary was never confirmed by the Legislative Assembly. He was succeeded by the next official in the gubernatorial line of succession, Secretary of Justice Wanda Vázquez Garced, who became the first governor to serve through constitutional appointment.<ref name="npr_2019-08-07"/>
Spanish Empire rule (1508–1898)
This list includes all governors of Puerto Rico who served under the Spanish Empire from the start of the colonization of the archipelago and island in 1508 to the end of Spanish rule as a result of the Spanish-American War in 1898. Governors are divided by the administrative territorial entity under which they directly served.
| Century 16th – 17th – 18th – 19th |
In 1492, when explorer Christopher Columbus took possession of the West Indies in the Caribbean in the name of the Spanish Empire, pursuant to the provisions of the Capitulations of Santa Fe granted by the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, the Viceroyalty of the Indies was established as an administrative entity, with Columbus as its first viceroy and governor. Headquartered in the Captaincy General of Santo Domingo in Hispaniola, it was primarily composed of the Greater and Lesser Antilles islands discovered by Columbus during his voyages to the Americas, including the archipelago and island of Puerto Rico, where he landed during his second voyage in 1493.
From the start of the colonization of Puerto Rico by Juan Ponce León in 1508 to the merging of the Viceroyalty of the Indies into the Viceroyalty of New Spain in 1535, the governor of Puerto Rico operated under the jurisdiction of the Spanish Crown, which exercised its authority through the monarch of Spain, the president of the Council of the Indies, and the viceroy and governor of the Viceroyalty of the Indies, who was also the governor of the Captaincy General of Santo Domingo and the president of the Real Audiencia of Santo Domingo in Hispaniola.
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In 1535, the administrative entity of the Viceroyalty of the Indies was merged into the newly-created Viceroyalty of New Spain. Headquartered in Mexico City, it was composed of Mexico, the Louisiana Purchase, Florida, and the states west of the Mississippi River in the United States, British Columbia in Canada, Guatemala, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua in Central America, Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, and the Lesser Antilles in the insular Caribbean, and Venezuela in South America.
From the establishment of the Viceroyalty of New Spain in 1535 to the creation of the Captaincy General of Puerto Rico in 1582, the governor of Puerto Rico operated under the jurisdiction of the Spanish Crown, which exercised its authority through the monarch of Spain, the president of the Council of the Indies, the viceroy of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, and the president of the Real Audiencia of Santo Domingo, who was also the governor of the Captaincy General of Santo Domingo in Hispaniola.
In 1582, the administrative entity of the Captaincy General of Puerto Rico was established as part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain. It was composed of the archipelago and island of Puerto Rico.
From the establishment of the Captaincy General of Puerto Rico in 1582 to the creation of the Autonomous Province of Puerto Rico in 1897, the governor of Puerto Rico operated under the jurisdiction of the Spanish Crown, which exercised its authority through the monarch of Spain, the viceroy of the Viceroyalty of New Spain (1582–1821), the president of the Council of the Indies (1582–1714), the secretary of the Secretariat of the Navy and the Indies (1714–1754), the secretary of the Secretariat of State and the Office of the Indies (1754–1863), and the minister of the Ministry of Overseas (1863–1897), and the Valido (1598–1705), the Secretary of State and the Universal Bureau (1705–1734), the First Secretary of State (1734–1823), and the Prime Minister (1823–1897). The Captaincy General of Puerto Rico was under the jurisdiction of the president of the Real Audiencia of Santo Domingo until the creation of the Real Audiencia of Puerto Rico in 1831.
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In 1897, the Spanish Crown granted local autonomous administration to Puerto Rico, authorizing the establishment of the Autonomous Province of Puerto Rico, with a government headed by a partially democratically elected bicameral parliament and a governor, who remained an appointee of the Crown.<ref name=":9">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=":10">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=":11">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> From the establishment of the Autonomous Province of Puerto Rico in 1897 to the annexation of the archipelago and island by the United States during the Spanish–American War in 1898, the governor of Puerto Rico operated under the jurisdiction of the Spanish Crown, which exercised its authority through the monarch, the prime minister, and the overseas minister.
United States sovereignty (1898–present)
This list includes all governors of Puerto Rico who have served under the United States from the start of the annexation of the archipelago and island during the Spanish-American War in 1898 to the present. Governors are divided by the administrative territorial entity under which they directly served.
| Century 19th – 20th – 21st |
In 1898, the United States bombarded, invaded, occupied, and annexed the archipelago and island of Puerto Rico during the Spanish–American War. The United States Navy carried out the Bombardment of San Juan, the fortified capital city in northeastern Puerto Rico (today the historic quarter of Old San Juan), on May 12, while the United States Army began the land invasion of the territory through the municipality of Guánica in southwestern Puerto Rico on July 25. After an armistice, a cease-fire agreement, was signed on August 12, the active hostilities between Spain and the United States stopped, with the war officially ending by the signing of the Treaty of Paris on December 10. The armistice led to Spain ceding Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Guam to the United States and agreed to the American occupation of Manila in the Philippines.
The Spanish Empire rule of Puerto Rico effectively ended on October 18, when the United States assumed sovereignty over the territory, establishing the Military Government of Porto Rico (the spelling "Porto Rico" was officially used by U.S. government until 1932), which operated under the Bureau of Insular Affairs of the United States Department of War. From the establishment of the Military Government Porto Rico in 1898 to the creation of the Insular Government of Porto Rico in 1900, the governor of Puerto Rico was under the jurisdiction of the President of the United States, William McKinley, and its Secretary of War, Elihu Root.
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In 1900, the Insular Government of Porto Rico replaced the Military Government of Porto Rico, establishing a civil government in Puerto Rico as the local administration of an unincorporated territory under the sovereign federal jurisdiction of the United States. The insular government was organized under the organic acts of the Foraker Act from 1900 to 1917 and the Jones–Shafroth Act from 1917 to 1952.
The Foraker Act divided the local government of Puerto Rico into three branches: an executive, consisting of a Governor and an 11-member Executive Council appointed by the President of the United States, a legislative, composed of bicameral Legislative Assembly, with the Executive Council as its upper chamber and a 35-member House of Delegates elected by the residents of Puerto Rico as its lower chamber, and a judicial, headed by a chief justice and a district judge appointed by the President. The Act created the office of Resident Commissioner, a non-voting member to the United States House of Representatives elected by the residents of Puerto Rico.
During the Insular Government of Porto Rico, from the passing of the Foraker Act in 1900 to the implementation of the Jones–Shafroth Act in 1917, the governor of Puerto Rico was under the jurisdiction of the President of the United States and its Secretary of War, as the territory operated under the Bureau of Insular Affairs of the United States Department of War.
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The Jones–Shafroth Act established a bill of rights based on the United States Bill of Rights and granted statutory birthright United States citizenship to anyone born in the archipelago and island of Puerto Rico on or after April 11, 1899.
The Act expanded the executive and legislative branches of the Insular Government of Porto Rico. It created the executive departments of Justice, Education, Finance, Interior, Labor and Agriculture, and Health, with their heads, the first two appointed by the President of the United States, and the rest appointed by the Governor, who was also appointed by the President, forming an executive council to the Governor. It formed a legislative 19-member Senate elected by the residents of Puerto Rico, and increased the membership and term length of the House of Representatives to 39 popularly elected members serving four-year terms. It also increased to four years the term length of the Resident Commissioner, a non-voting member to the United States House of Representatives elected by the residents of Puerto Rico.
During the Insular Government of Porto Rico, from the passing of the Jones–Shafroth Act in 1917 to the implementation of the Elective Governor Act in 1948, which granted the residents of Puerto Rico the power to elect the governor through popular vote, the governor of Puerto Rico was under the jurisdiction of the President of the United States. As part of the Bureau of Insular Affairs of the United States Department of War, it remained under the purview of the Secretary of War until 1934, when the responsibility was assumed by the Secretary of Interior, as Puerto Rico was transferred to the Division of Territories and Island Possessions of the United States Department of Interior. Puerto Rico remained under said organization until the proclamation of the Constitution of Puerto Rico in 1952, when it achieved complete local self-governance as the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
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In 1952, the Constitution of Puerto Rico established the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and its government. With its ratification, the full authority and responsibility for the local administration of Puerto Rico was vested in the residents of Puerto Rico, resulting in complete self-governance within the archipelago and island as an unincorporated territory under the sovereign federal jurisdiction of the United States.
Elected to unlimited four-year terms through popular vote by the residents of Puerto Rico, the governor is the head of the executive branch of the government of Puerto Rico and the commander-in-chief of the National Guard of Puerto Rico. The incumbent governor is Jenniffer González, who was elected on November 5, 2024, and sworn in on January 2, 2025.
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| 1960 | January 2, 1961 | January 2, 1965 | ||||||||||
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1964 | January 2, 1965 | January 2, 1969 | 4 years Template:Small |
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| 178 | File:Official portrait of Puerto Rican Governor Luis A. Ferré in 1969.jpg | Luis A. Ferré<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |
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1968 | January 2, 1969 | January 2, 1973 | 4 years Template:Small |
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| 179 | File:RHCgovernorofPuertoRico.jpg | Rafael Hernández Colón<ref name=":12" /> Template:Small |
1972 | January 2, 1973 | January 2, 1977 | 4 years Template:Small |
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| 181 | File:Official portrait of Puerto Rican Governor Rafael Hernández Colón in 1985.jpg | Rafael Hernández Colón<ref name=":12">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |
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1984 | January 2, 1985 | January 2, 1989 | 8 years Template:Small |
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1992 | January 2, 1993 | January 2, 1997 | 8 years Template:Small |
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2000 | January 2, 2001 | January 2, 2005 | 4 years Template:Small |
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Timeline (1952–present)
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See also
- First ladies and gentlemen of Puerto Rico
- Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico
- History of Puerto Rico
- Politics of Puerto Rico
- List of Legislative Assemblies of Puerto Rico
Notes
References
External links
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