List of Governors of Guam

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The following is a list of Governors of Guam (Chamorro: I Maga' låhen Guåhan).

Before World War II (1898–1941)

American capture of the territory during the Spanish-American War (1898)

• 1898 – 1898 Henry Glass
• 1898 – 1898 Francisco Portusach Martínez

Political instability (1898–1899)

• 1898 – 1898 José Sisto – overthrew Portusach
• 1898 – 1899 Venancio Roberto – overthrew Sisto
• 1899 – 1899 José Sisto – put back in power by US Navy
• 1899 – 1899 E. D. Taussig – re-asserted USN authority, put a local council in place
• 1899 – 1899 Joaquín Cruz Pérez – local council
• 1899 – 1899 William Coe – local council

Appointed American governors (1899–1941)

• 1899 – 1900 Richard Phillips Leary
• 1899 - 1900 William Edwin Safford - acting for Leary
• 1900 – 1901 Seaton Schroeder
• 1901 – 1901 William Swift
• 1901 – 1903 Seaton Schroeder
• 1903 – 1904 William Elbridge Sewell
• 1904 – 1904 F. H. Schofield – acting
• 1904 – 1904 Raymond Stone – acting
• 1904 – 1905 George Leland Dyer
• 1905 – 1906 Luke McNamee – acting
• 1906 – 1907 Templin Morris Potts
• 1907 – 1907 Luke McNamee
• 1907 – 1910 Edward John Dorn
• 1910 – 1911 F. B. Freyer – acting
• 1911 – 1912 George Robert Salisbury
• 1912 – 1913 Robert Edward Coontz
• 1913 – 1914 A. W. Hinds – acting
• 1914 – 1916 William John Maxwell
• 1916 – 1916 William P. Cronan – acting
• 1916 – 1916 Edward Simpson – acting
• 1916 – 1918 Roy Campbell Smith
• 1918 – 1919 William Wirt Gilmer
• 1919 – 1919 W. A. Hodgman – acting
• 1919 – 1920 William Wirt Gilmer
• 1920 – 1921 Ivan Cyrus Wettengel
• 1921 – 1922 James S. Spore – acting
• 1922 – 1922 Adelbert Althouse
• 1922 – 1922 John P. Miller – acting
• 1922 – 1923 Adelbert Althouse
• 1923 – 1924 Henry Bertram Price
• 1924 – 1926 A. W. Brown – acting
• 1926 – 1929 Lloyd Stogell Shapley
• 1929 – 1931 Willis Winter Bradley
• 1931 – 1933 Edmund Spence Root
• 1933 – 1936 George Andrew Alexander
• 1936 – 1938 Benjamin Vaughan McCandlish
• 1938 – 1940 James Thomas Alexander
• 1940 – 1941 George McMillin

World War II era

Captured by Japan (1941–1944)

• 1941 – 1943 Horii Tomitaro
• 1942 – 1943 Teiichi Homura
• 1944 – 1944 Takeshima Takeshi
• 1944 – 1944 Obata Hideyoshi

Recaptured by the United States (1944–1949)

• 1944 – 1944 Roy Stanley Geiger
• 1944 – 1946 Henry Louis Larsen
• 1946 – 1949 Charles Alan Pownall

Civilian governors (1949–Present)

Appointed governors (1949–1970)

• 1949 – 1953 Carlton S. Skinner
• 1953 – 1956 Ford Quint Elvidge
• 1956 – 1956 William T. Corbett (acting)
• 1956 – 1959 Richard Barrett Lowe
• 1959 – 1960 Marcellus G. Boss (acting)
• 1960 – 1961 Joseph F. Flores
• 1961 – 1963 William Partlow Daniel
• 1963 – 1969 Manuel Flores Leon Guerrero
• (1969 – 1970 Carlos Camacho, continued as first elected governor)

Elected governors (1970–Present)

Tenure	Governor	Party
July 1, 1969 – January 6, 1975	Carlos Camacho	Republican
January 6, 1975 – January 1, 1979	Ricardo Bordallo	Democratic
January 1, 1979 – January 3, 1983	Paul McDonald Calvo	Republican
January 3, 1983 – January 5, 1987	Ricardo Bordallo	Democratic
January 5, 1987 – January 2, 1995	Joseph F. Ada	Republican
January 2, 1995 – January 6, 2003	Carl T.C. Gutierrez	Democratic
January 6, 2003 – January 3, 2011	Felix P. Camacho	Republican
January 3, 2011 – Present	Eddie Calvo	Republican

Living former governors

As of September 2009, three former governors were alive, the oldest being Paul McDonald Calvo (1979–1983, born 1934). The most recent governor to die was Bill Daniel (1961–1963), on June 20, 2006. The most recently-serving governor to die was Ricardo Bordallo (1975–1979, 1983–1987), on January 31, 1990.

Name	Gubernatorial term	Date of birth
Paul McDonald Calvo	1979–1983	July 25, 1934
Joseph Franklin Ada	1987–1995	December 3, 1943
Carl T.C. Gutierrez	1995–2003	October 15, 1941

External links

• Office of the Governor