This is a list of governors of California prior to admission as a US state in 1850. From 1769 to 1822, the area was a Spanish province in the Viceroyalty of New Spain. Upon Mexico's independence from Spain in 1822 until the US annexation in 1848, it was a federal territory of Mexico. It was then briefly an unorganized territory of the United States until statehood was approved by Congress on September 9, 1850 . For governors of the state, see List of Governors of California.
[edit] Spanish Military Lt. Governors of California Nueva, 1769-1777
Gaspar de Portolà, first Governor of California
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(see also Governor of Baja California and Governor of Baja California Sur for the Mexican States of Baja California and Baja California Sur)
[edit] American Military Governors of California, 1846-1849
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