List of pre-statehood governors of California
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This is a list of governors of California prior to it becoming a U.S. 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 U.S. 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
- 1769-1770: Gaspar de Portolà
- 1770-1774: Pedro Fages
- 1774-1777: Fernando Rivera y Moncada
[edit] Spanish Governors of Las Californias, 1777-1804
- 1777-1782: Felipe de Neve
- 1782-1791: Pedro Fages
- 1791-1792: José Antonio Roméu
- 1792-1794: José Joaquín de Arrillaga (acting)
- 1794-1800: Diego de Borica
- 1800: Pere d'Alberní i Teixidor (acting)
- 1800-1804: José Joaquín de Arrillaga
[edit] Spanish Governors of Alta California, 1804-1822
- 1804-1814: José Joaquín de Arrillaga
- 1814-1815: José Darío Argüello (acting)
- 1815-1822: Pablo Vicente de Solá
[edit] Mexican Governors of Alta California, 1822-1847
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- 1822-1825: Luis Antonio Argüello (born in San Francisco, he was the first native-born Californian to govern Alta California)
- 1825-1831: José María de Echeandía
- 1831-1832: Manuel Victoria
- 1832: Pío Pico
- 1832-1833: Agustín V. Zamorano (north) and José María de Echeandía (south)
- 1833-1835: José Figueroa
- 1835: José Castro (acting)
- 1836: Nicolas Gutierrez (acting)
- 1836: Mariano Chico
- 1836: Nicolas Gutierrez (acting)
- 1836-1837: Juan Bautista Alvarado
- 1837-1838: Carlos Antonio Carrillo
- 1838-1842: Juan Bautista Alvarado
- 1842-1845: Manuel Micheltorena
- 1845-1846: Pío Pico
- 1846-1847: José Mariá Flores (in opposition to the United States in Los Angeles)
- 1847: Andrés Pico (in opposition to the United States in Los Angeles)
- 1848: Pio Pico
(see also Governor of Baja California and Governor of Baja California Sur for the Mexican States of Baja California and Baja California Sur)
[edit] President of the California Republic, June-July 1846
- 1846: William B. Ide (in Sonoma)
[edit] American Military Governors of California, 1846-1849
- 1846: John Drake Sloat
- 1846-1847: Robert Field Stockton
- 1847: John C. Frémont
- 1847: Stephen W. Kearny
- 1847-1849: Richard Barnes Mason (acting)
- 1849: Persifor Frazer Smith
- 1849: Bennett C. Riley
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- Irvine, Leigh H. (1905). "Vol. I, Chapter III". A History Of The New California - Its Resources And People. New York: The Lewis Publishing Company. OCLC 35952214. http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ca/state1/newca/newca3.html. Retrieved on 2007-07-11.
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