List of Governors of the United States Virgin Islands

The following is a list of Governors of the United States Virgin Islands. For governors of the territory that is now the U.S. Virgin Islands prior to United States administration (while it was ruled by Denmark as the Danish West Indies), see List of Governors of the Danish West Indies.

Appointed governors (1917–1969)

Naval governors (1917–1931)

• 1917 – 1917: Edwin Taylor Pollock
• 1917 – 1919: James Harrison Oliver
• 1919 – 1921: Joseph Wallace Oman
• 1921 – 1922: Sumner Ely Wetmore Kittelle
• 1922 – 1923: Henry Hughes Hough
• 1923 – 1925: Philip Williams
• 1925 – 1927: Martin Edwin Trench
• 1927 – 1931: Waldo A. Evans

Civil governors (1931–1969)

• 1931 – 1935: Paul Martin Pearson
• 1935 – 1935: Robert Herrick
• 1935 – 1940: Lawrence William Cramer
• 1940 – 1941: Robert Morss Lovett (Acting; filling in for Cramer)
• 1941 – 1945: Charles Harwood
• 1946 – 1949: William Henry Hastie
• 1949 – 1954: Morris Fidanque de Castro
• 1954 – 1955: Archibald A. Alexander
• 1955 – 1955: Charles K. Claunch
• 1955 – 1958: Walter A. Gordon
• 1958 – 1961: John David Merwin
• 1961 – 1969: Ralph Moses Paiewonsky

Elected governors (1969–present)

Parties

  Republican   Independent Citizens Movement   Democratic   Independent

No.	Image	Governor (Birth–Death)	Took office	Left office		Party
1		Melvin Herbert Evans (1917–1984)	July 1, 1969	January 6, 1975		Republican
2		Cyril Emmanuel King (1921–1978)	January 6, 1975	January 2, 1978		Independent Citizens Movement
3		Juan Francisco Luis (1940–2011)	January 2, 1978	January 5, 1987		Independent Citizens Movement (until 1979)
						Independent (1979 onward)
4		Alexander Anthony Farrelly (1923–2002)	January 5, 1987	January 2, 1995		Democratic
5		Roy Lester Schneider (born 1939)	January 2, 1995	January 4, 1999		Independent[1]
6		Charles Wesley Turnbull (born 1935)	January 4, 1999	January 1, 2007		Democratic
7		John de Jongh (born 1957)	January 1, 2007	January 5, 2015		Democrat
8		Kenneth Mapp (born 1955)	January 5, 2015	Incumbent		Independent

Living former governors

As of January 2016, three former governors were alive. The most recent governor to die was John David Merwin (1958–1961), on March 17, 2013.

Name	Gubernatorial term	Date of birth
Roy Lester Schneider	1995–1999	May 13, 1939
Charles Wesley Turnbull	1999–2007	February 5, 1935
John de Jongh	2007–2015	November 13, 1957

References

1. "A Report on the State of the Islands 1997: Chapter 5 Virgin Islands". United States Department of the Interior Office of Insular Affairs. 1997. Retrieved 2010-08-25.

External links

• Office of the Governor