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Puerto Rico: Governors



Governors of Puerto Rico, 1898-2009 (May be incomplete!)
John Rutter Brooke 1898 Guy V. Henry 1898-99 George W. Davis 1899-1900 Charles H. Allen 1900-01 William H. Hunt 1901-04 Beekman Winthrop 1904-07 Regis Henry Prost 1907-09 George Radcliffe Colton 1909-13 Arthur Yager 1913-21 José E. Benedicto 1921 E. Mont Reily 1921-23 Juan B. Huyke 1923 Horace M. Towner 1923-29 James R. Beverley 1929 Theodore Roosevelt 1929-32 James R. Beverley 1932-33 Robert H. Gore 1933-34 Benjamin J. Horton 1934 Blanton C. Winship 1934-39 José E. Colón 1939 William D. Leahy 1939-40 José Miguel Gallardo 1940-41 Guy J. Swope 1941 José Miguel Gallardo 1941 Rexford G. Tugwell 1941-46 Jesús T. Piñero 1946-49 Luis Muñoz Marin 1949-65 Roberto Sánchez Vilella 1965-69 Luis A. Ferré 1969-73 Rafael Hernández Colón 1973-77 Carlos A. Romero Barceló 1977-85 Rafael Hernández Colón 1985-93 Pedró J. Rosselló 1993-2001 Sila M. Calderón 2001- Aníbal Acevedo-Vilá 2005-09

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

  • 1949: Luis Muñoz Marin, elected.
  • 1952: Luis Muñoz Marin, elected.
  • 1956: Luis Muñoz Marin, elected.
  • 1960: Luis Muñoz Marin, elected.
  • 1964: Roberto Sánchez Vilella, elected.
  • 1972: Rafael Hernández Colón, elected.
  • 1976: Carlos A. Romero Barceló, elected; Rafael Hernández Colón, defeated.
  • 1980: Carlos A. Romero Barceló, elected; Rafael Hernández Colón, defeated.
  • 1984: Rafael Hernández Colón, elected.
  • 1988: Rafael Hernández Colón, elected.
  • 1992: Pedró J. Rosselló, elected; Victoria Melo Muñoz, defeated.
  • 2008 Nov 4: Aníbal Acevedo-Vilá, defeated.

     

     


     
       
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