List of governors of the Panama Canal Zone
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Governor of the Panama Canal Zone | |
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Panama Canal Zone | |
Seat | Balboa |
Appointer | President of the United States |
Constituting instrument | Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty |
Formation | 14 May 1904 |
First holder | George Whitefield Davis |
Final holder | Harold Parfitt |
Abolished | 30 September 1979 |
This article lists the governors of the Panama Canal Zone between 1904 and 1979, while it was under U.S. control.
Military governors (1904–1914)
[edit]Image | Name (Birth–Death) | Took office | Left office | Notes | Reference |
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George Whitefield Davis (1839–1918) | 14 May 1904 | 24 May 1905 | |||
Charles Edward Magoon (1861–1920) | 25 May 1905 | 12 October 1906 | |||
Richard Reid Rogers (1867–1949) | 19 November 1906 | 31 March 1907 | General Counsel of the Isthmian Canal Commission | ||
Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn (1838–1918) | 1 April 1907 | 4 December 1909 | |||
Maurice Thatcher (1870–1973) | 13 May 1910 | 8 August 1913 | |||
Richard Lee Metcalfe (1861–1954) | 9 August 1913 | 31 March 1914 |
Military and civil governors (1914–1924)
[edit]Image | Name (Birth–Death) | Took office | Left office | Notes | Reference |
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George Washington Goethals (1858–1928) | 1 April 1914 | 10 January 1917 | First U.S. civil governor appointed by President Woodrow Wilson | [1] | |
Chester Harding (1866–1936) | 11 January 1917 | 27 March 1921 | [1] | ||
Jay Johnson Morrow (1870–1937) | 28 March 1921 | 15 October 1924 | [1] |
Civil governors (1924–1979)
[edit]Image | Name (Birth–Death) | Took office | Left office | Notes | Reference |
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Meriwether Lewis Walker (1869–1947) | 16 October 1924 | 15 October 1928 | [1] | ||
Harry Burgess (1872–1933) | 16 October 1928 | 20 October 1932 | [1] | ||
Julian Larcombe Schley (1880–1965) | 21 October 1932 | 26 August 1936 | [1] | ||
Clarence S. Ridley (1883–1969) | 27 August 1936 | 10 July 1940 | [1] | ||
Glen Edgar Edgerton (1887–1976) | 11 July 1940 | 15 May 1944 | [1] | ||
Joseph Cowles Mehaffey (1889–1963) | 16 May 1944 | 19 May 1948 | [1] | ||
Francis K. Newcomer (1889–1967) | 20 May 1948 | 26 May 1952 | [1] | ||
John States Seybold (1897–1982) | 27 May 1952 | 27 May 1956 | [1] | ||
William Everett Potter (1905–1988) | 28 May 1956 | 30 June 1960 | [1] | ||
William Arnold Carter (1907–1996) | 1 July 1960 | 31 January 1962 | [1] | ||
Robert John Fleming (1907–1984) | 1 February 1962 | 31 January 1967 | [1] | ||
Walter Philip Leber (1918–2009) | 21 February 1967 | 2 March 1971 | [1] | ||
David Stuart Parker (1919–1990) | 3 March 1971 | 25 March 1975 | [1] | ||
Harold Parfitt (1921–2006) | 26 March 1975 | 30 September 1979 | [1] |