Governors of Florida

A list of governors from the state of Florida.[1][2]

## Contents

* 1 French Period Governors
* 2 First Spanish Period Governors
* 3 British Period
* 3.1 East Florida
* 3.2 West Florida
* 4 Second Spanish Period Governors
* 4.1 East Florida
* 4.2 West Florida
* 5 Military Governors of Florida
* 6 Governors of Florida Territory
* 7 State Governors of Florida
* 8 See also
* 9 Notes

## French Period Governors[edit]

Name  |  Years

|

Rene Goulaine de Laudonniere |  1564-1565

## First Spanish Period Governors[edit]

Name  |  Years

|

Pedro Menendez de Aviles |  1565-1574
Hernando de Miranda |  1575-1577
pedro Menendez de Marquez |  1577-1589
Gutierre de Miranda |  1589-1592
Rodrigo de Junco |  1592
Domingo Martinez de Avendano |  1594-1596
Gonzalo Mendez de Canco |  1596-1603
Pedro de Ibarra |  1603-1609
Juan Fernandez de Olivera |  1609-1613
Juan Trevino de Guillarnas |  1613-1618
Juan de Salinas |  1618-1624
Luis de Rojas y Borja |  1624-1630
Andres Rodriguez de Villegas |  1630-1633
Luis de Horruytiner |  1633-1639
Damian de Vega Castro y Pardo |  1639-1645
Benito Ruiz de Salazar Ballecilla |  1645–1646, 1647-1650
Pedro Horruytiner Benedit |  1646–1647, 1654-1655
Nicolas Ponce de Leon |  1650-1654
Diego de Rebolledo |  1655-1659
Alonso de Aranguiz y Cortes |  1659-1664
Francisco de la Guerra y de la Vega |  1664-1670
Manuel de Cendoya |  1670-1675
Pablo de Hita y Salazar |  1675-1680
Juan Marquez Cabrera |  1680-1687
Diego de Quiroga y Losado |  1687-1693
Laureano Jose de Torres Ayala a Duadros Castellanos |  1693-1699
Jose de Zuniga y la Cerda |  1699-1706
Francisco de Corcoles y Martinez |  1706-1716
Pedro de Olivera y Fullana |  1716
Juan de Ayala Escobar |  1716-1718
Antonio de Benavides |  1718-1734
Francisco del Moral y Sanchez |  1734-1737
Manuel de Montiano |  1737-1749
Melchor de Navarrete |  1749-1752
Fulgencio Garcia de Solis |  1752-1755
Alonso Fernandez de Heredia |  1755-1758
Lucas Fernando de Palacio y Valenzuela |  1758-1761
Alonso de Cardenas |  1761-1762
Melchor Feliu |  1762-1763

## British Period[edit]

### East Florida[edit]

Name  |  Years

|

James Grant |  1763-1771
John Moultrie |  1771-1774
Patrick Tonyn |  1774-1784

### West Florida[edit]

Name  |  Years

|

George Johnstone |  1763-1767
Montfort Browne |  1767-1769
John Eliot |  1769
Elias Durnford |  1769-1770
Peter Chester |  1770-1781

## Second Spanish Period Governors[edit]

### East Florida[edit]

Name  |  Years

|

Vicente Manuel de Zespedes Cespedes y Velasco |  1784-1790
Juan Nepomuceno de Quesada y Barnuevo |  1790-1796
Bartolome Morales |  1796
Enrique White |  1796-1811
Juan Jose de Estrada |  1811-1812
Sebastian Kindelan y Oregon |  1812-1815
Juan Jose de Estrada |  1815-1816
Jose Maria Coppinger |  1816-1821

### West Florida[edit]

Name  |  Years

|

Arturo O’Neill y Tyrone |  1781-1794
Enrique White |  1794-1796
Francisco de Paula Gelabert |  1796
Vincente Folch y Juan |  1796-1811
Francisco San Maxent |  1811–1812, 1816
Mauricio de Zuniga |  1812–1813, 1816
Mateo Gonzalez Manrique |  1813-1815
Jose de Soto |  1815-1816
Jose Fascot |  1816-1818
William King |  1818-1819
Jose Maria Callava |  1819-1821

## Military Governors of Florida[edit]

Name  |  Years

|

Andrew Jackson |  1821

## Governors of Florida Territory[edit]

Name  |  Years

|

William P. Duval |  1822-1834
John Eaton |  1834-1836
Richard K. Call |  1836–1839, 1841-1844
Robert R. Reid |  1839-1841
John Branch |  1844-1845

## State Governors of Florida[edit]

Name |  Party  |  Years

|
|

William Dunn Moseley |  Democrat  |  1845-1849
Thomas Brown |  Whig  |  1849-1853
james Emilius Broome |  Democrat  |  1853-1857
Madison Starke Perry |  Democrat  |  1857-1861
John Milton |  Democrat  |  1861-1865
Abraham Kurkindolle Allison |  Democrat  |  1865
David Shelby Walker |  Democrat  |  1865-1868
Harrison Reed |  Republican  |  1868-1873
Ossian Bingley Hart |  Republican  |  1873-1874
Marcellus Lovejoy Stearns |  Republican  |  1874-1877
George Franklin Drew |  Democrat  |  1877-1881
William Dunnington Bloxham |  Democrat  |  1881–1885, 1897-1901
Edward Alysworth Perry |  Democrat  |  1885-1889
Francis Philip Fleming |  Democrat  |  1889-1893
Henry Laurens Mitchell |  Democrat  |  1893-1897
William Sherman Jennings |  Democrat  |  1901-1905
Napoleon Bonaparte Broward |  Democrat  |  1905-1909
Albert Waller Gilchrist |  Democrat  |  1909-1913
Park Trammell |  Democrat  |  1913-1917
Sidney Johnston Catts |  Democrat/Prohibition  |  1917-1921
Cary Augustus Hardee |  Democrat  |  1921-1925
John Wellborn Martin |  Democrat  |  1925-1929
Doyle Elam Carlton |  Democrat  |  1929-1933
David Sholtz |  Democrat  |  1933-1937
Frederick Preston Cone |  Democrat  |  1937-1941
Spessard Lindsay Holland |  Democrat  |  1941-1945
Millard Fillmore Caldwell, Jr. |  Democrat  |  1945-1949
Fuller Warren |  Democrat  |  1949-1953
Daniel Thomas McCarty |  Democrat  |  1953
Charley Eugene Johns |  Democrat  |  1953-1955
Thomas Leroy Collins |  Democrat  |  1955-1961
Cecil Farris Bryant |  Democrat  |  1961-1965
Haydon Burns |  Democrat  |  1965-1967
Claude Roy Kirk, Jr. |  Democrat/Republican/Democrat/Independent  |  1967-1971
Reubin O'Donovan Askew |  Democrat  |  1971-1979
Daniel Robert "Bob" Graham |  Democrat  |  1979-1987
John Wayne Mixson |  Democrat  |  1987 (3 days)
Robert Martinez |  Democrat/Republican  |  1987-1991
Lawton Mainor Chiles, Jr. |  Democrat  |  1991-1998
Kenneth Hood "Buddy" MacKay, Jr. |  Democrat  |  1998-1999
John Ellis "Jeb" Bush |  Republican  |  1999-2007
Charles Joseph "Charlie" Crist |  Republican/Independent  |  2007-2011
Richard Lynn "Rick" Scott |  Republican  |  2011–2019
Ron DeSantis |  Republican  |  2019–present

## See also[edit]

* State Governors

## Notes[edit]

1. ↑ http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.8fd3d12ab65b304f8a278110501010a0?submit=Submit&State=FL
2. ↑ http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/List-of-Colonial-Governors-of-Florida

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