List of colonial governors of Angola

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This is a list of European (Portuguese and Dutch) colonial administrators responsible for the territory of Portuguese Angola, an area equivalent to modern-day Republic of Angola.

(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)

Tenure	Portrait	Incumbent	Notes
Portuguese suzerainty
Angola Donatária (São Paulo de Loanda)	Colony
1 February 1575 to 1589		Paulo Dias de Novais, Donatário
Portuguese West Africa	Crown Colony
1589 to 1591		Luís Serrão [pt], Governor
1591 to June 1592		André Ferreira Pereira [pt], Governor
June 1592 to 1593		Francisco de Almeida, Governor
1593 to 1594		Jerónimo de Almeida, Governor
1594 to 1602		João Furtado de Mendonça, Governor
1602 to 1603		João Rodrigues Coutinho, Governor
1603 to 1606		Manuel Cerveira Pereira, Governor	1st term
1606 to September 1607		..., Governor
September 1607 to 1611		Manuel Pereira Forjaz, Governor
1611 to 1615		Bento Banha Cardoso, Governor
1615 to 1617		Manuel Cerveira Pereira, Governor	2nd term
1617 to 1621		Luís Mendes de Vasconcellos, Governor
1621 to 1623		João Correia de Sousa, Governor
1623 to 1623		Pedro de Sousa Coelho, Governor
1623 to 1624		Simão de Mascarenhas, Governor
1624 to 4 September 1630		Fernão de Sousa, Governor
4 September 1630 to 1635		Manuel Pereira Coutinho, Governor
1635 to 18 October 1639		Francisco de Vasconcelos da Cunha, Governor
18 October 1639 to 1641		Pedro César de Meneses, Governor
1641 to October 1645			In opposition to the Dutch
October 1645 to 1646		Francisco de Souto-Maior, Governor	In opposition to the Dutch
Dutch suzerainty (Dutch Loango-Angola)
Dutch West Africa
1641 to 1642		Pieter Moorthamer, Director
1642 to 1648		Cornelis Hendrikszoon Ouman, Director
Portuguese suzerainty
1646 to 24 August 1648	Triumvirate Junta
24 August 1648 to 1651		Salvador Correia de Sá e Benavides, Governor	Commander of the Recapture of Angola
1651 to March 1652		..., acting Governor
March 1652 to 1653		Rodrigo de Miranda Henriques, Governor
1653 to October 1654		Bartolomeu de Vasconcelos da Cunha, acting Governor
October 1654 to 18 April 1658		Luís Mendes de Sousa Chichorro, Governor
18 April 1658 to 1661		João Fernandes Vieira [pt], Governor
1661 to September 1666		André Vidal de Negreiros, Governor
September 1666 to February 1667		Tristão da Cunha, Governor
February 1667 to August 1669	Junta
August 1669 to 1676		Francisco de Távora, Governor
1676 to 1680		Pires de Saldanha de Sousa e Meneses, Governor
1680 to 1684		João da Silva e Sousa, Governor
1684 to 1688		Luís Lobo da Silva, Governor
1688 to 1691		João de Lencastre, Governor
1691 to 1694		Gonçalo da Costa de Alcáçova Carneiro de Meneses, Governor
1694 to 1697		Henrique Jacques de Magalhães, Governor
1697/1698 to 1701		Luís César de Meneses, Governor
1701 to 1702		Bernardino de Távora de Sousa Tavares, Governor
1705 to 1709		Lourenço de Almada, Governor
1709 to 1713		António de Saldanha de Albuquerque Castro e Ribafria, Governor
1713 to 1717		João Manuel de Noronha, Governor
1717 to 1722		Henrique de Figueiredo e Alarcão, Governor
1722 to 1725		António de Albuquerque Coelho de Carvalho, Governor
1725 to 1726		José Carvalho da Costa, acting Governor
1726 to 1732		Paulo Caetano de Albuquerque, Governor
1732 to 1738		Rodrigo César de Meneses, Governor
1738 to 1748		João Joaquim Jacques de Magalhães, Governor
1748 to 1749		Fonseca Coutinho, acting Governor
1749 to 1753		António de Almeida Portugal, 4th Count of Avintes, 1st Marquis of Lavradio, Governor
1753 to 1758		António Álvares da Cunha, Governor
1758 to 1764		António de Vasconcelos, Governor
1764 to 1772		Francisco Inocéncio de Sousa Coutinho, Governor
1772 to 1779		António de Lencastre, Governor
1779 to 1782		José Gonçalo da Gama, Governor or João de Camâra, Governor
1782 to 1784	Juntas
1784 to 1790		José José de Almeida e Vasconcellos de Soveral e Carvalho, 1st Baron of Moçâmedes, Governor
1790 to 1797		Manuel de Almeida e Vasconcelos de Soveral e Carvalho da Maia Soares de Albergaria, 1st Count of a Lapa, Governor
1797 to 1802		Miguel António de Melo, Governor
1802 to 1806		Fernando António de Noronha, Governor
1806 to 1807		..., Governor
1807 to 1810		António de Saldanha da Gama, Governor
1810 to 1815		José de Oliveira Barbosa, Governor
1816 to 1819		Luís da Mota Fêo e Torres, Governor
1819 to 1821		Manuel Vieira Tovar de Albuquerque, Governor
1821 to 1822		Joaquim Inácio de Lima, Governor
1822 to 1823	Junta
1823 to 1823		Cristóvão Avelino Dias, Governor
1823 to 1829		Nicolau de Abreu Castelo-Branco, Governor
1829 to 1834		José Maria de Sousa Macedo Almeida e Vasconcelos, 1st Baron of Santa Comba Dão, Governor
1834 to 1836	Junta
1836 to 1836		Domingos Saldanha de Oliveira Daun, Governor
1837 to 1839		Bernardo Vidal, Governor-General
1839 to 1839		António Manuel de Noronha, Governor-General
1839 to 1842		Manuel Eleutério Malheiro, acting Governor-General
1842 to 1843		José Xavier Bressane Leite, Governor-General
1843 to 1845		Lorenço Germack Possolo, Governor-General
1845 to 1848		Pedro Alexandrino da Cunha, Governor-General
1848 to 1851		Adrião da Silveira Pinto, Governor-General
1851 to 1853		António Sérgio de Sousa, Governor-General
1853 to 1853		António Ricardo Graça, Governor-General
1853 to 1854		Miguel Ximenez Rodrigues Sandoval de Castro e Vargas, 1st Viscount of Pinheiro, Governor-General
1854 to 1860		José Rodrigues Coelho do Amaral, Governor-General	1st term
1860 to 1861		Carlos Augusto Franco, Governor-General
1861 to 1862		Sebastião Lopes de Calheiros e Meneses, Governor-General
1862 to 1865		José Baptista de Andrade, Governor-General	1st term
1865 to 1868		Francisco António Gonçalves Cardoso, Governor-General
1868 to 1869		..., Governor-General
1869 to 1870		José Rodrigues Coelho do Amaral, Governor-General	2nd term
1870 to 1873		José Maria da Ponte e Horta, Governor-General
1873 to 1876		José Baptista de Andrade, Governor-General	2nd term
1876 to 1878		Caetano Alexandre de Almeida e Albuquerque, Governor-General
1878 to 1880		Vasco Guedes de Carvalho e Meneses, Governor-General
1880 to 1882		António Eleutério Dantas, Governor-General
1882 to 14 February 1885		Francisco Joaquim Ferreira do Amaral, Governor-General
Portuguese West Africa Colony
14 February 1885 to 1886		Francisco Joaquim Ferreira do Amaral, Governor-General
1886 to 1892		Guilherme Augusto de Brito Capelo, Governor-General	1st term
25 August 1892 to September 1893		Jaime Lobo de Brito Godins, acting Governor-General
1893 to 1896		Álvaro Ferreira, Governor-General
1896 to 1897		Gilherme Auguste de Brito Capelo, Governor-General	2nd term
1897 to 1900		António Duarte Ramada Curto, Governor-General	1st term
1900 to 1903		Francisco Xavier Cabral de Oliveira Moncada, Governor-General
1903 to 1904		Eduardo Augusto Ferreira da Costa, Governor-General	1st term
1904 to 1904		Custódio Miguel de Borja, Governor-General
1904 to 1905		António Duarte Ramada Curto, acting Governor-General	2nd term
1905 to 1906		Caminho de Ferro de Mossámedes, Governor-General
1906 to 1907		Eduardo Augusto Ferreira da Costa, Governor-General	2nd term
June 1907 to June 1909		Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Cabral Couceiro, Governor-General
1909 to 1909		Álvaro António da Costa Ferreira, acting Governor-General
1909 to 1910		José Augusto Alves Roçadas, Governor-General
1910 to 1911		Caetano Francisco Cláudio Eugénio Gonçalves, acting Governor-General
1911 to 1912		Manuel Maria Coelho, Governor-General
1912 to 15 August 1914		José Mendes Ribeiro Norton de Matos, Governor-General
Angola Colony
15 August 1914 to 1915		José Mendes Ribeiro Norton de Matos, Governor-General
1915 to 1916		António Júlio da Costa Pereira de Eça, Governor-General
1916 to 1917		Pedro Francisco Massano de Amorim, Governor-General
1917 to 1918		Jaime Alberto de Castro Morais, Governor-General
1918 to 1919		Filomeno da Câmara Melo Cabral, Governor-General
1919 to 1920		Mimoso Guerra, acting Governor-General
1920 to 1921		Francisco Coelho do Amaral Reis, 1st Viscount of Pedralva, Governor-General
1921 to 1924		José Mendes Ribeiro Norton de Matos, High Commissioner and Governor-General
1924 to 1924		João Augusto Crispiniano Soares, High Commissioner and Governor-General
1924 to 1926		Francisco Cunha Rêgo Chaves, High Commissioner and Governor-General
1926 to 1928		António Vicente Ferreira, High Commissioner and Governor-General
1928 to 1929		António Damas Mora, acting High Commissioner and Governor-General
1929 to 1931		Filomeno da Câmara Melo Cabral, High Commissioner and Governor-General
1931 to 1933		José Dionisio Carneiro de Sousa e Faro, High Commissioner and Governor-General
1933 to 1934		Eduardo Ferreira Viana, High Commissioner and Governor-General
1934 to 1935		Júlio Garcês de Lencastre, High Commissioner and Governor-General
1936 to 1940		António Lopes Mateus, High Commissioner and Governor-General
1940 to 1942		Manuel da Cunha e Costa Marques Mano, High Commissioner and Governor-General
1942 to 1942		Abel de Abreu Souto-Maior, High Commissioner and Governor-General
1942 to 1943		Álvaro de Freitas Morna, High Commissioner and Governor-General
1943 to 1943		Manuel Pereira Figueira, High Commissioner and Governor-General
1943 to 1947		Vasco Lopes Alves, High Commissioner and Governor-General
1947 to 1947		Fernando Mena, High Commissioner and Governor-General
1948 to 11 June 1951		José Agapito de Silva Carvalho [pt], High Commissioner and Governor-General
Angola Overseas Province of Portugal
11 June 1951 to 1955		José Agapito de Silva Carvalho [pt], High Commissioner and Governor-General
1955 to 1956		Manuel de Gusmão Mascarenhas Gaivão, High Commissioner and Governor-General
1957 to 15 January 1960		Horácio José de Sá Viana Rebelo, High Commissioner and Governor-General
15 January 1960 to 23 June 1961		Álvaro Rodrigues da Silva Tavares, High Commissioner and Governor-General
23 June 1961 to 26 September 1962		Venâncio Augusto Deslandes [pt], High Commissioner and Governor-General
26 September 1962 to 27 October 1966		Silvino Silvério Marques, High Commissioner and Governor-General	1st term
27 October 1966 to October 1972		Camilo Augusto de Miranda Rebocho Vaz [pt], High Commissioner and Governor-General
October 1972 to May 1974		Fernando Augusto Santos e Castro, High Commissioner and Governor-General
May 1974 to 15 June 1974		Joaquim Franco Pinheiro, acting High Commissioner and Governor-General
15 June 1974 to 24 July 1974		Silvino Silvério Marques, High Commissioner and Governor-General	2nd term
24 July 1974 to 29 November 1974		António Alva Rosa Coutinho, acting High Commissioner and Governor-General
29 November 1974 to 28 January 1975		António Alva Rosa Coutinho, High Commissioner and Governor-General
28 January 1975 to 2 August 1975		António Silva Cardoso, High Commissioner and Governor-General
2 August 1975 to 26 August 1975		Ernesto Ferreira de Macedo, acting High Commissioner and Governor-General
26 August 1975 to 10 November 1975		Leonel Cardoso, High Commissioner and Governor-General
10/11 November 1975	Independence as People's Republic of Angola[1]

For continuation after independence, see: List of presidents of Angola

• Colonial history of Angola

• http://www.rulers.org/rula2.html#angola
• http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Angola.html
• African States and Rulers, John Stewart, McFarland
• Guinness Book of Kings, Rulers & Statesmen, Clive Carpenter, Guinness Superlatives Ltd
• Heads of State and Government, 2nd Edition, John V da Graca, MacMillan Press 2000