List of pre-statehood governors of California

This is a list of governors of California prior to admission as a US state in 1850. From 1769 to 1822, the area was a Spanish province in the Viceroyalty of New Spain. Upon Mexico's independence from Spain in 1822 until the US annexation in 1848, it was a federal territory of Mexico. It was then briefly an unorganized territory of the United States until statehood was approved by Congress on September 9, 1850 . For governors of the state, see List of Governors of California.

Spanish Military Lt. Governors of California Nueva, 1769-1777

Gaspar de Portolà, first Governor of California José Castro Juan Bautista Alvarado Pío Pico Andrés Pico

1769-1770: Gaspar de Portolà 1770-1774: Pedro Fages 1774-1777: Fernando Rivera y Moncada

Spanish Governors of Las Californias, 1777-1804

1777-1782: Felipe de Neve 1782-1791: Pedro Fages 1791-1792: José Antonio Roméu 1792-1794: José Joaquín de Arrillaga (acting) 1794-1800: Diego de Borica 1800: Pedro de Alberni (acting) 1800-1804: José Joaquín de Arrillaga

Spanish Governors of Alta California, 1804-1822

1804-1814: José Joaquín de Arrillaga 1814-1815: José Darío Argüello (acting) 1815-1822: Pablo Vicente de Solá

Mexican Governors of Alta California, 1822-1847

1822-1825: Luis Antonio Argüello (born in San Francisco, he was the first native-born Californian to govern Alta California) 1825-1831: José María de Echeandía 1831-1832: Manuel Victoria 1832: Pío Pico 1832-1833: Agustín V. Zamorano (north) and José María de Echeandía (south) 1833-1835: José Figueroa 1835: José Castro (acting) 1836: Nicolás Gutiérrez (acting) 1836: Mariano Chico 1836: Nicolás Gutiérrez (acting) 1836-1837: Juan Bautista Alvarado 1837-1838: Carlos Antonio Carrillo 1838-1842: Juan Bautista Alvarado 1842-1845: Manuel Micheltorena 1845-1846: Pío Pico 1846-1847: José Mariá Flores (in opposition to the United States in Los Angeles) 1847: Andrés Pico (in opposition to the United States in Los Angeles) 1848: Pío Pico

(see also Governor of Baja California and Governor of Baja California Sur for the Mexican States of Baja California and Baja California Sur)

President of the California Republic, June-July 1846

1846: William B. Ide (in Sonoma)

American Military Governors of California, 1846-1849

1846: John Drake Sloat 1846-1847: Robert Field Stockton 1847: John C. Frémont 1847: Stephen W. Kearny 1847-1849: Richard Barnes Mason (acting) 1849: Persifor Frazer Smith 1849: Bennett C. Riley

See also

• Spanish governors of New Mexico
• List of governors in the Viceroyalty of New Spain
• List of Governors of California
• List of Texas Governors and Presidents

References

• Irvine, Leigh H. (1905). "Vol. I, Chapter III". A History Of The New California - Its Resources And People. New York: The Lewis Publishing Company. OCLC 35952214. http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ca/state1/newca/newca3.html. Retrieved 2007-07-11.