List of colonial heads of Portuguese Guinea

What follows is a list of colonial heads of Portuguese Guinea (now Guinea-Bissau).

(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)

Tenure	Incumbent	Notes
Portuguese Suzerainty
1879 to 1881	Agostinho Coelho, Governor
1881 to 1884	Pedro Inácio de Gouveia, Governor	1st Term
1885 to 1886	Francisco de Paula Gomes Barbosa, Governor
1886 to 1887	José Eduardo de Brito, Governor
1887 to 1887	Eusebio Castelo do Valle, Governor
30 May 1887 to 4 September 1888	Francisco Teixeira da Silva, Governor
1888 to 1890	Joaquim da Graça Correia e Lança, Governor
1890 to 1891	Augusto Rogério Gonçalves dos Santos, Governor
30 April 1891 to 1895	Luís Augusto de Vasconcelos e Sá, Governor
1895 to 1895	Eduardo Oliveira, Governor
1895 to 1897	Pedro Inácio de Gouveia, Governor	2nd Term
1897 to 1898	Álvaro Herculano da Cunha, acting Governor	1st Term
1898 to 1899	Albano Mendes de Magalhães Ramalho, Governor
1899 to 1900	Álvaro Herculano da Cunha, acting Governor	2nd Term
1901 to 1903	Joaquim Pedro Vieira Júdice Biker, acting Governor
1903 to 1904	Alfredo Cardoso de Soveral Martins, acting Governor
1904 to 1904	João Mateus Lapa Valente, acting Governor
1904 to 1906	Carlos de Almeida Pessanha, Governor
1906 to 1909	João Augusto de Oliveira Muzanty, Governor
1909 to 1910	Francelino Pimentel, Governor
23 October 1910 to August 1913	Carlos de Almeida Pereira, Governor
1913 to 1914	José António de Andrade Sequeira, Governor	1st Term
1914 to 1915	José de Oliveira Duque, Governor	1st Term
1915 to 1917	José António de Andrade Sequeira, Governor	2nd Term
1917 to 1917	Manuel Maria Coelho, Governor
1917 to 1919	Carlos Ivo de Sá Ferreira, Governor
1919 to 1919	José de Oliveira Duque, Governor	2nd Term
1919 to 1919	José Luis Teixeira Marinho, Governor
1919 to 1920	Henrique Alberto de Sousa Guerra, Governor
1921 to 1926	Jorge Frederico Vélez Caroco, Governor
1927 to 1931	António Leite de Magalhães, Governor
1931 to 1932	João José Soares Zilhão, Governor
1932 to 1940	Luís António de Carvalho Viegas, Governor
1941 to 1945	Ricardo Vaz Monteiro, Governor
25 April 1945 to 1950	Manuel Maria Sarmento Rodrigues, Governor
1951 to 1953	Raimundo António Rodrigues Serrão, Governor
1954 to 1956	Diogo António José Leite Pereira de Melo e Alvim, Governor
1957 to 1958	Álvaro Rodrigues da Silva Tavares, Governor
1959 to 1962	António Augusto Peixoto Correia, Governor
1962 to 1965	Vasco António Martínez Rodrigues, Governor
1965 to 1968	Arnaldo Schulz, Governor
20 May 1968 to 1973	António de Spínola, Governor
30 August 1973 to 24 September 1973	José Manuel Bettencourt Rodrigues, Governor
Republic of Guinea-Bissau	Declaration of Independence
24 September 1973 to 27 April 1974	José Manuel Bettencourt Rodrigues, Governor
27 April 1974 to 2 May 1974	Mateus da Silva, Governor
2 May 1974 to May 1974	San Gouveia, Governor
May 1974 to 10 September 1974	Carlos Fabião, Governor
10 September 1974	Independence recognised as Republic of Guinea-Bissau

For continuation after independence see: Heads of State of Guinea-Bissau

See also

• Guinea-Bissau
  • Heads of State of Guinea-Bissau
  • Heads of Government of Guinea-Bissau
  • Colonial Heads of Bissau
  • Colonial Heads of Cacheu
• lists of incumbents
• List of national leaders