Puerto Rico

1898-today U.S. government


YEAR DATE EVENT GOVERNOR
1898 25 july U.S. colony Nelson A. Miles
1898 21 october John Ruller Brooke
1898 9 december Guy Vernor Henry
1899 9 may George Whitefield Davis
1900 1 may Charles Herbert Allen
1901 15 september William Henry Hunt
1904 4 july Beekman Winthrop
1907 18 april Regis Henry Prost
1909 6 november George Radcliffe Colton
1913 15 november Arthur Yager
1917 2 march U.S. territory
1921 may José E. Benedicto
1921 15 may Emmet Montgomery Reily
1923 Juan Bernardo Huyke
1923 16 april Horace Mann Towner
1927 U.S. self governing territory
1929 James R. Beverly (I)
1929 9 september Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.
1932 january James R. Beverly (II)
1933 july Robert Hayes Gore
1934 january Benjamin Jason Horton
1934 20 february Blanton C. Winship
1939 José E. Colón
1939 11 september William Daniel Leahy
1940 november José Miguel Gallardo (I)
1941 6 june Guy J. Swope
1941 24 july José Miguel Gallardo (II)
1941 september Rexford Guy Tugwell
1946 3 september Jesús Toribio Piñero
1949 2 january Luis Muñoz Marín
1952 25 july Associated state to U.S.
1965 4 january Roberto Sánchez Vilella
1969 4 january Luis Alberto Ferré
1973 2 january Rafael Hernández Colón (I)
1977 2 january Carlos Romero Barceló
1985 2 january Rafael Hernández Colón (II)
1993 2 january Pedro Rosselló (I)
2001 2 january Sila María Calderón
2005 2 january Aníbal Acevedo Vilá
2009 2 january Luis Fortuño
2013 2 january Alejandro García Padilla
2017 2 january Ricardo Rosselló (II)
2019 7 august Wanda Vázquez
2021 2 january Pedro Pierluisi

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