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Guam Naval Governors
30 August 1899 – 10 December 1941
Guam was ceded to the United States from Spain by the Treaty of Paris on 10 December 1898. The following February, US Navy Commander Edward D. Taussig officially took possession of the island for the United States.
US Naval Station, Guam was established 7 August of the same year with the entire island designated as a Naval Station and Captain Richard P. Leary designated as commanding officer and governor of Guam.
The Navy governed Guam until it was surrendered to the Japanese on 10 December 1941. During this time Guam had 38t naval governors under its first 41 years of American rule. The governors and the dates they ruled Guam are listed below.
| Term | End | Governor |
|---|---|---|
| 1899 | 1900 | Richard Phillips Leary |
| 1899 | 1900 | William Edwin Safford (acting) |
| 1900 | 1901 | Seaton Schroeder |
| 1901 | William Swift | |
| 1901 | 1903 | Seaton Schroeder |
| 1903 | 1904 | William Elbridge Sewell |
| 1904 | Frank Herman Schofield (acting) (photo) | |
| 1904 | Raymond Stone (acting) (photo) | |
| 1904 | 1905 | George Leland Dyer |
| 1905 | 1906 | Luke McNamee (acting) |
| 1906 | 1907 | Templin Morris Potts |
| 1907 | Luke McNamee (acting) | |
| 1907 | 1910 | Edward John Dorn |
| 1910 | 1911 | Frank Barrows Freyer (acting) |
| 1911 | 1912 | George Robert Salisbury |
| 1912 | 1913 | Robert Edward Coontz |
| 1913 | 1914 | Alfred Walton Hinds (acting) |
| 1914 | 1916 | William John Maxwell |
| 1916 | William P. Cronan (acting) | |
| 1916 | Edward Simpson (acting) | |
| 1916 | 1918 | Roy Campbell Smith |
| 1918 | 1919 | William Wirt Gilmer |
| 1919 | W.A. Hodgman (acting) | |
| 1919 | 1920 | William Wirt Gilmer |
| 1920 | 1921 | Ivan Cyrus Wettengel |
| 1921 | 1922 | James S. Spore (acting) |
| 1922 | Adelbert Althouse | |
| 1922 | John P. Miller (acting) | |
| 1922 | 1923 | Adelbert Althouse |
| 1923 | 1924 | Henry Bertram Price |
| 1924 | 1926 | Alfred Winsor Brown (acting) |
| 1926 | 1929 | Lloyd Stowell Shapley |
| 1929 | 1931 | Willis Winter Bradley |
| 1931 | 1933 | Edmund Spence Root |
| 1933 | 1936 | George Andrew Alexander |
| 1936 | 1938 | Benjamin Vaughan McCandlish (photo) |
| 1938 | 1940 | James Thomas Alexander |
| 1940 | 1941 | George Johnson McMillin |