List of pre-statehood governors of California
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This is a list of governors of California prior to it becoming a U.S. state in 1850. During this time, the area was a first a province of the Spanish colony of New Spain, a province of Mexico, and then an unorganized territory of the United States. For governors of the state, see List of Governors of California.
Contents
Spanish Military Governors of California Nueva, 1769-1777
- 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
- 1804-1814: José Joaquín de Arrillaga
- 1814-1815: José Darío Argüello (acting)
- 1815-1822: Pablo Vicente de Solá
Mexican Governors of
- 1822-1825: Luis Antonio Argüello
- 1825-1831: José Maria de Echeandía
- 1831-1832: Manuel Victoria
- 1832: Pío Pico
- 1832-1833: Agustín V. Zamorano (north) and José Maria de Echeandía (south)
- 1833-1835: José Figueroa
- 1835: José Castro (acting)
- 1836: Mariano Chico
- 1836: Nicolas Gutierrez (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 María Flores (in opposition to the United States in Los Angeles)
- 1847: Andrés Pico (in opposition to the United States in Los Angeles)
(see also Governor of Baja California and Governor of Baja California Sur for the Mexican States of Baja California and Baja California Sur)
- 1822-1825: Luis Antonio Argüello
- 1825-1831: José Maria de Echeandía
- 1831-1832: Manuel Victoria
- 1832: Pío Pico
- 1832-1833: Agustín V. Zamorano (north) and José Maria de Echeandía (south)
- 1833-1835: José Figueroa
- 1835: José Castro (acting)
- 1836: Mariano Chico
- 1836: Nicolas Gutierrez (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 María Flores (in opposition to the United States in Los Angeles)
- 1847: Andrés Pico (in opposition to the United States in Los Angeles)
President of the
- 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: Bennet Riley
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