List of colonial governors of Portuguese Timor
This is a list of European (as well as Australian and Japanese) colonial administrators responsible for the territory of Portuguese Timor, an area equivalent to modern-day East Timor.
Governor of Portuguese Timor
Portuguese: Governador do Timor Português | |
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Residence | Palácio de Lahane |
Nominator | Prime Minister of Portugal |
Appointer | Monarch of Portugal (1647–1910) President of Portugal (1910–1975) |
Precursor | None |
Formation | 1647 |
First holder | António de São Jacinto |
Final holder | Mário Lemos Pires |
Abolished | 1975 |
List
(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)
Tenure | Portrait | Incumbent | Notes |
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Portuguese suzerainty | |||
Subordinated to Portuguese India | |||
1647 to 1649 | António de São Jacinto, Captain | In Cupão | |
1649 to 1652 | Francisco Carneiro, Captain | In Cupão | |
1652 to 1662 | ..., Captain | ||
1662 to 1664 | Simão Luís, Captain | ||
1665 to 1666 | Simão Luís, Captain-Major | ||
1666 to 1669 | António Hornay, acting Captain-Major | 1st time | |
1669 to 1670 | Fernão Martins da Ponte, acting Captain-Major | ||
1671 to 1673 | Mateus da Costa, acting Captain-Major | ||
1673 to 1693 | António Hornay, acting Captain-Major | 2nd time | |
1680 | João Antunes Portugal, Captain-Major | Sent by the Kingdom of Portugal but refused by settlers | |
1694 to 1696 | Francisco Hornay, acting Captain-Major | ||
1696 to 1697 | António de Mesquita Pimentel, Captain-Major | ||
1697 | André Coelho Vieira, Captain-Major | ||
1697 to 1702 | Domingos da Costa, acting Captain-Major | ||
20 February 1702 to 1705 | António Coelho Guerreiro, Governor | ||
1705 to 1706 | Lourenço Lopes, Governor | ||
1706 to 1708 | Manuel Ferreira de Almeida, Governor | 1st time | |
1708 to 1709 | Jácome de Morais Sarmento, Governor | ||
1709 to 1714 | Manuel de Souto-Maior, Governor | ||
1714 | Manuel Ferreira de Almeida, Governor | 2nd time | |
1714 to 1718 | Domingos da Costa, Governor | ||
1718 to 1719 | Francisco de Melo e Castro, Governor | ||
1719 to 1722 | Manuel de Santo António, Governor | ||
1722 to 1725 | António de Albuquerque Coelho, Governor | ||
1725 to 1729 | António Moniz de Macedo, Governor | 1st time | |
1729 to 1731 | Pedro de Melo, Governor | ||
1731 to 1734 | Pedro do Rego Barreto da Gama e Castro, Governor | ||
1734 to 1739 | António Moniz de Macedo, Governor | 2nd time | |
1739 to 1741 | ..., acting Governor | ||
1741 to 1745 | Manuel Leonís de Castro, Governor | ||
1745 to 1748 | Francisco Xavier Moraes Doutel, Governor | ||
1748 to 1751 | Manuel Correia de Lacerda, Governor | ||
1751 to 1759 | Manuel Doutel de Figueiredo Sarmento, Governor | ||
1759 to 1760 | Sebastião de Azevedo e Brito, Governor | ||
1760 to 1763 | ..., acting Governor | ||
1763 to 1765 | Dionísio Gonçalves Rebelo Galvão, Governor | ||
1765 to 1768 | ..., acting Governor | ||
1768 to 1776 | António José Teles de Meneses, Governor | ||
1776 to 1779 | Caetano de Lemos Telo de Meneses, Governor | ||
1779 to 1782 | Lourenço de Brito Correia, Governor | ||
1782 to 1785 | João Anselmo de Almeida Soares, Governor | ||
1785 to 1788 | João Baptista Vieira Godinho, Governor | ||
1788 to 1790 | Feliciano António Nogueira Lisboa, Governor | ||
1790 to 1794 | Joaquim Xavier de Morias Sarmento, Governor | ||
1794 to 1800 | João Baptista Verquaim, Governor | ||
1800 to 1804 | José Joaquim de Sousa, Governor | ||
1804 to 1807 | João Vicente Soares da Veiga, Governor | ||
1807 to 1810 | António de Mendonça Côrte-Real, Governor | ||
1810 | António Botelho Homem Bernardes Pessõa, Governor | ||
1810 to 1812 | Joaquim António Duarte da Silva Veloso, Governor | ||
1812 to 1815 | Vitorino Freire da Cunha Gusmão, Governor | ||
1815 to 1819 | José Pinto Alcoforado de Azevedo e Sousa, Governor | ||
1819 to 1821 | Gregório Rodrigues Pereira, Governor | ||
1821 to 1832 | Manuel Joaquim de Matos e Góis, Governor | ||
1832 | Miguel da Silveira Lorena, Governor | ||
1832 to 1834 | Miguel Carlos da Cunha da Silveira e Lorena, Governor | ||
1834 to 1839 | José Maria Marques, Governor | ||
1839 to 1844 | Frederico Leão Cabreira de Brito Alvelos Drago Valente, Governor | ||
Subordinated to Portuguese Macau | |||
1844 to 1848 | Julião José da Silva Vieiras, Governor | ||
1848 to 30 October 1850 | António Olavo Monteiro Torres, Governor | ||
Separate colony | |||
30 October 1850 to 1851 | António Olavo Monteiro Torres, Governor | ||
23 June 1851 to 15 September 1851 | José Joaquim Lopes de Lima, Governor | ||
Subordinated to Portuguese Macau | |||
15 September 1851 to 8 September 1852 | José Joaquim Lopes de Lima, Governor | Died in office | |
1852 to 1856 | Manuel de Saldanha da Gama, Governor | ||
Subordinated to Portuguese India | |||
1856 to 1859 | Manuel de Saldanha da Gama, Governor | ||
1859 to 1863 | Afonso de Castro, Governor | ||
Separate overseas province | |||
1863 to 1864 | José Manuel Pereira de Almeida, Governor | ||
1864 to 1866 | José Eduardo da Costa Meneses, Governor | ||
Subordinated to Portuguese Macau | |||
1866 to 1869 | Francisco Teixeira da Silva + António Joaquim Garcia, Governors | ||
1870 | Pedro Carlos de Aguiar Craveiro Lopes, Governor | Did not take office | |
1870 to 1871 | João Clímaco de Carvalho + Manuel de Castro Sampaio, Governors | ||
1873 to 1876 | Hugo Goodair de Lacerda Castelo Branco, Governor | 1st time | |
1876 to 1878 | Joaquim António da Silva Ferrão + José Alves da Costa, Governors | ||
1878 to 1880 | Hugo Goodair de Lacerda Castelo Branco, Governor | 2nd time | |
1880 to 1881 | Augusto César Cardoso de Carvalho + José dos Santos Vaquinhas, Governors | ||
1882 to 1883 | Bento da França Pinto de Oliveira + Porfírio Zeferino de Sousa + Francisco de Paula da Lua, Governors | 1st time for Porfírio Zeferino de Sousa | |
1883 to 1885 | João Maria Pereira + Cipriano Forjaz, Governors | 1st time for Cipriano Forjaz | |
1885 to 3 March 1887 | Alfredo de Lacerda Maia, Governor | ||
1887 | António Joaquim Garcia, Governor | ||
1887 to 1888 | António Francisco da Costa, Governor | ||
1888 to 1889 | Rafael Jácome Lopes de Andrade, Governor | ||
1889 to 1890 | Porfírio Zeferino de Sousa, Governor | 2nd time | |
1890 to 1894 | Cipriano Forjaz, Governor | 2nd time | |
1894 | Porfírio Zeferino de Sousa, Governor | 3rd time | |
1894 to 15 October 1896 | José Celestino da Silva, Governor | ||
Separate colony | |||
15 October 1896 to 1908 | José Celestino da Silva, Governor | ||
1908 | Jaime Augusto Vieira da Rocha, acting Governor | ||
1908 to 1909 | Eduardo Augusto Marquês, Governor | ||
1909 to 1910 | Gonçalo Pereira Pimenta de Castro, Governor | 1st time | |
1910 to 30 October 1910 | Alfredo Cardoso de Soveral Martins, Governor | ||
1910 | Anselmo Augusto Coelho de Carvalho, acting Governor | ||
1910 | José Carrazeda Caldas Viana e Andrade, acting Governor | ||
1911 to 1913 | Filomeno da Câmara Melo Cabral, Governor | 1st time; served during the East Timorese rebellion of 1911–12 | |
1913 to 1914 | Gonçalo Pereira Pimenta de Castro, acting Governor | 2nd time | |
1914 to 1917 | Filomeno da Cámara Melo Cabral, Governor | 2nd time | |
1917 | César de Abreu + José Machado Duarte Júnior, acting Governors | ||
1917 to 1919 | Luís Augusto de Oliveira Franco, acting Governor | 1st time | |
1919 to 1920 | Manuel Paulo de Sousa Gentil, Governor | ||
1920 to 1921 | Luís Augusto de Oliveira Franco, acting Governor | 2nd time | |
1921 | José de Paiva Gomes, Governor | 1st time | |
1921 | Humberto dos Santos Leitão, acting Governor | 1st time | |
1921 to 1923 | José de Paiva Gomes, Governor | 2nd time | |
1923 to 1924 | Humberto dos Santos Leitão, acting Governor | 2nd time | |
1924 to 1926 | Raimundo Enes Meira, Governor | ||
1926 to 1929 | Teófilo Duarte, Governor | ||
1929 to 1930 | Cesário Augusto de Almeida Viana, Governor | ||
1930 | Abel Teixeira da Costa Tavares, acting Governor | ||
1930 to 1933 | Antonio Baptista Justo, Governor | ||
1933 | José Luís Fontoura de Sequeira, acting Governor | ||
1933 to 1936 | Raúl de Antas Manso Preto Mendes Cruz, Governor | ||
1936 | Eduardo Bernardo Lápido Loureiro, acting Governor | ||
1937 to 1940 | Álvaro Eugénio Neves da Fontoura, Governor | ||
1940 | António Jacinto Magro, acting Governor | ||
1940 to 8 December 1945 | Manuel de Abreu Ferreira de Carvalho, Governor | Considered himself a prisoner during allied rule from December 1941 until February 1942; confined by Japanese from February 1942 until August 1945 | |
Allied occupation of Portuguese Timor | |||
17 December 1941 to 20 February 1942 | William Leggatt, Commander of Australian forces | ||
17 December 1941 to 20 February 1942 | Nico Leonard Willem van Straten, Commander of Dutch forces | ||
Japanese occupation of Portuguese Timor | |||
20 February 1942 | Takeo Itō, Commander | Commanding officer of Japanese landing forces | |
20 February 1942 to August 1942 | Sadashichi Doi, Commander | ||
August 1942 to 22 November 1944 | Yuitsu Tsuchihashi, Commander | ||
22 November 1944 to 11 September 1945 | Kunitaro Yamada, Commander | ||
Portuguese Timor | |||
1946 to 1950 | Óscar Freire de Vasconcelos Ruas, Governor | ||
1950 to 11 June 1950 | César Maria de Serpa Rosa, Governor | ||
Overseas province | |||
11 June 1950 to 1958 | César Maria de Serpa Rosa, Governor | ||
1959 to 1963 | Filipe José Freire Temudo Barata, Governor | ||
1963 to 1968 | José Alberty Correia, Governor | ||
1968 to 1972 | José Nogueira Valente Pires, Governor | ||
1972 to 1974 | Fernando Alves Adeía, Governor | ||
18 November 1974 to 27 November 1975 | Mário Lemos Pires, Governor | From 11 August 1975, on Atauro Island | |
28 November 1975 | Unilateral declaration of independence as Democratic Republic of East Timor | ||
7 December 1975 | Invaded and occupied by Indonesia (from 17 July 1976, annexed as East Timor province). Not recognized by Portugal; remained recognized by United Nations as Portuguese territory. | ||
Indonesian occupation of East Timor (Timor Timur province) | |||
1976-1978 | Arnaldo dos Reis Araújo, First Governor | ||
1978-1982 | Guilherme Maria Gonçalves, Second Governor | ||
18 September 1982 – 11 September 1992 | Mário Viegas Carrascalão, Third Governor | ||
11 September 1992 – October 1999 | José Abílio Osório Soares, Last Governor | ||
30 August 1999 | Referendum votes for independence 78% | ||
20 September 1999 to 19 May 2002 | International administration (from 28 February 2000, under UN administration; United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor [UNTAET]). | ||
20 May 2002 | Independence as Democratic Republic of East Timor |
For continuation after independence, see: President of East Timor
See also
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