Virginia Administrators


Governors
Sir Thomas Gates
23 May 1610 - 10 Jun 1610
Thomas West, Baron de la Warr
10 Jun 1610 - 7 Jun 1618
George Percy
28 Mar 1611 - 19 May 1611
Thomas Dale
19 May 1611 - Aug 1611
Sir Thomas Gates
Aug 1611 - Mar 1612
Thomas Dale
Mar 1612 - Apr 1616
George Yeardley
Apr 1616 - 9 Apr 1617
Samuel Argall
9 Apr 1617 - 9 Apr 1619
Nathaniel Powell
9 Apr 1619 - 19 Apr 1619
George Yeardley
19 Apr 1619 - 18 Nov 1621
Sir Francis Wyatt
18 Nov 1621 - 24 May 1626
George Yeardley
Jun 1626 - 14 Nov 1627
Francis West
14 Nov 1627 - 5 Mar 1628
John Pott
5 Mar 1628 - Mar 1630
Sir John Harvey
Mar 1630 - 7 May 1635
John West
7 May 1635 - 18 Jan 1637
Sir John Harvey
18 Jan 1637 - Nov 1639
Sir Francis Wyatt
Nov 1639 - Feb 1642
Sir William Berkeley
Feb 1642 - 30 Apr 1652
Richard Kemp
Jun 1644 - 7 Jun 1645
Richard Bennett
30 Apr 1652 - 13 Mar 1655
Edward Digges
13 Mar 1655 - Dec 1656
Samuel Mathews
Dec 1656 - Jan 1660
Sir William Berkeley
23 Mar 1660 - 27 Apr 1677
Francis Moryson
30 Apr 1661 - Nov 1662
Herbert Jeffreys
27 Apr 1677 - 17 Dec 1678
Thomas Culpeper, Baron Culpeper
20 Jul 1677 - Aug 1683
Sir Henry Chicheley
30 Dec 1678 - 10 May 1680
Sir Henry Chicheley
11 Aug 1680 - Dec 1682
Nicholas Spencer
22 May 1683 - 15 Apr 1684
Francis Howard, Baron Howard of Effingham
28 Sep 1683 - 1 Mar 1692
Nathaniel Bacon
Jun 1684 - Sep 1684
Nathaniel Bacon
Jul 1687 - Sep 1687
Nathaniel Bacon
Feb 1689 - 3 Jun 1690
Francis Nicholson
3 Jun 1690 - 20 Sep 1692
Sir Edmund Andros
20 Sep 1692 - 9 Dec 1698
Ralph Wormeley
Sep 1698 - Oct 1698
Francis Nicholson
9 Dec 1698 - 15 Aug 1705
William Byrd
Sep 1700 - 24 Oct 1700
William Byrd
Apr 1703 - Jun 1703
William Byrd
Aug 1704 - Sep 1704
George Hamilton Douglas, Earl of Orkney
1704 - 29 Jul 1737
Edward Nott
15 Aug 1705 - 23 Aug 1706
Edmund Jennings
27 Aug 1706 - 23 Jun 1710
Alexander Spotswood
23 Jun 1710 - 8 Sep 1722
Hugh Drysdale
8 Sep 1722 - 11 Jul 1726
Robert Carter
11 Jul 1726 - 8 Sep 1727
Sir William Gooch
8 Sep 1727 - 20 Jun 1749
William Anne Keppel, Earl of Albemarle
6 Sep 1737 - 22 Dec 1754
John Robinson
20 Jun 1749 - 5 Sep 1749
Thomas Lee
5 Sep 1749 - 14 Nov 1750
Lewis Burwell
14 Nov 1750 - 20 Nov 1751
Robert Dinwiddie
20 Nov 1751 - Jan 1758
John Campbell, Earl of Loudoun
Jul 1756 - 1763
John Blair
Jan 1758 - 7 Jun 1758
Francis Fauquier
7 Jun 1758 - 7 Mar 1768
Jeffrey Amherst
1763 - 28 Oct 1768
John Blair
7 Mar 1768 - 28 Oct 1768
Norborne Berkeley, Baron de Botetourt
28 Oct 1768 - 15 Oct 1770
William Nelson
15 Oct 1770 - 25 Sep 1771
John Murray, Earl of Dunmore
25 Sep 1771 - 29 Jun 1776


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