List of colonial governors of Santo Domingo
This is a list of the governors who ruled over the province of Santo Domingo for the Spanish (and temporarily for the French and US) colonial administration .
The colonial administration began with the landing of Columbus in 1492. From 1511 the institutionalization began with the establishment of the Real Audiencia of Santo Domingo . A governor ran the administration; the province was under the viceroyalty of New Spain . From the 17th century, the French began to colonize the western part of Hispaniola, which would later become Haiti . The eastern part of Spain was temporarily under French rule and later became the Dominican Republic .
Conquest phase after discovery
| Surname | Term of office | Remarks |
| Christoph Columbus | 1492-1496 | Viceroy |
| Bartolomeo Columbus | 1496-1500 | |
| Francisco de Bobadilla | 1500-1502 | |
| Nicolás de Ovando | 1502-1509 | |
| Diego Columbus (Viceroy) | 1509-1515 | |
| Cristóbal Lebrón | 1515-1516 | interim |
| Dominion of the Real Audiencia of Santo Domingo | 1516-1519 | |
| Diego Columbus | 1520-1523 | |
| Reign of the Real Audiencia | 1523-1525 | |
| Alonso de Zuazo and Gaspar de Espinosa | 1525-1528 |
Spanish governors and captains general in the viceroyalty of New Spain
French governors
In 1795 Spain ceded the remaining eastern part of Hispaniola to revolutionary France in the Treaty of Basel .
| Surname | Term of office | Remarks |
| Philippe-Rose Roume de Saint-Laurent | 1795-1798 | Commissioner |
| Antoine Chanlatte | 1799-1801 | |
| Pierre François Dominique Toussaint-Louvereture | 1801-1802 | |
| Antoine Nicolas Kerverseau | 1802-1803 | |
| François Jacques Lequoy de Mongiraus | 1803 | prefect |
| Marie Louis Ferrand | 1803-1808 | |
| Joseph-David de Barquier | 1808-1809 |
Spanish governors in the fight against Napoleon
| Surname | Term of office | Remarks |
| Juan Sánchez Ramírez | 1808-1811 | |
| Manuel Caballero (governor) | 1811-1812 | interim |
| José Masot | 1812-1813 | interim |
Spanish governors and captains general after the return of Ferdinand VII.
| Surname | Term of office | Remarks |
| Carlos de Urrutia y Montoya | 1813-1818 | |
| Sebastián Kíndelan y Oregón | 1818-1821 | |
| Pascual Real | 1821 |
From December 1821 the power of government was transferred to the independent state " Spanish Haiti " and from 1844 to the Dominican Republic .
Spanish governors during the second colonial period
From 1861 to 1865, Pedro Santana again placed the eastern part of Hispaniola under Spanish administration.
| Surname | Term of office | Remarks |
| Pedro Santana Familias, marques de las Carreras | 1861-1862 | |
| José Felipe Rivero y Lemoine | 1862-1863 | |
| Carlos de Vargas y Cerveto | 1863-1864 | |
| José de la Gándara y Navarro | 1864-1865 |
US governors
The United States occupied the country from 1916 to 1922 .
| Surname | Term of office | Remarks |
| Harry Shepard Knapp | 1916-1918 | |
| Benjamin Hebard Fuller | 1918-1919 | |
| Thomas Snowden, Jr. | 1919-1921 | |
| Samuel S. Robinson | 1921-1922 |
Since 1922, government has been in the hands of the representatives of the Dominican Republic.
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- Overview at worldstatesmen.org (English)
- Overview (spanish)