Governor-General of the Philippines

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The Governor-General of the Philippines was the highest-ranking colonial official who governed the Philippines on behalf of the Spanish crown (and later other colonial powers) before the establishment of full self-rule.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf colonial office
head of government
political position
appliesToJurisdiction Philippines
appointedBy Japanese imperial authorities
King of Spain
surface form: Monarch of Spain

President of the United States
country Philippines
endTime 1935
firstOfficeHolder Miguel López de Legazpi
governs Philippine archipelago
hasAuthorityOver Philippine colonial bureaucracy
colonial military forces in the Philippines
implementation of colonial laws in the Philippines
historicalPeriod American colonial period in the Philippines
Spanish colonial period in the Philippines
jurisdiction Spanish East Indies
lastOfficeHolder Frank Murphy
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Captaincy General of the Philippines
Philippines
surface form: Philippine Islands
officeAbolished 1935
officeCreated 1565
officeHolder Arthur MacArthur Jr.
Basilio Augustín NERFINISHED
Diego de los Ríos
Elwell Stephen Otis NERFINISHED
Francis Burton Harrison
Justice Frank Murphy
surface form: Frank Murphy

José Basco y Vargas NERFINISHED
Leonard Wood
Miguel López de Legazpi
Rafael de Echagüe y Bermingham
Wesley Merritt
President William Howard Taft
surface form: William Howard Taft
partOf Japanese occupation of the Philippines
surface form: Empire of Japan’s occupation administration in the Philippines

Spanish Empire
U.S. Military Government of the Philippine Islands
surface form: United States colonial administration in the Philippines
replacedBy President of the Philippines
surface form: President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines
residence Malacañang Palace
Manila
role chief executive of the colonial government in the Philippines
commander-in-chief of colonial armed forces in the Philippines
head of the American colonial administration in the Philippines
head of the Japanese-sponsored administration in the Philippines
head of the Spanish colonial administration in the Philippines
highest-ranking colonial official in the Philippines
representative of the colonial sovereign in the Philippines
seatOfGovernment Manila
startTime 1565
subordinateTo Council of the Indies
President of the United States
Crown of Spain
surface form: Spanish Crown

United States Department of War
usedBuilding Malacañang Palace
Palacio del Gobernador

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Spanish East Indies hasGovernorship Governor-General of the Philippines
Basilio Augustín hasTitle Governor-General of the Philippines
this entity surface form: Governor-General
Basilio Augustín positionHeld Governor-General of the Philippines
Basilio Augustín positionHeld Governor-General of the Philippines
this entity surface form: Captain General of the Philippines
Fermín Jáudenes positionHeld Governor-General of the Philippines
Fermín Jáudenes positionHeld Governor-General of the Philippines
this entity surface form: Governor-General of the Philippines under Spanish rule
Fernando Primo de Rivera positionHeld Governor-General of the Philippines
Fernando Primo de Rivera positionHeld Governor-General of the Philippines
this entity surface form: Captain General of the Philippines
Henry L. Stimson positionHeld Governor-General of the Philippines
Archbishop Manuel Rojo del Río y Vieyra positionHeld Governor-General of the Philippines
subject surface form: Manuel Rojo del Río y Vieyra
Miguel López de Legazpi positionHeld Governor-General of the Philippines
Simón de Anda y Salazar positionHeld Governor-General of the Philippines
Theodore Roosevelt III positionHeld Governor-General of the Philippines
President William Howard Taft positionHeld Governor-General of the Philippines
subject surface form: William Howard Taft