GOVERNORS SPANISH TEXAS


1691-1821

1691-1692 Domingo Terán de los Rios
1694-1715 Texas included in Coahuila
1716-1719 Martin de Alarcon
1719-1722 Marques de San Miguel de Aguayo (Texas and Coahuila)
1723-1726 Fernando Perez de Almazan
1727-1730 Melchor de Mediavilla y Azcona
1730-1734 Juan Antonio Bustillo y Ceballos
1734-1736 Manuel de Sandoval
1736-1737 Carlos Benites Franquis de Lugo
1737 Joséph Fernandez de Juaregui y Urrutia (Texas and Nuevo Leon)
1737-1740 Prudencio de Orobio y Basterra
1741-1743 Tomás Felipe Winthuisen
1743-1744 Justo Boneo y Morales
1744-1748 Francisco Garcia Larios, ad interim
1748-1750 Pedro del Barrio y Espriella
1751-1759 Jacinto de Barrios y Jauregui
1759-1767 Angel de Martos y Navarrete
1767-1770 Hugo Oconór (O'Conor), ad interim
1770-1778 Juan María, Baron de Ripperda
1778-1786 Domingo Cabello y Robles
1787-1790 Rafael Martinez Pacheco
1790-1799 Manuel Muñoz
1799-1805 Juan Bautista de Elguezabal

1805-1808 Antonio Cordero y Bustamante

1809-1813 Manuel María de Salcedo
Oh, shame of the human race! Oh disgrace for the descendants of a Christian nation! What people can coolly suffer in silence an act unparalleled in the annals of the history of San Antonio de Bexar?-->Jose Antonio Navarro on the ad hoc execution of Gov. Salcedo in 1813

1811 Juan Bautista de las Casas (Revolutionary Governor)
"...guilty of the Crime of High Treason, and sentence him to be degraded in due form, to suffer death in the manner prescribed by Chapter 8, Title 10, Art. 26 of the Royal Ordinances on the Punishment of Crimes, and his head be severed from his body to be forwarded to Bexar, as an object of public awe..."--Court Martial Montclova 1811

State of Texas (Republican Army of the North)
1813 Bernardo Gutiérrez de Lara

1813-1817 Cristobal Dominguez, Benito de Armifian Maríano Varela, Ignacio Perez, Manuel Pardo (ad interim)
1817-1821 Antonio María Martinez

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