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Governor of the Panama Canal Zone
Longest serving Robert John Fleming 1 February 1962–31 January 1967
Panama Canal Zone
Seat	Balboa
Appointer	President of the United States
Constituting instrument	Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty
Formation	14 May 1904
First holder	George Whitefield Davis
Final holder	Harold Parfitt
Abolished	30 September 1979

This article lists the governors of the Panama Canal Zone between 1904 and 1979, while it was under U.S. control.

Military governors (1904–1914)

Image	Name (Birth–Death)	Took office	Left office	Notes	Reference
	George Whitefield Davis (1839–1918)	14 May 1904	24 May 1905
	Charles Edward Magoon (1861–1920)	25 May 1905	12 October 1906
	Richard Reid Rogers (1867–1949)	19 November 1906	31 March 1907	General Counsel of the Isthmian Canal Commission
	Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn (1838–1918)	1 April 1907	4 December 1909
	Maurice Thatcher (1870–1973)	13 May 1910	8 August 1913
	Richard Lee Metcalfe (1861–1954)	9 August 1913	31 March 1914

Military and civil governors (1914–1924)

Image	Name (Birth–Death)	Took office	Left office	Notes	Reference
	George Washington Goethals (1858–1928)	1 April 1914	10 January 1917	First U.S. civil governor appointed by President Woodrow Wilson
	Chester Harding (1866–1936)	11 January 1917	27 March 1921
	Jay Johnson Morrow (1870–1937)	28 March 1921	15 October 1924

Civil governors (1924–1979)

Image	Name (Birth–Death)	Took office	Left office	Notes	Reference
	Meriwether Lewis Walker (1869–1947)	16 October 1924	15 October 1928
	Harry Burgess (1872–1933)	16 October 1928	20 October 1932
	Julian Larcombe Schley (1880–1965)	21 October 1932	26 August 1936
	Clarence S. Ridley (1883–1969)	27 August 1936	10 July 1940
	Glen Edgar Edgerton (1887–1976)	11 July 1940	15 May 1944
	Joseph Cowles Mehaffey (1889–1963)	16 May 1944	19 May 1948
	Francis K. Newcomer (1889–1967)	20 May 1948	26 May 1952
	John States Seybold (1897–1982)	27 May 1952	27 May 1956
	William Everett Potter (1905–1988)	28 May 1956	30 June 1960
	William Arnold Carter (1907–1996)	1 July 1960	31 January 1962
	Robert John Fleming (1907–1984)	1 February 1962	31 January 1967
	Walter Philip Leber (1918–2009)	21 February 1967	2 March 1971
	David Stuart Parker (1919–1990)	3 March 1971	25 March 1975
	Harold Parfitt (1921–2006)	26 March 1975	30 September 1979

See also

• History of the Panama Canal

Notes

1. ^ "Biographies of Canal Zone Governors". PanCanal. Retrieved 22 November 2014.

External links

• World Statesmen – Panama (Canal Zone)

• Governors of the Panama Canal Zone
• Lists of governors of insular areas of the United States
• People of the Banana Wars
• Lists of office-holders in Panama