List of governors of the United States Virgin Islands - wikipedia List of governors of the United States Virgin Islands United States Virgin Islands This article is part of a series on the politics and government of the United States Virgin Islands Constitution United States Constitution Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands Executive Government Governor Kenneth Mapp Lieutenant Governor Osbert Potter Cabinet Legislature Legislature President of the Legislature Myron D. Jackson Judiciary Court System Supreme Court District Court Superior Court Elections Elections Political Parties Democratic Party Independent Citizens Movement Republican Party Political party strength Divisions Districts and sub-districts Islands St. Croix St. Thomas St. John Federal Relations Federal representation United States House of Representatives Delegate of the U.S. Virgin Islands Stacey Plaskett ( D ) Politics of the United States Politics portal The following is a list of Governors of the United States Virgin Islands. For governors of the territory that is now the U.S. Virgin Islands prior to United States administration ( while it was ruled by Denmark as the Danish West Indies ), see List of Governors of the Danish West Indies. Contents 1 Appointed governors ( 1917 -- 1969 ) 1.1 Naval governors ( 1917 -- 1931 ) 1.2 Civil governors ( 1931 -- 1969 ) 2 Elected governors ( 1969 -- present ) 3 Living former governors 4 References 5 External links Appointed governors ( 1917 -- 1969 ) Naval governors ( 1917 -- 1931 ) 1917 -- 1917 : Edwin Taylor Pollock 1917 -- 1919 : James Harrison Oliver 1919 -- 1921 : Joseph Wallace Oman 1921 -- 1922 : Sumner Ely Wetmore Kittelle 1922 -- 1923 : Henry Hughes Hough 1923 -- 1925 : Philip Williams 1925 -- 1927 : Martin Edwin Trench 1927 -- 1931 : Waldo A. Evans Civil governors ( 1931 -- 1969 ) 1931 -- 1935 : Paul Martin Pearson 1935 -- 1935 : Robert Herrick 1935 -- 1940 : Lawrence William Cramer 1940 -- 1941 : Robert Morss Lovett ( Acting ; filling in for Cramer ) 1941 -- 1945 : Charles Harwood 1946 -- 1949 : William Henry Hastie 1949 -- 1954 : Morris Fidanque de Castro 1954 -- 1955 : Archibald A. Alexander 1955 -- 1955 : Charles K. Claunch 1955 -- 1958 : Walter A. Gordon 1958 -- 1961 : John David Merwin 1961 -- 1969 : Ralph Moses Paiewonsky Elected governors ( 1969 -- present ) Parties Republican ( 1 ) Independent Citizens Movement ( 1 ) Democratic ( 3 ) Independent ( 3 ) No. Image Governor ( Birth -- Death ) Took office Left office Party Melvin Herbert Evans ( 1917 -- 1984 ) 000000001969 - 07 - 01 - 0000 July 1, 1969 000000001975 - 01 - 06 - 0000 January 6, 1975 Republican Cyril Emmanuel King ( 1921 -- 1978 ) 000000001975 - 01 - 06 - 0000 January 6, 1975 000000001978 - 01 - 02 - 0000 January 2, 1978 Independent Citizens Movement Juan Francisco Luis ( 1940 -- 2011 ) 000000001978 - 01 - 02 - 0000 January 2, 1978 000000001987 - 01 - 05 - 0000 January 5, 1987 Independent Citizens Movement ( until 1979 ) Independent ( 1979 onward ) Alexander Anthony Farrelly ( 1923 -- 2002 ) 000000001987 - 01 - 05 - 0000 January 5, 1987 000000001995 - 01 - 02 - 0000 January 2, 1995 Democratic 5 Roy Lester Schneider ( born 1939 ) 000000001995 - 01 - 02 - 0000 January 2, 1995 000000001999 - 01 - 04 - 0000 January 4, 1999 Independent 6 Charles Wesley Turnbull ( born 1935 ) 000000001999 - 01 - 04 - 0000 January 4, 1999 000000002007 - 01 - 01 - 0000 January 1, 2007 Democratic 7 John de Jongh ( born 1957 ) 000000002007 - 01 - 01 - 0000 January 1, 2007 000000002015 - 01 - 05 - 0000 January 5, 2015 Democrat 8 Kenneth Mapp ( born 1955 ) 000000002015 - 01 - 05 - 0000 January 5, 2015 Incumbent Independent Living former governors As of January 2017, three former governors were alive. The most recent governor to die was John David Merwin ( 1958 -- 1961 ), on March 17, 2013. Name Gubernatorial term Date of birth Roy Lester Schneider 1995 -- 1999 ( 1939 - 05 - 13 ) May 13, 1939 ( age 78 ) Charles Wesley Turnbull 1999 -- 2007 ( 1935 - 02 - 05 ) February 5, 1935 ( age 82 ) John de Jongh 2007 -- 2015 ( 1957 - 11 - 13 ) November 13, 1957 ( age 59 ) References Jump up ^ `` A Report on the State of the Islands 1997 : Chapter 5 Virgin Islands ''. United States Department of the Interior Office of Insular Affairs. 1997. Archived from the original on 2011 - 07 - 21. Retrieved 2010 - 08 - 25. External links Office of the Governor Governors of the U.S. Virgin Islands Naval ( 1917 -- 31 ) Pollock Oliver Oman Kittelle Hough Williams Trench W. Evans Civil ( 1931 -- 69 ) Pearson Herrick Cramer Lovett Harwood Hastie de Castro Alexander Claunch Gordon Merwin Paiewonsky King Elected ( since 1969 ) M. 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