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- The US first appointed governor generals in the year of 1898, after the conclusion of the Spanish-American War. The first American governor-general, William Howard Taft, began his term in 1901. he would continue until the establishment of the Commonwealth of the Philippines in 1935.
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The first American Military Governor of the Philippines was General Wesley Merritt.
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William Howard Taft was the first US Civil Governor of the Philippines, but he got that appointment AFTER the Spanish-American War. There was no American governor f the Philippines during the Spanish-American War because until the war was over the Philippines were a Spanish possession and had a Spanish governor.
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