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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Miguel Lopez de Legaspi
The first American governor-general of the Philippines was William Howard Taft. He was appointed by then President, William McKinley in 1900. There has been no American Governor of the Philippines since 1946.
The first American Military Governor of the Philippines was General Wesley Merritt.
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The first American Military Governor of the Philippines was General Wesley Merritt. The second was General Elwell Otis. The final was General Arthur MacArthur.
The US has never had a governor general. The first President of the United States was George Washington. The first US Governor-General of the Philippines was William Howard Taft.
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.
Miguel Lopez de legaspi
Miguel Lopez de Legaspi
William Howard Taft.
William Howard Taft
William Howard Taft served as a governor of the Philippines when it was under US control and later became US president. Taft Avenue in Metro Manila, Philippines is named after him.
In 1990 president William McKinley was appointed William Taft as the chairman of a commission to organize a civilian government in the Philippines , which had been ceded to the United States by Spain following the Spanish-American War and the 1898 Treaty of Paris. From 1901 to 1903 , Taft served as the first civilian Governor -General of the Philippines , a position in which he was very popular among both Americans and Filipinos.