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Officeholders

Source: † denotes people who died in office.

Westerners' settlement (1830–1862, 1863–1874)

Chief Islanders

* 1830–1848: Matteo (Matthew) Mazarro† * 1848–1862, 1863 – 10 April 1874:

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† (acting to 1853; magistrate 1853–1859)

Japanese suzerainty (1862–1863, 1876
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Governors

* 18 January 1862 – 7 April 1862: Mizuno Chikugo no Kami Tadanori * August 1862 – May 1863: Sakunosuke (Sakusuke) Obana

Chief Commissioner

* December 1876 – November 1880: Sakunosuke (Sakusuke) Obana

Commanders, Ogasawara Corps

U.S. occupation (1945–1968)

Military Governors, Bonin, Volcano and Minami-Tori-shima, Marcus Islands (in
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* 1 January 1947 – 9 April 1951: the Commanders-in-Chief, Far East Command

Military Governors, Bonin Islands (in
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* 9 April 1951 – 26 July 1968: the Commanders-in-Chief,

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(the Commanders Naval Forces Marianas o 1956 Commanders Marianas Area * August 1945 – 1946:

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* 1946 – August 1949:

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* August 1949 – 1950: Edward Coyle Ewen * 1950 – 1951: Osborne Bennett Hardison * July 1951 – 1954: Ernest Wheeler Litch Jr. * February 1954 – 27 October 1955: Marion Emerson Murphy * 13 February 1956 – 1957: William Bronley Ammon * 1957 – 1960: William L. Erdmann * 17 January 1960 – 1961:

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* September 1961 – January 1963: John Starr Coye Jr. * January 1963 – 1964: Thomas Aloysius Christopher * 1964 – 1966: Horace Virgil Bird * 1966 – 25 June 1968: Carlton Benton Jones

Officers-in-Charge, Bonin Islands

* 6 October 1945 – 8 October 1946: Presley Morehead Rixey (Commander of Bonin Occupation Force) * 8 October 1946 – June 1947: Vernon Bertram Hagenbuckle * June 1947 – April 1951: ....

Military Government Representatives, Bonin – Volcano Islands

(Officers-in-Charge, U.S. Naval Facility Chichi Jima, Bonin Islands) * April 1951 – June 1952: Frederick Alfred Pobst * June 1952 – 21 July 1953: John Walter Kelsey Jr. * 21 July 1953 – October 1955: Clayton Ernest "Jack" Frost * October 1955 – March 1958: Earl Dean Bronson * May 1958 – June 1960: Thomas Gordon Rice * July 1960 – June 1963: Vernon Ward Weatherby * July 1963 – January 1964: John Robert Thorndyke * February 1964 – July 1964: Ronald Lee Farrar * July 1964 – December 1965: James Hamilton Reynolds * December 1965 – 25 June 1968: Dale Wayne Johnson

Notes

References

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