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Chiefly incoming correspondence, together with related material and some outgoing correspondence, particularly during the periods when Taft was governor general of the Philippines (1901-1903), secretary of war (1904-1908), Yale University professor (1913-1921), and chief justice of the Supreme Court (1921-1930).
The US first appointed governor generals in 1898, after the conclusion of the Spanish-American War. The first civilian governor-general, future president William Howard Taft, began his term in 1901. The office would continue until the establishment of the Commonwealth of the Philippines in 1935. The title of the governor-general's report varied ...
Charles Emmett Yeater, Philippines Governor General. Charles Emmett Yeater [1] (April 24, 1861 – July 20, 1943 [2]) of Sedalia, Missouri was acting Governor-General of the Philippines from March 5, 1921 to October 14, 1921. From 1901 to 1935, the governor-general was the chief political executive of the Philippines, when the country was ...
Jose Alejandrino. Brigadier General. He was a contributor to La Solidaridad and one of the members of the Propaganda Movement in Spain along with Jose Rizal, Marcelo H. del Pilar, Mariano Ponce and Graciano Lopez Jaena. He was part of Aguinaldo's Hong Kong Junta, the exiled Revolutionary Government of the Philippines.
May 12, 2014 · On July 4, 1901, Taft was inaugurated as the first civilian governor general of the Philippines. He would oversee US rule in the Philippines for 13 years, four as governor general and nine as secretary of war and, later, as the 27th president of the United States.
The United States Military Government of the Philippine Islands (Spanish: Gobierno militar estadounidense de las Islas Filipinas; Tagalog: Pamahalaang Militar ng Estados Unidos sa Kapuluang Pilipinas) was a military government in the Philippines established by the United States on August 14, 1898, a day after the capture of Manila, with General Wesley Merritt acting as military governor ...
Diego de los Ríos —Becomes governor, with capital at Iloilo, 1898; treaty of Paris signed, December 10, 1898; term as governor, after August 13, 1898–December 10, 1898; leaves Manila, January 1, 1899. He was the last Spanish Governor-General of the Philippine Islands.
