List of Governors of Puerto Rico Governors under U.S. colonial administration 1898 - 1898 John Ruller Brooke 1898 - 1899 Guy Vernor Henry 1899 - 1900 George Whitefield Davis 1900 - 1901 Charles Herbert Allen 1901 - 1904 William Henry Hunt 1904 - 1907 Beekman Winthrop 1907 - 1909 Regis Henry Prost 1909 - 1913 George Radcliffe Colton 1913 - 1921 Arthur Yager 1921 - 1921 José E. Benedicto 1921 - 1923 Emmet Montgomery Reily 1923 - 1923 Juan Bernardo Huyke 1923 - 1929 Horace Mann Towner 1929 - 1929 James R. Beverly 1929 - 1932 Theodore Roosevelt Jr 1932 - 1933 James R. Beverly 1933 - 1934 Robert Hayes Gore 1934 - 1934 Benjamin Jason Horton 1934 - 1939 Blanton C. Winship 1939 - 1939 José E. Colón 1939 - 1940 William D. Leahy 1940 - 1941 José Miguel Gallardo 1941 - 1941 Guy J. Swope 1941 - 1941 José Miguel Gallardo 1941 - 1946 Rexford Guy Tugwell 1946 - 1949 Jesús Toribio Piñero (first native puerto-rican governor) 1949 - 1965 Luis Muñoz Marín (first elected governor) Governors under the 1952 Constitution 1965 - 1969 Roberto Sánchez Vilella 1969 - 1973 Luis A. Ferré 1973 - 1977 Rafael Hernández Colón 1977 - 1985 Carlos Romero Barceló 1985 - 1993 Rafael Hernández Colón 1993 - 2001 Pedro J. Rosselló 2001 - present Sila M. Calderón Related topics Politics of Puerto Rico Constitution of Puerto Rico