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An outline of The Bahamas rulership from the early days to now. |
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1648 |
First English settlement |
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1718 |
British crown colony |
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3 Mar 1776 - 17 Mar 1776 |
American occupation |
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8 May 1782 - 19 Apr 1783 |
Spanish occupation |
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1969 |
Commonwealth of the Bahama Islands |
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10 Jul 1973 |
Independence (Commonwealth of The Bahamas ) |
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Governors |
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1697 - 1700 |
Nicholas Webb |
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1700 - 1701 |
Elias Haskett |
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1701 - 1705 |
Ellis Lightfood |
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Jan 1706 - 1706 |
Edward Birch |
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1706 |
Thomas Walker |
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1706 - 1718 |
Pirate Rule: -Thomas Barrow -Benjamin Hornigold -Edward Teach “Blackbeard” |
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26 Jul 1718 - 1721 |
Woodes Rogers (1st time) |
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1721 -1728 |
George Phenney |
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Aug 1729 - 16 Jul 1732 |
Woodes Rogers (2nd time) |
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1732 - 1733 |
Richard Thompson (acting) |
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Nov 1733 -1740 |
Richard Fitzwilliams |
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1740 - 1758 |
John Tinker |
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1758 -1760 |
John Gambier (1st time) (acting) |
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1760 - 1768 |
William Shirley |
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28 Nov 1768 -1774 |
Thomas Shirley |
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1774 - 3 Mar 1776 |
Montfort Browne (1st time) |
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3 Mar 1776 - 17 Mar 1776 |
Samuel Nicholas |
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1776 -1778 |
John Gambier (2nd time) (acting) |
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1778 - 1779 |
Montfort Browne (2nd time) |
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1780 -1784 |
John Robert Maxwell (1782-83 Spanish prisoner) |
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8 May 1782 - 19 Apr 1783 |
Bernardo de Gálvez (Spanish commander) |
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1784 - 1786 |
James Edward Powell |
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1786 -1787 |
John Brown (acting) |
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1787 -1796 |
John Murray, Earl of Dunmore |
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1796 - 14 Feb 1797 |
Robert Hunt (acting) |
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14 Feb 1797 - Jun 1797 |
John Forbes |
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20 Nov 1797 -1801 |
William Dowdeswell |
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1801 – 1804 |
John Halkett |
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8 May 1804 -1820 |
Charles Cameron |
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1821 -1829 |
Lewis Grant |
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1829 - 1833 |
James Carmichael Smyth |
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1833 -1835 |
Blayney Townley Balfour |
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1835 -1837 |
William MacBean George Colebrooke |
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1837 -1844 |
Francis Cockburne |
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1844 -1849 |
George Benvenuto Mathew |
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1849 -1854 |
John Gregory |
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1854-1857 |
Sir Alexander Bannerman |
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1857 -1864 |
Charles John Bayley |
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1864 -1869 |
Rawson William Rawson |
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1869 -1871 |
Sir James Walker |
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1871 -1873 |
George Cumine Strahan |
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1873 -1874 |
Sir John Pope Hennessy |
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1874 -1880 |
William Robinson |
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1880 -1881 |
Jeremiah Thomas Fitzgerald Callaghan |
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1882 -Jan 1884 |
Charles Cameron Lees (from 1883, Sir Charles Cameron Lees |
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4 Jan 1884 – 1887 |
Sir Henry Arthur Blake |
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1887 – 1895 |
Sir Ambrose Shea |
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1895 -1898 |
Sir William Frederick Haynes Smith |
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1898 - 1904 |
Sir Gilbert Thomas Carter |
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29 Nov 1904 - 1912 |
Sir William Grey-Wilson |
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29 Oct 1912 -1914 |
Sir George Basil Haddon-Smith |
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15 Jun 1914 -1920 |
Sir William Lamond Allardyce |
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8 Dec 1920 -1926 |
Sir Harry Edward Spiller Cordeaux |
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15 Mar 1927 -Jan 1932 |
Charles William James Orr (from 1928, Sir Charles William James Orr) |
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10 Jan 1932 -1934 |
Bede Edmund Hugh Clifford (from 1933, Sir Bede Edmund Hugh Clifford) |
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1934 - 1940 |
Charles Cecil Farquharson Dundas (from 1938, Sir Charles Cecil Farquharson Dundas) -acting to 1937 |
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18 Aug 1940 -1945 |
Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor |
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28 Jul 1945 – 1950 |
William Lindsay Murphy (from 1946, Sir William Lindsay Murphy) |
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5 Jan 1950 -Dec 1950 |
Sir George Ritchie Sandford |
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7 Dec 1950 -1953 |
Robert Arthur Ross Neville (from 1952, Sir Robert Arthur Ross Neville) |
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21 Dec 1953 – 1956 |
Thomas David Knox, Earl of Ranfurly |
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1 Apr 1957 -1960 |
Sir Oswald Raynor Arthur |
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18 Jul 1960 -1964 |
Sir Robert Stapledon |
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3 Jun 1964 -1968 |
Sir Ralph Francis Alnwick Grey |
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1 Nov 1968 -1972 |
Sir Francis Edward Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce (from 1971, Francis Edward Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, Baron Thurlow) |
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14 May 1972 - 10 Jul 1973 |
Sir John Warburton Paul |
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Governors-General (representing the British monarch as head of state) |
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10 Jul 1973 - 31 Jul 1973 |
Sir John Warburton Paul (acting) |
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1 Aug 1973 - 22 Jan 1979 |
Sir Milo Butler |
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22 Jan 1979 - 25 Jun 1988 |
Sir Gerald Cash -acting [for Butler from 2 Sep 1976] to 23 Sep 1979) |
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26 Jun 1988 - 1 Jan 1992 |
Sir Henry Taylor (acting to 28 Feb 1991) |
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2 Jan 1992 - 2 Jan 1995 |
Sir Clifford Darling |
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3 Jan 1995 - 13 Nov 2001 |
Sir Orville Alton Turnquest |
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13 Nov 2001 - 30 Nov 2005 |
Dame Ivy Dumont (f) (acting to 1 Jan 2002) |
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1 Dec 2005 - 1 Feb 2006 |
Paul Adderley (acting) |
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1 Feb 2006 - present |
Arthur Dion Hanna |
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Chief Minister |
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1955 - 7 Jan 1964 |
Sir Roland T. Symonette |
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Premiers |
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7 Jan 1964 -16 Jan 1967 |
Sir Roland T. Symonette |
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16 Jan 1967 - 1969 |
Lynden O. Pindling |
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Prime Ministers |
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1969 - 21 Aug 1992 |
Lynden O. Pindling (from 1 Jan 1983, Sir Lynden O. Pindling) |
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21 Aug 1992 - 3 May 2002 |
Hubert Ingraham |
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3 May 2002 - 2 May 2007 |
Perry Christie |
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4 May 2005 - 22 Jun 2005 |
Cynthia Pratt (f) (acting for Christie) |
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4 May 2007 - May 2012 |
Hubert Ingraham |
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May 2012 - Present |
Perry G. Christie |