title: List of governors of the Panama Canal Zone
text: # List of governors of the Panama Canal Zone
  
  The following is a list of governors of the Panama Canal Zone while it was under U.S. control.
  
  ## Military governors (1904–1914)
  
  | Name | Took office | Left office | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | George Whitefield Davis | 14 May 1904 | 24 May 1905 | |
  | Charles Edward Magoon | 25 May 1905 | 12 October 1906 | |
  | Richard Reid Rogers | 19 November 1906 | 31 March 1907 | General Counsel of the Isthmian Canal Commission |
  | Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn | 1 April 1907 | 4 December 1909 | |
  | Maurice Thatcher | 13 May 1910 | 8 August 1913 | |
  | Richard Lee Metcalfe | 9 August 1913 | 31 March 1914 | |
  
  ## Military and civil governors (1914–1924)
  
  | Name | born and death | Took office | Left office | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | George Washington Goethals | June 29, 1858-January 21, 1928 (aged 69) | 1 April 1914 | 10 January 1917 | First U.S. civil governor appointed by President Woodrow Wilson |
  | Chester Harding | December 31, 1866-November 11, 1936 (aged 69) | 11 January 1917 | 27 March 1921 | |
  | Jay Johnson Morrow | February 20, 1870-April 16, 1937 (aged 67) | 28 March 1921 | 15 October 1924 | |
  
  ## Civil governors (1924–1979)
  
  | Name | Took office | Left office |
  | - | - | - |
  | Meriwether Lewis Walker | 16 October 1924 | 15 October 1928 |
  | Harry Burgess | 16 October 1928 | 20 October 1932 |
  | Julian Larcombe Schley | 21 October 1932 | 26 August 1936 |
  | Clarence S. Ridley | 27 August 1936 | 10 July 1940 |
  | Glen Edgar Edgerton | 11 July 1940 | 15 May 1944 |
  | Joseph Cowles Mehaffey | 16 May 1944 | 19 May 1948 |
  | Francis K. Newcomer | 20 May 1948 | 26 May 1952 |
  | John States Seybold | 27 May 1952 | 27 May 1956 |
  | William Everett Potter | 28 May 1956 | 30 June 1960 |
  | William Arnold Carter | 1 July 1960 | 31 January 1962 |
  | Robert John Fleming | 1 February 1962 | 31 January 1967 |
  | Walter Philip Leber | 21 February 1967 | 2 March 1971 |
  | David Stuart Parker | 3 March 1971 | 25 March 1975 |
  | Harold Parfitt | 26 March 1975 | 30 September 1979 |
  