The governor-general of the Philippine was the chief executive of the colonial government in the Philippines under Spanish, American, British, and Japanese rule. During the Spanish period, the office
Miguel López de Legazpi, en La Hormiga de Oro
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Pedro de Acuña
Sebastián Hurtado de Corcuera
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William Francis Murphy was an American politician, lawyer, and jurist from Harbor Beach, Michigan. He was a Democrat who was named to the Supreme Court of the United States in 1940 after a political c
Governor-General of the Philippines
…Commonwealth replaced the Governor-General as the country's chief executive. The Governor-General became the High Commissioner of the Philippines with Frank Murphy, the last governor-general, as the first high commissioner. The High Commissioner exercised no executive power but rather represented the colonial…
Official portrait, 1940s
Murphy as governor-general with his Philippine cabinet, c. 1935
Governor Frank Murphy (seated center-right) and U.S. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins (seated center-left) meeting with General Motors officials on January 21, 1937, in an effort to end the month-old Flint sit-down strike; the two had met with UAW leaders earlier in the day.
Justice Frank Murphy, February 1940, shortly after joining the Supreme Court