The following is a list of the high commissioner of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, as well as their predecessors during the American occupation of the territory between 1944 and 1947.
(Dates in italics indicate
de facto
continuation of office)
No.
|
Portrait
|
Name
(Birth?Death)
|
Term of office
|
Took office
|
Left office
|
Time in office
|
United States Navy
control
|
Military Governor
|
1
|
|
John H. Hoover
(1887?1970)
|
March 1944
|
19 June 1944
|
3?months
|
Military Governor and
CINCPACFLT
|
2
|
|
Chester W. Nimitz
(1885?1966)
|
19 June 1944
|
24 November 1945
|
1?year, 158?days
|
3
|
|
Raymond A. Spruance
(1885?1969)
|
24 November 1945
|
3 February 1946
|
71?days
|
4
|
|
John H. Towers
(1885?1955)
|
3 February 1946
|
28 February 1947
|
1?year, 25?days
|
5
|
|
Louis E. Denfeld
(1891?1972)
|
28 February 1947
|
18 July 1947
|
140?days
|
Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
|
High Commissioner and
CINCPACFLT
|
1
[a]
|
|
Louis E. Denfeld
(1891?1972)
|
18 July 1947
|
17 April 1948
|
274?days
|
2
|
|
DeWitt Clinton Ramsey
(1888?1961)
|
17 April 1948
|
1 May 1949
|
1?year, 14?days
|
3
|
|
Arthur W. Radford
(1896?1973)
|
1 May 1949
|
6 January 1951
|
1?year, 250?days
|
High Commissioner
|
4
|
|
Elbert D. Thomas
(1883?1953)
|
6 January 1951
|
11 February 1953 †
|
2?years, 36?days
|
5
|
|
Frank E. Midkiff
(1887?1983)
|
13 March 1953
|
1 September 1954
|
1?year, 172?days
|
?
|
|
Delmas H. Nucker
(1907?1985)
|
1 September 1954
|
November 1956
|
6?years, 242?days
|
6
|
November 1956
|
1 May 1961
|
7
|
|
Maurice W. Goding
(1911?1989)
|
1 May 1961
|
27 May 1966
|
5?years, 26?days
|
?
|
|
William R. Norwood
(1909?1981)
|
27 May 1966
|
1 August 1966
|
2?years, 339?days
|
8
|
1 August 1966
|
1 May 1969
|
9
|
|
Edward E. Johnston
(1918?2011)
|
1 May 1969
|
1 July 1976
|
7?years, 61?days
|
?
|
|
Peter Tali Coleman
(1919?1997)
|
1 July 1976
|
February 1977
|
7?months
|
?
|
|
James Boyd Mackenzie
(1918?1978)
|
February 1977
|
9 July 1977
|
5?months
|
10
|
|
Adrian P. Winkel
(1915?1994)
|
9 July 1977
|
1981
|
3?4 years
|
?
|
|
Daniel Joseph High
(born 1938)
|
1981
|
December 1981
|
0 years
|
11
|
|
Janet J. McCoy
(1916?1995)
|
December 1981
|
10 July 1987
|
5?years, 7?months
|
Director of the Office of Transition
|
12
|
|
Charles D. Jordan
|
3 November 1986
|
30 September 1991
|
4?years, 331?days
|
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Numbering restarted for civil (rather than military) office.