governor

Examples of governor in the following topics:

• Governors and Assemblies

  • Colonial governors were appointed by the Crown, while assemblies were elected by local colonists.
  • In addition to advising the governor, the governor's council would sit as an upper house when the assembly was in session.
  • A governor's power could diminish as the colony gained more representative government.
  • Eventually, the Maryland Convention formally asked the governor to leave, and Governor Eden finally departed Maryland for England on June 23, 1776.
  • It has been the home of the governor since 1870.

• The Rise of the Assemblies

  • Each colony had a system of governance including a governor, a council of officials appointed by the governor, and an elected assembly.
  • They were politically administered by a crown-appointed governor (with absolute veto power), an appointed council, and a locally elected assembly.
  • They were governed like the provincial colonies, except that lord proprietors, rather than the king, appointed the governor.
  • The Governor's Council or the Governor's Court were the senior advisors to the governor.
  • The colonial governor appointed council members who served as the government in the case of an absentee governorship.

• Confederate Politics

  • Davis clashed with powerful state governors who used states'-rights arguments to hamper mobilization plans.
  • Governor Zebulon B.
  • Vance's work to mitigate harsh Confederate conscription practices inspired his nickname, “War Governor of the South.”
  • Georgia's governor Joseph Brown also spoke out against attempts by Davis to expand the rights of the Confederate central government.
  • Zebulon Vance, Governor of North Carolina, challenged the central Confederate government.

• Bacon's Rebellion

  • Bacon's Rebellion was an uprising in Virginia in 1676 against the colonial Governor's friendly policies toward Native Americans.
  • About a thousand Virginians rose (including former indentured servants, poor whites, and poor blacks) because they resented Virginia Governor William Berkeley's friendly policies towards the Native Americans.
  • When they returned to the colonial capital at Jamestown, they found that the House of Burgesses had passed a number of reforms that limited the powers of the governor and expanded suffrage among freemen.
  • Governor Berkeley returned to power.
  • Nathaniel Bacon led an uprising against Virginia Governor William Berkeley in 1676.

• English Administration of the Colonies

  • Provincial colonies, also known as royal colonies, were under the direct control of the king, who usually appointed a royal governor.
  • The governor was invested with general executive powers and authorized to call a locally elected assembly.
  • The governor's council would advise the governor and sit as an upper house when the assembly was in session.
  • The governor had the power of absolute veto and could prorogue (i.e., delay) and dissolve the assembly at will.
  • Over time, many of the provincial assemblies sought to expand their powers and limit those of the governor and crown.

• Powers of the Assemblies

  • Conflicts over budgets contributed to the tensions between assemblies and governors that led to the American Revolution.
  • They also asserted that only Virginia's governor and legislature could tax its citizens.
  • By 1775 the authority of its English governor, Sir Robert Eden, had been effectively usurped by the Annapolis Convention, and Eden was eventually asked by the Maryland Council of Safety to step down as governor .
  • Eventually the Maryland Convention formally asked the Governor to leave, and Governor Eden finally departed Maryland for England in the ship Fowey on June 23, 1776.
  • Sir Robert Eden, last colonial Governor of Maryland, who found his authority overthrown by the Annapolis Convention.

• Colonies in Crisis

  • They arrested dominion officials as a protest against the rule of Sir Edmund Andros, the governor of the Dominion of New England.
  • Andros, commissioned governor of New England in 1686, had earned the enmity of the local populace by enforcing the restrictive Navigation Acts, denying the validity of existing land titles, restricting town meetings, and appointing unpopular regular officers to lead colonial militia, among other actions that were part of an attempt to bring the colonies under the closer control of the crown.
  • Royal authority was not restored until 1691, when English troops and a new governor were sent to New York.
  • British Governor Andros was arrested by rebels in Boston in 1689.

• Freedom of Expression and its Limits

  • In 1612, the governor of Virginia sentenced to death a person that denied the Trinity under Virginia's Laws Divine, Moral and Martial, which also outlawed blasphemy, speaking badly of ministers and royalty, and "disgraceful words."
  • John Peter Zenger, a New York newspaper editor, began to voice opposition to several policies implemented by the newly appointed colonial governor, William Cosby.
  • Supported by members of the popular party, Zenger's New-York Weekly Journal continued to publish critical attacks on the royal governor.
  • Cosby was attacked by Zenger's paper for his actions while governor of New York.

• The Glorious Revolution in America

  • In 1686, Sir Edmund Andros, the former governor of New York, was appointed as Dominion governor.
  • Some of the officers, also supporters of the governor, abused the colonial militia they commanded.
  • He had already dispatched, to previous colonial governor Simon Bradstreet, a letter containing news of a report (prepared before the revolution) that the annulment of the Massachusetts charter had been illegal, and that the magistrates should "prepare the minds of the people for a change. " Rumors of the revolution apparently reached some individuals in Boston before official news arrived .
  • The resulting Province of Massachusetts Bay, whose charter was issued in 1691 and began operating in 1692 under governor Sir William Phips, combined the territories of both colonies, along with the islands south of Cape Cod (Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, and the Elizabeth Islands) that had been part of New York.
  • Nicholson was deposed as lieutenant governor of the Dominion of New England when news of the Glorious Revolution reached North America.

• The Founding of Carolina

  • The actual government consisted of a governor, a powerful council, on which half of the councilors were appointed by the Lords Proprietors themselves, and a relatively weak, popularly elected assembly.
  • In 1691, dissent over the governance of the province led to the appointment of a deputy governor to administer the northern half of Carolina.
  • A rebellion against the proprietors broke out in 1719 which led to the appointment of a royal governor for South Carolina in 1720.