| Post: | Governor |
| Body: | the Panama Canal Zone |
| Department: | Panama Canal Zone |
| Seat: | Balboa |
| Appointer: | President of the United States |
| Constituting Instrument: | Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty |
| Formation: | 14 May 1904 |
| First: | George Whitefield Davis |
| Last: | Harold Parfitt |
| Abolished: | 30 September 1979 |
This article lists the governors of the Panama Canal Zone between 1904 and 1979, while it was under U.S. control.
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| 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 |
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| George Washington Goethals | 1 April 1914 | 10 January 1917 | First U.S. civil governor appointed by President Woodrow Wilson | [1] | |||||||
| Chester Harding | 11 January 1917 | 27 March 1921 | |||||||||
| Jay Johnson Morrow | 28 March 1921 | 15 October 1924 |
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| 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 |