List of Governors of Tanganyika

List of Governors of Tanganyika (1919 - 1961):

After the British forces during the First World War the northern part of Tanzania occupied, which was until then as part of German East Africa under German administration, was commissioned in October 1916 Horace Archer Byatt with the general administration of the British-occupied zone. After the League of Nations mandate from 1919 in which the British Tanganyika was granted, he became the first governor.

The last incumbent, Sir Richard Gordon Turnbull was accompanied by the independence of Tanganyika on December 9, 1961 Governor General. After the founding of the Republic on 9 December 1962, the former Prime Minister and President Julius Nyerere of Tanganyika was a new head of state.