Governor-Generals during Spanish Colonization

3. On June 23, 1869, Carlos Maria de laTorre y Nava Cerrada
started his term as the new SpanishGovernor-General of the
Philippines.
De laTorre, who was assigned in the Philippines after the
bloodless Spanish Revolution of 1869, was considered the most
beloved among the Spanish governors-general to serve in the
Philippines (1869–1871).
He released political prisoners and even endorsed their criticism
of the church and the friars. He was considered a liberal for
imposing liberal laws.
He was very close to the ilustrados, a group of Filipinos who
understood the situation of the Philippines under Spanish rule.
He was ousted when the monarchy in Spain was reestablished by
the Spanish Cortes. He was succeeded by the reactionary
Governor-General Rafael de Izquierdo, who immediately
restored the old order of things in the Philippines.

4. Rafael de Izquierdo y Gutiérrez (1820–1882) was a
Spanish Military Officer, Political Leader and Statesman
who became Governor-General of the Philippines from
April 4, 1871 to January 8, 1873. He was famous for his
use of "Iron Fist" type of government, contradicting the
liberal government of his predecessor, Cárlos María de la
Torre y Nava Cerrada. He was the Governor-General
during the 1872 Cavite mutiny which led to execution of 41
of the mutineers, including the Gomburza martyrs. Prior to
being Governor-General of the Philippines, Izquierdo also
acted as Governor-General of Puerto Rico from March
1862 to April 1862.

5. Jose Malacampo y Monje, Marques de San Rafael and Rear
Admiral, takes over the reins of government.
There is no information whether any repairs were made at
Malacañan Palace during his regime, although reports from
January 27, 1876 show that Señor Ordenador General de
Pagos Francisco de Ripoll approved the release of money for
the completion of unspecified repairs at Malacañang in three
installments: first, P7,564; then, P2,451.29; and finally,
P1,806.
His term ended on February 28, 1877 when he was unable to
quell a mutiny. He was given the title "Count of Mindanao" on
July 20, 1877 for his conquest of the island of Jolo.

6. On November 17, 1891, Eulogio
Despujol became governor-general of the
Philippines. A native of Cataluña, Spain,
Despujol was born on March 11, 1834.
It was Despujol who issued a decree on July 7,
1892, banishing Jose Rizal to Dapitan,
Zamboanga.The decree also prohibits the
introduction and circulation of all the works of
Rizal in the Philippines.
Eulogio Despujol ruled the Philippines until
1893. He died on October 18, 1907.

7. Captain General amón Blanco y Erenas had served the Spanish
government in the wars against the Carlist pretender and in the
Philippines before he was selected to replaceValerianoWeyler as
Captain General of Cuba. Blanco faced a difficult task since he
was expected to reverse the harsh treatment Cubans had
received at the hands of his predecessor and yet defend the
colony from a probable attack from the United States.
His proposed solution was that Spanish troops join with Cuban
insurgents, led by Máximo Gómez, to protect the island from the
invaders. When Gómez refused to join forces with the Spaniards,
Blanco coordinated the maneuvers of both army troops and
naval squadron commanded by Admiral Pascual Cervera in their
struggle against the invaders. Blanco, believing it better for Spain
to lose Cuba honorably in battle than by surrender, ordered
Cervera to sail out of Santiago and into disastrous defeat and
loss of life.

8. Regarded as a villain in Philippine history for ordering the court
martial and subsequent execution of Jose Rizal, Governor
General Camilo de Polavieja had a brilliant career as a military
man. He became Governor General of the Philippines in a
turbulent time replacingGov. General Ramon Blanco y Erenas.
He is known to be favored by the friars. It was also said that when
DonaTeodora pleaded for Rizal's life, she walked in bend knees
in a stair in Malacanang and meeting Polavieja who coldly said to
her ; He cannot spare the life of this rebel while young Spanish
men are dying in battlefields in the hills of Luzon". Another
version Rizal's "UltimoAdios".
On January 1914, Camilo Polavieja died of Hepatitis. He is
mentioned in Philippine history as Jose Rizal's executioner and
nothing more.

9. He was a Spanish general under the Spanish Resistance against Napoleon
Bonaparte; his maternal great-great-great-great-grandfather was Carlos de
Torres Rovellas, 12th Count ofTorres Rovellas, governor of Quito. His ancestor
was Fernando de Rivera, I Count of Sobremonte (1108-1201) a knight of
German origins.
He served in several wars, including the 1848 and 1866
Madrid insurrections and the second Carlista War. When forces under his
command in the second Carlist War captured Estella, he was
named Marquess of Estella. He was the Spanish Governor-General of the
Philippines from 1880 to 1883. In 1897, he again became the Spanish Governor-
General of the Philippines. He temporarily suspended hostilities in
the Philippine Revolution through negotiations with Emilio Aguinaldo in
the Pact of Biak-na-Bato and acted briefly as Governor-General of the
Philippines. He was a Minister and the 70th Prime Minister of Spain for one day
between 30 and 31 December 1874. He was created the 1st Marquess of Estella
on 25 May 1877, the 1,124th Knight of the Spanish Order of the Golden
Fleece and the 287th Grand Cross of the Royal Order of Our Lady of the
Concepcion ofVila Viçosa of Portugal in 1879.
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