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Definition of Military governor
1. Noun. The head of a government established by the military (as in a defeated country).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Military Governor
Literary usage of Military governor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Civil War in America: Comprising a Full and Impartial by John Stevens Cabot Abbott (1866)
"Almost immediately after the capital of Tennessee had thus comí again under
National rule, President Lincoln appointed Andrew Johnson military governor of ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"If the situation was not changed, Hahn, as military governor, had the same right
as his predecessor to revoke the appointment of judge. ..."
3. Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, at the First Session by William Pitt Fessenden, Thaddeus Stevens, United States Congress (1866)
"ANDREW JOHNSON, military governor of Tennessee. The following call was published
by a committee of Union men in Middle Tennessee. ..."
4. Lincoln's Plan of Reconstruction by Charles Hallan McCarthy (1901)
"ANDREW JOHNSON : SIR : You are hereby appointed military governor of ... duties,
and functions pertaining to the office of military governor, including the ..."
5. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1867)
"Its inauguration was announced by a proclamation of General Shepley, then Military
Governor of Louisiana, in the following terms : "A PROCLAMATION. ..."
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