Rulers of Malta

Malta

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26-10-1530
    Malta was ruled by the Sovereign Military Order of Malta

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12-6-1798        
Malta under  French rule
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5-9-1800      
Malta under British rule
(from 30 May 1814 crown colony)
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3-3-1962      
   State of Malta
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21-9-1964        
        independence
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13-12-1974          
     Republic of Malta

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Commandant
12 Jun 1798 -  5 Sep 1800  Claude Henri Belgrand de Vaubois   (b. 1748 - d. 1839)

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Commissioners
   Jun 1798 -  9 Nov 1799  Michel Louis Étienne Regnaud de
                           Saint-Jean d'Angély                (b. 1760 - d. 1819)
   Nov 1799 -    Sep 1800  Pierre Jean Louis Ovide Doublet    (b. 1754 - d. 1824)

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Presidents of the Provisional Government (in rebellion)
       1798 -    Feb 1799    Emanuele Vitale                  (b. 1759 - d. 1802)
                             + Francesco Saverio Caruana      (b. 1759 - d. 1847)
   Feb 1799 -    Sep 1800    Alexander John Ball              (b. 1756 - d. 1809)

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British representatives
8 Sep 1800 - 19 Feb 1801  Alexander John Ball                (s.a.)
19 Feb 1801 -    Jul 1801  Henry Pigot                        (b. 1750 - d. 1840)

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Civil commissioners
   Jul 1801 -    May 1803  Charles Cameron                    (b. 1766? - d. 1828)
   May 1803 - 25 Oct 1809  Sir Alexander John Ball            (s.a.)
25 Oct 1809 -        1813  Sir Hildebrand Oakes               (b. 1754 - d. 1822)
                           (acting to 30 Apr 1810)

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Governors
       1813 - 17 Jan 1824  Sir Thomas Maitland                (b. 1759 - d. 1824)
       1824 -        1826  Francis Rawdon-Hastings,
                           Marquess of Hastings               (b. 1754 - d. 1826)
2 Dec 1827 -    May 1835  Sir Frederic Cavendish Ponsonby    (b. 1783 - d. 1837)
1 Oct 1836 -        1843  Sir Henry Frederic Bouverie        (b. 1783 - d. 1852)
       1843 -        1847  Sir Patrick Stuart                 (b. 1787 - d. 1855)
   Oct 1847 -        1851  Richard More O'Ferrall             (b. 1797 - d. 1880)
27 Oct 1851 -        1858  Sir William Reid                   (b. 1791 - d. 1858)
       1858 -        1864  Sir John Gaspard Le Marchant       (b. 1803 - d. 1874)
15 Nov 1864 -        1867  Sir Henry Knight Storks            (b. 1811 - d. 1874)
15 May 1867 -        1872  Sir Patrick Grant                  (b. 1804 - d. 1895)
3 Jun 1872 -        1878  Sir Charles Thomas Van Straubenzee (b. 1812 - d. 1892)
13 May 1878 -        1884  Sir Arthur Borton                  (b. 1814 - d. 1893)
   Apr 1884 - 28 Sep 1888  Sir John Lintorn Arabin Simmons    (b. 1821 - d. 1903)
28 Sep 1888 -  1 Dec 1889  Sir Henry D'Oyley Torrens          (b. 1823 - d. 1889)
       1890 -        1893  Sir Henry Augustus Smyth           (b. 1825 - d. 1906)
       1893 -  6 Jan 1899  Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle    (b. 1835 - d. 1901)
6 Jan 1899 -        1903  Sir Francis Wallace Grenfell (from
                           18 Jul 1902, Francis Wallace
                           Grenfell, Baron Grenfell)          (b. 1841 - d. 1925)
       1903 -        1907  Sir Charles Mansfield Clarke       (b. 1839 - d. 1932)
       1907 -        1909  Sir Henry Eugene Walter Grant      (b. 1855 - d. 1934)
       1909 -        1915  Sir Henry Macleod Leslie Rundle    (b. 1856 - d. 1934)
   Feb 1915 -    May 1919  Paul Sanford, Baron Methuen of
                           Corsham                            (b. 1845 - d. 1932)
       1919 -        1924  Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer,
                           Baron Plumer                       (b. 1857 - d. 1932)
       1924 - 28 Feb 1927  Sir Walter Norris Congreve         (b. 1862 - d. 1927)
       1927 -        1931  Sir John Philip du Cane            (b. 1865 - d. 1947)
   Jun 1931 -        1936  Sir David Graham Muschet Campbell  (b. 1869 - d. 1936)
       1936 -        1940  Sir Charles Bonham-Carter          (b. 1876 - d. 1955)
   Apr 1940 -        1942  Sir William Dobbie                 (b. 1879 - d. 1964)
       1942 - 26 Sep 1944  John Standish Surtees Prendergast
                           Vereker, Viscount Gort             (b. 1886 - d. 1946)
26 Sep 1944 - 10 Jul 1946  Sir Edmond Charles Acton Schreiber (b. 1890 - d. 1972)
10 Jul 1946 - 16 Sep 1949  Francis Campbell Ross Douglas
                           (from 1947, Sir Francis Campbell
                           Ross Douglas)                      (b. 1889 - d. 1980)
16 Sep 1949 -  3 Aug 1954  Sir Gerald Hallen Creasy           (b. 1897 - d. 1983)
3 Aug 1954 - 13 Feb 1959  Sir Robert Edward Laycock          (b. 1907 - d. 1968)
13 Feb 1959 - 27 Jun 1962  Sir Guy Grantham                   (b. 1900 - d. 1992)
27 Jun 1962 -  2 Jul 1962  Sir Anthony Mamo (acting)          (b. 1909 - d. 2008)
2 Jul 1962 - 21 Sep 1964  Sir Maurice Henry Dorman           (b. 1902 - d. 1993)

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Governors-general (representing the British monarch as head of state)
21 Sep 1964 - 21 Jun 1971  Sir Maurice Henry Dorman           (s.a.)
21 Jun 1971 - 13 Dec 1974  Sir Anthony Mamo                   (s.a.)
                           (acting to 5 Jul 1971)

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Presidents

13 Dec 1974 - 27 Dec 1976
President of Malta = Sir Anthony Mamo (s.a.)
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27 Dec 1976 - 27 Dec 1981
President of Malta = Anton Buttigieg (b. 1912 - d. 1983)
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27 Dec 1981 - 15 Feb 1982
President of Malta = Albert V. Hyzler (acting) (b. 1916 - d. 1993)
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15 Feb 1982 - 15 Feb 1987
President of Malta = Agatha Barbara (f) (b. 1923 - d. 2002)
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15 Feb 1987 - 4 Apr 1989
President of Malta = Paul Xuereb (acting) (b. 1923 - d. 1994)
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4 Apr 1989 - 4 Apr 1994
President of Malta = Censu Tabone (b. 1913 - d. 2012)
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4 Apr 1994 - 4 Apr 1999
President of Malta = Ugo Mifsud Bonnici (b. 1932)
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4 Apr 1999 - 4 Apr 2004
President of Malta = Guido de Marco (b. 1931 - d. 2010)
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4 Apr 2004 - 4 Apr 2009
President of Malta = Eddie Fenech Adami (b. 1934)
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4 Apr 2009 - 4 Apr 2014
President of Malta = George Abela (b. 1948)
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4 Apr 2014 -
President of Malta = Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca (f) (b. 1958)
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Prime ministers

26 Oct 1921 - 13 Oct 1923
Prime minister of Malta = Joseph Howard (b. 1862 - d. 1925)
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13 Oct 1923 - 22 Sep 1924
Prime minister of Malta = Francesco Buhagiar (b. 1876 - d. 1934)
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Sep 1924 - Aug 1927
Prime minister of Malta = Ugo Pasquale Mifsud (1st time) (b. 1889 - d. 1942)
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Aug 1927 - 21 Jun 1932
Prime minister of Malta = Gerald Strickland, Count Della Catena,
(from 1928) Baron Strickland (b. 1861 - d. 1940)
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21 Jun 1932 - 2 Nov 1933
Prime minister of Malta = Sir Ugo Pasquale Mifsud (2nd time) (s.a.)
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4 Nov 1947 - 26 Sep 1950
Prime minister of Malta = Paul Boffa (b. 1890 - d. 1962)
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26 Sep 1950 - 20 Dec 1950
Prime minister of Malta = Enrico Mizzi (b. 1885 - d. 1950)
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20 Dec 1950 - 11 Mar 1955
Prime minister of Malta = Giorgio Borg Olivier (1st time) (b. 1911 - d. 1980)
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11 Mar 1955 - 26 Apr 1958
Prime minister of Malta = Dom Mintoff (1st time) (b. 1916 - d. 2012)
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3 Mar 1962 - 21 Jun 1971
Prime minister of Malta = Giorgio Borg Olivier (2nd time) (s.a.)
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21 Jun 1971 - 22 Dec 1984
Prime minister of Malta = Dom Mintoff (2nd time) (s.a.)
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22 Dec 1984 - 12 May 1987
Prime minister of Malta = Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici (b. 1933)
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12 May 1987 - 28 Oct 1996
Prime minister of Malta = Eddie Fenech Adami (1st time) (s.a.)
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28 Oct 1996 - 6 Sep 1998
Prime minister of Malta = Alfred Sant (b. 1948)
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6 Sep 1998 - 23 Mar 2004
Prime minister of Malta = Eddie Fenech Adami (2nd time) (s.a.)
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23 Mar 2004 - 11 Mar 2013
Prime minister of Malta = Lawrence Gonzi (b. 1953)
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11 Mar 2013 -
Prime minister of Malta = Joseph Muscat (b. 1974)
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Fenech Adami

Fenech Adami, Eddie, byname of Edward Fenech Adami
He was born 7-2-1934, Birkirkara, Malta),
prime minister (1987-96, 1998-2004) and president (2004-09) of Malta.

He joined the christian-democratic Nationalist Party in the early 1960s and after unsuccessfully contesting the 1962 and 1966 elections, he was co-opted to Parliament in 1969, following the death of a Nationalist member, and was shadow minister of labour and social services (1971-77).

He rapidly gained popularity within the party and, in the 1976 elections, his vote total was surpassed only by the leaders of the two major parties, Giorgio Borg Olivier and Dom Mintoff. He became leader of the Nationalist Party in 1977. He directed a vigorous political campaign to prevent a repetition of the 1981 general elections, when his party obtained an absolute majority of votes but a minority of parliamentary seats.

The same result would have emerged from the 1987 elections had not the House of Representatives amended the electoral laws. He became prime minister and applied himself to bringing about national reconciliation in an effort to eliminate the polarization dividing his fellow countrymen. His own residence had been ransacked and members of his family manhandled by Labour supporters on what became known as Black Monday (Oct. 15, 1979).

Socialist policies were rolled back and Malta applied for membership in the European Communities in 1990. He led his party to another electoral victory in 1992.

The Nationalists lost the 1996 election, but the period in opposition was short-lived, as Labour was unable to retain its majority in Parliament. In 1998 and again in 2003, he led the Nationalists to victory. On his 70th birthday he resigned as party leader and the next month also as prime minister; shortly afterwards he was elected president.







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