Born and raised in St. Thomas in his formative years, when Governor Bryan was a teenager, he moved with his parents and four brothers to St. Croix. Governor Bryan’s commitment…

RALPH M. PAIEWONSKY was born in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands on November 9, 1907. He graduated from New York University. He served on the Municipal Council of St.…

MELVIN HERBERT EVANS, the first elected Governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands, was born on August 7, 1917, in Christiansted, St. Croix, Virgin Islands, soon after the island had been…

CYRIL EMMANUEL KING was born in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, on April 7, 1921. King served with the U.S. Army during World War II. In 1951, he received a…

JUAN FRANCISCO LUIS was born in Vieques, Puerto Rico, in 1940. When he was two months old, the family moved to St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. Luis earned an equivalency…

ALEXANDER A. FARRELLY was born in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. He entered the U.S. Army where he served with distinction and attained the rank of sergeant before his honorable…

ROY LESTER SCHNEIDER, M.D., was born in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. He received a bachelor's degree in 1961 and a medical degree in 1965 from Howard University. He was…

CHARLES W. TURNBULL was born in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. After completing his elementary and secondary education in the public school system of the Virgin Islands, he…

John Percy de Jongh, Jr., became governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands on January 1, 2007. During his tenure, he championed early childhood education issues, establishing the Children and Families…

Kenneth Mapp became governor of the Virgin Islands on January 5, 2015. Mapp began his career in public service as a police officer in New York and the Virgin Islands.…