He ended his career as governor of Guernsey, and in 1692 he began a five-year tenure as governor of Virginia, where he was surprisingly popular with the colony's planters.
He ended his career as governor of Guernsey, and in 1692 he began a five-year tenure as governor of Virginia, where he was surprisingly popular with the colony's planters. He clashed with New Jersey governor Philip Carteret (whom he arrested) when he was governor of New York in the 1670s, and was named Governor of the Dominion of New England when James II combined all of New England into one colony in 1686. For 10 points, name this tyrannical colonial governor toppled in 1689 in the American portion of the Glorious Revolution.
He ended his career as governor of Guernsey, and in 1692 he began a five-year tenure as governor of Virginia, where he was surprisingly popular with the colony's planters.
Edmund Andros