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Historic Premiers Gallery

Published date: February 21, 2025

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Here in the Historic Premiers Gallery, you can explore the history of Prince Edward Island premiers. There is a photo and brief biography available for each premier who has served the province

View the full Historic Premiers Gallery album in Flickr

Premiers Gallery
Image	Name of Premier	Years of Service
	George Coles	1851-1854, 1855-1859, 1867-1869
	John Holl	1854-1855
	Edward Palmer	1859-1863
	John Hamilton Gray	1863-1865
	J.C. Pope	1865-1867, 1870, 1873
	Joseph Hensley	1869
	Robert Poore Haythorne	1869 to 1870, 1871 to 1873
	Lemuel Cambridge Owen	1873 to 1876
	Sir Louis Henry Davies	1876 to 1879
	William Wilfred Sullivan	1879 to 1889
	Neil McLeod	1889 to 1891
	Frederick Peters	1891 to 1897
	Alexander Bannerman Warburton	1897 to 1898
	Donald Farquharson	1899 to 1901
	Arthur Peters	1901 to 1908
	Francis Longworth Haszard	11908 to 1911
	H. James Palmer	1911
	John Alexander Mathieson	1911 to 1917
	Aubin-Edmond Arsenault	1917 to 1919
	John Howatt Bell	1919 to 1923
	James David Stewart	1923 to 1927, 1931 to 1933
	Albert Charles Saunders	1927 to 1930
	Walter Maxfield Lea	1930 to 1931, 1935 to 1936
	Dr. William J.P. MacMillan	1933 to 1935
	Thane A. Campbell	1936 to 1943
	John Walter Jones	1943 to 1953
	Alexander W. Matheson	1953 to 1959
	Walter Russell Shaw	1959 to 1966
	Alexander B. Campbell	1966 to 1978
	William Bennett Campbell	1978 to 1979
	J. Angus MacLean	1979 to 1981
	James Matthew Lee	1981 to 1986
	Joseph Atallah Ghiz	1986 to 1993
	Catherine Sophia Callbeck	1993 to 1996
	Keith Milligan	1996
	Pat Binns	1996 to 2007
	Robert Ghiz	2007 to 2015
	Wade H. MacLauchlan	2015 to 2019
	Dennis King	2019 to 2025
	Rob Lantz	2025 - present