WordNet
n. the head of a government established by the military (as in a defeated country)
Usage examples of "military governor".
Presidius, a loyal Italian, as he fled from Ravenna to Rome, was rudely stopped by Constantine, the military governor of Spoleto, and despoiled, even in a church, of two daggers richly inlaid with gold and precious stones.
So Washington made him military governor of Philadelphia after the British left.
Elsewhere, a healed Ranulf -- son of Admiral Trommer -- sent to M'Haeli to act as aide to military governor Grigor.
He had fought with Wolfe in the decisive battle for Quebec, where directly after the war, in 1760, he had been made military governor.
Then the Manchus took over the whole of China and I became a Military Governor.
Next month your friend Leonard Wood will become military governor of Cuba.
The new military governor of the province will be my direct representative, not the Council's.
For my efforts, I stand to be appointed military governor of the K’.
My legal officer and I have come up with a precedent: a captain who assumed emergency powers as temporary military governor of the Danzig System during the Theban War and was upheld afterward.
He and he alone decided how much paper to import, and who would get allotments, so the editors grovelled to him and to the Military Governor- There was no criticism in the editorials.
However, one of Huxley's first acts as military governor-he would not let himself be called even 'Provisional President'-was to divorce all official connection between the Lodge and the Free United States Army.