No Governor - General (Birth -- Death) Portrait Tenure Monarch Prime Minister Took office Left office Sir Kenneth Blackburne (1907 -- 1980) 6 August 1962 30 November 1962 Elizabeth II Bustamante Sir Clifford Campbell (1892 -- 1991) 1 December 1962 28 February 1973 Elizabeth II Bustamante Sangster Shearer Manley -- Sir Herbert Duffus (1908 -- 2002) 28 February 1973 27 June 1973 Elizabeth II Manley Sir Florizel Glasspole (1909 -- 2000) 27 June 1973 31 March 1991 Elizabeth II Manley Seaga Manley -- Sir Edward Zacca (1931 --) 31 March 1991 1 August 1991 Elizabeth II Manley Sir Howard Cooke (1915 -- 2014) 1 August 1991 15 February 2006 Elizabeth II Manley Patterson 5 Sir Kenneth O. Hall (1941 --) 15 February 2006 26 February 2009 Elizabeth II Patterson Simpson - Miller Golding 6 Sir Patrick Allen (1951 --) 26 February 2009 Incumbent Elizabeth II Golding Holness Simpson - Miller Holness
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Sir Patrick Allen