Orange Free State

A Boer Republic in central South Africa, established as a result of the Vortrekker migrations of the 1820's and 30's.

Ruler Name	Start Year	End Year	Notes	Kingdom
To Boers	c. 1825	1848		Orange Free State
To Great Britain	1848	1854		Orange Free State
To Orange Free State	1854	1902		Orange Free State
Josias Philip Hoffman	1854	1855		Orange Free State
Jacobus Johannes Venter	19551855	1855		Orange Free State
Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff	1855	1859		Orange Free State
Esaias Reynier Snijman	1859	1860		Orange Free State
Marthinus Wessel Pretorius	1860	1863		Orange Free State
Joseph Allison	1863	1863	Acting for Pretorius.	Orange Free State
Jacobus Johannes Venter	r. 1863	1864		Orange Free State
Sir Johannes Henricus Brand, GCMG	1864	1888	First Boer War	Orange Free State
Pieter Jeremias Blignaut	1888	1889		Orange Free State
Francis William Reitz	1889	1895		Orange Free State
Pieter Jeremias Blignaut	r. 1895	1896	Acting.	Orange Free State
Martinus Theunis Steyn	1896	1902	Second Boer War.	Orange Free State
Christiaan Rudolf de Wet	1902	1902	Acting for Steyn; 2 days.	Orange Free State
To Orange River Colony	1902	1910		Orange Free State
Alfred, Viscount Milner	1902	1905	Served also as Transvaal Colony Governor simultaneously.	Orange Free State
William Palmer, Earl of Selborne	1905	1907		Orange Free State
Sir Hamilton Goold-Adams	1907	1910		Orange Free State
To South Africa	1910	Present		Orange Free State