A governor was a public official.
Lawson was the governor of the Galápagos Islands when Charles Darwin visited them. (AUDIO: Bloodtide)
Before becoming President of the United States, Ronald Reagan was an actor and the Governor of California. (PROSE: The Assassin's Story)
After Oswald Danes' execution failed in 2011, the Governor of Kentucky was legally forced to parole him. (TV: The New World)
The governor of Broadfell Prison was "replaced", and she and the prison guards tried to resurrect Mr Saxon. They succeeded, but he took the life force of the governor and her associates. (TV: The End of Time)
Thousands of Dalek governors made up the Parliament of the Daleks. (PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe)
In the Unbound Universe, Brian Hook was the last governor of Hong Kong before the city was turned over to China. (AUDIO: Sympathy for the Devil)