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A '''Roman governor''' was an official either elected or appointed to be the chief administrator of [[Roman law]] throughout one or more of the many [[Roman province|provinces]] constituting the [[Roman Empire]].
 
The generic term in Roman legal language was ''[[Rectorrector provinciae]],'' regardless of the specific titles, which also reflects the province's intrinsic and strategic status, and corresponding differences in authority.
 
By the time of the early [[Roman Empire|Empire]], two types of provinces existed—[[Senatorial province|senatorial]] and [[Imperial province|imperial]]—and several types of governor would emerge. Only ''proconsuls'' and ''propraetors'' fell under the classification of [[promagistrate]].