Alonso de Zuazo

Alonso de Zuazo
Governor of New Spain
In office
October 12, 1524 – May 23, 1525
Serving with Alonso de Estrada & Rodrigo de Albornoz (– 29 December 1524); Gonzalo de Salazar & Pedro Almíndez Chirino (– 17 February 1525); Gonzalo de Salazar, Pedro Almíndez Chirino, Alonso de Estrada, & Rodrigo de Albornoz (– 20 April 1525); Gonzalo de Salazar & Pedro Almíndez Chirino (– 23 May 1525)
Preceded byHernán Cortés
Succeeded byGonzalo de Salazar
Pedro Almíndez Chirino
Governor of Santo Domingo
In office
1524–1528
Governor of Santo Domingo
In office
1531–1533
Personal details
Born1466
Segovia or Olmedo, Spain
DiedMarch 1539
Santo Domingo

Alonso de Zuazo (also spelled Suazo) (1466 – March 1539) was a Spanish lawyer and colonial judge and governor in New Spain and in Santo Domingo. He served in New Spain during the period of Hernán Cortés's government and before the appointment of the first viceroy. He was a member of all of the various triumvirates that governed the colony between October 12, 1524 and May 23, 1525, in the absence of Cortés.