List of governors-general of French Equatorial Africa

This is a list of European colonial administrators (French: Gouverneur général de l'Afrique équatoriale française) responsible for the territory of French Equatorial Africa, an area equivalent to modern-day Gabon, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic and Chad.

French Equatorial Africa.

List

(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)

Tenure Portrait Incumbent Notes
1 August 1886 to 28 September 1897Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza,
Commissioner-General
1 August 1886 to 1 October 1886Georges Élie Pradier,
acting Commissioner-General
Acting for Brazza
1 October 1886 to March 1887Charles de Chavannes,
acting Commissioner-General
1st time; acting for Brazza
16 January 1888 to May 1890Noël Ballay,
acting Commissioner-General
Acting for Brazza
25 November 1891 to March 1892Charles de Chavannes,
acting Commissioner-General
2nd time; acting for Brazza
April 1892 to May 18923rd time; acting for Brazza
June 1892 to March 18934th time; acting for Brazza
17 March 1893 to 6 October 1893Alphonse Edouard Lippmann,
acting Commissioner-General
Acting for Brazza
October 1893 to November 1893E. Gervais,
acting Commissioner-General
Acting for Brazza
December 1893 to May 1894Charles de Chavannes,
acting Commissioner-General
5th time; acting for Brazza
May 1894 to 1 June 1894Jean-Marie Le Divellec,
acting Commissioner-General
Acting for Brazza
1 June 1894 to November 1894Albert Dolisie,
acting Commissioner-General
1st time; acting for Brazza
January 1895 to January 18962nd time; acting for Brazza
March 1897 to 28 September 18973rd time; acting for Brazza
28 September 1897 to 28 April 1900Henri-Félix de Lamothe,
Commissioner-General
June 1898 to October 1898Albert Dolisie,
acting Commissioner-General
4th time; acting for Lamothe
October 1898 to April 1899Martial Henri Merlin,
acting Commissioner-General
Acting for Lamothe
October 1899 to March 1900Jean-Baptiste Philémon Lemaire,
acting Commissioner-General
Acting for Lamothe
28 April 1900 to December 1900
December 1900 to 1902Albert Grodet,
acting Commissioner-General
1902 to 1903Charles Noufflard,
acting Commissioner-General
1903 to 21 January 1904Arnaud,
acting Commissioner-General
21 January 1904 to 13 February 1908Émile Gentil,
Commissioner-General
17 August 1905 to 11 May 1906Édouard Émile Léon Telle,
acting Commissioner-General
Acting for Gentil
25 September 1906 to 5 April 1907Alfred Fourneau,
acting Commissioner-General
Acting for Gentil
5 April 1907 to 28 June 1908Alfred Albert Martineau,
acting Commissioner-General
Acting for Gentil
28 June 1908 to 15 May 1917Martial Henri Merlin,
Governor-General
28 June 1908 to 16 February 1909Alfred Albert Martineau,
acting Governor-General
Acting for Merlin
18 October 1909 to 1910Charles Amédée Rognon,
acting Governor-General
1st time; acting for Merlin
1910Adolphe Cureau,
acting Governor-General
Acting for Merlin
1910 to 6 March 1911Charles Amédée Rognon,
acting Governor-General
2nd time; acting for Merlin
6 March 1911 to 1911Édouard Dubosc-Taret,
acting Governor-General
Acting for Merlin
1911 to 11 May 1911Charles Henri Vergnes,
acting Governor-General
1st time; acting for Merlin
17 October 1912 to c. May 19132nd time; acting for Merlin
c. May 1913 to 17 November 1913Georges Virgile Poulet,
acting Governor-General
Acting for Merlin
17 November 1913 to 14 September 1914Frédéric Estèbe,
acting Governor-General
1st time; acting for Merlin
15 May 1917 to 16 May 1920Gabriel Louis Angoulvant,
Governor-General
17 June 1917 to 23 July 1918Frédéric Estèbe,
acting Governor-General
2nd time; acting for Angoulvant
August 1918 to 16 May 19203rd time; acting for Angoulvant
16 May 1920 to 5 September 1920Maurice Lapalud,
acting Governor-General
5 September 1920 to 21 August 1923Victor Augagneur,
Governor-General
21 August 1923 to 8 July 1924Robert Paul Marie de Guise,
acting Governor-General
1st time
8 July 1924 to 1924Matteo Mathieu Maurice Alfassa,
acting Governor-General
1st time
1924 to 1 October 1924Robert Paul Marie de Guise,
acting Governor-General
2nd time
1 October 1924 to 16 October 1924Matteo Mathieu Maurice Alfassa,
acting Governor-General
2nd time
16 October 1924 to 20 September 1934Raphaël Antonetti,
Governor-General
11 May 1925 to December 1925Matteo Mathieu Maurice Alfassa,
acting Governor-General
3rd time; acting for Antonetti
22 January 1927 to 1927Jean Marchessou,
acting Governor-General
1st time; acting for Antonetti
1927 to 17 October 1927Joseph-François Reste,
acting Governor-General
1st time; acting for Antonetti
November 1929 to August 1930Matteo Mathieu Maurice Alfassa,
acting Governor-General
4th time; acting for Antonetti
27 November 1930 to 11 March 1931Adolphe Deitte,
acting Governor-General
Acting for Antonetti
December 1932 to 11 December 1933Matteo Mathieu Maurice Alfassa,
acting Governor-General
5th time; acting for Antonetti
20 September 1934 to 16 October 1934Jean Marchessou,
acting Governor-General
2nd time
16 October 1934 to 15 March 1935Georges Édouard Alexandre Renard,
Governor-General
20 March 1935 to 5 April 1936Jean Marchessou,
acting Governor-General
3rd time
5 April 1936 to 21 April 1939Joseph-François Reste,
Governor-General
2nd time
21 April 1939 to 3 September 1939Léon Solomiac,
acting Governor-General
3 September 1939 to 28 August 1940Pierre Boisson,
Governor-General
17 July 1940 to 28 August 1940Louis Husson,
acting Governor-General
Acting for Boisson
28 August 1940 to 12 November 1940Edgard de Larminat,
acting Governor-General
Deposed in the Battle of Gabon
12 November 1940 to 30 December 1940Adolphe Sicé,
acting Governor-General
30 December 1940 to 17 May 1944Félix Éboué,
Governor-General
Acting to 15 July 1944
August 1941 to July 1942Adolphe Sicé,
High Commissioner of Free French Africa
15 February 1944 to 3 August 1946André Bayardelle,
Governor-General
Acting to 2 October 1944 (for Éboué to 17 May 1944)
3 August 1946 to 5 June 1947Jean Louis Marie André Soucadaux,
acting Governor-General
1st time
5 June 1947 to 5 July 1947Laurent Péchoux,
acting Governor-General
5 July 1947 to 17 September 1947Charles Luizet,
Governor-General
17 September 1947 to 26 March 1948Jean Louis Marie André Soucadaux,
Governor-General
2nd time; acting to 15 November 1947
26 March 1948 to 21 September 1951Bernard Cornut-Gentille,
Governor-General
21 September 1951 to 4 April 1957Paul Louis Gabriel Chauvet,
Governor-General
4 April 1957 to 29 January 1958Paul Louis Gabriel Chauvet,
High Commissioner
29 January 1958 to 15 July 1958Pierre Messmer,
High Commissioner
15 July 1958 to 15 August 1960Yvon Bourges,
High Commissioner

See also

  • Ben Cahoon (2000). "French Equatorial Africa". WorldStatesmen.org. Retrieved 15 January 2017.
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