This is a list of European colonial administrators 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.
Tenure | Incumbent | Notes |
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French Equatorial Africa |
1 August 1886 to 28 September 1897Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Commissioner-General | |
1 August 1886 to 1 October 1886Georges Élie Pradier, acting Commissioner-GeneralActing for Brazza | | |
1 October 1886 to March 1887Fortunes Charles de Chavannes, acting Commissioner-General1st time; acting for Brazza | | |
16 January 1888 to May 1890Noël Eugène Ballay, acting Commissioner-GeneralActing for Brazza | | |
25 November 1891 to March 1892Fortunes Charles de Chavannes, acting Commissioner-General2nd time; acting for Brazza | | |
April 1892 to May 1892Fortunes Charles de Chavannes, acting Commissioner-General3rd time; acting for Brazza | | |
June 1892 to March 1893Fortunes Charles de Chavannes, acting Commissioner-General4th time; acting for Brazza | | |
17 March 1893 to 6 October 1893Alphonse Edouard Lippmann, acting Commissioner-GeneralActing for Brazza | | |
October 1893 to November 1893E. Gervais, acting Commissioner-GeneralActing for Brazza | | |
December 1893 to May 1894Fortunes Charles de Chavannes, acting Commissioner-General5th time; acting for Brazza | | |
May 1894 to 1 June 1894Jean-Marie Le Divellec, acting Commissioner-GeneralActing for Brazza | | |
1 June 1894 to November 1894Albert Dolisie, acting Commissioner-General1st time; acting for Brazza | | |
January 1895 to January 1896Albert Dolisie, acting Commissioner-General2nd time; acting for Brazza | | |
March 1897 to 28 September 1897Albert Dolisie, acting Commissioner-General3rd time; acting for Brazza | | |
28 September 1897 to 28 April 1900Henri Félix de Lamothe, Commissioner-General | |
June 1898 to October 1898Albert Dolisie, acting Commissioner-General4th time; acting for Lamothe | | |
October 1898 to April 1899Martial Henri Merlin, acting Commissioner-GeneralActing for Lamothe | | |
October 1899 to March 1900Jean-Baptiste Philémon Lemaire, acting Commissioner-GeneralActing for Lamothe | | |
28 April 1900 to December 1900Jean-Baptiste Philémon Lemaire, acting Commissioner-General | |
December 1900 to 1902Louis Albert Grodet, acting Commissioner-General | |
1902 to 1903Charles Henri Adrien 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-GeneralActing for Gentil | | |
25 September 1906 to 5 April 1907Alfred Fourneau, acting Commissioner-GeneralActing for Gentil | | |
5 April 1907 to 28 June 1908Alfred Albert Martineau, acting Commissioner-GeneralActing for Gentil | | |
28 June 1908 to 15 May 1917Martial Henri Merlin, Governor-General | |
28 June 1908 to 16 February 1909Alfred Albert Martineau, acting Governor-GeneralActing for Merlin | | |
18 October 1909 to 1910Charles Amédée Rognon, acting Governor-General1st time; acting for Merlin | | |
1910Adolphe Cureau, acting Governor-GeneralActing for Merlin | | |
1910 to 6 March 1911Charles Amédée Rognon, acting Governor-General2nd time; acting for Merlin | | |
6 March 1911 to 1911Édouard Dubosc-Taret, acting Governor-GeneralActing for Merlin | | |
1911 to 11 May 1911Charles Henri Vergnes, acting Governor-General1st time; acting for Merlin | | |
17 October 1912 to {{circa}} May 1913Charles Henri Vergnes, acting Governor-General2nd time; acting for Merlin | | |
{{circa}} May 1913 to 17 November 1913Georges Virgile Poulet, acting Governor-GeneralActing for Merlin | | |
17 November 1913 to 14 September 1914Frédéric Estèbe, acting Governor-General1st 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-General2nd time; acting for Angoulvant | | |
August 1918 to 16 May 1920Frédéric Estèbe, acting Governor-General3rd time; acting for Angoulvant | | |
16 May 1920 to 5 September 1920Maurice Pierre Lapalud, acting Governor-General | |
5 September 1920 to 21 August 1923Jean Victor Augagneur, Governor-General | |
21 August 1923 to 8 July 1924Robert Paul Marie de Guise, acting Governor-General1st time | | |
8 July 1924 to 1924Matteo Mathieu Maurice Alfassa, acting Governor-General1st time | | |
1924 to 1 October 1924Robert Paul Marie de Guise, acting Governor-General2nd time | | |
1 October 1924 to 16 October 1924Matteo Mathieu Maurice Alfassa, acting Governor-General2nd time | | |
16 October 1924 to 20 September 1934Raphaël Valentin Marius Antonetti, Governor-General | |
11 May 1925 to December 1925Matteo Mathieu Maurice Alfassa, acting Governor-General3rd time; acting for Antonetti | | |
22 January 1927 to 1927Jean Marchessou, acting Governor-General1st time; acting for Antonetti | | |
1927 to 17 October 1927Dieudonné François Joseph Marie Reste, acting Governor-General1st time; acting for Antonetti | | |
November 1929 to August 1930Matteo Mathieu Maurice Alfassa, acting Governor-General4th time; acting for Antonetti | | |
27 November 1930 to 11 March 1931Adolphe Deitte, acting Governor-GeneralActing for Antonetti | | |
December 1932 to 11 December 1933Matteo Mathieu Maurice Alfassa, acting Governor-General5th time; acting for Antonetti | | |
20 September 1934 to 16 October 1934Jean Marchessou, acting Governor-General2nd time | | |
16 October 1934 to 15 March 1935Georges Édouard Alexandre Renard, Governor-General | |
20 March 1935 to 5 April 1936Jean Marchessou, acting Governor-General3rd time | | |
5 April 1936 to 21 April 1939Dieudonné François Joseph Marie Reste, Governor-General2nd time | | |
21 April 1939 to 3 September 1939Léon Solomiac, acting Governor-General | |
3 September 1939 to 28 August 1940Pierre François Boisson, Governor-General | |
17 July 1940 to 28 August 1940Louis Husson, acting Governor-GeneralActing for Boisson | | |
28 August 1940 to 12 November 1940Edgard de Larminat, acting Governor-General | |
12 November 1940 to 30 December 1940Marie Eugène Adolphe Sicé, acting Governor-General | |
30 December 1940 to 17 May 1944Adolphe Félix Sylvestre Éboué, Governor-GeneralActing to 15 July 1944 | | |
August 1941 to July 1942Marie Eugène Adolphe Sicé, High Commissioner of Free French Africa | |
15 February 1944 to 3 August 1946Ange Marie Charles André Bayardelle, Governor-GeneralActing to 2 October 1944 (for Éboué to 17 May 1944) | | |
3 August 1946 to 5 June 1947Jean Louis Marie André Soucadaux, acting Governor-General1st time | | |
5 June 1947 to 5 July 1947Laurent Elisée 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-General2nd 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 | |