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.
(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)
Tenure | Portrait | Incumbent | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1 August 1886 to 28 September 1897 |
Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Commissioner-General |
||
1 August 1886 to 1 October 1886 |
Georges Élie Pradier, acting Commissioner-General |
Acting for Brazza | |
1 October 1886 to March 1887 |
Charles de Chavannes, acting Commissioner-General |
1st time; acting for Brazza | |
16 January 1888 to May 1890 |
Noël Ballay, acting Commissioner-General |
Acting for Brazza | |
25 November 1891 to March 1892 |
Charles de Chavannes, acting Commissioner-General |
2nd time; acting for Brazza | |
April 1892 to May 1892 | 3rd time; acting for Brazza | ||
June 1892 to March 1893 | 4th time; acting for Brazza | ||
17 March 1893 to 6 October 1893 |
Alphonse Edouard Lippmann, acting Commissioner-General |
Acting for Brazza | |
October 1893 to November 1893 |
E. Gervais, acting Commissioner-General |
Acting for Brazza | |
December 1893 to May 1894 |
Charles de Chavannes, acting Commissioner-General |
5th time; acting for Brazza | |
May 1894 to 1 June 1894 |
Jean-Marie Le Divellec, acting Commissioner-General |
Acting for Brazza | |
1 June 1894 to November 1894 |
Albert Dolisie , acting Commissioner-General |
1st time; acting for Brazza | |
January 1895 to January 1896 | 2nd time; acting for Brazza | ||
March 1897 to 28 September 1897 | 3rd time; acting for Brazza | ||
28 September 1897 to 28 April 1900 |
Henri-Félix de Lamothe , Commissioner-General |
||
June 1898 to October 1898 |
Albert Dolisie , acting Commissioner-General |
4th time; acting for Lamothe | |
October 1898 to April 1899 |
Martial Henri Merlin, acting Commissioner-General |
Acting for Lamothe | |
October 1899 to March 1900 |
Jean-Baptiste Philémon Lemaire, acting Commissioner-General |
Acting for Lamothe | |
28 April 1900 to December 1900 | |||
December 1900 to 1902 |
Albert Grodet, acting Commissioner-General |
||
1902 to 1903 |
Charles Noufflard , acting Commissioner-General |
||
1903 to 21 January 1904 | Arnaud, acting Commissioner-General |
||
21 January 1904 to 13 February 1908 |
Émile Gentil, Commissioner-General |
||
17 August 1905 to 11 May 1906 |
Édouard Émile Léon Telle, acting Commissioner-General |
Acting for Gentil | |
25 September 1906 to 5 April 1907 |
Alfred Fourneau, acting Commissioner-General |
Acting for Gentil | |
5 April 1907 to 28 June 1908 |
Alfred Albert Martineau, acting Commissioner-General |
Acting for Gentil | |
28 June 1908 to 15 May 1917 |
Martial Henri Merlin, Governor-General |
||
28 June 1908 to 16 February 1909 |
Alfred Albert Martineau, acting Governor-General |
Acting for Merlin | |
18 October 1909 to 1910 | Charles Amédée Rognon, acting Governor-General |
1st time; acting for Merlin | |
1910 |
Adolphe Cureau, acting Governor-General |
Acting for Merlin | |
1910 to 6 March 1911 | Charles Amédée Rognon, acting Governor-General |
2nd time; acting for Merlin | |
6 March 1911 to 1911 |
Édouard Dubosc-Taret, acting Governor-General |
Acting for Merlin | |
1911 to 11 May 1911 |
Charles Henri Vergnes, acting Governor-General |
1st time; acting for Merlin | |
17 October 1912 to c. May 1913 | 2nd time; acting for Merlin | ||
c. May 1913 to 17 November 1913 |
Georges Virgile Poulet, acting Governor-General |
Acting for Merlin | |
17 November 1913 to 14 September 1914 |
Frédéric Estèbe, acting Governor-General |
1st time; acting for Merlin | |
15 May 1917 to 16 May 1920 |
Gabriel Louis Angoulvant, Governor-General |
||
17 June 1917 to 23 July 1918 |
Frédéric Estèbe, acting Governor-General |
2nd time; acting for Angoulvant | |
August 1918 to 16 May 1920 | 3rd time; acting for Angoulvant | ||
16 May 1920 to 5 September 1920 |
Maurice Lapalud , acting Governor-General |
||
5 September 1920 to 21 August 1923 |
Victor Augagneur, Governor-General |
||
21 August 1923 to 8 July 1924 |
Robert Paul Marie de Guise, acting Governor-General |
1st time | |
8 July 1924 to 1924 |
Matteo Mathieu Maurice Alfassa, acting Governor-General |
1st time | |
1924 to 1 October 1924 |
Robert Paul Marie de Guise, acting Governor-General |
2nd time | |
1 October 1924 to 16 October 1924 |
Matteo Mathieu Maurice Alfassa, acting Governor-General |
2nd time | |
16 October 1924 to 20 September 1934 |
Raphaël Antonetti , Governor-General |
||
11 May 1925 to December 1925 |
Matteo Mathieu Maurice Alfassa, acting Governor-General |
3rd time; acting for Antonetti | |
22 January 1927 to 1927 |
Jean Marchessou, acting Governor-General |
1st time; acting for Antonetti | |
1927 to 17 October 1927 |
Joseph-François Reste , acting Governor-General |
1st time; acting for Antonetti | |
November 1929 to August 1930 |
Matteo Mathieu Maurice Alfassa, acting Governor-General |
4th time; acting for Antonetti | |
27 November 1930 to 11 March 1931 |
Adolphe Deitte, acting Governor-General |
Acting for Antonetti | |
December 1932 to 11 December 1933 |
Matteo Mathieu Maurice Alfassa, acting Governor-General |
5th time; acting for Antonetti | |
20 September 1934 to 16 October 1934 |
Jean Marchessou, acting Governor-General |
2nd time | |
16 October 1934 to 15 March 1935 |
Georges Édouard Alexandre Renard, Governor-General |
||
20 March 1935 to 5 April 1936 |
Jean Marchessou, acting Governor-General |
3rd time | |
5 April 1936 to 21 April 1939 |
Joseph-François Reste , Governor-General |
2nd time | |
21 April 1939 to 3 September 1939 |
Léon Solomiac, acting Governor-General |
||
3 September 1939 to 28 August 1940 |
Pierre Boisson, Governor-General |
||
17 July 1940 to 28 August 1940 |
Louis Husson, acting Governor-General |
Acting for Boisson | |
28 August 1940 to 12 November 1940 |
Edgard de Larminat, acting Governor-General |
Deposed in the Battle of Gabon | |
12 November 1940 to 30 December 1940 |
Adolphe Sicé , acting Governor-General |
||
30 December 1940 to 17 May 1944 |
Félix Éboué, Governor-General |
Acting to 15 July 1944 | |
August 1941 to July 1942 |
Adolphe Sicé , High Commissioner of Free French Africa |
||
15 February 1944 to 3 August 1946 |
André Bayardelle , Governor-General |
Acting to 2 October 1944 (for Éboué to 17 May 1944) | |
3 August 1946 to 5 June 1947 |
Jean Louis Marie André Soucadaux , acting Governor-General |
1st time | |
5 June 1947 to 5 July 1947 |
Laurent Péchoux , acting Governor-General |
||
5 July 1947 to 17 September 1947 |
Charles Luizet , Governor-General |
||
17 September 1947 to 26 March 1948 |
Jean Louis Marie André Soucadaux , Governor-General |
2nd time; acting to 15 November 1947 | |
26 March 1948 to 21 September 1951 |
Bernard Cornut-Gentille, Governor-General |
||
21 September 1951 to 4 April 1957 |
Paul Louis Gabriel Chauvet , Governor-General |
||
4 April 1957 to 29 January 1958 |
Paul Louis Gabriel Chauvet , High Commissioner |
||
29 January 1958 to 15 July 1958 |
Pierre Messmer, High Commissioner |
||
15 July 1958 to 15 August 1960 |
Yvon Bourges, High Commissioner |