List of Governors-General of French Equatorial Africa
List
(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)

List of Governors-General of French Equatorial Africa

Section Title: List
Table Section Text: (Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)

Tenure	Incumbent	Notes

French Equatorial Africa

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	Fortunes Charles de Chavannes, acting Commissioner-General	1st time; acting for Brazza

16 January 1888 to May 1890	Noël Eugène Ballay, acting Commissioner-General	Acting for Brazza

25 November 1891 to March 1892	Fortunes Charles de Chavannes, acting Commissioner-General	2nd time; acting for Brazza

April 1892 to May 1892	Fortunes Charles de Chavannes, acting Commissioner-General	3rd time; acting for Brazza

June 1892 to March 1893	Fortunes Charles de Chavannes, acting Commissioner-General	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	Fortunes 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	Albert Dolisie, acting Commissioner-General	2nd time; acting for Brazza

March 1897 to 28 September 1897	Albert Dolisie, acting Commissioner-General	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	Jean-Baptiste Philémon Lemaire, acting Commissioner-General

December 1900 to 1902	Louis Albert Grodet, acting Commissioner-General

1902 to 1903	Charles Henri Adrien 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	Charles Henri Vergnes, acting Governor-General	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	Frédéric Estèbe, acting Governor-General	3rd time; acting for Angoulvant

16 May 1920 to 5 September 1920	Maurice Pierre Lapalud, acting Governor-General

5 September 1920 to 21 August 1923	Jean 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 Valentin Marius 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	Dieudonné François Joseph Marie 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	Dieudonné François Joseph Marie 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 François 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

12 November 1940 to 30 December 1940	Marie Eugène Adolphe Sicé, acting Governor-General

30 December 1940 to 17 May 1944	Adolphe Félix Sylvestre Éboué, Governor-General	Acting to 15 July 1944

August 1941 to July 1942	Marie Eugène Adolphe Sicé, High Commissioner of Free French Africa

15 February 1944 to 3 August 1946	Ange Marie Charles 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 Elisée 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

Sentence(s)

Jean Marchessou was one of a Acting Governor-General of French Equatorial Africa in 1927.

final_sentence: Jean Marchessou was one of a Acting Governor-General of French Equatorial Africa in 1927.