# List of colonial governors of Louisiana

This is a list of the colonial governors of Louisiana, from the founding of the first settlement by the French in 1699 to the territory's acquisition by the United States in 1803.
The French and Spanish governors administered a territory which was much larger than the modern U.S. state of Louisiana, comprising Louisiana (New France) and Louisiana (New Spain), respectively. As part of the Third Treaty of San Ildefonso (1800), Spain retroceded Louisiana to the French Republic, but Spain continued to administer the territory until 1803 when French officials arrived shortly before the sale of Louisiana to the United States.
At the same time, there are parts of present-day Louisiana which were historically administered by other European powers, with the most prominent example being the area known as the Florida Parishes, north of Lake Pontchartrain and east of the Mississippi River. This territory was originally part of French Louisiana, but it was administered by the Kingdom of Great Britain from 1763 to 1783, following the British victory in the French and Indian War, and then by Spain from 1783 until the West Florida Revolt in 1810.

## List
### French Louisiana (1682–1762)

| # | Name (Birth–Death) | Took office | Left office |
| 1 | Sauvolle (1671–1701) | 1699 | 1701 (Died in office) |
| 2 | Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville (1680–1767) | 1701 | 1713 |
| 3 | Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac (1658–1730) | 1713 | 1716 |
| 4 | Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville (1680–1767) | 1716 | 1717 |
| 5 | Jean-Michel de Lepinay (c. 1665–1721) | 1717 | 1718 |
| 6 | Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville (1680–1767) | 1718 | 1724 |
| 7 | Pierre Dugué de Boisbriand (1675–1736) | 1724 | 1726 |
| 8 | Étienne Perier (1686–1766) | 1726 | 1733 |
| 9 | Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville (1680–1767) | 1733 | 1743 |
| 10 | Pierre de Rigaud de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial (1698–1778) | 1743 | 1753 |
| 11 | Louis Billouart (1704–1770) | 1753 | 1763 |
| 12 | Jean-Jacques Blaise d'Abbadie (1726–1765) | 1763 | 1765 (Died in office) |
| 13 | Charles Philippe Aubry (c. 1720–1770) | 1765 | 1768 |

### Spanish Louisiana (1762–1803)

| # | Name (Birth–Death) | Took office | Left office |
| 1 | Antonio de Ulloa (1716–1795) | 1766 | 1768 |
| 2 | Charles Philippe Aubry (c. 1720–1770) | 1768 | 1769 |
| 3 | Alejandro O'Reilly (1722–1794) | 1769 | 1769 |
| 4 | Luis de Unzaga (1721–1790) | 1770 | 1777 |
| 5 | Bernardo de Gálvez (1746–1786) | 1777 | 1785 |
| 6 | Esteban Rodríguez Miró (1744–1795) | 1785 | 1791 |
| 7 | Francisco Luis Héctor de Carondelet (1748–1807) | 1791 | 1797 |
| 8 | Manuel Gayoso de Lemos (1747–1799) | 1797 | 1799 |
| 9 | Francisco Bouligny (1736–1800) | 1799 | 1799 |
| 10 | Sebastián Calvo de la Puerta y O'Farrill (1751–1820) | 1799 | 1801 |
| — | Nicolás María Vidal (Acting Civil Governor) (1739–1806) | 1799 | 1801 |
| 11 | Juan Manuel de Salcedo (1743–c. 1810) | 1801 | 1803 |

### French Republic Louisiana (1803–1803)

| # | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Took office | Left office |
| 1 | | Pierre Clément de Laussat (1756–1835) | 1803 | 1803 |
| ↑ Laussat was named colonial prefect in August 1802 and arrived in New Orleans on March 26, 1803, to prepare the territory for the arrival of Governor General Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte. However, news of the Sale of Louisiana reached Bernadotte before he set sail from La Rochelle in May 1803 and he refused the position. Spain officially transferred control of Louisiana to Laussat on November 30, 1803, and he oversaw the transfer of the territory to the United States on December 20, 1803. |||||