List of colonial governors of Senegal
Table:
Tenure

Incumbent

Notes

French rule of Saint-Louis, Senegal and Gorée Island by Chartered Companies

Expanding to small posts along West African Coast as Far as Gabon until 1850s

Governors of the Compagnie Normande [fr]

1626 to 1658

1626–1631
Jacques Fumechon

1631–1641
Thomas Lambert

1641–1648
Jean Caullier

1649–1650
de Soussy

1651–1658
Mésineau

Governors of the Compagnie du Cap-Vert et du Sénégal [fr]

1658 to 1664

1658–1661
Raguenet

1661–28 May 1664
de Boulay

Governors of the Compagnie Française des Indes Occidentales

1664 to 1672

28 May 1664 – 1668
Jacquet

1668– 9 April 1672
de Richemont

Governor of the Compagnie du Sénégal

1672 to 1673

1672–1673
Richemont[disambiguation needed]
(acting)

Director of the Compagnie du Sénégal

1674 to 1682

1674–1682
Jacques Fumechon

Director of the Compagnie d'Afrique

1682 to 1684

1682–12 September 1684
Denis Basset

Directors of the Compagnie de Guinée [fr]

1684 to 1696

12 September 1684 – 1689
Louis Moreau de Chambonneau [fr]
(1st time)

1689–1690
Michel Jajolet de la Courbe [fr]

1690 – Jan 1693
Louis Moreau de Chambonneau [fr]
(2nd time)

Jan 1693 – Jul 1693
n/a
Vacant

Jul 1693 – Mar 1696
Jean Bourguignon
(2nd time)

Directors of the Compagnie Royale du Sénégal

1696 to 1709

Mar 1696– 4 April 1697
Jean Bourguignon
(acting)

4 April 1697 – 1 May 1702
André Brue
(b. 1654–d. 1738)

1702–1706
Joseph Lemaitre
(b. 1654–d. 1738)

1706–1709
Michel Jajolet de la Courbe [fr]
(b. 1654–d. 1738)

Directors of the Compagnie de Rouen

1710 to 1718

1710–15 August 1711
Guillaume Joseph Mustellier
(d. 1711)

1712– 2 May 1713
Pierre de Richebourg

20 April 1714 – 15 December 1718
André Brué

Directors of the Compagnie des Indes Orientales

1718 to 1758

15 December 1718 – May 1720
André Brue

May 1720 – Apr 1723
Nicolas Desprès de Saint-Robert
(d. 1725/26)(1st time)

1723–1725
Julien du Bellay

1725
Nicolas Desprès de Saint-Robert
(2nd time)

1725–1726
Arnaud Plumet

1726–1733
Jean Levens de la Rouquette

1733– 7 March 1733
Lejuge
(d. 1733)

1733–1738
Sebastian Devaulx
(acting to 1736)

1738–1746
Pierre Félix Barthélemy David
(b. 1711–d. 1795)

1746–30 April 1758
Jean-Baptiste Estoupan de la Brüe[1]

British Seizure of Senegalese Possessions Ruled From Gorée Island and The Gambia.

British Governors

1758 to 1779

30 April 1758 – 10 February 1763
Richard Alchorne Worge

10 February 1763 – 25 May 1765
John Barnes

25 May 1765 – Nov 1775
Charles O'Hara

25 May 1765 – Apr 1766
Joseph Debat
(Gambia Superintendent of Trade)

Nov 1775– 8 April 1777
Matthias MacNamara

8 April 1777 – 18 August 1778
John Clarke

18 August 1778 – 11 February 1779
William Lacy
(did not assume office)

18 August 1778 – 11 February 1779
George Fall
(acting)

British Lieutenant Governors

1776 to 1779

Apr 1776–24 January 1774
Joseph Debat

24 January 1774 – Aug 1775
William Myres

Aug 1774 – Nov 1775
Matthias MacNamara

Nov 1775 – Dec 1775
Thomas Sharpless
(acting)

Dec 1775– 8 August 1776
Joseph Wall
(b. 1737–d. 1802)

8 August 1776 – 1776
George Fall
(acting) (1st time)

1776–18 August 1778
William Lacy
(acting)

18 August 1778 – 11 February 1779
George Fall
(acting) (2nd time)

French Reclaiming of Senegalese Possessions Ruled From Saint-Louis, Senegal and Gorée Island.

Royal government, then French First Republic, then French First Empire. From 1789 under Ministry of the Navy, controlling all posts to Gabon.

French Governors

1779 to 1809

11 February 1779 – Mar 1779
Armand Louis de Gontaut
duc de Lauzun (b. 1747–d. 1793)

Mar 1779– 7 March 1781
Jacques Joseph Eyries

7 March 1781 – Jul 1782
J.B. Bertrand
(acting)

Jul 1782 – Feb 1784
Anne Gaston Dumontet

Feb 1784 – Feb 1786
Louis Legardeur
sieur de Repentigny (b. 1721–d. 1786)

Feb 1786 – Dec 1787
Stanislas Jean Boufflers
chevalier de Boufflers (b. 1738–d. 1815)

Dec 1787 – Jan 1801
François Blanchot de Verly [fr]
(b. 17..–d. 1807)(1st time)

Jan 1801– 2 July 1802
Charbonnes
(acting)

2 July 1802 – 27 October 1802
Louis Henri Pierre Lasserre

27 October 1802 – 12 September 1807
François Blanchot de Verly [fr]
(2nd time)

Sep 1807–13 July 1809
Pierre Levasseur

British Seizure of Senegalese Possessions Ruled From Gorée Island and The Gambia.

British Governors

1809 to 1817

13 July 1809 – 1811
Charles William Maxwell
(d. 1848)

1811–1814
Charles MacCarthy
(b. 1764–d. 1824)

1814–25 January 1817
Thomas Brereton

French Reclaim Senegalese Possessions Ruled From Saint-Louis, Senegal and Gorée Island.

Royal government restored by British. Under Ministry of the Navy, controlling all posts to Gabon until the 1850s.

French Commandants

1817 to 1828

25 January 1817 – Dec 1817
Julien Schmaltz
(1st time)

Dec 1817–13 March 1819
Aimé-Benjamin Fleuriau
(acting)

13 March 1819 – 14 August 1820
Julien Schmaltz
(2nd time)

14 August 1820 – 1 March 1821
Louis-Jean-Baptiste Le Coupé de Montereau, baron Lecoupe
(acting)

1 March 1821 – 18 May 1827
Jacques-François Roger, baron Roger after 1824[2]
(b. 1787 )

18 May 1827 – 7 January 1828
Hyacinthe-Benjamin Gerbidon
(acting)

French Governors

7 January 1828 – 11 May 1829
Jean Jubelin [fr]
(b. 1787)

11 May 1829 – 24 May 1831
Pierre-Édouard Brou [fr]

24 May 1831 – 18 October 1833
Thomas Renault de Saint-Germain
(d. 1833)

18 October 1833 – 15 November 1833
Jean-Baptiste Bertrand Armand Cadéot
(acting)

13 November 1833 – 10 May 1834
Eustache-Louis-Jean Quernel [fr]

10 May 1834 – 1 July 1836
Louis Pujol

1 July 1836 – Dec 1836
Médéric Malavois [fr]

Dec 1836–13 September 1837
Louis-Laurent-Auguste Guillet
(acting)

13 September 1837 – 12 April 1839
Julien-Armand Soret [fr]

1839–1854: Posts from Gambia south under command of Naval Division of the Western Coasts of Africa. See Colonial heads of Gabon

12 April 1839 – 19 May 1841
Pons-Guillaume-Bazile Charmasson de Puylaval [fr]
(b. 1780)

19 May 1841 – 7 May 1842
Jean-Baptiste Montagniès de La Roque [fr]
(b. 1761)

1842–1860: For subdivision Colony of Gorée and Dependencies see Colonial heads of Côte d'Ivoire

7 May 1842 – 5 February 1843
Paul Pageot Des Noutières

5 February 1843 – 24 May 1844
Édouard Bouët-Willaumez
(b. 1808–d. 1871)

24 May 1844 – Jul 1844
Auguste-Lazare Laborel
(acting)

Jul 1844–11 December 1845
Pierre Thomas
(acting)

11 December 1845 – 20 March 1846
François-Marie-Charles Ollivier
(d. 1846)

20 March 1846 – 30 August 1846
Hoube
(acting)

30 August 1846 – 24 August 1847
Ernest Bourdon [fr], count of Gramont
(b. 1805–d. 1847)

24 August 1847 – 7 September 1847
Caille
(acting) (d. 1847)

7 September 1847 – Nov 1847
Léandre Bertin du Château
(acting) (b. 1804–d. 1884)

Nov 1847 – Aug 1850
Auguste Baudin
(b. 1800–d. 1877)

Aug 1850–11 October 1850
Aumont
(acting)

11 October 1850 – 16 December 1854
Auguste Léopold Protet
(1st time) (b. 1808–d. 1862)

May 1853–30 January 1854
André César Vérand
(acting for Protet)

31 January 1854 – 16 December 1854
Auguste Léopold Protet
(2nd time)

1854: all other West African possessions fall under subdivision of Senegal: Colony of Gorée and Dependencies.

16 December 1854 – 1 June 1861
Louis Léon César Faidherbe
(b. 1818–d. 1889)

4 September 1858 – 12 February 1859
A. Robin
(acting for Faidherbe)

4 October 1860: Ivory Coast territory moved to the Ivory Coast-Gabon colony see Colonial heads of Côte d'Ivoire

1 June 1861 – 1 December 1861
Léopold François Stephan
(acting) (b. 1815)

1 December 1861 – 13 May 1863
Jean Bernard Jauréguiberry
(b. 1815–d. 1887)

13 May 1863 – 14 July 1863
Émile Pinet-Laprade
(1st time)(b. 1822–d. 1869)(acting)

14 July 1863 – 1 May 1865
Louis Léon César Faidherbe
(2nd time)

1 May 1865 – 17 August 1869
Émile Pinet-Laprade
(2nd time) (acting to 12 July 1865)

18 August 1869 – 17 October 1869
Ferdinand Charles Alexandre Tredos
(b. 1820 )(acting)

17 October 1869 – 18 June 1876
François-Xavier Michel Valière
(b. 1826–d. 1886)

18 June 1876 – Apr 1880
Louis Briere de l'Isle
(b. 1827–d. 1896)

27 February 1880: Haut-Sénégal military region created as sub division. See Colonial heads of Mali

Apr 1880– 4 August 1881
Louis Ferdinand de Lanneau
(b. 1822 )

4 August 1881 – Oct 1881
Marie Auguste Deville de Perière
(b. 1825 ) (acting)

Oct 1881–28 June 1882
Henri Philibert Canard
(b. 1824–d. 1894)

1882: Coastal sections of Guinea separated from Senegal, become Rivières du Sud, later French Guinee.

28 June 1882 – 16 November 1882
Aristide Louis Antoine Vallon
(b. 1826–d. 1897)

16 November 1882 – 28 June 1883
René Servatius

28 June 1883 – 25 July 1883
Adolphe Ernest Auguste Le Boucher
(b. 1837–d. 1896) (acting)

25 July 1883 – 15 April 1884
Henry Bourdiaux
(acting) (b. 1838–d. 1899)

15 April 1884 – 14 April 1886
Alphonse Seignac-Lesseps

1886: Gabon and Eastern coastal possessions separated from Senegal, become French Congo

14 April 1886 – 29 April 1888
Jules Genouille
(b. 1839–d. 1923)

29 April 1888 – 22 September 1890
Léon Émile Clément-Thomas

18 August 1890: French Sudan Territory separated from Senegal. See: Colonial heads of Mali

22 September 1890 – 19 May 1895
Henri Félix de Lamothe
(b. 1843–d. 1926)

19 May 1895 – 28 June 1895
Louis Mouttet
(acting)(b. 1857–d. 1902)

Incorporated into French West Africa – 16 June 1895 Command of French West Africa Handed to Governor General

Governors of Sénégal now subordinate to Governor General of French West Africa

28 June 1895 – 1 November 1900
Jean Baptiste Émile Louis
(b. 1853–d. 19..)

1 November 1900 – 26 January 1902
Noël Eugène Ballay
(b. 1847–d. 1902)

26 January 1902 – 15 March 1902
Pierre Paul Marie Capest
(b. 1857–d. 19..)

15 March 1902 – 11 November 1902
Ernest Roume
(b. 1858–d. 1934)

11 November 1902 – 26 August 1907
Camille Lucien Xavier Guy
(b. 1860–d. 1929)

26 August 1907 – 15 December 1907
Joost van Vollenhoven
(acting) (b. 1877–d. 1918)

15 December 1907 – 10 June 1908
Martial Henri Merlin
(b. 1860–d. 1935)

10 June 1908 – 17 October 1908
Jean Jules Émile Peuvergne
(b. 1849–d. 19..)(1st time)

17 October 1908 – 23 February 1909
Maurice Gourbeil

23 February 1909 – 2 May 1909
Marie Antoine Edmond Gaudard (acting)

2 May 1909 – 5 February 1911
Jean Jules Émile Peuvergne
(2nd time)

5 February 1911 – 13 May 1914
Henri François Charles Core

13 May 1914 – 1916
Raphaël Valentin Marius Antonetti
(b. 1872–d. 1938)

20 March 1917 – 23 September 1920
Fernand Émile Levêque

23 September 1920 – 17 September 1921
Théophile Antoine Pascal
(acting)

17 September 1921 – 4 July 1925
Pierre Jean Henri Didelot
(b. 1870–d. 19..)

4 July 1925 – 23 May 1926
Camille Théodore Raoul Maillet
(1st time) (acting)

23 May 1926 – 23 October 1926
Joseph Zébédée Olivier Cadier
(acting)

23 October 1926 – 12 March 1929
Léonce Alphonse Noël Henri Jore
(b. 1882–d. 1975)

12 March 1929 – 4 July 1930
Maurice Beurnier (1st time)
(b. 1878–d. 19..)

4 July 1930 – 15 August 1931
Camille Théodore Raoul Maillet
(2nd time)

15 August 1931 – 14 October 1931
Benoît Louis Rebonne
(acting)

14 October 1931 – Dec 1936
Maurice Beurnier
(2nd time)

Dec 1936–25 October 1938
Louis Lefebvre

25 October 1938 – 1940
Jean Paul Parisot

1 January 1941 – 22 December 1942
Georges Pierre Rey

22 December 1942 – 2 December 1943
Hubert Jules Deschamps
(b. 1900–d. 1979)

2 December 1943 – Jun 1945
Charles Jean Dagain
(b. 1885–d. 1969)

Jun 1945 – Apr 1946
Pierre Louis Maestracci

Apr 1946–20 May 1947
Oswald Durand
(b. 1888–d. 1982)

20 May 1947 – 19 October 1950
Laurent Marcel Wiltord

19 October 1950 – 25 April 1952
Camille Victor Bailly
(b. 1907–d. 1984)

25 April 1952 – 19 February 1954
Lucien Eugène Geay
(b. 1900)

19 February 1954 – 31 October 1955
Maxime Marie Antoine Jourdain

31 October 1955 – 10 February 1957
Jean Colombani
(b. 1903)

10 February 1957 – 25 November 1958
Pierre Auguste Michel Marie Lami [fr]
(b. 1909)

African High Commissioner of the French Union

25 November 1958 – 20 June 1960
Pierre Auguste Michel Marie Lami [fr]

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