this is a list of governors of french somaliland. dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office. {| class="wikitable" ! width="25%" align=left|term ! width="40%" align=left|incumbent ! width="20%" align=left|notes |- valign=top |colspan="3"|french suzerainty |- valign=top |colspan="3"|french settlement at obock |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1858 to 4 june 1859||henri lambert, agent ||brother: joseph-franÃ§ois lambertaux origines de l'implantation franÃ§aise en mer rouge: vie et mort d'henry lambert, consul de france Ã  aden. 1859 (google ebook) |- valign=top |colspan="3"|french coast of somalis |- valign=top |11 march 1862||colspan="2"|french acquisition of obock territory |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |29 december 1883 to 24 june 1884||lÃ©once lagarde, vicomte de rouffeyroux, commissioner|| |- valign=top |colspan="3"|territory of obock and protectorate of tadjoura |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |24 june 1884 to 5 september 1887||lÃ©once lagarde, vicomte de rouffeyroux, commandant|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |5 september 1887 to 1888||lÃ©once lagarde, vicomte de rouffeyroux, governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1888 to 7 march 1899||lÃ©once lagarde, vicomte de rouffeyroux, governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |7 march 1899 to 23 march 1899||louis alexandre antoine mizon, acting governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |28 march 1899 to 13 april 1900||alfred albert martineau, governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |13 april 1900 to 6 december 1900||gabriel louis angoulvant, acting governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |6 december 1900 to 7 september 1901||adrien jules jean bonhoure, governor||1st term |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |7 september 1901 to june 1902||louis ormiÃ©res, acting governor||1st term |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |june 1902 to 23 may 1903||adrien jules jean bonhoure|adrien jules jean bonhoure, governor||2nd term |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |23 may 1903 to december 1903||albert dubarry, acting governor||1st term |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |december 1903 to 2 april 1904||adrien jules jean bonhoure|adrien jules jean bonhoure, governor||3rd term |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |2 april 1904 to 5 august 1904||albert dubarry, acting governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |5 august 1904 to 9 september 1905||pierre hubert auguste pascal, governor||1st term |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec&qu
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