President of Mauritius

The **president of Mauritius** () is the head of state of the Republic of Mauritius.

## List

List of rules of Mauritius
|rowspan="2"|#|rowspan="2"|Portrait|rowspan="2"|Name|rowspan="2"|**Elected**|colspan="2"|Tenure|**Political party**|
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|colspan="7" align="center"|**Dutch Expedition to Mauritius**||||||||||
|1.||Wybrant Warwijckhttps://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wybrand_van_Warwijck(https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wybrand_van_Warwijck)||20 September 1598|1598||||||
|colspan="7" align="center"|**Island abandoned** **1598 to 6 May 1638**||||||||||
|colspan="7" align="center"|**Dutch Mauritius** **under the Dutch East India Company**||||||||||
|2.||Cornelis Simonszoon Gooyer||6 May 1638|7 November 1639||||||
|3.||Adriaan van der Stel||7 November 1639|1645||||||
|4.||Jacob van der Meersch||1645|September 1648||||||
|5.||Reinier Por||1648|1653||||||
|6.||Joost van der Woutbeekr||1653|1654||||||
|7.||Maximiliaan de Jongh||1654|1656||||||
|8.||Abraham Evertszoon||1656|16 July 1658||||||
|colspan="7" align="center"|**Abandoned** **16 July 1658 to 1664**||||||||||
|9.||Jacobus van Nieuwlant||1664|May 1665||||||
|10.||Georg Frederick Wreede||1665|1667||||||
|11.||Jan van Jaar||1667|1668||||||
|12.||Dirk Janszoon Smient||1668|1669||||||
|13.||Georg Frederick Wreede||1669|1672||||||
|14.||Swen Felleson||1672|||||||
|15.||Philip Col||1672|13 February 1673||||||
|16.||Hubert Hugo||13 February 1673|4 October 1677||||||
|17.||Isaac Johannes Lamotius||4 October 1677|22 October 1692||||||
|18.||Roelof Deodati||22 October 1692|25 November 1703||||||
|19.||Abraham Momber van de Velde||25 November 1703|17 February 1710||||||
|colspan="7" align="center"|**Abandoned** **17 February 1710 to 6 September 1718**||||||||||
||colspan="6" align="center"|**Governors of the Compagnie des Indes**|||||||||
|20||Julien Duronguët le Toullec <small>Acting</small>||24 December 1721|7 April 1722||||||
|21||Denis, chevalier de Nyon||7 April 1722|16 December 1725||||||
|22||Duval de Hauville <small>Acting for Nyon</small>||7 April 1722|16 December 1725||||||
|23||Jacques Gast d'Hauterive <small>Acting for Nyon</small>||13 July 1722|3 December 1722||||||
|24||Denis de Brousse <small>Acting</small>||16 December 1725|13 March 1729||||||
|25||Pierre Benoît Dumas||13 March 1729|20 August 1729||||||
|26||Nicolas de Maupin||20 August 1729|4 June 1735||||||
|colspan="6" align="center"|**Governor-general of the Compagnie des Indes**||||||||||
|27||Mahé de La Bourdonnais||4 June 1735|20 March 1740||||||
|rowspan="2"|28|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|Didier de Saint-Martin||20 March 1740|14 August 1741|||
||14 August 1741|18 December 1742|||||||||
|||Mahé de La Bourdonnais||18 December 1742|23 March 1746||||||
|||Didier de Saint-Martin||23 March 1746|6 October 1746||||||
|29||Pierre Félix Barthélemy David||6 October 1746|10 February 1753||||||
|30||Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier||10 February 1753|3 December 1755||||||
|31||René Magon de la Villebague||3 December 1755|4 November 1759||||||
|32||Antoine Marie Desforges-Boucher||4 November 1759|14 July 1767||||||
|colspan="6" align="center"|**Governor-general of the Mascarene Islands**||||||||||
|33||Jean-Daniel Dumas||14 July 1767|27 November 1768||||||
|34||Jean Guillaume Steinauer||27 November 1768|6 June 1769||||||
|35||François Julien du Dresnay||6 June 1769|23 August 1772||||||
|36||Charles-Henri-Louis d'Arsac de Ternay||23 August 1772|2 December 1776||||||
|37||Antoine de Guiran, chevalier de La Brillanne||2 December 1776|28 April 1779||||||
|38||Joseph Murinais, comte de Saint-Maurice||28 April 1779|30 April 1779||||||
|rowspan="2"|39|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|François, vicomte de Souillac||1 May 1779|30 January 1780|||
||30 January 1780|5 April 1785|||||||||
|40||Camille Charles Leclerc, Chevalier de Fresne||5 April 1785|28 June 1785||||||
|41||François de Fleury||28 June 1785|7 November 1785||||||
|||François, vicomte de Souillac||7 November 1785|7 November 1787||||||
|42||Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux||5 November 1787|14 November 1789||||||
|43||Thomas Conway||14 November 1789|29 July 1790||||||
|44||Dominique Prosper de Chermont||29 July 1790|19 August 1790||||||
|45||David Charpentier de Cossigny <small>Acting</small>||19 August 1790|18 June 1792||||||
|46||Anne Joseph Hippolyte de Maurès, Comte de Malartic||18 June 1792|28 July 1800||||||
|47||François Louis Magallon de la Morlière||28 July 1800|3 February 1803||||||
|48||Charles Mathieu Isidore Decaen||26 September 1803|3 December 1810||||||
|colspan="6" align="center"|**Prefect**||||||||||
|49||Louis Léger||26 September 1803|3 December 1810||||||
|colspan="8"|**Mauritius**||||||||||
|50||Sir Robert Farquhar||4 December 1810|18 April 1811||||||
|51||Henry Warde||18 April 1811|15 July 1811||||||
|||Sir Robert Farquhar||15 July 1811|10 November 1817||||||
|52||Gage John Hall||10 November 1817|10 December 1818||||||
|||Sir Robert Farquhar||10 December 1818|10 December 1818||||||
|53||Sir John Dalrymple||10 December 1818|6 February 1819||||||
|||Sir Robert Farquhar||6 February 1819|6 February 1819||||||
|54||Sir Ralph Darling||6 February 1819|6 July 1820||||||
|||Sir Robert Farquhar||6 July 1820|20 May 1823||||||
|||Sir Ralph Darling||20 May 1823|12 June 1823||||||
|55||Sir Galbraith Lowry Cole||12 June 1823|17 June 1828||||||
|56||Sir Charles Colville||17 June 1828|3 February 1833||||||
|57||Sir William Nicolay||4 February 1833|20 February 1840||||||
|58||James Power||20 February 1840|16 July 1840||||||
|59||Sir Lionel Smith||16 July 1840|2 January 1842||||||
|60||William Staveley||3 January 1842|21 November 1842||||||
|61||Sir William Maynard Gomm||21 November 1842|5 May 1849||||||
|62||Thomas Blanchard||5 May 1849|8 June 1849||||||
|63||Sir George William Anderson||8 June 1849|19 October 1850||||||
|64||William Sutherland||19 October 1850|8 January 1851||||||
|65||Sir James Macaulay Higginson||8 January 1851|14 April 1854||||||
|66||William Sutherland||14 April 1854|18 January 1855||||||
|67||Charles Murray Hay||18 January 1855|12 June 1855||||||
|||Sir James Macaulay Higginson||12 June 1855|20 September 1857||||||
|68||Sir William Stevenson||20 September 1857|9 January 1863||||||
|69||Montague Cholmeley Johnstone||10 January 1863|21 August 1863||||||
|70||Sir Henry Barkly||21 August 1863|3 June 1870||||||
|71||Edward Selby Smyth||4 June 1870|21 February 1871||||||
|72||Sir Arthur Charles Hamilton-Gordon||21 February 1871|21 October 1871||||||
|73||Edward Norton||21 October 1871|28 October 1872||||||
|||Sir Arthur Charles Hamilton-Gordon||28 October 1872|20 January 1873||||||
|||Edward Norton||20 January 1873|20 October 1873||||||
|||Sir Arthur Charles Hamilton-Gordon||20 October 1873|18 August 1874||||||
|||Edward Norton||18 August 1874|21 September 1874||||||
|74||Sir Arthur Purves Phayre||21 September 1874|31 December 1878||||||
|75||Sir Frederick Napier Broome||31 December 1878|4 April 1879||||||
|76||Sir George Ferguson Bowen||4 April 1879|9 December 1880||||||
|76||Sir Frederick Napier Broome||9 December 1880|5 May 1883||||||
|77||Sir Charles Bruce||5 May 1883|1 June 1883||||||
|78||Sir John Pope Hennessy||1 June 1883|24 September 1884||||||
|79||Henry Nicholas Duverger-Beyts||24 September 1884|15 October 1884||||||
|||Sir John Pope Hennessy||15 October 1884|29 September 1886||||||
|||Henry Nicholas Duverger-Beyts||29 September 1886|12 December 1886||||||
|||Sir John Pope Hennessy||12 December 1886|15 December 1886||||||
|80||Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson||15 December 1886|18 December 1886||||||
|81||William Hanbury Hawley||18 December 1886|2 July 1887||||||
|82||Sir Francis Fleming||2 July 1887|11 December 1888||||||
|83||Thomas Erskine Arthur Hall||11 December 1888|22 December 1888||||||
|||Sir John Pope Hennessy||22 December 1888|11 December 1889||||||
|||Sir Francis Fleming||11 December 1889|17 December 1889||||||
|||Thomas Erskine Arthur Hall||17 December 1889|20 December 1889||||||
|84||Sir Charles Cameron Lees||21 December 1889|12 March 1892||||||
|rowspan="2"|85|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|Sir Hubert Edward Henry Jerningham||12 March 1892|20 September 1892|||
||20 September 1892|15 January 1897|||||||||
|86||Charles Anthony King-Harman||17 January 1894|24 July 1894||||||
|||Sir Hubert Edward Henry Jerningham||24 July 1894|2 March 1896||||||
|||Charles Anthony King-Harman||2 March 1896|19 September 1896||||||
|||Sir Hubert Edward Henry Jerningham||19 September 1896|15 January 1897||||||
|||Charles Anthony King-Harman||15 January 1897|11 May 1897||||||
|87||Sir Charles Bruce||11 May 1897|12 July 1900||||||
|88||Sir Graham John Bower||12 July 1900|11 May 1901||||||
|||Sir Charles Bruce||11 May 1901|30 October 1903||||||
|||Sir Graham John Bower||30 October 1903|20 August 1904||||||
|89||Sir Charles Cavendish Boyle||20 August 1904|10 April 1911||||||
|||Sir Graham John Bower||14 April 1906|14 September 1906||||||
|||Sir Charles Cavendish Boyle||14 September 1906|17 October 1908||||||
|||Sir Graham John Bower||17 October 1908|23 April 1909||||||
|||Sir Charles Cavendish Boyle||23 April 1909|10 April 1911||||||
|90||George Smith||10 April 1911|13 September 1911||||||
|91||Sir John Robert Chancellor||13 September 1911|10 March 1914||||||
|92||Sir John Middleton||10 March 1914|22 September 1914||||||
|||Sir John Robert Chancellor||22 September 1914|28 January 1916||||||
|||Sir John Middleton||28 January 1916|18 May 1916||||||
|93||Sir Henry Hesketh Joudou Bell||18 May 1916|8 February 1919||||||
|||Sir John Middleton||8 February 1919|17 November 1919||||||
|||Sir Henry Hesketh Joudou Bell||17 November 1919|2 February 1921||||||
|94||Sir Edward Brandis Denham||2 February 1921|3 April 1921||||||
|||Sir Henry Hesketh Joudou Bell||3 April 1921|8 May 1922||||||
|||Sir Edward Brandis Denham||8 May 1922|3 March 1923||||||
|||Sir Henry Hesketh Joudou Bell||3 March 1923|16 August 1924||||||
|95||Sir Edward Allan Grannum||16 August 1924|19 February 1925||||||
|96||Sir Herbert James Read||19 February 1925|2 September 1926||||||
|||Sir Edward Allan Grannum||2 September 1926|17 October 1926||||||
|||Sir Herbert James Read||17 October 1926|3 August 1927||||||
|||Sir Edward Allan Grannum||3 August 1927|17 May 1928||||||
|||Sir Herbert James Read||17 May 1928|9 December 1929||||||
|||Sir Edward Allan Grannum||9 December 1929|30 August 1930||||||
|97||Sir Wilfrid Edward Francis Jackson||30 August 1930|24 August 1932||||||
|||Edward Walter Evans||24 August 1932|29 April 1933||||||
|||Sir Wilfrid Edward Francis Jackson||29 April 1933|3 September 1934||||||
|||Edward Walter Evans||3 September 1934|26 October 1934||||||
|||Sir Wilfrid Edward Francis Jackson||26 October 1934|7 April 1936||||||
|||Edward Walter Evans||7 April 1936|4 December 1936||||||
|||Sir Wilfrid Edward Francis Jackson||4 December 1936|7 June 1937||||||
|||Edward Walter Evans||7 June 1937|23 October 1937||||||
|98||Sir Bede Edward Hugh Clifford||23 October 1937|29 January 1940||||||
|99||Sydney Moody||29 January 1940|10 September 1940||||||
|||Sir Bede Edward Hugh Clifford||10 September 1940|16 April 1942||||||
|||Sydney Moody||16 April 1942|5 July 1942||||||
|100||Sir Donald Mackenzie-Kennedy||5 July 1942|23 May 1945||||||
|||Sydney Moody||23 May 1945|3 January 1946||||||
|||Sir Donald Mackenzie-Kennedy||3 January 1946|8 May 1947||||||
|||Sydney Moody||8 May 1947|10 January 1948||||||
|||Sir Donald Mackenzie-Kennedy||10 January 1948|5 December 1948||||||
|101||Sir James Dundas Harford||5 December 1948|26 September 1949||||||
|102||Sir Hilary Blood||26 September 1949|26 June 1950||||||
|||Sir James Dundas Harford||26 June 1950|17 November 1950||||||
|||Sir Hilary Blood||17 November 1950|22 May 1952||||||
|||Sir James Dundas Harford||22 May 1952|14 October 1952||||||
|||Sir Hilary Blood||14 October 1952|11 January 1954||||||
|103||Robert Newton||11 January 1954|22 March 1954||||||
|104||Sir Robert Scott||22 March 1954|8 November 1956||||||
|||Robert Newton||8 November 1956|18 April 1957||||||
|||Sir Robert Scott||18 April 1957|10 July 1959||||||
|||Robert Newton||10 July 1959|2 November 1959||||||
|105||Sir Colville Montgomery Deverell||2 November 1959|11 June 1961||||||
|106||Thomas Douglas Vickers||11 June 1961|20 July 1961||||||
|||Thomas Douglas Vickers||10 July 1962|17 September 1962||||||
|107||Sir John Shaw Rennie||17 September 1962|24 August 1964||||||
|||Thomas Douglas Vickers||24 August 1964|30 November 1964||||||
|||Sir John Shaw Rennie||30 November 1964|11 October 1966||||||
|||Thomas Douglas Vickers||11 October 1966|28 December 1966||||||
|||Sir John Shaw Rennie||28 December 1966|12 March 1968||||||
|108||Sir John Rennie (1917–2002)||12 March 1968|3 September 1968||||||
|109||Sir Leonard Williams (1904–1972)||3 September 1968|27 December 1972||||||
|rowspan="2"|110|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|Raman Osman (1902–1992)||27 December 1972|30 January 1973|||
||30 January 1973|31 October 1977|||||||||
|111||Sir Henry Garrioch (1916–2008)||31 October 1977|23 March 1978||||||
|rowspan="2"|112|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|Sir Dayendranath Burrenchobay (1919–1999)|rowspan="2"||23 March 1978|26 April 1979||
|26 April 1979|28 December 1983||||||||||
|113||Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam (1900–1985)||28 December 1983|15 December 1985||||||
|114||Sir Cassam Moollan (1927–2010)||15 December 1985|17 January 1986||||||
|rowspan="2"|115|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|Sir Veerasamy Ringadoo (1920–2000)||17 January 1986|12 March 1992|||
|1992|12 March 1992|30 June 1992|PTR||||||||
||Rabindrah Ghurburrun (1928–2008)|—|30 June 1992|30 June 1992|PTR||||||
||Cassam Uteem (born 1941)|1992 1997|30 June 1992|15 February 2002|MMM||||||
||Angidi Chettiar (1928–2010)|—|15 February 2002|18 February 2002|PTR||||||
||Ariranga Pillay (born 1945)||18 February 2002|25 February 2002|||||||
||Karl Offmann (1940–2022)|2002|25 February 2002|1 October 2003|MSM||||||
||Raouf Bundhun (born 1937)|—|1 October 2003|7 October 2003|MMM||||||
||Sir Anerood Jugnauth (1930–2021)|2003|7 October 2003|31 March 2012|MSM||||||
||Angidi Chettiar (1928–2010)|—|24 August 2007|24 August 2007|PTR||||||
||Sir Anerood Jugnauth (1930–2021)|2008|24 August 2007|31 March 2010|MSM||||||
||Angidi Chettiar (1928–2010)||31 March 2010|31 March 2010|PTR||||||
||Sir Anerood Jugnauth (1930–2021)|2010|31 March 2010|31 March 2012|MSM||||||
||Monique Ohsan Bellepeau (born 1942)|—|31 March 2012|21 July 2012|PTR||||||
||Kailash Purryag (born 1947)|2012|21 July 2012|29 May 2015|PTR||||||
||Monique Ohsan Bellepeau (born 1942)|—|29 May 2015|5 June 2015|PTR||||||
||Ameenah Gurib (born 1959)|2015|5 June 2015|23 March 2018|Independent||||||
||Barlen Vyapoory (born 1945/46)|—|23 March 2018|26 November 2019|MSM||||||
||Eddy Balancy (born 1953)||26 November 2019|2 December 2019|Non-partisan||||||
||Prithvirajsing Roopun (born 1959)|2019|2 December 2019|28 January 2023|MSM||||||
||Eddy Boissézon (born 1952)|2023|28 January 2023|1 March 2024|MSM||||||
||Prithvirajsing Roopun (born 1959)|2024|1 March 2024|2 December 2024|MSM||||||
||Eddy Boissézon (born 1952)|—|2 December 2024|6 December 2024|MSM||||||
||Dharam Gokhool (born 1949)|2024|6 December 2024|7 December 2024|PTR||||||
||Robert Hungley (born 1957)|—|7 December 2024|7 December 2024|PTR||||||
||Dharam Gokhool (born 1949)|—|7 December 2024|Incumbent|PTR||||||

## Infobox (official post)

- **post**: President
- **body**: the Republic of Mauritius
- **native name**: Président de la République de Maurice
- **flag**: Presidential Standard of Mauritius.svg
- **flagsize**: 200px
- **flagborder**: yes
- **flagcaption**: Presidential Standard of Mauritius
- **insignia**: Coat of arms of the President of Mauritius.svg
- **insigniasize**: 200px
- **insigniacaption**: Presidential coat of arms
- **image**: File:Prithvirajsing Roopun.png
- **incumbent**: Prithvirajsing Roopun
- **incumbentsince**: 1 March 2024
- **style**: Excellency, His Excellency
- **residence**: State House (Mauritius), State House
- **nominator**: Elected by members of the National Assembly (Mauritius), National Assembly on a motion made by the Prime Minister of Mauritius, Prime Minister
- **termlength**: 5 years, renewable indefinitely
- **inaugural**: Sir Veerasamy Ringadoo
- **deputy**: Vice President of Mauritius
- **salary**: Mauritian rupee, Rs 3.74 Million
- **website**: [http://president.govmu.org Official website]