(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)

Note: currently, the prefect is not the true departmental head, which is the President of the General Council. The prefect is merely the representative of the national government.

Ancien regime

Governors under the Ancien Régime were:[1]

Term Incumbent Notes
French Suzerainty
28 June 1635 – 4 December 1635Jean du Plessis d'OssonvilleDied 1635
28 June 1635 – 1640Charles Liènard de l'OliveGovernor; died 1643
25 November 1640 – 1643Jean Aubert
1643–1664Charles Houël du Petit PréGovernor
August 1644 – May 1645MarivetActing
8 July 1654 – 1656Charles Houël du Petit Pré2nd time, acting, also de Boisseret
23 June 1664 – November 1664DucoudrayActing
5 November 1664 – 14 September 1674Claude François du Lyon
1677M. de Baas de l'HerpinièreDid not take office
5 July 1677 – 15 June 1695Pierre HincelinActing, then confirmed governor
15 July 1695 to 1702Charles AugerGovernor
1703–1705Joseph d'Honon de GallifetDid not take office
1702–1705Bonnaventure-François de BoisferméActing governor for absent Galiffet
1706 – 1 May 1717Robert Cloche de La MalmaisonGovernor
May 1717 to 18 March 1718Savinien-Michel de Lagarrigue de SavignyInterim governor
22 June 1717François de Pas de Mazencourt, marquis de FeuquièresDid not take office
June/July 1719 – October 1727Alexandre Vaultier, comte de MoyencourtGovernor
21 October 1727 – 27 July 1734Robert Giraud du PoyetGovernor
27 July 1734 – 17 August 1737Charles de Brunier, marquis de LarnageActing governor
17 August 1737 – 1753Gabriel de ClieuGovernor
October 1749 – December 1750de LafondActing for d'Erchigny)
27 December 1753 – 1757Jean Antoine Joseph de MirabeauGovernor
15 January 1757 – 1 May 1759Charles François Emmanuel Nadau du TreilGovernor
British Suzerainty
May 1759John Barrington
May 1759 – 11 March 1760Byam CrumpGovernor
March 1760 – 4 July 1763Campbell DalrympleGovernor
French Suzerainty
4 July 1763 – 24 June 1764François-Charles de BourlamaqueGovernor
1764 to 1765Henri Édouard de CopleyInterim governor
20 March 1765 to 29 November 1768Pierre Gédéon de NolivosGovernor
29 November 1768 – 1769Anne Joseph Hippolyte de Maurès de MalarticGovernor
27 February 1769 – 1771François Claude Amour, marquis de BouilléGovernor
August 1771 to 1773Louis François de DionGovernor
14 April 1773 – 1776Édouard Hilaire Louis de TillyGovernor
1776–1782Bache-Elzéar-Alexandre d'Arbaud de JouquesGovernor
16 Nov 1782 – 1783Claude Charles de Marillac, vicomte de DamasGovernor
1783–1784Beaumé de la SaulaisGovernor
1784 – 25 July 1792Charles François de Clugny de ThénisseyGovernor

Revolution and First Empire

Term Incumbent Notes
1792 to 1793René Marie, vicomte d'Arrot, interim Governor
5 January 1793 to 18 March 1793Jean Baptiste Raymond Lacrosse, provisional Governor
18 March 1793 to 20 April 1794Victor Collot, Governor
British Suzerainty
20 April 1794 to 3 June 1794Thomas Dundas, Governor
French Suzerainty
7 June 1794 to 6 January 1795Victor Hugues, Commissioner
6 January 1795 to January 1796Victor Hugues, Co-Commissioner
Lebas, Co-Commissioner
6 January 1795 to June 1795Goyrand, Co-Commissioner
January 1796 to 25 October 1797Victor Hugues, Agent of the French Executive Directory
Lebas, Agent of the French Executive Directory
25 October 1797 to 19 April 1801Département
25 October 1797 to 22 November 1798Victor Hugues, Agent of the French Executive DirectoryCo-Agent
Lebas, Agent of the French Executive DirectoryCo-Agent
22 November 1798 to 3 October 1799Edme Étienne Borne-Desfourneaux, Agent of the French Executive Directory
3 October 1799 to 11 December 1799Paris, provisional Agent of the French Executive Directory
11 December 1799 to 30 May 1801Nicolas Georges Jeannet-Oudin, Agent of the French Executive DirectoryCo-Agent
11 December 1799 to 30 December 1800René Gaston Baco de la Chapelle, Agent of the French Executive DirectoryCo-Agent
11 December 1799 to 28 February 1800Étienne Maynaud de Bizefranc de Laveaux, Agent of the French Executive DirectoryCo-Agent
28 February 1800 to 30 May 1801BresseauCo-Agent
30 May 1801 to 14 May 1802Jean Baptiste Raymond Lacrosse, Captain-General1st Term
24 October 1801 to 6 May 1802Magloire Pélage, President of Provisional Council of GovernmentIn rebellion
14 May 1802 to 3 September 1802Antoine Richepance, Captain-General
4 August 1802 to 8 May 1803Jean Baptiste Raymond Lacrosse, Captain-General
4 August 1802 to 3 September 1802Jean Baptiste Raymond Lacrosse, Captain-General2nd Term
3 September 1802 to 8 May 1803Jean Baptiste Raymond Lacrosse acting for Richepance, Captain-General
8 May 1803 to 6 February 1810Jean Augustin Ernouf, Captain-General
British Suzerainty
6 February 1810 to 7 December 1814British occupation
6 February 1810 to 26 June 1813Sir Alexander Cochrane, Governor
26 June 1813 to December 1814John Skinner, Governor
French Suzerainty
7 December 1814 to 12 December 1814
12 December 1814 to 10 August 1815Charles Durand, comte de Linois, Governor
British Suzerainty
10 August 1815 to 25 July 1816British occupation
10 August 1815 to 24 April 1816Sir James Leith, Governor
24 April 1816 to 25 July 1816

Restoration, Second Republic, Second Empire

Term Incumbent Notes
French Suzerainty
1816 to 1823Antoine Philippe de Lardenoy, Governor
1823 to 1826Louis Léon Jacob, Governor
31 May 1826 to 1830Jean Julien Angot des Rotours, Governor
31 January 1830 to 8 July 1831Louis François Vatable, Governor
1831 to 20 June 1837René Arnous des Saulsays, Governor
1837 to 1841Jean-Guillaume Jubelin, Governor
1841 to 7 June 1845Augustin Gourbeyre, Governor
24 August 1845 to 5 June 1848Jean-François Layrle, Governor
5 June 1848 to 1848Alexandre Gatine, acting Governor
1848 to 1849Jean Jacques Louis Fabvre. acting Governor
1849 to 1849Jean Jacques Louis Fabvre
9 September 1849 to 1851Jacques Amédée Philippe Fiéron
1851 to 1851Chaumont, acting Governor
15 September 1851 to 1853Tranquille Aubry-Bailleul, Governor
30 September 1853 to 1856Philibert Augustin Bonfils, Governor
1856 to 1857Guillet, acting Governor
March 1857 to April 1859Philippe Victor Touchard, Governor
1859 to January 1860Louis Bontemps, Governor
January 1860 to 1864Charles Victor Frébault, Governor
1864 to 1864Joseph Desmazes, acting Governor
1864 to 1870Louis Hippolyte de Lormel, Governor

Third, Fourth, Fifth republics

Term Incumbent Notes
1870 to 1880Gabriel Couturier, Governor
1880 to 1881Mazé, acting Governor
1881 to 1886Léonce Laugier, Governor
1886 to 1886Sainte-Luce, acting Governor
1886 to 1891Antoine Frédéric Henry Le Boucher, Governor
1891 to 1894Louis Hippolyte Marie Nouet, Governor
1894 to 1895Noël Pardon, Governor
1895 to 1901Delphino Moracchini, Governor
1901 to 1903Martial Merlin, Governor
1903 to 1905Paul Marie Armand de La Loyère, Governor
1905 to 1907Léon Jules Pol Boulloche, Governor
1907 to 1909Victor Marie Louis Ballot, Governor
1909 to 1910Henri Cor, Governor
1911 to 1913Jean Jules Émile Peuvergne, Governor
1913 to 1917Émile Merwart, Governor
1917 to 1920Maurice Gourbeil, Governor
1920 to 1924Pierre Louis Alfred Duprat, Governor
1924 to 1924Jocelyn Robert, Governor
1924 to 1926Maurice Beurnier, Governor
1926 to 1929Louis Gerbinis, Governor
1929 to 1931Théophile Antoine Pascal Tellier, Governor
1931 to 1934Alphonse Choteau, Governor
1934 to 1936Louis Bouge, Governor
1936 to 1938Félix Éboué, Governor
29 November 1938 to 21 February 1940François Pierre-Alype, Governor
30 April 1940 to 15 July 1943Constant Sorin, Governor
1944 to 1946Maurice Pierre Eugène Bertaut, Governor
19 March 1946French overseas département
30 April 1946 to 12 October 1947Ernest de Nattes, Governor
26 December 1947 to 24 November 1950Gilbert Eugène Félicien Marie Philipson, Prefect
16 January 1951 to 18 May 1954Gaston Villéger, Prefect
18 May 1954 to 18 December 1955Jacques Ravail, Prefect
22 December 1955 to 22 May 1956Guy Malines, acting Prefect
22 May 1956 to 6 March 1958Guy Malines, Prefect
6 March 1958 to 1 October 1960Jean-Pierre Abeille, Prefect
1 October 1960 to 1 August 1965Albert Bonhomme, Prefect
1 August 1965 to 12 July 1967Pierre Bolotte, Prefect
16 August 1967 to 16 December 1969Jean Deleplanque, Prefect
16 December 1969 to 1 July 1973Pierre Mathieu Brunon, Prefect
12 July 1973 to 15 November 1975Jacques Le Cornec, Prefect
15 November 1975 to 15 October 1978Jean-Claude Aurousseau, Prefect
15 October 1978 to 28 February 1982Guy Maillard, Prefect
28 February 1982 to 10 May 1982Robert Miguet, Prefect
10 May 1982 to 13 February 1984Robert Miguet, Commissioner of the Republic
February 1984 to April 1986Maurice Saborin, Commissioner of the Republic
9 April 1986 to 4 November 1987Yves Bonnet, Commissioner of the Republic
4 November 1987 to 24 February 1988Bernard Sarazin, Commissioner of the Republic
24 February 1988 to November 1989Bernard Sarazin, Prefect
November 1989 to 18 July 1991Jean-Paul Proust, Prefect
31 July 1991 to 6 October 1993Franck Perriez, Prefect
6 October 1993 to 21 November 1994Alain Frouté, Prefect
21 November 1994 to 16 October 1996Michel Diefenbacher, Prefect
12 November 1996 to 16 August 1999Jean Fedini, Prefect
16 August 1999 to 6 August 2002Jean-François Carenco, Prefect
6 August 2002 to 7 July 2004Dominique Vian, Prefect
7 July 2004 to 29 October 2009Paul Girot de Langlade, Prefect
29 October 2009 to 24 August 2011Jean-Luc Michel Fabre, Prefect
17 July 2011 to 11 September 2011Philippe Jaumouillé, Acting Prefect
11 September 2011 to 23 January 2013Amaury de Saint-Quentin, Prefect
23 January 2013 to 21 December 2014Marcelle Pierrot, Prefect
21 December 2014 to presentJacques Billant, Prefect

Notes

    1. ↑ Cahoon.

    Sources

    • Cahoon, Ben, "Gaudeloupe", Worldstatesmen.org, retrieved 22 September 2018
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