List of governors-general of French Equatorial Africa

This is a list of European colonial administrators (French: Gouverneur général de l'Afrique équatoriale française) responsible for the territory of French Equatorial Africa, an area equivalent to modern-day Gabon, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic and Chad.

List

(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)

Tenure	Incumbent	Notes
1 August 1886 to 28 September 1897	Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Commissioner-General
1 August 1886 to 1 October 1886	Georges Élie Pradier, acting Commissioner-General	Acting for Brazza
1 October 1886 to March 1887	Charles de Chavannes, acting Commissioner-General	1st time; acting for Brazza
16 January 1888 to May 1890	Noël Ballay, acting Commissioner-General	Acting for Brazza
25 November 1891 to March 1892	Charles de Chavannes, acting Commissioner-General	2nd time; acting for Brazza
April 1892 to May 1892		3rd time; acting for Brazza
June 1892 to March 1893		4th time; acting for Brazza
17 March 1893 to 6 October 1893	Alphonse Edouard Lippmann, acting Commissioner-General	Acting for Brazza
October 1893 to November 1893	E. Gervais, acting Commissioner-General	Acting for Brazza
December 1893 to May 1894	Charles de Chavannes, acting Commissioner-General	5th time; acting for Brazza
May 1894 to 1 June 1894	Jean-Marie Le Divellec, acting Commissioner-General	Acting for Brazza
1 June 1894 to November 1894	Albert Dolisie [fr], acting Commissioner-General	1st time; acting for Brazza
January 1895 to January 1896		2nd time; acting for Brazza
March 1897 to 28 September 1897		3rd time; acting for Brazza
28 September 1897 to 28 April 1900	Henri-Félix de Lamothe [fr], Commissioner-General
June 1898 to October 1898	Albert Dolisie [fr], acting Commissioner-General	4th time; acting for Lamothe
October 1898 to April 1899	Martial Henri Merlin, acting Commissioner-General	Acting for Lamothe
October 1899 to March 1900	Jean-Baptiste Philémon Lemaire, acting Commissioner-General	Acting for Lamothe
28 April 1900 to December 1900
December 1900 to 1902	Albert Grodet, acting Commissioner-General
1902 to 1903	Charles Noufflard [fr], acting Commissioner-General
1903 to 21 January 1904	Arnaud, acting Commissioner-General
21 January 1904 to 13 February 1908	Émile Gentil, Commissioner-General
17 August 1905 to 11 May 1906	Édouard Émile Léon Telle, acting Commissioner-General	Acting for Gentil
25 September 1906 to 5 April 1907	Alfred Fourneau, acting Commissioner-General	Acting for Gentil
5 April 1907 to 28 June 1908	Alfred Albert Martineau, acting Commissioner-General	Acting for Gentil
28 June 1908 to 15 May 1917	Martial Henri Merlin, Governor-General
28 June 1908 to 16 February 1909	Alfred Albert Martineau, acting Governor-General	Acting for Merlin
18 October 1909 to 1910	Charles Amédée Rognon, acting Governor-General	1st time; acting for Merlin
1910	Adolphe Cureau, acting Governor-General	Acting for Merlin
1910 to 6 March 1911	Charles Amédée Rognon, acting Governor-General	2nd time; acting for Merlin
6 March 1911 to 1911	Édouard Dubosc-Taret, acting Governor-General	Acting for Merlin
1911 to 11 May 1911	Charles Henri Vergnes, acting Governor-General	1st time; acting for Merlin
17 October 1912 to c. May 1913	Charles Henri Vergnes, acting Governor-General	2nd time; acting for Merlin
c. May 1913 to 17 November 1913	Georges Virgile Poulet, acting Governor-General	Acting for Merlin
17 November 1913 to 14 September 1914	Frédéric Estèbe, acting Governor-General	1st time; acting for Merlin
15 May 1917 to 16 May 1920	Gabriel Louis Angoulvant, Governor-General
17 June 1917 to 23 July 1918	Frédéric Estèbe, acting Governor-General	2nd time; acting for Angoulvant
August 1918 to 16 May 1920	Frédéric Estèbe, acting Governor-General	3rd time; acting for Angoulvant
16 May 1920 to 5 September 1920	Maurice Lapalud [fr], acting Governor-General
5 September 1920 to 21 August 1923	Victor Augagneur, Governor-General
21 August 1923 to 8 July 1924	Robert Paul Marie de Guise, acting Governor-General	1st time
8 July 1924 to 1924	Matteo Mathieu Maurice Alfassa, acting Governor-General	1st time
1924 to 1 October 1924	Robert Paul Marie de Guise, acting Governor-General	2nd time
1 October 1924 to 16 October 1924	Matteo Mathieu Maurice Alfassa, acting Governor-General	2nd time
16 October 1924 to 20 September 1934	Raphaël Antonetti [fr], Governor-General
11 May 1925 to December 1925	Matteo Mathieu Maurice Alfassa, acting Governor-General	3rd time; acting for Antonetti
22 January 1927 to 1927	Jean Marchessou, acting Governor-General	1st time; acting for Antonetti
1927 to 17 October 1927	Joseph-François Reste [fr], acting Governor-General	1st time; acting for Antonetti
November 1929 to August 1930	Matteo Mathieu Maurice Alfassa, acting Governor-General	4th time; acting for Antonetti
27 November 1930 to 11 March 1931	Adolphe Deitte, acting Governor-General	Acting for Antonetti
December 1932 to 11 December 1933	Matteo Mathieu Maurice Alfassa, acting Governor-General	5th time; acting for Antonetti
20 September 1934 to 16 October 1934	Jean Marchessou, acting Governor-General	2nd time
16 October 1934 to 15 March 1935	Georges Édouard Alexandre Renard, Governor-General
20 March 1935 to 5 April 1936	Jean Marchessou, acting Governor-General	3rd time
5 April 1936 to 21 April 1939	Joseph-François Reste [fr], Governor-General	2nd time
21 April 1939 to 3 September 1939	Léon Solomiac, acting Governor-General
3 September 1939 to 28 August 1940	Pierre Boisson, Governor-General
17 July 1940 to 28 August 1940	Louis Husson, acting Governor-General	Acting for Boisson
28 August 1940 to 12 November 1940	Edgard de Larminat, acting Governor-General	Deposed in the Battle of Gabon
12 November 1940 to 30 December 1940	Adolphe Sicé [fr], acting Governor-General
30 December 1940 to 17 May 1944	Félix Éboué, Governor-General	Acting to 15 July 1944
August 1941 to July 1942	Adolphe Sicé [fr], High Commissioner of Free French Africa
15 February 1944 to 3 August 1946	André Bayardelle [fr], Governor-General	Acting to 2 October 1944 (for Éboué to 17 May 1944)
3 August 1946 to 5 June 1947	Jean Louis Marie André Soucadaux [fr], acting Governor-General	1st time
5 June 1947 to 5 July 1947	Laurent Péchoux [fr], acting Governor-General
5 July 1947 to 17 September 1947	Charles Luizet [fr], Governor-General
17 September 1947 to 26 March 1948	Jean Louis Marie André Soucadaux [fr], Governor-General	2nd time; acting to 15 November 1947
26 March 1948 to 21 September 1951	Bernard Cornut-Gentille, Governor-General
21 September 1951 to 4 April 1957	Paul Louis Gabriel Chauvet [fr], Governor-General
4 April 1957 to 29 January 1958	Paul Louis Gabriel Chauvet [fr], High Commissioner
29 January 1958 to 15 July 1958	Pierre Messmer, High Commissioner
15 July 1958 to 15 August 1960	Yvon Bourges, High Commissioner