List of colonial and departmental heads of Martinique

(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)

Ancient regime and First Republic (1635-1794) TermIncumbentNotesFrench SuzeraintyFrench colony (under the Compagnie des Îles de l'Amérique)1635Pierre Belain d'Esnambuc, Governor1635 to 1636Jean Dupont, Governor1636 to 1646Jacques Dyel du Parquet, Governor1st timeFebruary 1646 to January 1647Jérôme du Sarrat, sieur de La Pierrière, interim Governor1647 to 1650Jacques Dyel du Parquet, Governor2nd timeGranted to the Dyel du Parquet family1650 to 1658Jacques Dyel du Parquet, Governor2nd time1658 to 1659Marie Bonnard du Parquet, Governor?1659 to October 1662Adrien Dyel de Vaudroques, Governor1662 to 1663Médéric Rolle de Goursolas, Governor1663 to 1664Jean Dyel de Clermont, GovernorUnder the Compagnie des Indes Occidentales1664 to 1665Jean Dyel de Clermont, GovernorFebruary 1665 to December 1667Robert de Clodoré, Governor1667 to 1672François Rolle de Laubière, acting GovernorDecember 1672 to 1674Antoine André de Sainte-Marthe, GovernorFrench crown colony1674 to December 1679Antoine André de Sainte-Marthe, Governor1680 to 1687Jacques de Chambly, Governor1687 to 1689Charles de Pechpeyrou-Comminges de Guitaut, GovernorFebruary 1689 to 31 March 1689Claude de Roux de Saint-Laurent, interim Governor1689 to June 1711Nicolas de Gabaret, Governor1711 to 1716Jean-Pierre de Charitte, GovernorDid not take up post1716Abraham de Bellebat, marquis du Quesne, Governor7 January 1717 to 23 May 1717Antoine d'Arcy, sieur de La Varenne, Governor1717(?) to 1720Florimond Hurault de Montigny, GovernorSupposedly hanged by pirate Bartholomew RobertsLt. Governor Bennett of Bermuda wrote that a merchant captured by Roberts reported Roberts and crew hanged the Governor of Martinique, but this was third-hand information (see Headlam vol.32). Johnson repeated the story in the General History. Modern writers cite French sources confirming that while Roberts captured and tortured French officials by pretending to hang them, he in fact released them (see Sanders, Konstam, et al.).1720 to 1727Jacques Charles de Bochard de Noray de Champigny, Governor1728 to March 1742Jean François Louis de Brach, Governor1742 to 1744André Martin, sieur de Pointesable, Governor1744 to 12 May 1750Charles de Tubières de Caylus, Governor1750 to 1752Maximin de Bompart, GovernorActing to 17521752 to 1757Alexandre Rouillé de Rocourt, GovernorMay 1757 to 7 February 1761François V de Beauharnais, GovernorFebruary 1761 to February 1762Louis-Charles Le Vassor de La Touche, GovernorBritish OccupationFebruary 1762 to July 1763William Rufane, GovernorFrench SuzeraintyJuly 1763 to April 1764François Louis de Salignac, Governor25 January 1765 to 1768Victor-Thérèse Charpentier, GovernorPart of the French Antilles1768 to 1772Victor-Thérèse Charpentier, Governor9 March 1772 to 15 March 1776Vital Auguste, marquis de Grégoire, comte de Nozières, Governor15 March 1776 to May 1777Robert d'Argout, GovernorMay 1777 to March 1783François Claude Amour, marquis de Bouillé, GovernorSeparate colonyMarch 1783 to March 1791Claude Charles de Marillac, vicomte de Damas, GovernorJuly 1789 to April 1790Charles du Houx de Vioménil, acting GovernorActing for Damas12 March 1791 to September 1792Jean Pierre Antoine, comte de Béhague, GovernorJanuary 1793 to 22 May 1794Donatien-Marie-Joseph de Vimeur, vicomte de Rochambeau, Governor

British occupation (1794–1814)

TermIncumbentNotesBritish Occupation1794Robert Prescott, Governor1794 to 1795Sir John Vaughan, Governor1795 to 1796Sir Robert Shore Milnes, Governor1796 to 1802Sir William Keppel, GovernorFrench SuzeraintyMay 1802 to 1804Charles-Henri Bertin, Colonial Prefect1804 to 1809Pierre-Clément de Laussat, Colonial PrefectSeptember 1802 to 21 February 1809Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse, Captain-GeneralBritish Occupation21 February 1809 to 1809Sir George Beckwith, Captain-General10 June 1809 to 1812Major-General John Brodrick, Captain-General1812 to 1814Sir Charles Wale, Captain-General1814Sir John Lindsay, Captain-General

Restoration, Second Republic, Second Empire (1814–70) TermIncumbentNotesFrench Suzerainty1814 to 10 September 1817Pierre René Marie, comte de Vaugiraud, Captain-General10 September 1817 to 1818Pierre René Marie, comte de Vaugiraud, Governor1818 to 1826François Xavier, comte de Donzelot, Governor1826 to 1829François Marie Michel de Bouillé, Governor1829 to 1830Louis Henri de Saulces de Freycinet, Governor1830 to 1834Jean Henri Joseph Dupôtet, Governor1834 to 1836Emmanuel Halgan, Governor1836 to January 1838Ange René Armand, baron de Mackau, GovernorJanuary 1838 to July 1838Claude Rostoland, acting Governor1st time1838 to 1840Alphonse Louis Théodore de Mogès, Governor1840 to 1844Étienne Henri Mengin Duval d'Ailly, Governor1844 to March 1848Pierre Louis Aimé Mathieu, GovernorMarch 1848 to 3 June 1848Claude Rostoland, acting Governor2nd time3 June 1848 to November 1848François Auguste Perrinon, Governor1848 to 1851Armand Joseph Bruat, Governor11 April 1851 to 1853Auguste-Nicolas Vaillant, Governor1853Jacques Brunot, acting Governor15 June 1853 to September 1856Louis Henri de Gueydon, Governor1856Louis André Lagrange, acting Governor1st timeAugust 1856 to 1859Armand Louis Joseph Denis, comte Fitte de Soucy, Governor1859Louis André Lagrange, acting Governor2nd time1859 to 1864Antoine Marie Ferdinand de Maussion de Candé, Governor1864 to 1867François Théodore de Lapelin, Governor1867André César Vérand, acting Governor1867 to 1869Charles Bertier, Governor1869 to 1870Marie Gabriel Couturier, acting Governor

Third Republic (1870–1940) TermIncumbentNotes1870 to 1871Charles Louis Constant Menche de Loisne, Governor1871Octave Bernard Gilbert-Pierre, acting Governor1871 to 1874Georges Charles Cloué, Governor1874François Charles Michaux, acting Governor1875 to 1877Thomas Louis Kirkland Le Normant de Kergrist, Governor1877 to 1879Marie Bruno Ferdinand Grasset, Governor1879Charles Alexandre Lacouture, acting Governor1879 to 1881Hyacinthe Laurent Théophile Aube, Governor1881J. C. Morau, acting Governor1881 to 1887Vincent Gaëtan Allègre, Governor1887Coridon, acting Governor1887 to 1889Louis Albert Grodet, Governor20 October 1889 – 1 September 1890 Germain Casse, Governor 4 February 1891 to June 1895Delphino Moracchini, Governor1895 to 1898Noël Pardon, Governor1898 to 1901Marie Louis Gustave Gabrié, Governor16 July 1901 to 8 May 1902Louis Mouttet, GovernorMay 1902 to 1902Georges Lhuerre, acting Governor1902 to 1904Jean Baptiste Philémon Lemaire, Governor1904 to 1906Louis Alphonse Bonhoure, Governor10 March 1906 to 1908Charles Louis Lepreux, Governor1908 to 1913Fernand Foureau, Governor1913 to 1914Joseph Henri Alfred Vacher, Governor1914 to 1915Georges Virgile Poulet, Governor1915 to 1920Camille Lucien Xavier Guy, Governor1920 to 1921Jules Maurice Gourbeil, Governor1921 to 1922Fernand Ernest Levecque, Governor1922 to 1923Charles Sergent-Alleaume,culture.gouv.fr : certificate of the legion of honor (Fr) interim Governor1923 to 1926Henri Marius Richard, Governor1926 to 1928Robert Paul Marie de Guise, Governor14 February 1928 to 15 July 1932Louis Martial Innocent Gerbinis, Governor1st time15 July 1932 to 23 August 1932Adolphe Félix Sylvestre Éboué, acting Governor1st time23 August 1932 to 4 June 1933Louis Martial Innocent Gerbinis, Governor2nd time4 June 1933 to 7 January 1934Adolphe Félix Sylvestre Éboué, acting Governor2nd time7 January 1934 to 1934Louis Martial Innocent Gerbinis, Governor3rd time1934René Veber, Governor1934 to 1935Matteo Mathieu Maurice Alfassa, Governor1935 to 1936Louis Jacques Eugène Fousset, Governor1936Marie Marc Georges Pelicier, Governor22 October 1936 to 7 January 1938Jean-Baptiste Alberti, Governor1938Léopold Arthur André Allys, acting Governor1938 to 1939Maurice Xavier Joseph Dechartre, Governor1939 to 1940Georges Aimé Spitz, Governor1940 to March 1941Louis Henri François Denis Bressoles, GovernorMarch 1941 to July 1943Yves Maurice Nicol, Governor14 July 1943 to 31 July 1944Louis Georges André Ponton, GovernorActing to 17 September 19431944 to January 1945Antoine Marie Angelini, Governor

Fourth and Fifth Republics (1945-present)

TermIncumbentNotes14 January 1945 to 1946Georges Hubert Parisot, GovernorFrench overseas département1946 to 1947Georges Louis Joseph Orselli, Governor18 July 1947 to 27 July 1950Pierre Albert Trouillé, Prefect25 August 1950 to 1 November 1954Christian Robert Roger Laigret, Prefect1 November 1954 to 16 June 1957Gaston Claude Villéger, Prefect1 August 1957 to 1 January 1960Jacques Alphonse Boissier, Prefect1 January 1960 to 25 April 1961Jean Parsi, Prefect25 April 1961 to 8 November 1963Michel Grollemund, Prefect21 November 1963 to 16 September 1966Raphaël Roman Hubert Petit, Prefect16 September 1966 to 1 August 1967Pierre Francis Lambertin, Prefect7 August 1967 to 20 June 1969Jean Deliau, Prefect1 September 1969 to 15 June 1970Pierre Béziau, Prefect1 July 1970 to 1 July 1973Jean Benjamin Terrade, Prefect1 July 1973 to 15 November 1975Christian Ernest Orsetti, Prefect15 November 1975 to 20 May 1978Paul Noirot-Cosson, Prefect20 May 1978 to 3 May 1979Raymond Raoul Émile Heim, Prefect3 May 1979 to 27 July 1981Marcel Lucien Paul Julia, Prefect27 July 1981 to 10 May 1982Jean Chevance, Prefect10 May 1982 to 6 March 1985Jean Chevance, Commissioner of the Republic6 March 1985 to 4 November 1987Édouard Lacroix, Commissioner of the Republic4 November 1987 to 24 February 1988Jean Jouandet, Commissioner of the Republic24 February 1988 to 12 April 1989Jean Jouandet, Prefect12 April 1989 to 4 September 1991Jean-Claude Roure, Prefect4 September 1991 to 6 January 1995Michel Morin, Prefect6 January 1995 to 24 August 1998Jean-François Cordet, Prefect31 August 1998 to 21 June 2000Dominique Bellion, Prefect24 July 2000 to 28 March 2003Michel Cadot, PrefectFrench overseas region28 March 2003 to 9 February 2004Michel Cadot, Prefect9 February 2004 to 20 June 2007Yves Dassonville, Prefect20 June 2007 to 2 August 2007Patrice Latron, interim Prefect2 August 2007 to 28 March 2011Ange Mancini, Prefect5 February 2020 to 29 July 2022Stanislas Cazelles, Prefectsince 23 August 2022Jean-Christophe Bouvier, Prefect

See also Martinique Politics of Martinique

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