List of colonial and departmental heads of Guadeloupe

(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:

Term Incumbent NotesFrench Suzerainty 28 June 1635 – 4 December 1635 Jean du Plessis d'Ossonville Died 1635 28 June 1635 – 1640 Governor; died 164325 November 1640 – 1643 Jean Aubert 1643–1664 Charles Houël du Petit Pré Governor August 1644 – May 1645 Marivet Acting 8 July 1654 – 1656 Charles Houël du Petit Pré 2nd time, acting, also de Boisseret 23 June 1664 – November 1664 Ducoudray Acting 5 November 1664 – 14 September 1674 Claude François du Lyon 1677 M. de Baas de l'Herpinière Did not take office 5 July 1677 – 15 June 1695 Pierre Hincelin Acting, then confirmed governor15 July 1695 to 1702 Charles Auger Governor 1703–1705 Joseph d'Honon de Gallifet Did not take office 1702–1705 Bonnaventure-François de Boisfermé Acting governor for absent Galiffet 1706 – 1 May 1717 Robert Cloche de La Malmaison GovernorMay 1717 to 18 March 1718 Interim governor22 June 1717 François de Pas de Mazencourt, marquis de Feuquières Did not take officeJune/July 1719 – October 1727 Governor21 October 1727 – 27 July 1734 Governor27 July 1734 – 17 August 1737 Charles de Brunier, marquis de Larnage Acting governor17 August 1737 – 1753 Gabriel de Clieu Governor October 1749 – December 1750 de Lafond Acting for d'Erchigny) 27 December 1753 – 1757 Governor15 January 1757 – 1 May 1759 Charles François Emmanuel Nadau du Treil GovernorBritish Suzerainty May 1759 John Barrington May 1759 – 11 March 1760Byam Crump Governor March 1760 – 4 July 1763 Campbell Dalrymple GovernorFrench Suzerainty 4 July 1763 – 24 June 1764 François-Charles de Bourlamaque Governor 1764 to 1765 Henri Édouard de Copley Interim governor 20 March 1765 to 29 November 1768Pierre Gédéon de Nolivos Governor 29 November 1768 – 1769 Anne Joseph Hippolyte de Maurès de Malartic Governor 27 February 1769 – 1771 François Claude Amour, marquis de Bouillé Governor August 1771 to 1773 Louis François de Dion Governor 14 April 1773 – 1776 Édouard Hilaire Louis de Tilly Governor 1776–1782 Bache-Elzéar-Alexandre d'Arbaud de Jouques Governor 16 Nov 1782 – 1783 Claude Charles de Marillac, vicomte de Damas Governor 1783–1784 Beaumé de la Saulais Governor1784 – 25 July 1792Charles François de Clugny de Thénissey Governor

Revolution and First Empire

Term Incumbent Notes1792 to 1793René Marie, vicomte d'Arrot, interim Governor5 January 1793 to 18 March 1793Jean-Baptiste Raymond de Lacrosse, provisional Governor18 March 1793 to 20 April 1794Victor Collot, GovernorBritish Suzerainty20 April 1794 to 3 June 1794Thomas Dundas, GovernorFrench Suzerainty7 June 1794 to 6 January 1795Victor Hugues, Commissioner6 January 1795 to January 1796Victor Hugues, Co-CommissionerLebas, Co-Commissioner6 January 1795 to June 1795Goyrand, Co-CommissionerJanuary 1796 to 25 October 1797Victor Hugues, Agent of the French Executive DirectoryLebas, Agent of the French Executive Directory25 October 1797 to 19 April 1801Département25 October 1797 to 22 November 1798Victor Hugues, Agent of the French Executive DirectoryCo-AgentLebas, Agent of the French Executive DirectoryCo-Agent22 November 1798 to 3 October 1799Edme Étienne Borne-Desfourneaux, Agent of the French Executive Directory3 October 1799 to 11 December 1799Paris, provisional Agent of the French Executive Directory11 December 1799 to 30 May 1801Georges Nicolas Jeannet-Oudin, Agent of the French Executive DirectoryCo-Agent11 December 1799 to 30 December 1800René Gaston Baco de la Chapelle, Agent of the French Executive DirectoryCo-Agent11 December 1799 to 28 February 1800Étienne Maynaud de Bizefranc de Laveaux, Agent of the French Executive DirectoryCo-Agent28 February 1800 to 30 May 1801 Maurice-Henri Bresseau Co-Agent30 May 1801 to 14 May 1802Jean-Baptiste Raymond de Lacrosse, Captain-General 1st Term24 October 1801 to 6 May 1802Magloire Pélage, President of Provisional Council of GovernmentIn rebellion14 May 1802 to 3 September 1802Antoine Richepanse, Captain-General4 August 1802 to 8 May 1803Jean-Baptiste Raymond de Lacrosse, Captain-General4 August 1802 to 3 September 1802Jean-Baptiste Raymond de Lacrosse, Captain-General2nd Term3 September 1802 to 8 May 1803Jean-Baptiste Raymond de Lacrosse, acting Captain-General8 May 1803 to 6 February 1810Jean Augustin Ernouf, Captain-GeneralBritish Suzerainty6 February 1810 to 7 December 1814British occupation6 February 1810 to 26 June 1813Sir Alexander Cochrane, Governor26 June 1813 to December 1814John Skinner, GovernorFrench Suzerainty7 December 1814 to 12 December 181412 December 1814 to 10 August 1815Charles Durand, comte de Linois, GovernorBritish Suzerainty10 August 1815 to 25 July 1816British occupation10 August 1815 to 24 April 1816Sir James Leith, Governor24 April 1816 to 25 July 1816

Restoration, Second Republic, Second Empire

Term Incumbent NotesFrench Suzerainty1816 to 1823Antoine Philippe de Lardenoy, Governor1823 to 1826Louis Léon Jacob, Governor31 May 1826 to 1830Jean Julien Angot des Rotours, Governor31 January 1830 to 8 July 1831Louis François Vatable, Governor1831 to 20 June 1837René Arnous des Saulsays, Governor1837 to 1841Jean-Guillaume Jubelin, Governor1841 to 7 June 1845Augustin Gourbeyre, Governor24 August 1845 to 5 June 1848Jean-François Layrle, Governor5 June 1848 to 1848Alexandre Gatine, acting Governor1848 to 1849Jean Jacques Louis Fabvre. acting Governor1849 to 1849Jean Jacques Louis Fabvre9 September 1849 to 1851Jacques Amédée Philippe Fiéron1851 to 1851Chaumont, acting Governor15 September 1851 to 1853Tranquille Aubry-Bailleul, Governor30 September 1853 to 1856Philibert Augustin Bonfils, Governor1856 to 1857Guillet, acting GovernorMarch 1857 to April 1859Philippe Victor Touchard, Governor1859 to January 1860Louis Bontemps, GovernorJanuary 1860 to 1864Charles Victor Frébault, Governor1864 to 1864Joseph Desmazes, acting Governor1864 to 1870Louis Hippolyte de Lormel, Governor

Third, Fourth, Fifth republics

Term Incumbent Notes1870 to 1880Gabriel Couturier, Governor1880 to 1881Mazé, acting Governor1881 to 1886Léonce Laugier, Governor1886 to 1886Sainte-Luce, acting Governor1886 to 1891Antoine Frédéric Henry Le Boucher, Governor1891 to 1894Louis Hippolyte Marie Nouet, Governor1894 to 1895Noël Pardon, Governor1895 to 1901Delphino Moracchini, Governor1901 to 1903Martial Merlin, Governor1903 to 1905Paul Marie Armand de La Loyère, Governor1905 to 1907Léon Jules Pol Boulloche, Governor1907 to 1909Victor Marie Louis Ballot, Governor1909 to 1910Henri Cor, Governor1911 to 1913Jean Jules Émile Peuvergne, Governor1913 to 1917Émile Merwart, Governor1917 to 1920Maurice Gourbeil, Governor1920 to 1924Pierre Louis Alfred Duprat, Governor1924 to 1924Jocelyn Robert, Governor1924 to 1926Maurice Beurnier, Governor1926 to 1929Louis Gerbinis, Governor1929 to 1931Théophile Antoine Pascal Tellier, Governor1931 to 1934Alphonse Choteau, Governor1934 to 1936Louis Bouge, Governor1936 to 1938Félix Éboué, Governor29 November 1938 to 21 February 1940François Pierre-Alype, Governor30 April 1940 to 15 July 1943Constant Sorin, Governor1944 to 1946Maurice Pierre Eugène Bertaut, Governor19 March 1946French overseas département30 April 1946 to 12 October 1947Ernest de Nattes, Governor26 December 1947 to 24 November 1950Gilbert Eugène Félicien Marie Philipson, Prefect16 January 1951 to 18 May 1954Gaston Villéger, Prefect18 May 1954 to 18 December 1955Jacques Ravail, Prefect22 December 1955 to 22 May 1956Guy Malines, acting Prefect22 May 1956 to 6 March 1958Guy Malines, Prefect6 March 1958 to 1 October 1960Jean-Pierre Abeille, Prefect1 October 1960 to 1 August 1965Albert Bonhomme, Prefect1 August 1965 to 12 July 1967Pierre Bolotte, Prefect16 August 1967 to 16 December 1969Jean Deleplanque, Prefect16 December 1969 to 1 July 1973Pierre Mathieu Brunon, Prefect12 July 1973 to 15 November 1975Jacques Le Cornec, Prefect15 November 1975 to 15 October 1978Jean-Claude Aurousseau, Prefect15 October 1978 to 28 February 1982Guy Maillard, Prefect28 February 1982 to 10 May 1982Robert Miguet, Prefect10 May 1982 to 13 February 1984Robert Miguet, Commissioner of the RepublicFebruary 1984 to April 1986Maurice Saborin, Commissioner of the Republic9 April 1986 to 4 November 1987Yves Bonnet, Commissioner of the Republic4 November 1987 to 24 February 1988Bernard Sarazin, Commissioner of the Republic24 February 1988 to November 1989Bernard Sarazin, PrefectNovember 1989 to 18 July 1991Jean-Paul Proust, Prefect31 July 1991 to 6 October 1993Franck Perriez, Prefect6 October 1993 to 21 November 1994Alain Frouté, Prefect21 November 1994 to 16 October 1996Michel Diefenbacher, Prefect12 November 1996 to 16 August 1999Jean Fedini, Prefect16 August 1999 to 6 August 2002Jean-François Carenco, Prefect6 August 2002 to 7 July 2004Dominique Vian, Prefect7 July 2004 to 29 October 2009Paul Girot de Langlade, Prefect29 October 2009 to 24 August 2011Jean-Luc Michel Fabre, Prefect17 July 2011 to 11 September 2011Philippe Jaumouillé, Acting Prefect11 September 2011 to 23 January 2013Amaury de Saint-Quentin, Prefect23 January 2013 to 21 December 2014Marcelle Pierrot, Prefect21 December 2014 to presentJacques Billant, Prefect

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