This is a list of Colonial Heads of Mali:
(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)
{|class="wikitable" Term Incumbent Notes |- |colspan=3|French Suzerainty
|27 February 1880 to 29 July 1880||Charles Émile Boilèv, Commandant-Superior||1st Term |- |colspan="3"|Haut-Sénégal (French territory of Upper Senegal) under Senegal |- |6 September 1880 to 3 September 1883||Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes, Commandant-Superior |- |3 September 1883 to 18 June 1884||Charles Émile Boilève, Commandant-Superior||2nd Term |- |18 June 1884 to 4 September 1884||Antoine Vincent Auguste Combes, acting Commandant-Superior |- |4 September 1884 to September 1885||Antoine Vincent Auguste Combes, Commandant-Superior |- |September 1885 to August 1886||Henri-Nicolas Frey, Commandant-Superior |- |August 1886 to 10 September 1888||Joseph Simon Galliéni, Commandant-Superior |- |10 September 1888 to 18 August 1890||Louis Archinard, Commandant-Superior||1st Term |- |colspan="3"|French Sudan Territory |- |18 August 1890 to 1891||Louis Archinard, Commandant-Superior||1st Term (contd.) |- |1891 to 27 August 1892||Pierre Marie Gustave Hubert, Commandant-Superior |- |colspan="2"|separate colony |- |27 August 1892 to 2 August 1893||Louis Archinard, Commandant-Superior||2nd Term |- |2 August 1893 to 26 December 1893||Eugène Bonnier, acting Commandant-Superior |- |26 December 1893 to 16 June 1895||Louis Albert Grodet, Governor |- |colspan="2"|Incorporated into French West Africa |- |16 June 1895 to 1898||Louis Edgard de Trentinian, Governor |- |1898 to 17 October 1899||Marie Michel Alexandre René Audéoud, acting Governor |- |colspan="2"|Dissolution of French Sudan |- |17 October 1899 to 10 October 1902||William Merlaud-Ponty, Delegate |- |colspan="3"|Senegambia and Niger Colony |- |10 October 1902 to 18 October 1904||William Merlaud-Ponty, Delegate |- |colspan="3"|Haut-Sénégal-Niger (Upper Senegal and Niger) |- |18 October 1904 to 20 October 1904||William Merlaud-Ponty, Delegate |- |20 October 1904 to 18 February 1908||William Merlaud-Ponty, Lieutenant-Governor |- |18 February 1908 to 16 June 1915||François Joseph Clozel, Lieutenant-Governor |- |16 June 1915 to 1 July 1915||Philippe Henry, acting Lieutenant-Governor |- |1 July 1915 to 28 July 1916||Louis Digue, acting Lieutenant-Governor |- |28 July 1916 to 20 April 1917||Raphaël Antonetti, acting Lieutenant-Governor |- |20 April 1917 to 21 May 1917||Albert Nebout, acting Lieutenant-Governor |- |21 May 1917 to 20 February 1918||Louis Periquet, acting Lieutenant-Governor |- |20 February 1918 to 16 May 1919||Auguste Brunet, Lieutenant-Governor |- |16 May 1919 to 4 December 1920||Marcel Achille Olivier, Lieutenant-Governor |- |colspan="3"|French Sudan |- |4 December 1920 to 21 August 1921||Marcel Achille Olivier, Lieutenant-Governor |- |21 August 1921 to 26 February 1924||Jean Henri Terrasson de Fougères, acting Governor |- |26 February 1924 to 31 December 1930||Jean Henri Terrasson de Fougères, Governor |- |31 December 1930 to 4 April 1931||Joseph Urbain Court, acting Governor |- |4 April 1931 to 11 June 1931||Gabriel Omar Descemet, acting Governor |- |11 June 1931 to 31 March 1933||Louis Jacques Eugène Fousset, acting Governor ||1st Term |- |31 March 1933 to 22 May 1933||René Desjardins, acting Governor |- |22 May 1933 to 30 November 1933||Léon Solomiac, acting Governor |- |30 November 1933 to 19 February 1935||Louis Jacques Eugène Fousset, Governor||2nd Term |- |19 February 1935 to 22 November 1935||Félix Sylvestre Adolphe Éboué, acting Governor |- |22 November 1935 to 9 November 1936||Matteo-Mathieu-Maurice Alfassa, Governor |- |9 November 1936 to 4 December 1936||Ferdinand Jacques Louis Rougier, acting Governor |- |4 December 1936 to 28 March 1938||Ferdinand Jacques Louis Rougier, Governor |- ||28 March 1938 to 15 November 1940||Jean Desanti, acting Governor |- |15 November 1940 to 17 April 1942||Jean Desanti, Governor |- |17 April 1942 to 29 December 1942||Auguste Calvel, acting Governor |- |29 December 1942 to 15 May 1946||Auguste Calvel, Governor |- |15 May 1946 to 27 October 1946||Edmond Louveau, Governor |- |French Sudan||French overseas territory |- |27 October 1946 to April 1952||Edmond Louveau, Governor |- |April 1952 to 10 July 1952||Camille Victor Bailly, Governor |- |10 July 1952 to 23 February 1953||Salvador Jean Etchéber, acting Governor |- |23 February 1953 to 2 December 1953||Albert Jean Mouragues, Governor |- |2 December 1953 to 10 February 1954||Lucien Eugène Geay, acting Governor |- |10 February 1954 to 3 November 1956||Lucien Eugène Geay, Governor |- |3 November 1956 to 24 November 1958||Henri Victor Gipoulon, High Commissioner |- |Sudanese Republic||autonomous |- |24 November 1958 to 4 April 1959||Jean Charles Sicurani, High Commissioner |- |Mali Federation||union of Sudanese Republic and Senegal |- |4 April 1959 to 20 June 1960||Jean Charles Sicurani, High Commissioner |- |20 June 1960||Independence as Mali Federation
For continuation after independence, see: Heads of State of Mali
See also History of Mali
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