This is a list of colonial and departmental heads of Réunion. Réunion is a French overseas department and region with a population of about 800,000 located in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar, approximately 200 km southwest of Mauritius, the nearest island. The chief of state is the French President, who is represented by a Prefect. The president of the General Council acts as head of the government. Elections held in Réunion include the French presidential vote. A prefect is appointed by the president on the advice of the French Ministry of the Interior. The presidents of the General and Regional Councils are elected by members of those councils. The governor of Bourbon or La Réunion was a French colonial role. When the island became a French overseas department in 1946, the role was replaced by a prefect.
For the French West India Company Start End Governor 5 August 1665 8 May 1671 Étienne Regnault 9 May 1671 End of November 1674 Jacques de La Heure End of November 1674 17 June 1678 Henry Esse d'Orgeret 18 June 1678 January 1680 Germain de Fleurimont Moulinier January 1680 1 December 1686 F. Bernardin de Quimper 2 December 1686 9 December 1689 Jean-Baptiste Drouillard 11 December 1689 26 November 1690 Henri Habert de Vauboulon 26 November 1690 2 July 1696 Directoire de Saint-Paul 1 August 1696 6 June 1698 Joseph Bastide 21 October 1699 13 May 1701 Jacques de La Cour 12 June 1701 5 March 1709 Jean-Baptiste de Villiers 7 March 1709 24 March 1710 Michel François Des Bordes 22 April 1710 14 November 1715 Antoine de Parat de Chaillenest 4 December 1715 14 February 1718 Henry de Justamond 6 September 1718 22 August 1723 Joseph Beauvollier de Courchant 23 August 1723 1 December 1725 Antoine Desforges-Boucher 2 December 1725 28 May 1727 Hélie Dioré 21 July 1727 11 July 1735 Pierre-Benoît Dumas 12 July 1735 1 October 1735 Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais 2 October 1735 30 September 1739 Charles L'Emery Dumont 11 November 1739 12 December 1743 Pierre-André d'Héguerty 13 December 1743 8 May 1745 Didier de Saint-Martin 15 May 1745 31 October 1745 Jean-Baptiste Azéma 1 November 1745 18 December 1745 Didier de Saint-Martin 29 December 1745 28 March 1747 Gérard Gaspard de Ballade 14 April 1747 11 November 1748 Didier de Saint-Martin 22 November 1748 17 March 1749 Gérard Gaspard de Ballade 24 May 1749 23 August 1749 Antoine Marie Desforges-Boucher 6 September 1749 16 October 1750 Joseph Brenier 16 October 1750 14 décembre 1752 Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier 12 July 1757 15 October 1757 Antoine Marie Desforges-Boucher 19 October 1757 6 September 1763 Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier 7 September 1763 14 October 1763 Jean Sentuary 5 November 1763 30 March 1767 François Jacques Bertin 31 March 1767 4 November 1767 Martin Adrien Bellier
For the king of France
Start End Governor 1 November 1767 26 July 1772 Guillaume Léonard de Bellecombe 20 October 1772 4 March 1773 De Savourin 27 July 1773 4 October 1773 Guillaume Léonard de Bellecombe 15 December 1773 15 October 1776 Jean Guillaume de Steynauer 26 October 1776 30 April 1779 François de Souillac 25 May 1779 22 August 1781 Joseph Murinay, comte de Saint-Maurice 25 August 1781 21 April 1785 Joseph Chalvet, baron de Souville 2 May 1785 15 February 1788 Elie Dioré 21 February 1788 15 August 1790 David Charpentier de Cossigny
French Revolution and British occupation Start End Governor 8 September 1790 18 October 1792 Dominique Prosper de Chermont 19 October 1792 11 April 1794 Jean-Baptiste Vigoureux du Plessis 12 April 1794 1 November 1795 Pierre Alexandre Roubaud 2 November 1795 7 October 1803 Pierre Antoine Jacob de Cordemoy 10 November 1803 31 December 1805 François-Louis Magallon 9 January 1806 25 September 1809 Nicolas Ernault des Bruslys 9 October 1809 8 July 1810 Jean-Chrysostôme Bruneteau de Sainte-Suzanne 9 July 1810 20 December 1810 Robert Townsend Farquhar 20 December 1810 26 April 1811 Henry Sheehy Keating 26 April 1811 10 July 1811 Robert Townsend Farquhar 10 July 1811 5 April 1815 Henry Sheehy Keating
Bourbon Restoration to Second French Empire
Start End Governor 6 April 1815 30 June 1817 Athanase Bouvet de Lozier 1 July 1817 9 September 1818 Hilaire Urbain de Laffite du Courteil 13 September 1818 14 February 1821 Pierre Bernard Milius 15 February 1821 14 October 1826 Louis-Henri de Freycinet 20 October 1826 4 July 1830 Achille Guy Marie, Comte de Cheffontaines 5 July 1830 7 November 1832 Étienne-Henri Mengin du Val d'Ailly 8 November 1832 4 May 1838 Jacques Philippe Cuvillier 5 May 1838 14 October 1841 Anne Chrétien Louis de Hell 15 October 1841 4 June 1846 Charles Léon Joseph Bazoche 5 June 1846 13 October 1848 Joseph Graeb 13 October 1848 7 March 1850 Joseph Napoléon Sébastien Sarda Garriga 9 March 1850 14 February 1851 Marie-Bon-Ézéchiel Barolet de Puligny 15 February 1851 8 August 1852 Louis Isaac Pierre Hilaire Doret 8 August 1852 8 January 1858 Louis Henri Hubert Delisle 11 January 1858 27 March 1858 Lefevre 28 March 1858 19 September 1863 Rodolphe Augustin, baron Darricau 4 January 1865 23 October 1869 Marie Jules Dupré 27 September 1869 18 September 1875 Louis Hippolyte de Lormel
French Third Republic
Start End Governor 19 November 1875 29 April 1879 Pierre Aristide Faron 6 May 1879 23 March 1886 Pierre Étienne Cuinier 11 October 1886 16 December 1887 Étienne Richaud 16 December 1887 21 August 1888 Jean-Baptiste Antoine Lougnon 22 August 1888 7 May 1891 Anne Louis Edouard Manès 7 May 1891 20 November 1891 Jean-Baptiste Antoine Lougnon 20 November 1891 10 July 1893 Anne Louis Edouard Manès 11 July 1893 21 June 1895 Henri Éloi Danel 22 June 1895 12 August 1895 Henri Roberdeau 13 August 1895 19 May 1896 Benedict Jacob de Cordemoy 19 May 1896 30 October 1900 Laurent Marie Émile Beauchamps 30 October 1900 19 February 1901 Charles André Madre 19 February 1901 29 July 1905 Paul Samary 29 July 1905 30 August 1906 Fernand Théron 30 August 1906 7 November 1906 Marius Verignon 8 November 1906 27 December 1907 Adrien Bonhoure 1 January 1908 19 March 1908 Henri Cor 19 March 1908 18 January 1910 Camille Guy 18 January 1910 17 September 1910 Philippe Émile Jullien 11 July 1910 28 July 1910 Marie Joachim Stanislas Sice 18 September 1910 28 July 1912 François Pierre Rodier 30 August 1912 22 November 1912 Hubert Auguste Garbit 23 November 1913 1 June 1919 Pierre Louis Alfred Duprat 2 June 1919 26 July 1920 Victor Jean Brochard 27 July 1920 5 September 1922 Frédéric Estebbe 6 September 1922 21 August 1923 Henri Cleret de Langavant 22 August 1923 2 October 1924 Maurice Lapalud 31 March 1925 10 September 1928 Jules Vincent Repiquet 10 September 1928 17 May 1930 Louis Fabre 17 May 1930 28 November 1932 Jules Vincent Repiquet 28 November 1932 13 June 1934 Louis Fabre 14 June 1934 29 May 1936 Alfred Paul Albert Choteau 29 May 1936 16 August 1936 Charles Victor Allard 17 August 1936 27 October 1938 Léon Hippolyte 1e Truitard 28 October 1938 29 December 1939 Joseph Court 30 December 1939 1 December 1942 Pierre Émile Aubert 1 December 1942 17 July 1947 André Capagorry
External links List of governors of the île de la Réunion on www.ile-bourbon.net.