List of administrators of the French colony of Cochinchina

List of administrators of the French colony of Cochinchina

(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)

TenureIncumbentNotesFrench Suzerainty1 September 1858 to 1 November 1859Charles Rigault de Genouilly, Commander-in-Chief of the Naval Division of Réunion and Indochina, and Commander-in-Chief of the Expeditionary Corps of the Chinese Seas1 November 1859 to 6 February 1861Théogène François Page, Commander-in-Chief of the Naval Division of the Chinese Seas1 September 1858 to 18 February 1859Charles Rigault de Genouilly, GovernorIn Tourane 19 October 1859 to 23 March 1860Théogène François Page, GovernorIn Tourane18 February 1859 to 1859Charles Rigault de Genouilly, GovernorIn Saigon; the city became permanent administrative seatMarch 1859 to 1 April 1860Jean Bernard Jauréguiberry, Acting Governor1 April 1860 to 6 February 1861Théogène François Page, Governor1 April 1860 to 6 February 1861Joseph Hyacinthe Louis Jules d'Ariès, Acting GovernorActing for Page6 February 1861 to 30 November 1861Léonard Victor Joseph Charner, Governor30 November 1861 to 16 October 1863Louis Adolphe Bonard, Governor16 October 1863 to 31 March 1865Pierre-Paul de La Grandière, Governor1st time1 April 1865 to 28 November 1865Pierre Gustave Roze, Interim Governor28 November 1865 to 4 April 1868Pierre Paul de La Grandière, Governor2nd time4 April 1868 to 10 December 1869Gustave Ohier, Acting Governor10 December 1869 to 9 January 1870Joseph Faron, Interim Governor9 January 1870 to 1 April 1871René de Cornulier-Lucinière, Governor The last person appointed by the Emperor to hold this position.Held this position during the period when the Second French Empire fell to the German Empire and transitioned to the French Third Republic.The last representative of the French Second Empire and the first of the Interim French government and the French Third Republic.1 April 1871 to 16 March 1872Marie Jules Dupré, Governor1st time.He was the first person appointed by the President following the Emperor's formal abdication upon the collapse of the Second French Empire at the hands of the German Empire.16 March 1872 to 16 December 1872Charles Joseph Basher d'Arbaud, Acting Governor16 December 1872 to 15 March 1874Marie Jules Dupré, Governor2nd time16 March 1874 to 30 November 1874Jules François Émile Krantz, Acting Governor30 November 1874 to 31 January 1876Victor Auguste, baron Duperré, Governor1st time1 February 1876 to 6 July 1876Henri Gaëtan Ernest Bossant, Acting Governor7 July 1876 to 16 October 1877Victor Auguste, baron Duperré, Governor2nd time16 October 1877 to 7 July 1879Louis Charles Georges Jules Lafont, Governor7 July 1879 to 7 November 1882Charles Le Myre de Vilers, Governor4 March 1881 to 31 October 1881Arthur de Trentinian, Acting GovernorActing for de Vilers7 November 1882 to 27 July 1885Charles Antoine François Thomson, Governor27 July 1885 to 19 June 1886Charles Auguste Frédéric Bégin, Governor20 June 1886 to 22 October 1887Ange Michel Filippini, Governor The last person to hold the office under the President's administration before the Governor-General of Indochina took over the appointment authority following the Treaty of Huế (1884).23 October 1887 to 2 November 1887Noël Pardon, Acting Governor The last person appointed by the President to hold this office, the last leader to serve under the President, and the first to serve as acting head under the Governor-General.3 November 1887 to 15 November 1887Jules Georges Piquet, Acting Governor 3 November 1887 to 15 January 1888Jean Antoine Ernest Constans, Lieutenant Governor The first offical governor appointed by the Governor-General of Indochina.15 January 1888 to 2 August 1888Eugène Auguste Navelle, Lieutenant Governor3 August 1888 to 25 August 1888Eugène Auguste Navelle, acting director of Local Service25 August 1888 to 16 May 1889Paul Louis Maxime Céloron de Blainville, Director of Local Service21 May 1889 to 9 August 1889Augustin Julien Fourès, Acting Lieutenant Governor1st time9 August 1889 to 11 September 1892Henri-Eloi Danel, Lieutenant Governor11 September 1892 to 25 March 1894Augustin Julien Fourès, Lieutenant Governor2nd time, acting to 21 October 189225 March 1894 to 15 September 1894Eugène Auguste Navelle, Acting Lieutenant Governor 15 September 1894 to 18 July 1895Augustin Julien Fourès, Lieutenant Governor3rd time18 July 1895 to 22 March 1896Alexandre Antoine Étienne Gustave Ducos, Lieutenant Governor1st time22 March 1896 to 19 November 1896Gustave Guillaume Sandret, Acting Lieutenant Governor19 November 1896 to 9 May 1897Alexandre Antoine Étienne Gustave Ducos, Lieutenant Governor2nd time10 May 1897 to 1 January 1898Ange Eugène Nicolai, Acting Lieutenant Governor1 January 1898 to 11 April 1899Édouard Picanon, Lieutenant Governor1st time11 April 1899 to 1 November 1900Ferdinand Georges Jules Bocquet, Acting Lieutenant Governor 1 November 1900 to 28 July 1901Édouard Picanon, Lieutenant Governor2nd time28 July 1901 to 3 September 1901Louis Paul Luce, Acting Lieutenant Governor5 September 1901 to 18 September 1902Henri Félix de Lamothe, Lieutenant Governor18 September 1902 to 10 March 1906François Pierre Rodier, Lieutenant Governor1st time10 March 1906 to February 1907Olivier Charles Arthur de Lalande de Calan, Acting Lieutenant GovernorFebruary 1907 to 29 June 1907François Pierre Rodier, Lieutenant Governor2nd time29 June 1907 to 18 February 1908Louis Alphonse Bonhoure, Lieutenant Governor1st time18 February 1908 to 23 September 1908Ernest Outrey, Acting Lieutenant Governor1st time23 September 1908 to 9 January 1909Louis Alphonse Bonhoure, Lieutenant Governor2nd time9 January 1909 to 15 June 1909Ernest Outrey, Acting Lieutenant Governor2nd time16 June 1909 to December 1911Jules Maurice Gourbeil, Lieutenant GovernorDecember 1911 to 22 March 1912Jules Maurice Gourbeil, Governor1st time22 March 1912 to 13 December 1912Leon Destenay, Acting Governor13 December 1912 to January 1914Jules Maurice Gourbeil, Governor2nd time31 January 1914 to 7 July 1914Maurice Joseph Le Gallen, Acting Governor1st time7 July 1914 to 26 April 1916Jules Maurice Gourbeil, Governor3rd time26 April 1916 to 1917Louis Félix Marie Édouard Rivet, Acting Governor9 October 1917 to 22 June 1920Maurice Joseph Le Gallen, Governor2nd time22 June 1918 to 20 February 1920Georges René Gaston Maspéro, Acting GovernorActing for Le Gallen20 February 1920 to 18 November 1920Maurice Joseph Le Gallen, Acting Governor3rd time18 November 1920 to 14 February 1922Paul Achille Michel Quesnel, Acting Governor14 February 1922 to 1926Maurice Cognacq, GovernorActing to 12 April 192224 May 1924 to 17 December 1924Auguste Eugène Ludovic Tholance, Acting GovernorActing for Cognacq19 April 1926 to 30 December 1926Aristide Eugène Le Fol, Acting Governor30 December 1926 to 12 January 1929Paul Marie Alexis Joseph Blanchard de la Brosse, Governor12 January 1929 to 6 March 1929Eugène Henri Roger Eutrope, Interim Governor6 March 1929 to 1934Jean-Félix Krautheimer, Governor 21 November 1931 to 11 November 1932Eugène Henri Roger Eutrope, Acting GovernorActing for Krautheimer20 May 1934 to 1939Pierre André Michel Pagès, Governor1 March 1936 to 12 October 1936Henri Georges Rivoal, Acting GovernorActing for Pagès12 May 1939 to 1940René Veber, Governor The last governor to serve the French Third Republic administration and the first to serve the Vichy France administration.He was the last governor appointed by the Governor-General of Indochina under the French Third Republic regime.16 November 1940 to 1942Henri Georges Rivoal, GovernorActing to 11 December 1940.The first person appointed by the Governor-General of Indochina under the Vichy France regime.21 November 1942 to 9 March 1945Ernest Thimothée Hoeffel, GovernorActing to 16 March 1943.The last person appointed by the Governor-General of Indochina under the Vichy France regime, serving until the Japanese coup d'état in French Indochina.Japanese Suzerainty9 March 1945 to 15 August 1945Fujio Minoda, GovernorHe was the first—and last—Japanese governor-general following the successful Japanese coup d'état in French Indochina.Vietnamese Administration1945 to 25 August 1945Nguyen Van Sam, Imperial Representative in the South25 August 1945 to 23 September 1945Tran Van Giau, President of the Provisional Executive CommitteeIn oppositionAllied Control13 Sep 1945 to 28 Mar 1946Douglas David Gracey, Military CommanderFrom United KingdomFrench Suzerainty24 August 1945 to 1947Jean Henri Arsène Cédile, Commissioner in Cochinchina and South Annam20 May 1947 to 6 August 1947Robert Dufour, Acting Commissioner6 August 1947 to 21 November 1949Pierre Boyer De LaTour du Moulin, Interim Commissioner21 November 1949 to 31 July 1951Charles Chanson, CommissionerKilled by a caodaist suicide bomber1 August 1951 to 27 September 1951Raoul Albin Louis Salan, Acting Commissioner27 September 1951 to 27 April 1953Paul Louis Bondis, Commissioner

See also History of Vietnam Cochinchina Cochinchina Campaign French colonial empire Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica of Saigon, where the French Cochinchina governor Marie Jules Dupré was mentioned to have organized a competition to design the Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica of Saigon: "En août 1876, le gouverneur de Cochinchine Marie Jules Dupré organise un concours pour déterminer l'architecture de la cathédrale Notre-Dame".

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References

French Cochinchina (South Vietnam), World Statesmen

External links World Statesmen – Vietnam – French Cochinchina (South Vietnam)