(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)
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! width="45%"|Incumbent
! width="15%"|Notes
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>1839 to 1844</small>||Louis Édouard Bouët, <small>Commandant of the Naval Division of the Western Coasts of Africa</small>||<small>1st Term</small>
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>1844 to 1845</small>||Louis Édouard Bouët-Willaumez, <small>Commandant of the Naval Division of the Western Coasts of Africa</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 1845 to 1848</small>||Jean-Baptiste Montagniés de la Roque, <small>Commandant of the Naval Division of the Western Coasts of Africa</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 1848 to 1848</small>||Auguste Baudin, <small>Commandant of the Naval Division of the Western Coasts of Africa</small>||<small>1st Term</small>
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 1848 to 1850</small>||Louis Édouard Bouët-Willaumez, <small>Commandant of the Naval Division of the Western Coasts of Africa</small>||<small>2nd Term</small>
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>1850 to 1851</small>||Charles Pénaud, <small>Commandant of the Naval Division of the Western Coasts of Africa</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>1851 to 1854</small>||Auguste Baudin, <small>Commandant of the Naval Division of the Western Coasts of Africa</small>||<small>2nd Term</small>
|- valign=top
|colspan="3"|Colony of Gorée and Dependencies
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>1854 to March 1856</small>||Jérôme Félix Monléon, <small>Commandant of the Naval Division of the Western Coasts of Africa</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>March 1856 to 1859</small>||Auguste Léopold Protet, <small>Commandant of the Naval Division of the Western Coasts of Africa</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 1859 to 1861</small>||Auguste Bosse, <small>Commandant of the Naval Division of the Western Coasts of Africa</small>||<small>Naval Division centred at Gabon; Gorée incorporated into Senegal</small>
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>1861 to 1863</small>||Octave François Charles, baron Didelot, <small>Commandant of the Naval Division of the Western Coasts of Africa</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>1863 to 1866</small>||André Émile Léon Laffon de Ladébat, <small>Commandant of the Naval Division of the Western Coasts of Africa</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 1866 to 1868</small>||Alphonse Jean René, vicomte Fleuriot de Langle, <small>Commandant of the Naval Division of the Western Coasts of Africa</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 1868 to 1869</small>||Alexandre François Dauriac, <small>Commandant of the Naval Division of the Western Coasts of Africa</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 1869 to 1870</small>||Victor Auguste, baron Duperré, <small>Commandant of the Naval Division of the Western Coasts of Africa</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 1870 to 1872</small>||Siméon Bourgeois, <small>Commandant of the Naval Division of the Western Coasts of Africa</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 1872 to 1874</small>||Antoine Louis Le Couriault du Quilio, <small>Commandant of the Naval Division of the Western Coasts of Africa</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 1874 to 1875</small>||Charles Henri Jules Panon du Hazier, <small>Commandant of the Naval Division of the Western Coasts of Africa</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 1875 to 1877</small>||Amédée Louis Ribourt, <small>Commandant of the Naval Division of the Western Coasts of Africa</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 1877 to 1879</small>||François Hippolyte Allemand, <small>Commandant of the Naval Division of the Western Coasts of Africa</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 1879 to 1881</small>||Bernard Ernest Mottez, <small>Commandant of the Naval Division of the Western Coasts of Africa</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 1881 to 24 January 1883</small>||Richild, baron Grivel, <small>Commandant of the Naval Division of the Western Coasts of Africa</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 1884 to 1886</small>||Jules Marie Armand Cavelier de Cuverville, <small>Commandant of the Naval Division of the Western Coasts of Africa</small>||
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|1886||Incorporated into French Congo
|}
See below for continuation 1886 to 17 August 1960
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! width="20%"|Tenure
! width="45%"|Incumbent
! width="15%"|Notes
|- valign=top
|colspan="3"|French Suzerainty
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>1843 to 1844</small>||Antoine Devoisins, <small>Commandant-Particular of Gabon</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 1844 to 1844</small>||Joseph Marie Millet, <small>Commandant-Particular of Gabon</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 1844 to 1846</small>||André Brisset, <small>Commandant-Particular of Gabon</small>||<small>1st Term</small>
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 1846 to 1846</small>||Méquet, <small>Commandant-Particular of Gabon</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 1846 to 1846</small>||Clément Grosjean, <small>Commandant-Particular of Gabon</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 1846 to 1847</small>||Jean Carrilès, <small>Commandant-Particular of Gabon</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 1847 to 1848</small>||André Brisset, <small>Commandant-Particular of Gabon</small>||<small>2nd Term</small>
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 25 March 1848 to 1848</small>||Alphonse Alexandre Sourdeaux, <small>Commandant-Particular of Gabon</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 3 August 1848 to 1848</small>||Eugène Jean Antoine Desperles, <small>Commandant-Particular of Gabon</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>December 1848 to 1849</small>||Étienne Charles Deschanel, <small>Commandant-Particular of Gabon</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 10 August 1849 to 1850</small>||Jean-Auguste Martin, <small>Commandant-Particular of Gabon</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 15 December 1850 to 1853</small>||Alexis Édouard Vignon, <small>Commandant-Particular of Gabon</small>||<small>1st Term</small>
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 1853 to 1854</small>||Théophile Quillet, <small>Commandant-Particular of Gabon</small>||
|- valign=top
|colspan="3"|Colony of Gorée and Dependencies
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>1854 to 1857</small>||Théophile Quillet, <small>Commandant-Particular of Gabon</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 1857 to 1859</small>||Alexis Édouard Vignon, <small>Commandant-Particular of Gabon</small>||<small>2nd Term</small>
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 1859 to 1860</small>||Pierre Alexandre Mailhetard, <small>Commandant-Particular of Gabon</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 4 August 1860 to 1861</small>||César Charles Joseph Pradier, <small>Commandant-Particular of Gabon</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 1861 to 1863</small>||Paul Claude Nicolas Brue, <small>Commandant-Particular of Gabon</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 1863 to 1866</small>||Charles Ferdinand Eugène Baur, <small>Commandant-Particular of Gabon</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 1866 to 1867</small>||Joseph Henri Brunet-Millet, <small>Commandant-Particular of Gabon</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 1867 to 1868</small>||Théophile Aube, <small>Commandant-Particular of Gabon</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 1868 to 1869</small>||Frédéric Amable Bourgarel, <small>Commandant-Particular of Gabon</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 1869 to 1871</small>||Hippolyte Adrien Bourgin, <small>Commandant-Particular of Gabon</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 1871 to 1873</small>||Gustave Aristide Léopold Garraud, <small>Commandant-Particular of Gabon</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 1873 to 1875</small>||Charles Henri Jules Panon du Hazier, <small>Commandant-Particular of Gabon</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 1875 to 1876</small>||Félix Ambroise Clément, <small>Commandant-Particular of Gabon</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 1876 to 1879</small>||Paul-Michel-Frédéric Caudière, <small>Commandant-Particular of Gabon</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 1879 to 1880</small>||Augustin Ernest Dumont, <small>Commandant-Particular of Gabon</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 1880 to 1881</small>||Jules Émile Hanet-Cléry, <small>Commandant-Particular of Gabon</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 1881 to 1883</small>||Émile Masson, <small>Commandant-Particular of Gabon</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 1883 to 1885</small>||Jean Joseph Cornut-Gentille, <small>Commandant-Particular of Gabon</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 1885 to 1886</small>||Georges Émile Pradier, <small>Commandant-Particular of Gabon</small>||
|- valign=top
|colspan="3"|Incorporated into French Congo
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 29 June 1886 to 12 March 1889</small>||Noël Ballay, <small>Lieutenant Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 12 March 1889 to 1 June 1894</small>||Charles de Chavannes, <small>Lieutenant Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 1 June 1894 to 22 January 1899</small>||Albert Dolisie, <small>Lieutenant Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 1 May 1899 to 1902</small>||Émile Gentil, <small>Lieutenant Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 21 January 1904 to 19 April 1905</small>||Louis Auguste Bertrand Ormières, <small>Lieutenant Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 19 April 1905 to 5 August 1905</small>||Paul Cousturier, <small>acting Lieutenant Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 5 August 1905 to 27 April 1906</small>||Alfred Fourneau, <small>acting Lieutenant Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 27 April 1906 to 23 April 1907</small>||Charles Henri Adrien Noufflard, <small>acting Lieutenant Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 23 April 1907 to 26 April 1907</small>||Alfred Martineau, <small>Lieutenant Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 26 April 1907 to 20 January 1909</small>||Édouard Émile Léon Telle, <small>acting Lieutenant Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 20 January 1909 to 10 February 1909</small>||Frédéric Claude Weber, <small>acting Lieutenant Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 10 February 1909 to 9 November 1909</small>||Charles Amédée Rognon, <small>acting Lieutenant Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 9 November 1909 to 15 January 1910</small>||Léon Félix Richaud, <small>acting Lieutenant Governor</small>||
|- valign=top
|colspan="3"|Incorporated into French Equatorial Africa
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>15 January 1910 to June 1911</small>||Léon Félix Richaud, <small>acting Lieutenant Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>June 1911 to 21 February 1912</small>||Georges Poulet, <small>Lieutenant Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 21 February 1912 to 18 April 1914</small>||Paul Pierre Adam, <small>acting Lieutenant Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 18 April 1914 to 1 June 1917</small>||Joseph Guyon, <small>Lieutenant Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 1 June 1917 to 12 June 1918</small>||Georges Thomann, <small>acting Lieutenant Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 12 June 1918 to 30 June 1919</small>||Maurice Pierre Lapalud, <small>Lieutenant Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 30 June 1919 to 13 April 1920</small>||Jean Henri Marchand, <small>acting Lieutenant Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>13 April 1920 to 29 May 1922</small>||Jean Henri Marchand, <small>Lieutenant Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 29 May 1922 to 15 June 1923</small>||Edmond Émilien Cadier, <small>acting Lieutenant Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 15 June 1923 to 29 July 1924</small>||Louis Nicolas Marie Cercus, <small>acting Lieutenant Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 29 July 1924 to 19 June 1931</small>||Marie Joseph Jules Pierre Bernard, <small>Lieutenant Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 19 June 1931 to November 1931</small>||Louis Vingarassamy, <small>acting Lieutenant Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>November 1931 to 26 September 1934</small>||Louis Bonvin, <small>Lieutenant Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>26 September 1934 to 24 October 1936</small>||Louis Bonvin, <small>Administrator-Superior</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>24 October 1936 to 11 September 1937</small>||Louis Bonvin, <small>Governor-Delegate</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 11 September 1937 to 29 August 1938</small>||Georges Parisot, <small>Governor-Delegate</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 29 August 1938 to 2 November 1939</small>||Georges Pierre Masson, <small>acting Governor-Delegate</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>2 November 1939 to 14 November 1940</small>||Georges Pierre Masson, <small>Governor-Delegate</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 14 November 1940 to 15 March 1941</small>||André Parant, <small>acting Governor-Delegate</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 26 March 1941 to 30 May 1942</small>||Victor Valentin Smith, <small>Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 30 May 1942 to 26 August 1943</small>||Charles André Maurice Assier de Pompignan, <small>Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 26 August 1943 to 19 November 1944</small>||Paul Vuillaume, <small>Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 19 November 1944 to 28 March 1946</small>||Numa Sadoul, <small>acting Governor</small>||<small>1st Term</small>
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 28 March 1946 to 31 December 1947</small>||Roland Pré, <small>Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 31 December 1947 to 6 April 1949</small>||Numa Sadoul, <small>Governor</small>||<small>2nd Term</small>
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 6 April 1949 to 4 January 1950</small>||Pierre François Pelieu, <small>acting Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>4 January 1950 to 19 October 1951</small>||Pierre François Pelieu, <small>Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 19 October 1951 to 25 April 1952</small>||Charles Hanin, <small>acting Governor </small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 25 April 1952 to 29 January 1958</small>||Yves Digo, <small>Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small> 29 January 1958 to 28 November 1958</small>||Louis Sanmarco, <small>Governor</small>||
|- valign=top
|colspan="3"|autonomous Gabonese Republic
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>28 November 1958 to July 1959</small>||Louis Sanmarco, <small>High Commissioner</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>July 1959 to 17 August 1960</small>||Jean Risterucci, <small>High Commissioner</small>||
|- valign=top
|17 August 1960||colspan="2"|Independence as Republic of Gabon
|}
For continuation after independence, see: Heads of State of Gabon
See also
- Gabon
- Heads of State of Gabon
- Lists of incumbents