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List of officeholders
(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)
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|- align=left
! width="18%" |Term
! width="35%" |Incumbent
! width="15%" |Notes
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|colspan="3"|French Suzerainty
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>10 February 1894 to 13 July 1894</small>||Eugène Decazes, <small>Director</small>||
|-
|colspan="3"|Upper Oubangui (Haut-Oubangui)
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>13 July 1894 to 20 October 1894</small>||Eugène Decazes, <small>Commissioner</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>20 October 1894 to 1897</small>||Victor Liotard, <small>Commissioner</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>1897 to 1900</small>||Victor Liotard, <small>Lieutenant-Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>1900 to 29 December 1903</small>||Adolphe Cureau, <small>Lieutenant-Governor</small>||
|-
|colspan="3"|Upper Oubangui (Oubangui-Chari)
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>29 December 1903 to May 1904</small>||Adolphe Cureau, <small>Lieutenant-Governor</small>||valign=top|<small>(contd.)</small>
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>May 1904 to 22 August 1905</small>||Alphonse Iaeck, <small>acting Governor-Delegate</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>22 August 1905 to 16 February 1906</small>||Victor Emmanuel Merlet, <small>acting Governor-Delegate</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>16 February 1906 to 4 April 1906</small>||Louis Paul Émile Lamy, <small>Governor-Delegate</small>||
|-
|colspan="3"|Oubangui-Chari-Tchad (constituent colony of Congo Français, renamed French Equatorial Africa in 1910)
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>April 4, 1906, to February 28, 1909</small>||Émile Merwart, <small>Lieutenant-Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>February 28, 1909, to August 5, 1910</small>||Lucien Fourneau, <small>acting Lieutenant-Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>August 5, 1910, to June 10, 1911</small>||Paul Adam, <small>acting Lieutenant-Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>June 10, 1911, to October 12, 1916</small>||Frederic Estebe, <small>Lieutenant-Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>October 12, 1916, to July 17, 1917</small>||Victor Merlet, <small>Lieutenant-Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>July 17, 1917, to 16 May 1919</small>||Auguste Lamblin, <small>acting Lieutenant-Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>May 16, 1919 to August 31, 1920</small>||Auguste Lamblin, <small>Lieutenant-Governor</small>||
|-
|colspan="3"|Oubangui-Chari (Oubangui-Chari and Chad are separated)
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>August 31, 1920 to December 1921</small>||Alphonse Diret, <small>acting Lieutenant-Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>December 1921 to August 7, 1923</small>||Auguste Lamblin, <small>Lieutenant-Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>August 7, 1923 to November 1924</small>||Pierre Frangois, <small>acting Lieutenant-Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>November 1924 to July 1, 1926</small>||Auguste Lamblin, <small>Lieutenant-Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>July 1, 1926, to July 1928</small>||Georges Prouteaux, <small>acting Lieutenant-Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>July 1928 to October 22, 1929</small>||Auguste Lamblin, <small>Lieutenant-Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>October 22, 1929, to October 30, 1930</small>||Georges Prouteaux, <small>acting Lieutenant-Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>October 30, 1930, to March 8, 1933</small>||Alphonse Deitte, <small>Lieutenant-Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>March 8, 1933, to February 1934</small>||Pierre Bonnefont, <small>acting Lieutenant-Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>February 1934 to August 17, 1934</small>||Alphonse Deitte, <small>Lieutenant-Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>August 17, 1934 to May 21, 1935</small>||Adolphe Deitte, <small>Governor-Delegate</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>May 21, 1935, to May 30, 1936</small>||Richard Brunot, <small>Governor-Delegate</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>May 30, 1935, to October 24, 1936</small>||Pierre Bonnefont, <small>acting Governor-Delegate</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>October 24, 1936, to March 28, 1939</small>||Max Masson de Saint-Félix, <small>Governor-Delegate</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>March 28, 1939, to July 15, 1941</small>||Pierre de Saint-Mart, <small>acting Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>July 15, 1941 to May 30, 1942</small>||Pierre de Saint-Mart, <small>Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>May 30, 1942, to July 30, 1942</small>||André Latrille, <small>acting Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>July 30, 1942, to April 3, 1946</small>||Henri Sautot, <small>Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>April 3, 1946, to May 24, 1946</small>||Jean Chalvet, <small>Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>May 24, 1946, to October 1946</small>||Henri Latour, <small>acting Governor</small>||
|-
| colspan="3"|French overseas territory
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>October 1946 to April 25, 1948</small>||Jean Chalvet, <small>Governor</small>||valign=top|<small>(contd.)</small>
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>April 25, 1948, to December 1, 1948</small>||Jean Mauberna, <small>acting Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>December 1, 1948, to January 27, 1949</small>||Auguste Even, <small>acting Governor</small>||valign=top|<small>1st Term</small>
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>January 27, 1949, to January 4, 1950</small>||Pierre Delteil, <small>Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>January 4, 1950, to March 1, 1950</small>||Auguste Even, <small>acting Governor</small>||valign=top|<small>2nd Term</small>
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>March 1, 1950, to July 9, 1951</small>||Ignace Colombani, <small>Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>July 9, 1951, to October 19, 1951</small>||Pierre Raynier, <small>acting Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>October 19, 1951, to February 16, 1954</small>||Aime Grimald, <small>Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>February 16, 1954, to March 23, 1955</small>||Louis Sanmarco, <small>acting Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>March 23, 1957 to January 29, 1958</small>||Louis Sanmarco, <small>Governor</small>||
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>January 29, 1958, to December 1, 1958</small>||Paul Bordier, <small>Governor</small>||
|-valign=top
|Central African Republic||colspan="2"|autonomous
|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec"
|<small>December 1, 1958 to August 14, 1960</small>||Paul Bordier, <small>High Commissioner</small>||valign=top|
|- valign=top
|August 14, 1960||colspan="2"|Independence as Central African Republic
|}
For continuation after independence, see: List of heads of state of the Central African Republic
See also
- History of the Central African Republic
- Ubangi-Shari
- List of heads of state of the Central African Republic
- List of heads of government of the Central African Republic
- Lists of office-holders