thumb|French Equatorial Africa

This is a list of European colonial administrators (French: Gouverneur général de l'Afrique équatoriale française) responsible for the territory of French Equatorial Africa, an area equivalent to modern-day Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic and Chad.

List

(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)

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|1 August 1886 to 28 September 1897||60px||Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, <br>Commissioner-General||

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|1 August 1886 to 1 October 1886|| ||Georges Élie Pradier, <br>acting Commissioner-General||Acting for Brazza

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|1 October 1886 to March 1887||60px||Charles de Chavannes, <br>acting Commissioner-General||1st time; acting for Brazza

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|16 January 1888 to May 1890||60px||Noël Ballay, <br>acting Commissioner-General||Acting for Brazza

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|25 November 1891 to March 1892||rowspan=3|60px||rowspan=3|Charles de Chavannes, <br>acting Commissioner-General||2nd time; acting for Brazza

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|April 1892 to May 1892||3rd time; acting for Brazza

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|June 1892 to March 1893||4th time; acting for Brazza

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|17 March 1893 to 6 October 1893|| ||Alphonse Edouard Lippmann, <br>acting Commissioner-General||Acting for Brazza

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|October 1893 to November 1893|| ||E. Gervais, <br>acting Commissioner-General||Acting for Brazza

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|December 1893 to May 1894||60px||Charles de Chavannes, <br>acting Commissioner-General||5th time; acting for Brazza

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|May 1894 to 1 June 1894|| ||Jean-Marie Le Divellec, <br>acting Commissioner-General||Acting for Brazza

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|1 June 1894 to November 1894||rowspan=3| ||rowspan=3|, <br>acting Commissioner-General||1st time; acting for Brazza

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|January 1895 to January 1896||2nd time; acting for Brazza

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|March 1897 to 28 September 1897||3rd time; acting for Brazza

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|28 September 1897 to 28 April 1900||60px||, <br>Commissioner-General||

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|June 1898 to October 1898|| ||, <br>acting Commissioner-General||4th time; acting for Lamothe

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|October 1898 to April 1899||60px||Martial Henri Merlin, <br>acting Commissioner-General||Acting for Lamothe

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|October 1899 to March 1900||rowspan=2| ||rowspan=2|Jean-Baptiste Philémon Lemaire, <br>acting Commissioner-General||Acting for Lamothe

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|28 April 1900 to December 1900||

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|December 1900 to 1902||60px||Albert Grodet, <br>acting Commissioner-General||

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|1902 to 1903||60px||, <br>acting Commissioner-General||

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|1903 to 21 January 1904|| ||Arnaud, <br>acting Commissioner-General||

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|21 January 1904 to 13 February 1908||60px||Émile Gentil, <br>Commissioner-General||

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|17 August 1905 to 11 May 1906|| ||Édouard Émile Léon Telle, <br>acting Commissioner-General||Acting for Gentil

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|25 September 1906 to 5 April 1907|| ||Alfred Fourneau, <br>acting Commissioner-General||Acting for Gentil

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|5 April 1907 to 28 June 1908||60px||Alfred Albert Martineau, <br>acting Commissioner-General||Acting for Gentil

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|28 June 1908 to 15 May 1917||60px||Martial Henri Merlin, <br>Governor-General||

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|28 June 1908 to 16 February 1909||60px||Alfred Albert Martineau, <br>acting Governor-General||Acting for Merlin

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|18 October 1909 to 1910|| ||Charles Amédée Rognon, <br>acting Governor-General||1st time; acting for Merlin

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|1910|| ||Adolphe Cureau, <br>acting Governor-General||Acting for Merlin

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|1910 to 6 March 1911|| ||Charles Amédée Rognon, <br>acting Governor-General||2nd time; acting for Merlin

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|6 March 1911 to 1911|| ||Édouard Dubosc-Taret, <br>acting Governor-General||Acting for Merlin

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|1911 to 11 May 1911||rowspan=2| ||rowspan=2|Charles Henri Vergnes, <br>acting Governor-General||1st time; acting for Merlin

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|17 October 1912 to May 1913||2nd time; acting for Merlin

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| May 1913 to 17 November 1913|| ||Georges Virgile Poulet, <br>acting Governor-General||Acting for Merlin

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|17 November 1913 to 14 September 1914|| ||Frédéric Estèbe, <br>acting Governor-General||1st time; acting for Merlin

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|15 May 1917 to 16 May 1920||60px||Gabriel Louis Angoulvant, <br>Governor-General||

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|17 June 1917 to 23 July 1918||rowspan=2| ||rowspan=2|Frédéric Estèbe, <br>acting Governor-General||2nd time; acting for Angoulvant

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|August 1918 to 16 May 1920||3rd time; acting for Angoulvant

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|16 May 1920 to 5 September 1920|| ||, <br>acting Governor-General||

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|5 September 1920 to 21 August 1923||60px||Victor Augagneur, <br>Governor-General||

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|21 August 1923 to 8 July 1924|| ||Robert Paul Marie de Guise, <br>acting Governor-General||1st time

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|8 July 1924 to 1924|| ||Matteo Mathieu Maurice Alfassa, <br>acting Governor-General||1st time

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|1924 to 1 October 1924|| ||Robert Paul Marie de Guise, <br>acting Governor-General||2nd time

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|1 October 1924 to 16 October 1924|| ||Matteo Mathieu Maurice Alfassa, <br>acting Governor-General||2nd time

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|16 October 1924 to 20 September 1934||60px||, <br>Governor-General||

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|11 May 1925 to December 1925|| ||Matteo Mathieu Maurice Alfassa, <br>acting Governor-General||3rd time; acting for Antonetti

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|22 January 1927 to 1927|| ||Jean Marchessou, <br>acting Governor-General||1st time; acting for Antonetti

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|1927 to 17 October 1927|| ||, <br>acting Governor-General||1st time; acting for Antonetti

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|November 1929 to August 1930|| ||Matteo Mathieu Maurice Alfassa, <br>acting Governor-General||4th time; acting for Antonetti

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|27 November 1930 to 11 March 1931|| ||Adolphe Deitte, <br>acting Governor-General||Acting for Antonetti

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|December 1932 to 11 December 1933|| ||Matteo Mathieu Maurice Alfassa, <br>acting Governor-General||5th time; acting for Antonetti

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|20 September 1934 to 16 October 1934|| ||Jean Marchessou, <br>acting Governor-General||2nd time

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|16 October 1934 to 15 March 1935|| ||Georges Édouard Alexandre Renard, <br>Governor-General||

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|20 March 1935 to 5 April 1936|| ||Jean Marchessou, <br>acting Governor-General||3rd time

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|5 April 1936 to 21 April 1939|| ||, <br>Governor-General||2nd time

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|21 April 1939 to 3 September 1939|| ||Léon Solomiac, <br>acting Governor-General||

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|3 September 1939 to 28 August 1940|| ||Pierre Boisson, <br>Governor-General||

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|17 July 1940 to 28 August 1940|| ||Louis Husson, <br>acting Governor-General||Acting for Boisson

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|28 August 1940 to 12 November 1940||60px||Edgard de Larminat, <br>acting Governor-General||Deposed in the Battle of Gabon

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|12 November 1940 to 30 December 1940||60px||, <br>acting Governor-General||

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|30 December 1940 to 17 May 1944||60px||Félix Éboué, <br>Governor-General||Acting to 15 July 1944

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|August 1941 to July 1942||60px||, <br>High Commissioner of Free French Africa||

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|15 February 1944 to 3 August 1946|| ||, <br>Governor-General||Acting to 2 October 1944 (for Éboué to 17 May 1944)

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|3 August 1946 to 5 June 1947|| ||, <br>acting Governor-General||1st time

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|5 June 1947 to 5 July 1947|| ||, <br>acting Governor-General||

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|5 July 1947 to 17 September 1947||60px||, <br>Governor-General||

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|17 September 1947 to 26 March 1948|| ||, <br>Governor-General||2nd time; acting to 15 November 1947

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|26 March 1948 to 21 September 1951|| ||Bernard Cornut-Gentille, <br>Governor-General||

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|21 September 1951 to 4 April 1957||rowspan=2|60px||, <br>Governor-General||

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|4 April 1957 to 29 January 1958||, <br>High Commissioner||

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|29 January 1958 to 15 July 1958||60px||Pierre Messmer, <br>High Commissioner||

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|15 July 1958 to 15 August 1960||60px||Yvon Bourges, <br>High Commissioner||

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See also

  • French Equatorial Africa
  • Chad
  • French Chad
  • Central African Republic
  • Ubangi-Shari
  • Republic of the Congo
  • French Congo
  • Gabon
  • Lists of office-holders
  • List of French possessions and colonies
  • French colonial empire
  • French colonial flags