List of the Colonial Heads of Upper Oubangui and the region becoming the Central African Republic (Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office) {| class="wikitable" |- align=left ! width="18%" |Term ! width="35%" |Incumbent ! width="15%" |Notes |- valign=top |colspan="3"|French Suzerainty |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |10 February 1894 to 13 July 1894||Eugène Decazes, Director|| |- |colspan="3"|Upper Oubangui (Haut-Oubangui) |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |13 July 1894 to 20 October 1894||Eugène Decazes, Commissioner|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |20 October 1894 to 1897||Victor Liotard, Commissioner|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1897 to 1900||Victor Liotard, Lieutenant-Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1900 to 29 December 1903||Adolphe Cureau, Lieutenant-Governor|| |- |colspan="3"|Upper Oubangui (Oubangui-Chari) |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |29 December 1903 to May 1904||Adolphe Cureau, Lieutenant-Governor||valign=top|(contd.) |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |May 1904 to 22 August 1905||Alphonse Iaeck, acting Governor-Delegate|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |22 August 1905 to 16 February 1906||Victor Emmanuel Merlet, acting Governor-Delegate|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |16 February 1906 to 4 April 1906||Louis Paul Émile Lamy, Governor-Delegate|| |- |colspan="3"|Oubangui-Chari-Tchad (constituent colony of Congo Français, renamed French Equatorial Africa in 1910) |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |April 4, 1906, to February 28, 1909||Émile Merwart, Lieutenant-Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |February 28, 1909, to August 5, 1910||Lucien Fourneau, acting Lieutenant-Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |August 5, 1910, to June 10, 1911||Paul Adam, acting Lieutenant-Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |June 10, 1911, to October 12, 1916||Frederic Estebe, Lieutenant-Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |October 12, 1916, to July 17, 1917||Victor Merlet, Lieutenant-Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |July 17, 1917, to 16 May 1919||Auguste Lamblin, acting Lieutenant-Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |May 16, 1919 to August 31, 1920||Auguste Lamblin, Lieutenant-Governor|| |- |colspan="3"|Oubangui-Chari (Oubangui-Chari and Chad are separated) |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |August 31, 1920 to December 1921||Alphonse Diret, acting Lieutenant-Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |December 1921 to August 7, 1923||Auguste Lamblin, Lieutenant-Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |August 7, 1923 to November 1924||Pierre Frangois, acting Lieutenant-Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |November 1924 to July 1, 1926||Auguste Lamblin, Lieutenant-Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |July 1, 1926, to July 1928||Georges Prouteaux, acting Lieutenant-Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |July 1928 to October 22, 1929||Auguste Lamblin, Lieutenant-Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |October 22, 1929, to October 30, 1930||Georges Prouteaux, acting Lieutenant-Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |October 30, 1930, to March 8, 1933||Alphonse Deitte, Lieutenant-Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |March 8, 1933, to February 1934||Pierre Bonnefont, acting Lieutenant-Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |February 1934 to August 17, 1934||Alphonse Deitte, Lieutenant-Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |August 17, 1934 to May 21, 1935||Adolphe Deitte, Governor-Delegate|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |May 21, 1935, to May 30, 1936||Richard Brunot,