List of Colonial Heads of Mali (Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office) {|class="wikitable" Term Incumbent Notes |- |colspan=3|French Suzerainty |- |- |27 February 1880 to 29 July 1880||Charles Émile Boilèv, Commandant-Superior ||1st Term |- |colspan="3"|Haut-Sénégal (French territory of Upper Senegal) under Senegal |- |6 September 1880 to 3 September 1883||Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes, Commandant-Superior |- |3 September 1883 to 18 June 1884||Charles Émile Boilève, Commandant-Superior ||2nd Term |- |18 June 1884 to 4 September 1884||Antoine Vincent Auguste Combes, acting Commandant-Superior |- |4 September 1884 to September 1885||Antoine Vincent Auguste Combes, Commandant-Superior |- |September 1885 to August 1886||Henri Nicolas Frey, Commandant-Superior |- |August 1886 to 10 September 1888||Joseph Simon Galliéni, Commandant-Superior |- |10 September 1888 to 18 August 1890||Louis Archinard, Commandant-Superior||1st Term |- |colspan="3"|French Sudan Territory |- |18 August 1890 to 1891||Louis Archinard, Commandant-Superior||1st Term (contd.) |- |1891 to 27 August 1892||Pierre Maire Gustave Hubert, Commandant-Superior |- |colspan="2"|separate colony |- |27 August 1892 to 2 August 1893||Louis Archinard, Commandant-Superior ||2nd Term |- |2 August 1893 to 26 December 1893||Eugène Bonnier, acting Commandant-Superior |- |26 December 1893 to 16 June 1895||Louis Albert Grodet, Governor |- |colspan="2"|Incorporated into French West Africa |- |16 June 1895 to 1898||Louis Edgard de Trentinian, Governor |- |1898 to 17 October 1899||Marie Michel Alexandre René Audéoud, acting Governor |- |colspan="2"|Dissolution of French Sudan |- |17 October 1899 to 10 October 1902||William Merlaud-Ponty, Delegate |- |colspan="3"|Senegambia and Niger Colony |- |10 October 1902 to 18 October 1904||William Merlaud-Ponty, Delegate |- |colspan="3"|Haut-Sénégal-Niger (Upper Senegal and Niger) |- |18 October 1904 to 20 October 1904||William Merlaud-Ponty, Delegate |- |20 October 1904 to 18 February 1908||William Merlaud-Ponty, Lieutenant-Governor |- |18 February 1908 to 16 June 1915||François Joseph Clozel, Lieutenant-Governor |- |16 June 1915 to 1 July 1915||Philippe Henry, acting Lieutenant-Governor |- |1 July 1915 to 28 July 1916||Louis Digue, acting Lieutenant-Governor |- |28 July 1916 to 20 April 1917||Raphaël Antonetti, acting Lieutenant-Governor |- |20 April 1917 to 21 May 1917||Albert Nebout, acting Lieutenant-Governor |- |21 May 1917 to 20 February 1918||Louis Periquet, acting Lieutenant-Governor |- |20 February 1918 to 16 May 1919||Auguste Brunet, Lieutenant-Governor |- |16 May 1919 to 4 December 1920||Marcel Achille Olivier, Lieutenant-Governor |- |colspan="3"|French Sudan |- |4 December 1920 to 21 August 1921||Marcel Achille Olivier, Lieutenant-Governor |- |21 August 1921 to 26 February 1924||Jean Henri Terrasson de Fougères, acting Governor |- |26 February 1924 to 31 December 1930||Jean Henri Terrasson de Fougères, Governor |- |31 December 1930 to