List of colonial and departmental heads of Martinique
Introduction (Dates in italics indicate ''de facto'' continuation of office)
Ancien regime and First Republic (1635-1794) TermIncumbentNotes'''French Suzerainty'''''French colony (under the Compagnie des Îles de l'Amérique)''1635Pierre Belain d'Esnambuc, Governor1635 to 1636Jean Dupont, Governor1636 to 1646Jacques Dyel du Parquet, Governor1st timeFebruary 1646 to January 1647Jérôme du Sarrat, sieur de La Pierrière, interim Governor1647 to ''1650''Jacques Dyel du Parquet, Governor2nd time''Granted to the Dyel du Parquet family''''1650'' to 1658Jacques Dyel du Parquet, Governor2nd time1658 to 1659Marie Bonnard du Parquet, Governor?1659 to October 1662Adrien Dyel de Vaudroques, Governor1662 to 1663Médéric Rolle de Goursolas, Governor1663 to ''1664''Jean Dyel de Clermont, Governor''Under the Compagnie des Indes Occidentales''''1664'' to 1665Jean Dyel de Clermont, GovernorFebruary 1665 to December 1667Robert de Clodoré, Governor1667 to 1672François Rolle de Laubière, acting GovernorDecember 1672 to ''1674''Antoine André de Sainte-Marthe, Governor''French crown colony''''1674'' to December 1679Antoine André de Sainte-Marthe, Governor1680 to 1687Jacques de Chambly, Governor1687 to 1689Charles de Pechpeyrou-Comminges de Guitaut, GovernorFebruary 1689 to 31 March 1689Claude de Roux de Saint-Laurent, interim Governor1689 to June 1711Nicolas de Gabaret, Governor1711 to 1716Jean-Pierre de Charitte, GovernorDid not take up post1716Abraham de Bellebat, marquis du Quesne, Governor7 January 1717 to 23 May 1717Antoine d'Arcy, sieur de La Varenne, Governor1717(?) to 1720Florimond Hurault de Montigny, GovernorSupposedly hanged by pirate Bartholomew Roberts1720 to 1727Jacques Charles de Bochard de Noray de Champigny, Governor1728 to March 1742Jean François Louis de Brach, Governor1742 to 1744André Martin, sieur de Pointesable, Governor1744 to 12 May 1750Charles de Tubières de Caylus, Governor1750 to 1752Maximin de Bompart, GovernorActing to 17521752 to 1757Alexandre Rouillé de Rocourt, GovernorMay 1757 to 7 February 1761François V de Beauharnais, GovernorFebruary 1761 to February 1762Louis-Charles Le Vassor de La Touche, Governor'''British Occupation'''February 1762 to July 1763William Rufane, Governor'''French Suzerainty'''July 1763 to April 1764François Louis de Salignac, Governor25 January 1765 to ''1768''Victor-Thérèse Charpentier, Governor''Part of the French Antilles''''1768'' to 1772Victor-Thérèse Charpentier, Governor9 March 1772 to 15 March 1776Vital Auguste, marquis de Grégoire, comte de Nozières, Governor15 March 1776 to May 1777Robert d'Argout, GovernorMay 1777 to March 1783François Claude Amour, marquis de Bouillé, Governor''Separate colony''March 1783 to March 1791Claude Charles de Marillac, vicomte de Damas, GovernorJuly 1789 to April 1790Charles du Houx de Vioménil, acting GovernorActing for Damas12 March 1791 to September 1792Jean Pierre Antoine, comte de Béhague, GovernorJanuary 1793 to 22 May 1794Donatien-Marie-Joseph de Vimeur, vicomte de Rochambeau, Governor
British occupation (1794–1814) TermIncumbentNotes'''British Occupation'''1794'''Robert Prescott''', Governor1794 to 1795'''Sir John Vaughan''', Governor1795 to 1796'''Sir Robert Shore Milnes''', Governor1796 to 1802'''Sir William Keppel''', Governor'''French Suzerainty'''May 1802 to 1804'''Charles-Henri Bertin''', Colonial Prefect1804 to 1809'''Pierre-Clément de Laussat''', Colonial PrefectSeptember 1802 to 21 February 1809'''Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse''', Captain-General'''British Occupation'''21 February 1809 to 1809'''Sir George Beckwith''', Captain-General10 June 1809 to 1812'''Major-General John Brodrick''', Captain-General1812 to 1814'''Sir Charles Wale''', Captain-General1814'''Sir John Lindsay''', Captain-General
Restoration, Second Republic, Second Empire  (1814–70) TermIncumbentNotes'''French Suzerainty'''1814 to ''10 September 1817'''''Pierre René Marie, comte de Vaugiraud''', Captain-General''10 September 1817'' to 1818'''Pierre René Marie, comte de Vaugiraud''', Governor1818 to 1826'''François Xavier, comte de Donzelot''', Governor1826 to 1829'''François Marie Michel de Bouillé''', Governor1829 to 1830'''Louis Henri de Saulces de Freycinet''', Governor1830 to 1834'''Jean Henri Joseph Dupôtet''', Governor1834 to 1836'''Emmanuel Halgan''', Governor1836 to January 1838'''Ange René Armand, baron de Mackau''', GovernorJanuary 1838 to July 1838'''Claude Rostoland''', acting Governor1st time1838 to 1840'''Alphonse Louis Théodore de Mogès''', Governor1840 to 1844'''Étienne Henri Mengin Duval d'Ailly''', Governor1844 to March 1848'''Pierre Louis Aimé Mathieu''', GovernorMarch 1848 to 3 June 1848'''Claude Rostoland''', acting Governor2nd time3 June 1848 to November 1848'''François Auguste Perrinon''', Governor1848 to 1851'''Armand Joseph Bruat''', Governor11 April 1851 to 1853'''Auguste-Nicolas Vaillant''', Governor1853'''Jacques Brunot''', acting Governor15 June 1853 to September 1856'''Louis Henri de Gueydon''', Governor1856'''Louis André Lagrange''', acting Governor1st timeAugust 1856 to 1859'''Armand Louis Joseph Denis, comte Fitte de Soucy''', Governor1859'''Louis André Lagrange''', acting Governor2nd time1859 to 1864'''Antoine Marie Ferdinand de Maussion de Candé''', Governor1864 to 1867'''François Théodore de Lapelin''', Governor1867'''André César Vérand''', acting Governor1867 to 1869'''Charles Bertier''', Governor1869 to 1870'''Marie Gabriel Couturier''', acting Governor
Third Republic (1870–1940) TermIncumbentNotes1870 to 1871'''Charles Louis Constant Menche de Loisne''', Governor1871'''Octave Bernard Gilbert-Pierre''', acting Governor1871 to 1874'''Georges Charles Cloué''', Governor1874'''François Charles Michaux''', acting Governor1875 to 1877'''Thomas Louis Kirkland Le Normant de Kergrist''', Governor1877 to 1879'''Marie Bruno Ferdinand Grasset''', Governor1879'''Charles Alexandre Lacouture''', acting Governor1879 to 1881'''Hyacinthe Laurent Théophile Aube''', Governor1881'''J. C. Morau''', acting Governor1881 to 1887'''Vincent Gaëtan Allègre''', Governor1887'''Coridon''', acting Governor1887 to 1889'''Louis Albert Grodet''', Governor20 October 1889 – 1 September 1890 '''Germain Casse''', Governor 4 February 1891 to June 1895'''Delphino Moracchini''', Governor1895 to 1898'''Noël Pardon''', Governor1898 to 1901'''Marie Louis Gustave Gabrié''', Governor16 July 1901 to 8 May 1902'''Louis Mouttet''', GovernorMay 1902 to 1902'''Georges Lhuerre''', acting Governor1902 to 1904'''Jean Baptiste Philémon Lemaire''', Governor1904 to 1906'''Louis Alphonse Bonhoure''', Governor10 March 1906 to 1908'''Charles Louis Lepreux''', Governor1908 to 1913'''Fernand Foureau''', Governor1913 to 1914'''Joseph Henri Alfred Vacher''', Governor1914 to 1915'''Georges Virgile Poulet''', Governor1915 to 1920'''Camille Lucien Xavier Guy''', Governor1920 to 1921'''Jules Maurice Gourbeil''', Governor1921 to 1922'''Fernand Ernest Levecque''', Governor1922 to 1923'''Charles Sergent-Alleaume''', interim Governor1923 to 1926'''Henri Marius Richard''', Governor1926 to 1928'''Robert Paul Marie de Guise''', Governor14 February 1928 to 15 July 1932'''Louis Martial Innocent Gerbinis''', Governor1st time15 July 1932 to 23 August 1932'''Adolphe Félix Sylvestre Éboué''', acting Governor1st time23 August 1932 to 4 June 1933'''Louis Martial Innocent Gerbinis''', Governor2nd time4 June 1933 to 7 January 1934'''Adolphe Félix Sylvestre Éboué''', acting Governor2nd time7 January 1934 to 1934'''Louis Martial Innocent Gerbinis''', Governor3rd time1934'''René Veber''', Governor1934 to 1935'''Matteo Mathieu Maurice Alfassa''', Governor1935 to 1936'''Louis Jacques Eugène Fousset''', Governor1936'''Marie Marc Georges Pelicier''', Governor22 October 1936 to 7 January 1938'''Jean-Baptiste Alberti''', Governor1938'''Léopold Arthur André Allys''', acting Governor1938 to 1939'''Maurice Xavier Joseph Dechartre''', Governor1939 to 1940'''Georges Aimé Spitz''', Governor1940 to March 1941'''Louis Henri François Denis Bressoles''', GovernorMarch 1941 to July 1943'''Yves Maurice Nicol''', Governor14 July 1943 to 31 July 1944'''Louis Georges André Ponton''', GovernorActing to 17 September 19431944 to January 1945'''Antoine Marie Angelini''', Governor
Fourth and Fifth Republics (1945-present) TermIncumbentNotes14 January 1945 to 1946'''Georges Hubert Parisot''', Governor''French overseas département''1946 to 1947'''Georges Louis Joseph Orselli''', Governor18 July 1947 to 27 July 1950'''Pierre Albert Trouillé''', Prefect25 August 1950 to 1 November 1954'''Christian Robert Roger Laigret''', Prefect1 November 1954 to 16 June 1957'''Gaston Claude Villéger''', Prefect1 August 1957 to 1 January 1960'''Jacques Alphonse Boissier''', Prefect1 January 1960 to 25 April 1961'''Jean Parsi''', Prefect25 April 1961 to 8 November 1963'''Michel Grollemund''', Prefect21 November 1963 to 16 September 1966'''Raphaël Roman Hubert Petit''', Prefect16 September 1966 to 1 August 1967'''Pierre Francis Lambertin''', Prefect7 August 1967 to 20 June 1969'''Jean Deliau''', Prefect1 September 1969 to 15 June 1970'''Pierre Béziau''', Prefect1 July 1970 to 1 July 1973'''Jean Benjamin Terrade''', Prefect1 July 1973 to 15 November 1975'''Christian Ernest Orsetti''', Prefect15 November 1975 to 20 May 1978'''Paul Noirot-Cosson''', Prefect20 May 1978 to 3 May 1979'''Raymond Raoul Émile Heim''', Prefect3 May 1979 to 27 July 1981'''Marcel Lucien Paul Julia''', Prefect27 July 1981 to ''10 May 1982'''''Jean Chevance''', Prefect''10 May 1982'' to 6 March 1985'''Jean Chevance''', Commissioner of the Republic6 March 1985 to 4 November 1987'''Édouard Lacroix''', Commissioner of the Republic4 November 1987 to ''24 February 1988'''''Jean Jouandet''', Commissioner of the Republic''24 February 1988'' to 12 April 1989'''Jean Jouandet''', Prefect12 April 1989 to 4 September 1991'''Jean-Claude Roure''', Prefect4 September 1991 to 6 January 1995'''Michel Morin''', Prefect6 January 1995 to 24 August 1998'''Jean-François Cordet''', Prefect31 August 1998 to 21 June 2000'''Dominique Bellion''', Prefect24 July 2000 to ''28 March 2003'''''Michel Cadot''', Prefect''French overseas region''''28 March 2003'' to 9 February 2004'''Michel Cadot''', Prefect9 February 2004 to 20 June 2007'''Yves Dassonville''', Prefect20 June 2007 to 2 August 2007'''Patrice Latron''', interim Prefect2 August 2007 to Present'''Ange Mancini''', Prefect
See also *Martinique*Politics of Martinique
External links * World Statesmen - Martinique
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