- List of colonial and departmental heads of French Guiana
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(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)
Term Incumbent Notes French Suzerainty French colony 1643 Charles Poncet de Brétigny, Governor 1644 to 1654 Huet de Navarre, Governor Dutch Occupation 1654 to 1660 Guerin Spranger,[1] Governor 1660 to 1664 Jan Claessen Lagedijk, Governor French Suzerainty 15 May 1664 to 1665 Joseph-Antoine Le Febvre de La Barre, Governor 1st time 1665 Antoine de Noël de la Trompe d'Or, Governor 1665 to 1668 Cyprien Lefebvre de Lézy, Governor 1st time 1668 to 1670 Joseph-Antoine Le Febvre de La Barre, Governor 2nd time 1670 to 1676 Cyprien Lefebvre de Lézy, Governor 2nd time Dutch Occupation 5 May 1676 to December 1676 Synkes, Commander French Suzerainty 1676 to 1679 Cyprien Lefebvre de Lézy, Governor 3rd time 1679 to October 1684 Pierre-Eléonore de La Ville, marquis de Férolles, Governor 1st time 1684 to 1687 Pierre de Sainte-Marthe de Lalande, Governor 1687 to 1688 Pierre-Eléonore de La Ville, marquis de Férolles, Governor 2nd time 1688 to 1691 François Lefebvre de la Barre, Governor 1691 to January 1700 Pierre-Eléonore de La Ville, marquis de Férolles, Governor 3rd time 1700 to 1701 Rémy Guillouet d'Orvilliers, Governor 1st time 1701 to 5 August 1705 Pierre-Eléonore de La Ville, marquis de Férolles, Governor 4th time 1705 to 15 September 1706 Antoine de Querci de Rionville, Governor 1706 to July 1713 Rémy Guillouet d'Orvilliers, Governor 2nd time 1713 Chevalier de Béthune, Governor 1713 to September 1716 Pierre de Morthon de Laumière de Grandville, interim Governor 1716 to December 1720 Claude Guillouet d'Orvilliers, Governor 1st time 1720 to 1722 François de la Motte-Aigron, Governor 1722 to September 1729 Claude Guillouet d'Orvilliers, Governor 2nd time 1729 to June 1730 Michel Marshalek de Charanville, Governor 1730 to 2 August 1730 Gilbert Guillouet d'Orvilliers, Governor 1st time 1730 to 30 August 1736 Henri Dussault de Lamirande, Governor 1736 to December 1736 Henri de Poilvillain, baron de Grenay, Governor 1736 to 9 July 1738 Gilbert Guillouet d'Orvilliers, Governor 2nd time 9 July 1738 to June 1743 Antoine Le Moyne de Chateauguay, Governor 1743 to June 1751 Gilbert Guillouet d'Orvilliers, Governor 3rd time 1751 to May 1752 Jean Baptiste Hyacinthe de Saint-Michel Dunezat, Governor 1st time 1752 to July 1753 Gilbert Guillouet d'Orvilliers, Governor 4th time 1753 to April 1757 Jean Baptiste Hyacinthe de Saint-Michel Dunezat, Governor 2nd time 1757 to May 1763 Gilbert Guillouet d'Orvilliers, Governor 5th time 1763 to 2 January 1764 Jean Pierre Antoine de Béhague, Governor 1st time 1764 to 22 December 1764 Louis Thomas Jacau de Fiedmond, Governor 1st time 22 December 1764 to April 1765 Brule Tout de Préfontaine, acting Governor April 1765 to 1765 Étienne François de Turgot, Governor 1765 to 28 January 1766 Jean Pierre Antoine de Béhague, Governor 2nd time 1766 to 15 December 1781 Louis Thomas Jacau de Fiedmond, Governor 2nd time 1781 to 13 July 1785 Alexandre Ferdinand, baron de Bessner, Governor 1785 to 16 August 1785 Louis de La Vallière, interim Governor 1785 to 17 May 1787 Thomas de FitzMaurice, Governor May 1787 to 22 October 1788 Pierre François de Mareuilh de Villeboi, Governor 1788 to 19 June 1789 Charles Guillaume Vial d'Alais, Governor 1789 to 5 January 1791 Jacques Martin de Bourgon, Governor 1791 to 26 September 1792 Henri Benoît, acting Governor 1792 to May 1793 Frédéric Joseph Guillot, Civil Commissioner 1793 to November 1794 Nicolas Georges Jeannet-Oudin, Civil Commissioner 1st time November 1794 to April 1796 François Maurice Cointet de Fillain, Commissioner April 1796 to 25 October 1797 Nicolas Georges Jeannet-Oudin, Agent Particulier 2nd time French département 25 October 1797 to 5 November 1798 Nicolas Georges Jeannet-Oudin, Agent Particulier 2nd time November 1798 to 2 December 1799 Étienne Laurent Pierre Burnel, Agent Particulier 13 December 1799 to 8 January 1800 Étienne Franconie, President of the Departmental Administration 8 January 1800 to 1801 Jean Baptiste Victor Hugues, Agent French colony 1801 to 1804 Jean Baptiste Victor Hugues, Agent 1804 to 12 January 1809 Jean Baptiste Victor Hugues, Imperial Commissioner Portuguese Occupation 12 January 1809 to October 1809 Manuel Marques, Governor October 1809 to February 1812 Pedro Alexandrino Pinto de Sousa, Governor February 1812 to 8 November 1817 João Severiano Maciel da Costa, Governor French Suzerainty 1817 to 25 July 1819 Jean-François, comte de Carra Saint-Cyr, Commandant 25 July 1819 to 12 March 1823 Pierre Clément, baron de Laussat, Commandant 1823 to 1825 Pierre Bernard, baron de Milius, Commandant 1825 to 1826 Charles Emmanuel de Muyssard, interim Commandant 1826 to 1827 Joseph Burgues de Missiessy, interim Governor 1827 to 1829 Louis Henri de Saulses de Freycinet, Governor 1 June 1829 to 11 April 1836 Louis Jean-Guillaume Jubelin, Governor 1836 to 1837 François Dominique Laurens de Choisy, Governor 1837 to 1839 Paul de Nourquer du Camper, Governor 1839 to 1841 Jean Baptiste Marie Augustin Gourbeyre, Governor 1841 to 1843 Guillaume Basile Charmasson de Puylaval, Governor 1843 to 1845 Marie Jean-François Layrle, Governor 1845 to 1846 Jean Baptiste Armand Bertrand Cadéot, Governor 18 February 1846 to 16 May 1850 André Aimé Pariset, Governor 1850 to 6 January 1851 Louis Eugène Maissin, Governor 1851 Jean François Marie Félix Stanislas Vidal de Lingendes, acting Governor May 1851 to May 1852 Octave Pierre Antoine de Chabannes-Curton, Governor 1852 to 1853 Joseph Napoléon Sarda-Garriga, Governor 1853 to 1854 Martin Fourichon, Governor 1854 to 1855 Louis Adolphe Bonard, Governor 1855 to January 1856 Antoine Alphonse Masset, acting Governor January 1856 to 1859 Auguste Laurent François Baudin, Governor 15 May 1859 to 1 May 1864 Louis Marie François Tardy de Montravel, Governor 1864 to 1865 Antoine Favre, acting Governor 1865 to 1870 Privat Antoine Agathon Hennique, Governor 1870 J.A.A. Noyer, acting Governor 30 April 1870 to 1871 Jeanean-Louis Loubère, acting Governor 1871 to August 1877 Jeanean-Louis Loubère, Governor 1877 A.E. Bouet, acting Governor 1877 to 1880 Marie Alfred-Armand Huart, Governor 1880 P.A. Trève, acting Governor 1880 to 1883 Charles Alexandre Lacouture, Governor 1883 to 1884 Henri Isidore Chessé, Governor 1884 to 1885 Jean Baptiste Antoine Lougnon, acting Governor 1885 to 1887 Léonce Pierre Henri Le Cardinal, Governor 1888 to 1891 Anne Léodor Philotée Metellus Gerville-Réache, Governor April 1891 to 1893 Louis Albert Grodet, Governor 1st time 1893 Paul Émile Joseph Casimir Fawtier, Governor 24 April 1893 to 4 August 1895 Camille Charvein, Governor 30 August 1895 to 13 June 1896 Henri Félix de Lamothe, Governor 1896 to 1898 Henri Eloi Danel, Governor 1898 to 1899 Henri Charles Victor Amédée Roberdeau, Governor 1899 Louis Mouttet, Governor 1899 to 1903 Émile Joseph Merwart, Governor 1903 to 1905 Louis Albert Grodet, Governor 2nd time 1905 Charles Emmanuel Joseph Marchal, Governor 1905 to 1906 Victor François Ferdinand Rey, Governor 1906 Louis Alphonse Bonhoure, Governor 20 January 1906 to 5 July 1907 Édouard Picanon, Governor 1907 to 1909 François Pierre Rodier, Governor 1909 to 1910 William Maurice Fawtier, Governor 1910 Fernand Ernest Thérond, Governor 1910 to 31 May 1911 Paul Samary, Governor 1911 Denis Joseph Goujon, Governor 1911 to 1914 Pierre Jean Henri Didelot, Governor 1st time 1914 to 1916 Fernand Ernest Lévecque, Governor 1916 Pierre Jean Henri Didelot, Governor 2nd time 1916 to 1917 Georges Lévy, Governor 1917 Jules Gérard Auguste Lauret, Governor 1917 to 1918 Antoine Joseph Xavier Barre, Governor 1918 to 1923 Henri Alphonse Joseph Lejeune, Governor 1923 Julien Edgard Cantau, Governor 20 November 1923 to 1926 Marc Émile Charles Jean Chanel, Governor 1926 to 1927 Gabriel Henri Joseph Thaly, Governor 1927 François Adrien Juvanon, Governor 1927 to 1928 Émile Buhot-Launay, Governor 1928 to 1929 Camille Théodore Raoul Maillet, Governor 1929 to 6 July 1930 Bernard Jacques Victorin Siadous, Governor French Guiana divided into two territories: French Guiana (Cayenne and the Atlantic coast) and Inini (inland area) 6 July 1930 to 1931 Bernard Jacques Victorin Siadous, Governor 27 May 1931 to 1933 Louis Joseph Bouge, acting Governor 1933 to 1935 Julien Georges Lamy, Governor 2 June 1935 to 1936 Max de Masson de Saint-Félix, Governor 1936 Pierre Tap, Governor 1936 to 1938 René Veber, Governor 1st time 1938 to 1942 Robert Paul Chot-Plassot, Governor 1942 to 18 March 1943 René Veber, Governor 2nd time 1943 to 1944 Jean Alexandre Léon Rapenne, Governor 1944 to 1946 Jules Eucher Surlemont, Governor 1946 Jean Pezet, Governor French overseas département 16 August 1947 to 1 June 1955 Robert Vignon, Prefect 1 June 1955 to 16 September 1957 Pierre Malvy, Prefect 1 October 1957 to 1 November 1958 Pierre Voitellier, Prefect 13 October 1958 to 1 December 1960 André Dubois-Chabert, Prefect Acting for Voitellier to 1 November 1958 1 December 1960 to 1 December 1963 René Erignac, Prefect 1 December 1963 to 16 August 1967 René Letellier, Prefect 16 August 1967 to 16 July 1970 Paul Bouteiller, Prefect 16 July 1970 to 1 February 1972 Jean Monfraix, Prefect 1 February 1972 to 8 February 1974 Jacques Robert Delaunay, Prefect 5 March 1974 to 20 May 1977 Hervé Bourseillier, Prefect 20 May 1977 to 10 February 1980 Jean Julien Émile Le Direach, Prefect 10 February 1980 to 27 July 1981 Antoine Carli, Prefect 27 July 1981 to 10 May 1982 Maxime Gonzalvo, Prefect 10 May 1982 to 22 July 1982 Maxime Gonzalvo, Commissioner of the Republic July 1982 to 1984 Claude Silberzahn, Commissioner of the Republic 1984 to 1986 Bernard Courtois, Commissioner of the Republic 1986 to 24 February 1988 Jacques Dewatre, Commissioner of the Republic 24 February 1988 to August 1988 Jacques Dewatre, Prefect 22 August 1988 to 16 May 1990 Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Prefect 19 June 1990 to May 1992 Jean-François Di Chiara, Prefect 27 May 1992 to 6 January 1995 Jean-François Cordet, Prefect 6 January 1995 to 3 February 1997 Pierre Dartout, Prefect 3 February 1997 to 2 August 1999 Dominique Vian, Prefect 2 August 1999 to 2 September 2002 Henri Masse, Prefect 2 September 2002 to 28 March 2003 Ange Mancini, Prefect French overseas region 28 March 2003 to August 2006 Ange Mancini, Prefect 28 August 2006 to February 2009 Jean-Pierre Laflaquière, Prefect 19 February 2009 to present Daniel Ferey, Prefect See also
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"Spranger, Daniel Guerin". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1900.
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