List of colonial heads of French Cameroon

The following is a list of French Cameroon chief administrators during the colonial period. (Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)

Tenure	Incumbent	Notes
Cameroun
26 September 1914	French occupation
7 April 1916 to 8 October 1916	Joseph Gauderique Aymerich, Administrator
8 October 1916 to 1919	Lucien Fourneau, Administrator
6 March 1919 to 7 December 1919	Jules Carde, acting Commissioner
7 December 1919 to 23 March 1921	Jules Carde, Commissioner
Cameroun	Autonomous
23 March 1921 to 20 July 1922	Jules Carde, Commissioner	(contd.)
French Cameroun, League of Nations Mandate
20 July 1922 to March 1923	Jules Carde, Commissioner	(contd.)
March 1923 to 29 April 1923	Albéric Fournier, acting Commissioner
29 April 1923 to June 1932	Théodore Paul Marchand, Commissioner
31 August 1932 to 22 September 1932	Paul Auguste François Bonnecarrère, acting Commissioner
22 September 1932 to 7 July 1934	Paul Auguste François Bonnecarrère, Commissioner
7 July 1934 to 1936	Jules Repiquet, Commissioner
1936 to January 1937	Gaston Camille Guibet, acting Commissioner
January 1937 to 16 November 1938	Pierre Boisson, Commissioner
16 November 1938 to 29 August 1940	Richard Brunot, Commissioner
29 August 1940 to 12 November 1940	Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, Governor
12 November 1940 to 20 July 1943	Pierre Charles Cournarie, Governor
20 July 1943 to 15 November 1944	Hubert Eugène Paul Carras, Governor
15 November 1944 to 16 January 1946	Henri Pierre Nicolas, Governor
16 January 1946 to 16 March 1946	Alexis Leger, acting Governor
16 March 1946 to 13 December 1946	Robert Delavignette, High Commissioner
French Cameroun, United Nations Trust Territory
13 December 1946 to 25 March 1947	Robert Delavignette, High Commissioner	(contd.)
25 March 1947 to April 1947	Robert Casimir, acting High Commissioner	1st Term
April 1947 to 7 July 1949	René Hoffherr, High Commissioner
7 July 1949 to 10 January 1950	Robert Casimir, acting High Commissioner	2nd Term
10 January 1950 to 2 December 1954	André Soucadaux, High Commissioner
2 December 1954 to 17 April 1956	Roland Pré, High Commissioner
17 April 1956 to 29 January 1958	Pierre Messmer, High Commissioner
29 January 1958 to 19 February 1958	Jean Ramadier, High Commissioner
19 February 1958 to 1 January 1960	Xavier Antoine Torré, High Commissioner
1 January 1960	Independence as Republic of Cameroons

For continuation after independence, see list of heads of state of Cameroon and list of heads of government of Cameroon.

See also: Politics of Cameroon, List of colonial heads of British Cameroons, List of colonial heads of British Cameroons, List of colonial heads of German Cameroon, and List of colonial heads of Ambas Bay