List of colonial and departmental heads of Martinique

(Dates in italics indicate ''de facto'' continuation of office)

==Ancien regime and First Republic (1635-1794)== {| class="wikitable" ! width="25%" align=left|Term ! width="40%" align=left|Incumbent ! width="20%" align=left|Notes |- |colspan="3"|'''French Suzerainty''' |- |colspan="3"|''French colony (under the Compagnie des Îles de l'Amérique)'' |- |1635||Pierre Belain d'Esnambuc, Governor|| |- |1635 to 1636||Jean Dupont, Governor|| |- |1636 to 1646||Jacques Dyel du Parquet, Governor||1st time |- |February 1646 to January 1647||Jérôme du Sarrat, sieur de La Pierrière, interim Governor|| |- |1647 to ''1650''||Jacques Dyel du Parquet, Governor||2nd time |- |colspan="3"|''Granted to the Dyel du Parquet family'' |- |''1650'' to 1658||Jacques Dyel du Parquet, Governor||2nd time |- |1658 to 1659||Marie Bonnard du Parquet, Governor||? |- |1659 to October 1662||Adrien Dyel de Vaudroques, Governor|| |- |1662 to 1663||Médéric Rolle de Goursolas, Governor|| |- |1663 to ''1664''||Jean Dyel de Clermont, Governor|| |- |colspan="3"|''Under the Compagnie des Indes Occidentales'' |- |''1664'' to 1665||Jean Dyel de Clermont, Governor|| |- |February 1665 to December 1667||Robert de Clodoré, Governor|| |- |1667 to 1672||François Rolle de Laubière, acting Governor|| |- |December 1672 to ''1674''||Antoine André de Sainte-Marthe, Governor|| |- |colspan="3"|''French crown colony'' |- |''1674'' to December 1679||Antoine André de Sainte-Marthe, Governor|| |- |1680 to 1687||Jacques de Chambly, Governor|| |- |1687 to 1689||Charles de Pechpeyrou-Comminges de Guitaut, Governor|| |- |February 1689 to 31 March 1689||Claude de Roux de Saint-Laurent, interim Governor|| |- |1689 to June 1711||Nicolas de Gabaret, Governor|| |- |1711 to 1716||Jean-Pierre de Charitte, Governor||Did not take up post |- |1716||Abraham de Bellebat, marquis du Quesne, Governor|| |- |7 January 1717 to 23 May 1717||Antoine d'Arcy, sieur de La Varenne, Governor|| |- |1717(?) to 1720||Florimond Hurault de Montigny, Governor||Supposedly hanged by pirate Bartholomew Roberts<ref>Lt. Governor Bennett of Bermuda wrote that a merchant captured by Roberts reported Roberts and crew hanged the Governor of Martinique, but this was third-hand information (see Headlam vol.32). Johnson repeated the story in the General History. Modern writers cite French sources confirming that while Roberts captured and tortured French officials by pretending to hang them, he in fact released them (see Sanders, Konstam, et al.).</ref><ref name="CSP32">{{cite book |last1=Headlam |first1=Cecil |title=America and West Indies: April 1721 {{!}} British History Online |date=1933 |publisher=His Majesty's Stationery Office |location=London |pages=281–297 |edition=Vol32 |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol32/pp281-297 |access-date=11 May 2023}}</ref><ref name="Sanders - If a Pirate I Must Be">{{cite book|last1=Sanders|first1=Richard|title=If a pirate I must be: the true story of Bartholomew Roberts, king of the Caribbean|date=2007|publisher=Aurum|location=London|isbn=9781845132095 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7iB_AAAAMAAJ|accessdate=18 September 2017|language=en}}</ref><ref name="konstam-Golden Age">{{cite book |last1=Konstam |first1=Angus |last2=Rickman |first2=David |title=Pirate: The Golden Age |date=20 September 2011 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |location=Long Island City NY |isbn=978-1-84908-941-8 |page=54 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9FbDCwAAQBAJ&q=konstam+pirate+golden+age |language=en}}</ref> |- |1720 to 1727||Jacques Charles de Bochard de Noray de Champigny, Governor|| |- |1728 to March 1742||Jean François Louis de Brach, Governor|| |- |1742 to 1744||André Martin, sieur de Pointesable, Governor|| |- |1744 to 12 May 1750||Charles de Tubières de Caylus, Governor|| |- |1750 to 1752||Maximin de Bompart, Governor||Acting to 1752 |- |1752 to 1757||Alexandre Rouillé de Rocourt, Governor|| |- |May 1757 to 7 February 1761||François V de Beauharnais, Governor|| |- |February 1761 to February 1762||Louis-Charles Le Vassor de La Touche, Governor|| |- |colspan="3"|'''British Occupation''' |- |February 1762 to July 1763||William Rufane, Governor|| |- |colspan="3"|'''French Suzerainty''' |- |July 1763 to April 1764||François Louis de Salignac, Governor|| |- |25 January 1765 to ''1768''||Victor-Thérèse Charpentier, Governor|| |- |colspan="3"|''Part of the French Antilles'' |- |''1768'' to 1772||Victor-Thérèse Charpentier, Governor|| |- |9 March 1772 to 15 March 1776||Vital Auguste, marquis de Grégoire, comte de Nozières, Governor|| |- |15 March 1776 to May 1777||Robert d'Argout, Governor|| |- |May 1777 to March 1783||François Claude Amour, marquis de Bouillé, Governor|| |- |colspan="3"|''Separate colony'' |- |March 1783 to March 1791||Claude Charles de Marillac, vicomte de Damas, Governor|| |- |July 1789 to April 1790||Charles du Houx de Vioménil, acting Governor||Acting for Damas |- |12 March 1791 to September 1792||Jean Pierre Antoine, comte de Béhague, Governor|| |- |January 1793 to 22 May 1794||Donatien-Marie-Joseph de Vimeur, vicomte de Rochambeau, Governor|| |}

==British occupation (1794–1814)==

{| class="wikitable" ! width="25%" align=left|Term ! width="40%" align=left|Incumbent ! width="20%" align=left|Notes |- valign=top |colspan="3"|'''British Occupation''' |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1794||'''Robert Prescott''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1794 to 1795||'''Sir John Vaughan''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1795 to 1796||'''Sir Robert Shore Milnes''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1796 to 1802||'''Sir William Keppel''', Governor|| |- valign=top |colspan="3"|'''French Suzerainty''' |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |May 1802 to 1804||'''Charles-Henri Bertin''', Colonial Prefect|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1804 to 1809||'''Pierre-Clément de Laussat''', Colonial Prefect|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |September 1802 to 21 February 1809||'''Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse''', Captain-General|| |- valign=top |colspan="3"|'''British Occupation''' |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |21 February 1809 to 1809||'''Sir George Beckwith''', Captain-General|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |10 June 1809 to 1812||'''Major-General John Brodrick''', Captain-General|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1812 to 1814||'''Sir Charles Wale''', Captain-General|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1814||'''Sir John Lindsay''', Captain-General|| |}

==Restoration, Second Republic, Second Empire (1814–70)== {| class="wikitable" ! width="25%" align=left|Term ! width="40%" align=left|Incumbent ! width="20%" align=left|Notes |- valign=top |colspan="3"|'''French Suzerainty''' |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1814 to ''10 September 1817''||'''Pierre René Marie, comte de Vaugiraud''', Captain-General|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |''10 September 1817'' to 1818||'''Pierre René Marie, comte de Vaugiraud''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1818 to 1826||'''François Xavier, comte de Donzelot''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1826 to 1829||'''François Marie Michel de Bouillé''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1829 to 1830||'''Louis Henri de Saulces de Freycinet''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1830 to 1834||'''Jean Henri Joseph Dupôtet''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1834 to 1836||'''Emmanuel Halgan''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1836 to January 1838||'''Ange René Armand, baron de Mackau''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |January 1838 to July 1838||'''Claude Rostoland''', acting Governor||1st time |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1838 to 1840||'''Alphonse Louis Théodore de Mogès''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1840 to 1844||'''Étienne Henri Mengin Duval d'Ailly''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1844 to March 1848||'''Pierre Louis Aimé Mathieu''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |March 1848 to 3 June 1848||'''Claude Rostoland''', acting Governor||2nd time |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |3 June 1848 to November 1848||'''François Auguste Perrinon''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1848 to 1851||'''Armand Joseph Bruat''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |11 April 1851 to 1853||'''Auguste-Nicolas Vaillant''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1853||'''Jacques Brunot''', acting Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |15 June 1853 to September 1856||'''Louis Henri de Gueydon''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1856||'''Louis André Lagrange''', acting Governor||1st time |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |August 1856 to 1859||'''Armand Louis Joseph Denis, comte Fitte de Soucy''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1859||'''Louis André Lagrange''', acting Governor||2nd time |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1859 to 1864||'''Antoine Marie Ferdinand de Maussion de Candé''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1864 to 1867||'''François Théodore de Lapelin''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1867||'''André César Vérand''', acting Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1867 to 1869||'''Charles Bertier''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1869 to 1870||'''Marie Gabriel Couturier''', acting Governor|| |}

==Third Republic (1870–1940)== {| class="wikitable" ! width="25%" align=left|Term ! width="40%" align=left|Incumbent ! width="20%" align=left|Notes |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1870 to 1871||'''Charles Louis Constant Menche de Loisne''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1871||'''Octave Bernard Gilbert-Pierre''', acting Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1871 to 1874||'''Georges Charles Cloué''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1874||'''François Charles Michaux''', acting Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1875 to 1877||'''Thomas Louis Kirkland Le Normant de Kergrist''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1877 to 1879||'''Marie Bruno Ferdinand Grasset''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1879||'''Charles Alexandre Lacouture''', acting Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1879 to 1881||'''Hyacinthe Laurent Théophile Aube''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1881||'''J. C. Morau''', acting Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1881 to 1887||'''Vincent Gaëtan Allègre''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1887||'''Coridon''', acting Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1887 to 1889||'''Louis Albert Grodet''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |20 October 1889 – 1 September 1890 ||'''Germain Casse''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" | 4 February 1891 to June 1895||'''Delphino Moracchini''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1895 to 1898||'''Noël Pardon''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1898 to 1901||'''Marie Louis Gustave Gabrié''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |16 July 1901 to 8 May 1902||'''Louis Mouttet''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |May 1902 to 1902||'''Georges Lhuerre''', acting Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1902 to 1904||'''Jean Baptiste Philémon Lemaire''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1904 to 1906||'''Louis Alphonse Bonhoure''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |10 March 1906 to 1908||'''Charles Louis Lepreux''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1908 to 1913||'''Fernand Foureau''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1913 to 1914||'''Joseph Henri Alfred Vacher''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1914 to 1915||'''Georges Virgile Poulet''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1915 to 1920||'''Camille Lucien Xavier Guy''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1920 to 1921||'''Jules Maurice Gourbeil''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1921 to 1922||'''Fernand Ernest Levecque''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1922 to 1923||'''Charles Sergent-Alleaume''',<ref>[http://www.culture.gouv.fr/LH/LH205/PG/FRDAFAN84_O19800035v0956051.htm culture.gouv.fr : certificate of the legion of honor (Fr)]</ref> interim Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1923 to 1926||'''Henri Marius Richard''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1926 to 1928||'''Robert Paul Marie de Guise''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |14 February 1928 to 15 July 1932||'''Louis Martial Innocent Gerbinis''', Governor||1st time |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |15 July 1932 to 23 August 1932||'''Adolphe Félix Sylvestre Éboué''', acting Governor||1st time |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |23 August 1932 to 4 June 1933||'''Louis Martial Innocent Gerbinis''', Governor||2nd time |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |4 June 1933 to 7 January 1934||'''Adolphe Félix Sylvestre Éboué''', acting Governor||2nd time |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |7 January 1934 to 1934||'''Louis Martial Innocent Gerbinis''', Governor||3rd time |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1934||'''René Veber''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1934 to 1935||'''Matteo Mathieu Maurice Alfassa''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1935 to 1936||'''Louis Jacques Eugène Fousset''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1936||'''Marie Marc Georges Pelicier''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |22 October 1936 to 7 January 1938||'''Jean-Baptiste Alberti''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1938||'''Léopold Arthur André Allys''', acting Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1938 to 1939||'''Maurice Xavier Joseph Dechartre''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1939 to 1940||'''Georges Aimé Spitz''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1940 to March 1941||'''Louis Henri François Denis Bressoles''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |March 1941 to July 1943||'''Yves Maurice Nicol''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |14 July 1943 to 31 July 1944||'''Louis Georges André Ponton''', Governor||Acting to 17 September 1943 |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1944 to January 1945||'''Antoine Marie Angelini''', Governor|| |}

==Fourth and Fifth Republics (1945-present)==

{| class="wikitable" ! width="25%" align=left|Term ! width="40%" align=left|Incumbent ! width="20%" align=left|Notes |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |14 January 1945 to 1946||'''Georges Hubert Parisot''', Governor|| |- valign=top |colspan="3"|''French overseas département'' |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1946 to 1947||'''Georges Louis Joseph Orselli''', Governor|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |18 July 1947 to 27 July 1950||'''Pierre Albert Trouillé''', Prefect|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |25 August 1950 to 1 November 1954||'''Christian Robert Roger Laigret''', Prefect|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1 November 1954 to 16 June 1957||'''Gaston Claude Villéger''', Prefect|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1 August 1957 to 1 January 1960||'''Jacques Alphonse Boissier''', Prefect|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1 January 1960 to 25 April 1961||'''Jean Parsi''', Prefect|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |25 April 1961 to 8 November 1963||'''Michel Grollemund''', Prefect|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |21 November 1963 to 16 September 1966||'''Raphaël Roman Hubert Petit''', Prefect|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |16 September 1966 to 1 August 1967||'''Pierre Francis Lambertin''', Prefect|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |7 August 1967 to 20 June 1969||'''Jean Deliau''', Prefect|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1 September 1969 to 15 June 1970||'''Pierre Béziau''', Prefect|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1 July 1970 to 1 July 1973||'''Jean Benjamin Terrade''', Prefect|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |1 July 1973 to 15 November 1975||'''Christian Ernest Orsetti''', Prefect|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |15 November 1975 to 20 May 1978||'''Paul Noirot-Cosson''', Prefect|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |20 May 1978 to 3 May 1979||'''Raymond Raoul Émile Heim''', Prefect|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |3 May 1979 to 27 July 1981||'''Marcel Lucien Paul Julia''', Prefect|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |27 July 1981 to ''10 May 1982''||'''Jean Chevance''', Prefect|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |''10 May 1982'' to 6 March 1985||'''Jean Chevance''', Commissioner of the Republic|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |6 March 1985 to 4 November 1987||'''Édouard Lacroix''', Commissioner of the Republic|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |4 November 1987 to ''24 February 1988''||'''Jean Jouandet''', Commissioner of the Republic|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |''24 February 1988'' to 12 April 1989||'''Jean Jouandet''', Prefect|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |12 April 1989 to 4 September 1991||'''Jean-Claude Roure''', Prefect|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |4 September 1991 to 6 January 1995||'''Michel Morin''', Prefect|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |6 January 1995 to 24 August 1998||'''Jean-François Cordet''', Prefect|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |31 August 1998 to 21 June 2000||'''Dominique Bellion''', Prefect|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |24 July 2000 to ''28 March 2003''||'''Michel Cadot''', Prefect|| |- valign=top |colspan="3"|''French overseas region'' |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |''28 March 2003'' to 9 February 2004||'''Michel Cadot''', Prefect|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |9 February 2004 to 20 June 2007||'''Yves Dassonville''', Prefect|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |20 June 2007 to 2 August 2007||'''Patrice Latron''', interim Prefect|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |2 August 2007 to 28 March 2011||'''Ange Mancini''', Prefect|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |5 February 2020 to 29 July 2022||'''Stanislas Cazelles''', Prefect|| |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |since 23 August 2022||'''Jean-Christophe Bouvier''', Prefect|| |}

==See also== *Martinique *Politics of Martinique

==External links== *[http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Martinique.htm World Statesmen - Martinique]

==References== <references />

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