List of colonial and departmental heads of Martinique

(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)

Ancien regime and First Republic (1635-1794)

Term	Incumbent	Notes
French Suzerainty
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
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
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
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[1][2][3][4]
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
British Occupation
February 1762 to July 1763	William Rufane, Governor
French Suzerainty
July 1763 to April 1764	François Louis de Salignac, Governor
25 January 1765 to 1768	Victor-Thérèse Charpentier, Governor
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
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)

Term	Incumbent	Notes
British Occupation
1794	Robert Prescott, Governor
1794 to 1795	Sir John Vaughan, Governor
1795 to 1796	Sir Robert Shore Milnes, Governor
1796 to 1802	Sir William Keppel, Governor
French Suzerainty
May 1802 to 1804	Charles-Henri Bertin, Colonial Prefect
1804 to 1809	Pierre-Clément de Laussat, Colonial Prefect
September 1802 to 21 February 1809	Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse, Captain-General
British Occupation
21 February 1809 to 1809	Sir George Beckwith, Captain-General
10 June 1809 to 1812	Major-General John Brodrick, Captain-General
1812 to 1814	Sir Charles Wale, Captain-General
1814	Sir John Lindsay, Captain-General

Restoration, Second Republic, Second Empire (1814–70)

Term	Incumbent	Notes
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, Governor
1818 to 1826	François Xavier, comte de Donzelot, Governor
1826 to 1829	François Marie Michel de Bouillé, Governor
1829 to 1830	Louis Henri de Saulces de Freycinet, Governor
1830 to 1834	Jean Henri Joseph Dupôtet, Governor
1834 to 1836	Emmanuel Halgan, Governor
1836 to January 1838	Ange René Armand, baron de Mackau, Governor
January 1838 to July 1838	Claude Rostoland, acting Governor	1st time
1838 to 1840	Alphonse Louis Théodore de Mogès, Governor
1840 to 1844	Étienne Henri Mengin Duval d'Ailly, Governor
1844 to March 1848	Pierre Louis Aimé Mathieu, Governor
March 1848 to 3 June 1848	Claude Rostoland, acting Governor	2nd time
3 June 1848 to November 1848	François Auguste Perrinon, Governor
1848 to 1851	Armand Joseph Bruat, Governor
11 April 1851 to 1853	Auguste-Nicolas Vaillant, Governor
1853	Jacques Brunot, acting Governor
15 June 1853 to September 1856	Louis Henri de Gueydon, Governor
1856	Louis André Lagrange, acting Governor	1st time
August 1856 to 1859	Armand Louis Joseph Denis, comte Fitte de Soucy, Governor
1859	Louis André Lagrange, acting Governor	2nd time
1859 to 1864	Antoine Marie Ferdinand de Maussion de Candé, Governor
1864 to 1867	François Théodore de Lapelin, Governor
1867	André César Vérand, acting Governor
1867 to 1869	Charles Bertier, Governor
1869 to 1870	Marie Gabriel Couturier, acting Governor

Third Republic (1870–1940)

Term	Incumbent	Notes
1870 to 1871	Charles Louis Constant Menche de Loisne, Governor
1871	Octave Bernard Gilbert-Pierre, acting Governor
1871 to 1874	Georges Charles Cloué, Governor
1874	François Charles Michaux, acting Governor
1875 to 1877	Thomas Louis Kirkland Le Normant de Kergrist, Governor
1877 to 1879	Marie Bruno Ferdinand Grasset, Governor
1879	Charles Alexandre Lacouture, acting Governor
1879 to 1881	Hyacinthe Laurent Théophile Aube, Governor
1881	J. C. Morau, acting Governor
1881 to 1887	Vincent Gaëtan Allègre, Governor
1887	Coridon, acting Governor
1887 to 1889	Louis Albert Grodet, Governor
20 October 1889 – 1 September 1890	Germain Casse, Governor
4 February 1891 to June 1895	Delphino Moracchini, Governor
1895 to 1898	Noël Pardon, Governor
1898 to 1901	Marie Louis Gustave Gabrié, Governor
16 July 1901 to 8 May 1902	Louis Mouttet, Governor
May 1902 to 1902	Georges Lhuerre, acting Governor
1902 to 1904	Jean Baptiste Philémon Lemaire, Governor
1904 to 1906	Louis Alphonse Bonhoure, Governor
10 March 1906 to 1908	Charles Louis Lepreux, Governor
1908 to 1913	Fernand Foureau, Governor
1913 to 1914	Joseph Henri Alfred Vacher, Governor
1914 to 1915	Georges Virgile Poulet, Governor
1915 to 1920	Camille Lucien Xavier Guy, Governor
1920 to 1921	Jules Maurice Gourbeil, Governor
1921 to 1922	Fernand Ernest Levecque, Governor
1922 to 1923	Charles Sergent-Alleaume,[5] interim Governor
1923 to 1926	Henri Marius Richard, Governor
1926 to 1928	Robert Paul Marie de Guise, Governor
14 February 1928 to 15 July 1932	Louis Martial Innocent Gerbinis, Governor	1st time
15 July 1932 to 23 August 1932	Adolphe Félix Sylvestre Éboué, acting Governor	1st time
23 August 1932 to 4 June 1933	Louis Martial Innocent Gerbinis, Governor	2nd time
4 June 1933 to 7 January 1934	Adolphe Félix Sylvestre Éboué, acting Governor	2nd time
7 January 1934 to 1934	Louis Martial Innocent Gerbinis, Governor	3rd time
1934	René Veber, Governor
1934 to 1935	Matteo Mathieu Maurice Alfassa, Governor
1935 to 1936	Louis Jacques Eugène Fousset, Governor
1936	Marie Marc Georges Pelicier, Governor
22 October 1936 to 7 January 1938	Jean-Baptiste Alberti, Governor
1938	Léopold Arthur André Allys, acting Governor
1938 to 1939	Maurice Xavier Joseph Dechartre, Governor
1939 to 1940	Georges Aimé Spitz, Governor
1940 to March 1941	Louis Henri François Denis Bressoles, Governor
March 1941 to July 1943	Yves Maurice Nicol, Governor
14 July 1943 to 31 July 1944	Louis Georges André Ponton, Governor	Acting to 17 September 1943
1944 to January 1945	Antoine Marie Angelini, Governor

Fourth and Fifth Republics (1945-present)

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

|5 February 2020 to 29 July 2022||Stanislas Cazelles, Prefect|| |} |since 23 August 2022||Jean-Christophe Bouvier, Prefect|| |}

See also

• Martinique
• Politics of Martinique

External links

• World Statesmen - Martinique

References

1. 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.).
2. Headlam, Cecil (1933). America and West Indies: April 1721 | British History Online (Vol32 ed.). London: His Majesty's Stationery Office. pp. 281–297. Retrieved 11 May 2023.
3. Sanders, Richard (2007). If a pirate I must be: the true story of Bartholomew Roberts, king of the Caribbean. London: Aurum. ISBN 9781845132095. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
4. Konstam, Angus; Rickman, David (20 September 2011). Pirate: The Golden Age. Long Island City NY: Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 54. ISBN 978-1-84908-941-8.
5. culture.gouv.fr : certificate of the legion of honor (Fr)