Colonial heads of Congo

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[edit] List of Colonial Heads of Congo

Term Incumbent Notes
International Association of the Congo internationally recognised private estate of King Léopold II of the Belgians
22 April 1884 to June 1884 Sir Frederic Goldsmid, Administrator
22 April 1884 to 1 July 1885 Sir Francis Walter de Winton, Administrator-general
23 February 1885 Sovereign status of Congo recognised by the Berlin Conference
23 February 1885 to 1 July 1885 Maximilien Strauch, President of the International Association of the Congo
"Independent" Congo Free State
1 July 1885 to 1886 Sir Francis Walter de Winton, Administrator-general
1886 to 26 March 1887 Camille Janssen, Administrator-general
26 March 1887 to 1 March 1888 Camille Janssen, Governor-General
1 March 1888 to 1889 Hermann Ledeganck, acting Governor-General
1889 to 17 April 1891 Camille Janssen, Governor-General
17 April 1891 to 8 May 1891 Henri-Ernest Gondry, Governor
8 May 1891 to 26 August 1892 Camille-Aimé Coquilhat, Governor
26 August 1891 to 4 September 1896 Théophile Théodore Joseph Antoine, Baron Wahis, Governor-General 1st Term
1896 to 1900 Émile Wangermée, acting Governor-General
4 September 1896 to 21 December 1900 Francis Dhanis, vice Governor-General
21 December 1900 to December 1900 Colonel Bartels, acting Governor
1900 to 15 November 1908 Théophile Théodore Joseph Antoine, Baron Wahis, Governor-General 2nd Term
Belgian Congo annexed by Belgium
15 November 1908 to 1912 Théophile Théodore Joseph Antoine, Baron Wahis, Governor-General
20 May 1912 to 5 January 1916 Félix Alexandre Fuchs, Governor-General 2nd Term
5 January 1916 to 30 January 1921 Eugène Joseph Mary Henry, Governor-General
30 January 1921 to 24 January 1923 Maurice Eugène Auguste Lippens, Governor-General
24 January 1923 to 27 December 1927 Martin Joseph Marie René Rutten, Governor-General
27 December 1927 to 14 September 1934 Auguste Constant Tilkens, Governor-General
14 September 1934 to 31 December 1946 Pierre Ryckmans, Governor-General
31 December 1946 to 1 January 1952 Eugène Jungers, Governor-General
1 January 1952 to 12 July 1958 Léon Pétillon, Governor-General
12 July 1958 to 30 June 1960 Henri Cornelis, Governor-General
1 July 1960 Independence as Republic of the Congo

For continuation after independence, see: Heads of state of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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