Colonial heads of French Cameroon
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[edit] List of Colonial Heads of French Cameroon
(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)
Tenure | Incumbent | Notes |
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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: Heads of State of Cameroon
[edit] See also
- Cameroon
- Politics of Cameroon
- Colonial heads of Cameroon (British Cameroon)
- Heads of government of British Cameroon (Cameroons)
- Heads of government of French Cameroon (Cameroun)
- Colonial heads of German Cameroon (Kamerun)
- Colonial heads of Ambas Bay (Victoria Colony)
- Heads of state of Cameroon
- Heads of government of Cameroon
- Lists of office-holders