List of administrators of the French colony of Cochinchina
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List of administrators of the French colony of Cochinchina
(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)
| Tenure | Incumbent | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| French Suzerainty | ||
| 1 September 1858 to 1 November 1859 | Charles Rigault de Genouilly, Commander-in-Chief of the Naval Division of Réunion and Indochina, and Commander-in-Chief of the Expeditionary Corps of the Chinese Seas | |
| 1 November 1859 to 6 February 1861 | Théogène François Page, Commander-in-Chief of the Naval Division of the Chinese Seas | |
| 1 September 1858 to 18 February 1859 | Charles Rigault de Genouilly, Governor | In Tourane |
| 19 October 1859 to 23 March 1860 | Théogène François Page, Governor | In Tourane |
| 18 February 1859 to 1859 | Charles Rigault de Genouilly, Governor | In Saigon; the city became permanent administrative seat |
| March 1859 to 1 April 1860 | Jean Bernard Jauréguiberry, Acting Governor | |
| 1 April 1860 to 6 February 1861 | Théogène François Page, Governor | |
| 1 April 1860 to 6 February 1861 | Joseph Hyacinthe Louis Jules d'Ariès, Acting Governor | Acting for Page |
| 6 February 1861 to 30 November 1861 | Léonard Victor Joseph Charner, Governor | |
| 30 November 1861 to 16 October 1863 | Louis Adolphe Bonard, Governor | |
| 16 October 1863 to 31 March 1865 | Pierre-Paul de La Grandière, Governor | 1st time |
| 1 April 1865 to 28 November 1865 | Pierre Gustave Roze, Interim Governor | |
| 28 November 1865 to 4 April 1868 | Pierre Paul de La Grandière, Governor | 2nd time |
| 4 April 1868 to 10 December 1869 | Gustave Ohier, Acting Governor | |
| 10 December 1869 to 9 January 1870 | Joseph Faron, Interim Governor | |
| 9 January 1870 to 1 April 1871 | René de Cornulier-Lucinière, Governor | |
| 1 April 1871 to 16 March 1872 | Marie Jules Dupré, Governor | 1st time |
| 16 March 1872 to 16 December 1872 | Charles Joseph Basher d'Arbaud, Acting Governor | |
| 16 December 1872 to 15 March 1874 | Marie Jules Dupré, Governor | 2nd time |
| 16 March 1874 to 30 November 1874 | Jules François Émile Krantz, Acting Governor | |
| 30 November 1874 to 31 January 1876 | Victor Auguste, baron Duperré, Governor | 1st time |
| 1 February 1876 to 6 July 1876 | Henri Gaëtan Ernest Bossant, Acting Governor | |
| 7 July 1876 to 16 October 1877 | Victor Auguste, baron Duperré, Governor | 2nd time |
| 16 October 1877 to 7 July 1879 | Louis Charles Georges Jules Lafont, Governor | |
| 7 July 1879 to 7 November 1882 | Charles Le Myre de Vilers, Governor | |
| 4 March 1881 to 31 October 1881 | Arthur de Trentinian, Acting Governor | Acting for de Vilers |
| 7 November 1882 to 27 July 1885 | Charles Antoine François Thomson, Governor | |
| 27 July 1885 to 19 June 1886 | Charles Auguste Frédéric Bégin, Governor | |
| 20 June 1886 to 22 October 1887 | Ange Michel Filippini, Governor | |
| 23 October 1887 to 2 November 1887 | Noël Pardon, Acting Governor | |
| 3 November 1887 to 15 November 1887 | Jules Georges Piquet, Acting Governor | |
| 3 November 1887 to 15 January 1888 | Jean Antoine Ernest Constans, Lieutenant Governor | |
| 15 January 1888 to 2 August 1888 | Eugène Auguste Navelle, Lieutenant Governor | |
| 3 August 1888 to 25 August 1888 | Eugène Auguste Navelle, acting director of Local Service | |
| 25 August 1888 to 16 May 1889 | Paul Louis Maxime Céloron de Blainville, Director of Local Service | |
| 21 May 1889 to 9 August 1889 | Augustin Julien Fourès, Acting Lieutenant Governor | 1st time |
| 9 August 1889 to 11 September 1892 | Henri-Eloi Danel, Lieutenant Governor | |
| 11 September 1892 to 25 March 1894 | Augustin Julien Fourès, Lieutenant Governor | 2nd time, acting to 21 October 1892 |
| 25 March 1894 to 15 September 1894 | Eugène Auguste Navelle, Acting Lieutenant Governor | |
| 15 September 1894 to 18 July 1895 | Augustin Julien Fourès, Lieutenant Governor | 3rd time |
| 18 July 1895 to 22 March 1896 | Alexandre Antoine Étienne Gustave Ducos, Lieutenant Governor | 1st time |
| 22 March 1896 to 19 November 1896 | Gustave Guillaume Sandret, Acting Lieutenant Governor | |
| 19 November 1896 to 9 May 1897 | Alexandre Antoine Étienne Gustave Ducos, Lieutenant Governor | 2nd time |
| 10 May 1897 to 1 January 1898 | Ange Eugène Nicolai, Acting Lieutenant Governor | |
| 1 January 1898 to 11 April 1899 | Édouard Picanon, Lieutenant Governor | 1st time |
| 11 April 1899 to 1 November 1900 | Ferdinand Georges Jules Bocquet, Acting Lieutenant Governor | |
| 1 November 1900 to 28 July 1901 | Édouard Picanon, Lieutenant Governor | 2nd time |
| 28 July 1901 to 3 September 1901 | Louis Paul Luce, Acting Lieutenant Governor | |
| 5 September 1901 to 18 September 1902 | Henri Félix de Lamothe, Lieutenant Governor | |
| 18 September 1902 to 10 March 1906 | François Pierre Rodier, Lieutenant Governor | 1st time |
| 10 March 1906 to February 1907 | Olivier Charles Arthur de Lalande de Calan, Acting Lieutenant Governor | |
| February 1907 to 29 June 1907 | François Pierre Rodier, Lieutenant Governor | 2nd time |
| 29 June 1907 to 18 February 1908 | Louis Alphonse Bonhoure, Lieutenant Governor | 1st time |
| 18 February 1908 to 23 September 1908 | Ernest Outrey, Acting Lieutenant Governor | 1st time |
| 23 September 1908 to 9 January 1909 | Louis Alphonse Bonhoure, Lieutenant Governor | 2nd time |
| 9 January 1909 to 15 June 1909 | Ernest Outrey, Acting Lieutenant Governor | 2nd time |
| 16 June 1909 to December 1911 | Jules Maurice Gourbeil, Lieutenant Governor | |
| December 1911 to 22 March 1912 | Jules Maurice Gourbeil, Governor | 1st time |
| 22 March 1912 to 13 December 1912 | Leon Destenay, Acting Governor | |
| 13 December 1912 to January 1914 | Jules Maurice Gourbeil, Governor | 2nd time |
| 31 January 1914 to 7 July 1914 | Maurice Joseph Le Gallen, Acting Governor | 1st time |
| 7 July 1914 to 26 April 1916 | Jules Maurice Gourbeil, Governor | 3rd time |
| 26 April 1916 to 1917 | Louis Félix Marie Édouard Rivet, Acting Governor | |
| 9 October 1917 to 22 June 1920 | Maurice Joseph Le Gallen, Governor | 2nd time |
| 22 June 1918 to 20 February 1920 | Georges René Gaston Maspéro, Acting Governor | Acting for Le Gallen |
| 20 February 1920 to 18 November 1920 | Maurice Joseph Le Gallen, Acting Governor | 3rd time |
| 18 November 1920 to 14 February 1922 | Paul Achille Michel Quesnel, Acting Governor | |
| 14 February 1922 to 1926 | Maurice Cognacq, Governor | Acting to 12 April 1922 |
| 24 May 1924 to 17 December 1924 | Auguste Eugène Ludovic Tholance, Acting Governor | Acting for Cognacq |
| 19 April 1926 to 30 December 1926 | Aristide Eugène Le Fol, Acting Governor | |
| 30 December 1926 to 12 January 1929 | Paul Marie Alexis Joseph Blanchard de la Brosse, Governor | |
| 12 January 1929 to 6 March 1929 | Eugène Henri Roger Eutrope, Interim Governor | |
| 6 March 1929 to 1934 | Jean-Félix Krautheimer, Governor | |
| 21 November 1931 to 11 November 1932 | Eugène Henri Roger Eutrope, Acting Governor | Acting for Krautheimer |
| 20 May 1934 to 1939 | Pierre André Michel Pagès, Governor | |
| 1 March 1936 to 12 October 1936 | Henri Georges Rivoal, Acting Governor | Acting for Pagès |
| 12 May 1939 to 1940 | René Veber, Governor | |
| 16 November 1940 to 1942 | Henri Georges Rivoal, Governor | Acting to 11 December 1940 |
| 21 November 1942 to 9 March 1945 | Ernest Thimothée Hoeffel, Governor | Acting to 16 March 1943 |
| Japanese Suzerainty | ||
| 9 March 1945 to 15 August 1945 | Fujio Minoda, Governor | |
| Vietnamese Administration | ||
| 1945 to 25 August 1945 | Nguyen Van Sam, Imperial Representative in the South | |
| 25 August 1945 to 23 September 1945 | Tran Van Giau, President of the Provisional Executive Committee | In opposition |
| Allied Control | ||
| 13 Sep 1945 to 28 Mar 1946[a] | Douglas David Gracey, Military Commander | From United Kingdom |
| French Suzerainty | ||
| 24 August 1945 to 1947 | Jean Henri Arsène Cédile, Commissioner in Cochinchina and South Annam | |
| 20 May 1947 to 6 August 1947 | Robert Dufour, Acting Commissioner | |
| 6 August 1947 to 21 November 1949 | Pierre Boyer De LaTour du Moulin, Interim Commissioner | |
| 21 November 1949 to 31 July 1951 | Charles Chanson, Commissioner | Killed by a caodaist suicide bomber |
| 1 August 1951 to 27 September 1951 | Raoul Albin Louis Salan, Acting Commissioner | |
| 27 September 1951 to 27 April 1953 | Paul Louis Bondis, Commissioner | |
Notes
[edit]- ^ Archimedes Patti wrote a short biography on Douglas Gracey in Appendix II of his book:[1] "Gracey, Douglas D. (born 1894): British; Commander. Allied Land Forces for Indochina, South of the Sixteenth Parallel, North; Head, Allied Control Commission for SAC, SEAC; Commanding General, 20th Indian Division. Arrived Saigon 13 September 1945; departed Saigon 28 January 1946." See also Vietnam Statemen.[2]
Citations
[edit]- ^ Patti 1980, p. 484.
- ^ Vietnam statemen.
References
[edit]- Vietnam statemen French Cochinchina (South Vietnam), World Statesmen
- Patti, Archimedes (1980). Why Viet Nam? Prelude to America's Albatross. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520047839.
See also
[edit]- History of Vietnam
- Cochinchina
- Cochinchina Campaign
- French colonial empire
- Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica of Saigon, where the French Cochinchina governor Marie Jules Dupré was mentioned to have organized a competition to design the Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica of Saigon: "En août 1876, le gouverneur de Cochinchine Marie Jules Dupré organise un concours pour déterminer l'architecture de la cathédrale Notre-Dame".