List of colonial and departmental heads of French Guiana


This article lists the colonial and departmental heads of French Guiana, since the establishment of the French suzerainty over the territory of French Guiana in 1643, to the present day. The colony was headed by a governor from 1809 until 1946, when the territory became an overseas department of France.

Bourbon Restoration and July Monarchy

TermIncumbentNotes
1817 to 25 July 1819Jean-François Claude Carra de Saint-Cyr, Commandant
25 July 1819 to 12 March 1823Pierre Clément de Laussat, Commandant
1823 to 1825Pierre Bernard, baron de Milius, Commandant
1825 to 1826Charles Emmanuel de Muyssard, interim Commandant
1826 to 1827Joseph Burgues de Missiessy, interim Governor
1827 to 1829Louis Henri de Saulses de Freycinet, Governor
1 June 1829 to 11 April 1836Louis Jean-Guillaume Jubelin, Governor
1836 to 1837François Dominique Laurens de Choisy, Governor
1837 to 1839Paul de Nourquer du Camper, Governor
1839 to 1841Jean Baptiste Marie Augustin Gourbeyre, Governor
1841 to 1843Guillaume Basile Charmasson de Puylaval, Governor
1843 to 1845Marie Jean-François Layrle, Governor
1845 to 1846Jean Baptiste Armand Bertrand Cadéot, Governor
18 February 1846 to 16 May 1850André Aimé Pariset, Governor

Second Republic and Empire

TermIncumbentNotes
1850 to 6 January 1851Louis Eugène Maissin, Governor
1851Jean François Marie Félix Stanislas Vidal de Lingendes, acting Governor
May 1851 to May 1852, Governor
1852 to 1853Joseph Napoléon Sarda-Garriga, Governor
1853 to 1854Martin Fourichon, Governor
1854 to 1855Louis Adolphe Bonard, Governor
1855 to January 1856Antoine Alphonse Masset, acting Governor
January 1856 to 1859Auguste Laurent François Baudin, Governor
15 May 1859 to 1 May 1864Louis-Marie-François Tardy de Montravel, Governor
1864 to 1865Antoine Favre, acting Governor
1865 to 1870Privat Antoine Agathon Hennique, Governor
1870J. A. A. Noyer, acting Governor