The government of the French colony of

French Guiana French Guiana ( or ; french: link=no, Guyane ; gcr, label=French Guianese Creole, Lagwiyann ) is an overseas departments and regions of France, overseas department/region and single territorial collectivity of France on the northern Atlantic ...

was headed by a

governor A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of state's official representative. Depending on the type of political ...

until 1946, when the territory became an

overseas department The overseas departments and regions of France (french: départements et régions d'outre-mer, ; ''DROM'') are departments of France that are outside metropolitan France, the European part of France. They have exactly the same status as mainlan ...

of France.

Governors of Guiana during the Portuguese occupation (1809-1817)

*January - October 1809 Colonel of Artillery Manuel Marques *October 1809 - February 1812 Pedro Alexandrino Pinto de Sousa *February 1812 - November 1817 João Severiano Maciel da Costa

Governors of French Guiana (1817-1946)

*1817 - 1819 Claude Carra de Saint-Cyr *1819 - 1823

Pierre Clément de Laussat Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). It is a translation ...

*1823 - 1825 Pierre Bernard Milius *1825 - 1826 Charles de Muyssart *1826 - 1827 Joseph de Burgues de Missiessy *1827 - 1829 Louis Henri de Saulces de Freycinet *1829 - 1836 Jean Jubelin *1836 - 1837 François-Dominique Laurens de Choisy *1837 - 1839

Paul de Nourquer du Camper Paul de Nourquer du Camper was Governor General for Inde française in the Second French Colonial Empire during the July Monarchy. During his period an annual statistics manual was written by Pierre Constant Sicé in 1842, which describes and narra ...

*1839 - 1841 Jean-Baptiste-Marie-Augustin Gourbeyre *1841 - 1843 Pons-Guillaume-Bazile Charmasson de Puylaval *1843 - 1845 Marie Jean-François Layrle *1845 - 1846 Jean-Baptiste Bertrand Armand Cadéot *1846 - 1850 André-Aimé Pariset *1850 - 1851 Eugène Maissin *1851 Jean-François Vidal de Lingendes *1851 - 1852 Octave Pierre Antoine Henri de Chabannes-Curton *1852 - 1853 Joseph Napoléon Sébastien Sarda Garriga *1853 - 1854

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*1854 - 1855

Louis Adolphe Bonard Louis Adolphe Bonard (27 March 1805 – 31 March 1867) was a French admiral who served in the Mediterranean and then for many years in the Pacific. He was governor of French Guiana from 1853 to 1855, and governor of Cochinchina (southern Vietnam) ...

*1855 - 1856 Antoine Alphonse Masset *1856 - 1859

Auguste Baudin Auguste Laurent François Baudin (21 November 1800, Hoogstraten Belgium - 1 August 1877, Douai) was a French admiral and colonial administrator. His uncle François-André Baudin was also a naval officer. Life Volunteering for the navy in 1817, ...

*1859 - 1864

Louis-Marie-François Tardy de Montravel Louis-Marie-François Tardy de Montravel, often Louis Tardy de Montravel (28 September 1811, in Vincennes – 4 October 1864, in Elbeuf Elbeuf () is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France. Geograp ...

*1864 - 1865 Antoine Favre *1865 - 1870

Agathon Hennique Privat Antoine Agathon Hennique (12 September 1810 – 13 April 1870) was a French soldier who served as governor of French Guiana from 1865 to 1870. Early years (1810–49) Privat Antoine Agathon Hennique was born on 12 September 1810 in Couvr ...

*1870 J. A. A. Noyer *1870 - 1877 Jean-Louis Loubère *1877 A. E. Bouet *1877 - 1880 Marie Alfred Armand Huart (1826 - ?) *1880 P. A. Trève *1880 - 1883 Charles Alexandre Lacouture (1829 - 1917) *1883 - 1884 Henri Isidore Chessé (1839 - 1912) *1884 - 1885 Jean Baptiste Antoine Lougnon (1843 - ?) *1885 - 1887 Léonce Pierre Henri Le Cardinal (1830 - 1891) *1888 - 1891 Anne Léodor Philotée Metellus Gerville-Réache (1849 - 1911) *1891 - 1893

Louis Albert Grodet Louis Albert Grodet (4 May 1853 – 30 January 1933) was a French civil servant, colonial administrator and politician. He trained as a lawyer, then worked his way up the ranks in the Ministry of Commerce and then the Colonial Ministry. He was gove ...

(1853 - 1933) *1893 Paul Émile Joseph Casimir Fawtier (1837 - 1903) *1893 - 1895 Camille Charvein (1834 - ?) *1895 - 1896

Henri Félix de Lamothe Henri is an Estonian, Finnish, French, German and Luxembourgish form of the masculine given name Henry. People with this given name ; French noblemen :'' See the 'List of rulers named Henry' for Kings of France named Henri.'' * Henri I de Montm ...

(1843 - 1926) *1896 - 1898 Henri Éloi Danel *1898 Henri Roberdeau *1899 - 1901 Louis Mouttet *1901 - 1903 Émile Merwart *1904 - 1905

*1905 Charles Emmanuel Joseph Marchal *1905 - 1906 Victor François Ferdinand Rey *1906 Louis Alphonse Bonhoure (1864 - 1909) *1906 - 1907 Édouard Picanon (1854 - 1939) *1907 - 1909 François Pierre Rodier (1854 - ?) *1909 - 1910 William Maurice Fawtier (1867 - ?) *1910 Fernand Ernest Thérond *1910 - 1911 Paul Samary (1848 - 1911) *1911 Denys Joseph Goujon (1863 - ?) *1911 - 1913 Fernand Lévecque *1913 - 1914 Pierre Didelot *1914 - 1916 Fernand Lévecque *1916 Pierre Didelot *1916 - 1917 Georges Lévy (1867 - ?) *1917 Jules Gérard Auguste Lauret (1866 - ?) *1917 - 1918 Antoine Joseph Xavier Barre (1864 - 1924) *1918 - 1923 Henri Alphonse Joseph Lejeune *1923 Julien Edgard Cantau *1923 - 1926 Marc Émile Charles Jean Chanel (1882 - 1943) *1926 - 1927 Gabriel Henri Joseph Thaly *1927 François Adrien Juvanon (1875 - ?) *1927 - 1928 Émile Buhot-Launay (1881-1970) *1928 - 1929 Camille Théodore Raoul Maillet *1929 - 1931 Bernard Siadoux *1931 - 1933 Louis Joseph Bouge (1878 - 1960) *1933 - 1935 Julien Georges Lamy *1935 - 1936 Charles Max de Masson de Saint-Félix *1936 Pierre Tap *1936 - 1938 René Veber *1938 - 1942 Robert Paul Chot-Plassot *1942 - 1943 René Veber *1943 - 1944 Jean Alexandre Léon Rapenne (1901 - 1952) *1944 - 1946 Jules Eucher Surlemont (1897 – 1983)

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