Tenure |
Incumbent |
Notes |
Portrait |
Malagasy Protectorate (1882–1897) |
28 April 1886 to March 1888 | Charles Le Myre de Vilers, Plenipotentiary | 1st term | |
March 1888 to 12 December 1889 | Paul Augustin Jean Larrouy, Resident-General | 1st term | |
12 December 1889 to 11 October 1891 | Maurice Bompard, Resident-General | | |
11 October 1891 to October 1892 | Jean Aurélien Lacoste, Acting Resident-General | | |
October 1892 to 8 September 1894 | Paul Augustin Jean Larrouy, Resident-General | 2nd term | |
October 1894 | Albert d'Anthouard de Waservas, Acting Resident-General | | |
14 October 1894 to 1 December 1895 | Charles Le Myre de Vilers, Plenipotentiary | 2nd time; served at the start of the Menalamba rebellion | |
September 1894 to 21 February 1895 | Achille Ranchot, Acting Resident-General | For de Vilers | |
February 1895 to 1 December 1895 | Robert Édouard Alphonse Chaloin, Acting Resident-General | For de Vilers | |
1 December 1895 to 28 September 1896 | Hippolyte Laroche, Resident-General | | |
28 September 1896 to 31 July 1897 | Joseph Gallieni, Resident-General | | |
Colony of Madagascar and Dependencies (1897–1958) |
6 August 1896 to 31 July 1897 | Joseph Gallieni, Military Governor | | |
31 July 1897 to 11 May 1905 | Joseph Gallieni, Governor-General | Served during the 1904–1905 uprising |
11 May 1905 to 1 January 1906 | Charles Louis Lépreux, Acting Governor-General | | |
1 January 1906 to 13 December 1909 | Victor Augagneur, Governor-General | | |
13 December 1909 to 16 January 1910 | Hubert Auguste Garbit, Acting Governor-General | 1st term | |
16 January 1910 to 31 October 1910 | Henri François Charles Cor, Acting Governor-General | | |
31 October 1910 to 5 August 1914 | Albert Jean George Marie Louis Picquié, Governor-General | | |
5 August 1914 to 14 October 1914 | Hubert Auguste Garbit, Acting Governor-General | 2nd term | |
14 October 1914 to 24 July 1917 | Hubert Auguste Garbit, Governor-General |
24 July 1917 to 1 August 1918 | Martial Henri Merlin, Governor-General | | |
1 August 1918 to 12 July 1919 | Abraham Schrameck, Governor-General | | |
12 July 1919 to 22 June 1920 | Marie Casimir Joseph Guyon, Acting Governor-General | | |
22 June 1920 to 13 March 1923 | Hubert Auguste Garbit, Governor-General | 3rd term | |
13 March 1923 to 20 February 1924 | Auguste Charles Désiré Emmanuel Brunet, Acting Governor-General | | |
20 February 1924 to 30 January 1929 | Marcel Achille Olivier, Governor-General | | |
30 January 1929 to 1 May 1930 | Hugues Jean Berthier, Acting Governor-General | | |
1 May 1930 to 22 April 1939 | Léon Henri Charles Cayla, Governor-General | 1st term | |
22 April 1939 to 10 June 1939 | Léon Maurice Valentin Réallon, Acting Governor-General | | |
10 June 1939 to 30 July 1940 | Jules Marcel de Coppet, Governor-General | 1st term | |
30 July 1940 to 11 April 1941 | Léon Henri Charles Cayla, Governor-General | 2nd term | |
11 April 1941 to 30 September 1942 | Armand Léon Annet, Governor-General | Deposed in the Battle of Madagascar | |
5 May 1942 to 11 October 1942 | Robert Sturges, Commander | British occupation | |
11 October 1942 to 1945 | Gerald Smallwood, Commander | |
25 September 1942 to 7 January 1943 | Anthony Sillery, Occupied Territories Administrator | |
30 September 1942 to 7 January 1943 | Victor Marius Bech, Acting Governor-General | | |
7 January 1943 to 3 May 1943 | Paul Louis Victor Marie Legentilhomme, High Commissioner of Free French Possessions in the Indian Ocean | | |
3 May 1943 to 27 March 1946 | Pierre de Saint-Mart, Governor-General | | |
27 March 1946 to 19 May 1946 | Robert Boudry, Acting Governor-General | | |
19 May 1946 to 23 December 1947 | Jules Marcel de Coppet, High Commissioner | 2nd term; served at the start of the Malagasy Uprising | |
February 1948 to 3 February 1950 | Pierre Gabriel de Chevigné, High Commissioner | | |
3 February 1950 to October 1954 | Robert Isaac Bargues, High Commissioner | | |
October 1954 to 1 May 1959 | Jean Louis Marie André Soucadaux, High Commissioner | | |