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{{Politics of Guadeloupe}}
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(Dates in italics indicate ''de facto'' continuation of office)

Note: currently, the [[Prefect (France)|prefect]] is not the true departmental head, which is the [[President of the General Council]]. The prefect is merely the representative of the national government.

==Ancien regime==
Governors under the [[Ancien Régime]] were:{{sfn|Cahoon}}

{|class="wikitable"
! Term
! Incumbent
! Notes
|-
|colspan=3 style="text-align:center; background:white;"|'''French Suzerainty'''
|-
| 28 June 1635 –  4 December 1635 || [[Jean du Plessis d'Ossonville]] || Died 1635 
|-
| 28 June 1635 – 1640|| {{Interlanguage link multi|Charles Liènard de l'Olive|fr}} || Governor; died 1643
|-
|25 November 1640 – 1643 || Jean Aubert || 
|-
|1643–1664|| [[Charles Houël du Petit Pré]] || Governor
|-
| August 1644 – May 1645 ||  Marivet || Acting
|-
| 8 July 1654 – 1656 || [[Charles Houël du Petit Pré]] || 2nd time, acting, also de Boisseret 
|-
|23 June 1664 – November 1664 ||  Ducoudray || Acting
|-
| 5 November 1664 – 14 September 1674 || [[Claude François du Lyon]] || 
|-
| 1677 || M. de Baas de l'Herpinière || Did not take office
|-
| 5 July 1677 – 15 June 1695 || [[Pierre Hincelin]] || Acting, then confirmed governor
|-
|15 July 1695 to 1702|| [[Charles Auger]] || Governor
|-
| 1703–1705 || [[Joseph d'Honon de Gallifet]] || Did not take office
|-
| 1702–1705|| [[Bonnaventure-François de Boisfermé]] || Acting governor for absent Galiffet
|-
| 1706 – 1 May 1717|| [[Robert Cloche de La Malmaison]] || Governor
|-
|May 1717 to 18 March 1718 || {{Interlanguage link multi|Savinien-Michel de Lagarrigue de Savigny|fr}} || Interim governor
|-
|22 June 1717 ||  François de Pas de Mazencourt, marquis de Feuquières || Did not take office
|-
|June/July 1719 – October 1727 ||{{Interlanguage link multi|Alexandre Vaultier, comte de Moyencourt|fr|3=Alexandre Vaultier de Moyencourt}} || Governor
|-
|21 October 1727 – 27 July 1734 || {{Interlanguage link multi|Robert Giraud du Poyet|fr}} || Governor
|-
|27 July 1734 – 17 August 1737 || [[Charles de Brunier, marquis de Larnage]] || Acting governor
|-
|17 August 1737 – 1753 || [[Gabriel de Clieu]] || Governor
|-
| October 1749 – December 1750 ||  de Lafond || Acting for d'Erchigny) 
|-
|27 December 1753 – 1757|| {{Interlanguage link multi|Jean Antoine Joseph de Mirabeau|fr|3=Jean-Antoine Riqueti de Mirabeau}} || Governor
|-
|15 January 1757 –  1 May 1759 || [[Charles François Emmanuel Nadau du Treil]] || Governor
|-
|colspan=3 style="text-align:center; background:white;"|'''British Suzerainty'''
|-
| May 1759 || [[John Barrington (British Army officer)|John Barrington]] ||  
|-
| May 1759 – 11 March 1760||[[Byam Crump]] || Governor
|-
| March 1760 –  4 July 1763 || [[Campbell Dalrymple]] || Governor
|-
|colspan=3 style="text-align:center; background:white;"|'''French Suzerainty'''
|-
|  4 July 1763 – 24 June 1764 || [[François-Charles de Bourlamaque]] || Governor
|-
| 1764 to 1765 || [[Henri Édouard de Copley]] || Interim governor
|-
| 20 March 1765 to 29 November 1768||[[Pierre Gédéon de Nolivos]] || Governor
|-
| 29 November 1768 – 1769 || [[Anne Joseph Hippolyte de Maurès de Malartic]] || Governor
|-
| 27 February 1769 – 1771 || [[François Claude Amour, marquis de Bouillé]] || Governor
|-
| August 1771 to 1773|| [[Louis François de Dion]] || Governor
|-
| 14 April 1773 – 1776  || [[Édouard Hilaire Louis de Tilly]] || Governor
|-
| 1776–1782 || [[Bache-Elzéar-Alexandre d'Arbaud de Jouques]] || Governor
|-
| 16 Nov 1782 – 1783 ||[[Claude Charles de Marillac, vicomte de Damas]] || Governor
|-
| 1783–1784 || [[Beaumé de la Saulais]] || Governor
|-
|1784 – 25 July 1792||[[Charles François de Clugny de Thénissey]] || Governor
|}

==Revolution and First Empire==

{|class="wikitable"
! Term
! Incumbent
! Notes
|-
|1792 to 1793||[[René Marie, vicomte d'Arrot]], interim Governor
|-
|5 January 1793 to 18 March 1793||[[Jean-Baptiste Raymond de Lacrosse]], provisional Governor
|-
|18 March 1793 to 20 April 1794||[[Victor Collot]], Governor
|-
|British Suzerainty
|-
|20 April 1794 to 3 June 1794||[[Thomas Dundas (British Army officer)|Thomas Dundas]], Governor
|-
|French Suzerainty
|-
|7 June 1794 to 6 January 1795||[[Victor Hugues]], Commissioner
|-
|rowspan="2" valign=top|6 January 1795 to January 1796||[[Victor Hugues]], Co-Commissioner
|-
|[[Lebas]], Co-Commissioner
|-
|6 January 1795 to June 1795||[[Goyrand]], Co-Commissioner
|-
|rowspan="2" valign=top|January 1796 to 25 October 1797||[[Victor Hugues]], Agent of the French Executive Directory
|-
|[[Lebas]], Agent of the French Executive Directory
|-
|25 October 1797 to 19 April 1801||''Département''
|-
|rowspan="2" valign-top|25 October 1797 to 22 November 1798||[[Victor Hugues]], Agent of the French Executive Directory||Co-Agent
|-
|[[Lebas]], Agent of the French Executive Directory||Co-Agent
|-
|22 November 1798 to 3 October 1799||[[Edme Étienne Borne-Desfourneaux]], Agent of the French Executive Directory
|-
|3 October 1799 to 11 December 1799||[[Paris]], provisional Agent of the French Executive Directory
|-
|11 December 1799 to 30 May 1801||[[Georges Nicolas Jeannet-Oudin]], Agent of the French Executive Directory||Co-Agent
|-
|11 December 1799 to 30 December 1800||[[René Gaston Baco de la Chapelle]], Agent of the French Executive Directory||Co-Agent
|-
|11 December 1799 to 28 February 1800||[[Étienne Maynaud de Bizefranc de Laveaux]], Agent of the French Executive Directory||Co-Agent
|-
|28 February 1800 to 30 May 1801|| Bresseau ||Co-Agent
|-
|30 May 1801 to 14 May 1802||[[Jean-Baptiste Raymond de Lacrosse]], Captain-General ||1st Term
|-
|24 October 1801 to 6 May 1802||[[Magloire Pélage]], President of Provisional Council of Government||In rebellion
|-
|14 May 1802 to 3 September 1802||[[Antoine Richepanse]], Captain-General
|-
|4 August 1802 to 8 May 1803||[[Jean-Baptiste Raymond de Lacrosse]], Captain-General
|-
|4 August 1802 to 3 September 1802||[[Jean-Baptiste Raymond de Lacrosse]], Captain-General||2nd Term
|-
|3 September 1802 to 8 May 1803||[[Jean-Baptiste Raymond de Lacrosse]], acting Captain-General
|-
|8 May 1803 to 6 February 1810||[[Jean Augustin Ernouf]], Captain-General
|-
|British Suzerainty
|-
|6 February 1810 to 7 December 1814||''British occupation''
|-
|6 February 1810 to 26 June 1813||[[Sir Alexander Cochrane]], Governor
|-
|26 June 1813 to December 1814||John Skinner, Governor
|-
|French Suzerainty
|-
|7 December 1814 to 12 December 1814
|-
|12 December 1814 to 10 August 1815||[[Charles Durand, comte de Linois]], Governor
|-
|British Suzerainty
|-
|10 August 1815 to 25 July 1816||''British occupation''
|-
|10 August 1815 to 24 April 1816||[[Sir James Leith]], Governor
|-
|24 April 1816 to 25 July 1816
|}

==Restoration, Second Republic, Second Empire==

{|class="wikitable"
! Term
! Incumbent
! Notes
|-
|'''French Suzerainty'''
|-
|1816 to 1823||'''[[Antoine Philippe de Lardenoy]]''', Governor
|-
|1823 to 1826||'''[[Louis Léon Jacob]]''', Governor
|-
|31 May 1826 to 1830||'''[[Jean Julien Angot des Rotours]]''', Governor
|-
|31 January 1830 to 8 July 1831||'''[[Louis François Vatable]]''', Governor
|-
|1831 to 20 June 1837||'''[[René Arnous des Saulsays]]''', Governor
|-
|1837 to 1841||'''[[Jean-Guillaume Jubelin]]''', Governor
|-
|1841 to 7 June 1845||'''[[Augustin Gourbeyre]]''', Governor
|-
|24 August 1845 to 5 June 1848||'''[[Jean-François Layrle]]''', Governor
|-
|5 June 1848 to 1848||'''[[Alexandre Gatine]]''', acting Governor
|-
|1848 to 1849||'''[[Jean Jacques Louis Fabvre]]'''. acting Governor
|-
|1849 to 1849||'''[[Jean Jacques Louis Fabvre]]'''
|-
|9 September 1849 to 1851||'''[[Jacques Amédée Philippe Fiéron]]'''
|-
|1851 to 1851||'''Chaumont''', acting Governor
|-
|15 September 1851 to 1853||'''[[Tranquille Aubry-Bailleul]]''', Governor
|-
|30 September 1853 to 1856||'''[[Philibert Augustin Bonfils]]''', Governor
|-
|1856 to 1857||'''Guillet''', acting Governor
|-
|March 1857 to April 1859||'''[[Philippe Victor Touchard]]''', Governor
|-
|1859 to January 1860||'''[[Louis Bontemps]]''', Governor
|-
|January 1860 to 1864||'''[[Charles Victor Frébault]]''', Governor
|-
|1864 to 1864||'''[[Joseph Desmazes]]''', acting Governor
|-
|1864 to 1870||'''[[Louis Hippolyte de Lormel]]''', Governor
|}

==Third, Fourth, Fifth republics==

{|class="wikitable"
! Term
! Incumbent
! Notes
|-
|1870 to 1880||'''[[Gabriel Couturier]]''', Governor
|-
|1880 to 1881||'''Mazé''', acting Governor
|-
|1881 to 1886||'''[[Léonce Laugier]]''', Governor
|-
|1886 to 1886||'''Sainte-Luce''', acting Governor
|-
|1886 to 1891||'''[[Antoine Frédéric Henry Le Boucher]]''', Governor
|-
|1891 to 1894||'''[[Louis Hippolyte Marie Nouet]]''', Governor
|-
|1894 to 1895||'''[[Noël Pardon]]''', Governor
|-
|1895 to 1901||'''[[Delphino Moracchini]]''', Governor
|-
|1901 to 1903||'''[[Martial Merlin]]''', Governor
|-
|1903 to 1905||'''[[Paul Marie Armand de La Loyère]]''', Governor
|-
|1905 to 1907||'''[[Léon Jules Pol Boulloche]]''', Governor
|-
|1907 to 1909||'''[[Victor Marie Louis Ballot]]''', Governor
|-
|1909 to 1910||'''[[Henri Cor]]''', Governor
|-
|1911 to 1913||'''[[Jean Jules Émile Peuvergne]]''', Governor
|-
|1913 to 1917||'''[[Émile Merwart]]''', Governor
|-
|1917 to 1920||'''[[Maurice Gourbeil]]''', Governor
|-
|1920 to 1924||'''[[Pierre Louis Alfred Duprat]]''', Governor
|-
|1924 to 1924||'''[[Jocelyn Robert]]''', Governor
|-
|1924 to 1926||'''[[Maurice Beurnier]]''', Governor
|-
|1926 to 1929||'''[[Louis Gerbinis]]''', Governor
|-
|1929 to 1931||'''[[Théophile Antoine Pascal Tellier]]''', Governor
|-
|1931 to 1934||'''[[Alphonse Choteau]]''', Governor
|-
|1934 to 1936||'''[[Louis Bouge]]''', Governor
|-
|1936 to 1938||'''[[Félix Éboué]]''', Governor
|-
|29 November 1938 to 21 February 1940||'''[[François Pierre-Alype]]''', Governor
|-
|30 April 1940 to 15 July 1943||'''[[Constant Sorin]]''', Governor
|-
|1944 to 1946||'''[[Maurice Pierre Eugène Bertaut]]''', Governor
|-
|19 March 1946||''[[French overseas département]]''
|-
|30 April 1946 to 12 October 1947||'''[[Ernest de Nattes]]''', Governor
|-
|26 December 1947 to 24 November 1950||'''[[Gilbert Eugène Félicien Marie Philipson]]''', Prefect
|-
|16 January 1951 to 18 May 1954||'''[[Gaston Villéger]]''', Prefect
|-
|18 May 1954 to 18 December 1955||'''[[Jacques Ravail]]''', Prefect
|-
|22 December 1955 to 22 May 1956||'''[[Guy Malines]]''', acting Prefect
|-
|22 May 1956 to 6 March 1958||'''[[Guy Malines]]''', Prefect
|-
|6 March 1958 to 1 October 1960||'''[[Jean-Pierre Abeille]]''', Prefect
|-
|1 October 1960 to 1 August 1965||'''[[Albert Bonhomme]]''', Prefect
|-
|1 August 1965 to 12 July 1967||'''[[Pierre Bolotte]]''', Prefect
|-
|16 August 1967 to 16 December 1969||'''[[Jean Deleplanque]]''', Prefect
|-
|16 December 1969 to 1 July 1973||'''[[Pierre Mathieu Brunon]]''', Prefect
|-
|12 July 1973 to 15 November 1975||'''[[Jacques Le Cornec]]''', Prefect
|-
|15 November 1975 to 15 October 1978||'''[[Jean-Claude Aurousseau]]''', Prefect
|-
|15 October 1978 to 28 February 1982||'''[[Guy Maillard]]''', Prefect
|-
|28 February 1982 to ''10 May 1982''||'''[[Robert Miguet]]''', Prefect
|-
|''10 May 1982'' to 13 February 1984||'''[[Robert Miguet]]''', Commissioner of the Republic
|-
|February 1984 to April 1986||'''[[Maurice Saborin]]''', Commissioner of the Republic
|-
|9 April 1986 to 4 November 1987||'''[[Yves Bonnet]]''', Commissioner of the Republic
|-
|4 November 1987 to ''24 February 1988''||'''[[Bernard Sarazin]]''', Commissioner of the Republic
|-
|''24 February 1988'' to November 1989||'''[[Bernard Sarazin]]''', Prefect
|-
|November 1989 to 18 July 1991||'''[[Jean-Paul Proust]]''', Prefect
|-
|31 July 1991 to 6 October 1993||'''[[Franck Perriez]]''', Prefect
|-
|6 October 1993 to 21 November 1994||'''[[Alain Frouté]]''', Prefect
|-
|21 November 1994 to 16 October 1996||'''[[Michel Diefenbacher]]''', Prefect
|-
|12 November 1996 to 16 August 1999||'''[[Jean Fedini]]''', Prefect
|-
|16 August 1999 to 6 August 2002||'''[[Jean-François Carenco]]''', Prefect
|-
|6 August 2002 to 7 July 2004||'''[[Dominique Vian]]''', Prefect
|-
|7 July 2004 to 29 October 2009||'''[[Paul Girot de Langlade]]''', Prefect
|-
|29 October 2009 to 24 August 2011||'''[[Jean-Luc Michel Fabre]]''', Prefect
|-
|17 July 2011 to 11 September 2011||'''[[Philippe Jaumouillé]]''', Acting Prefect
|-
|11 September 2011 to 23 January 2013||'''[[Amaury de Saint-Quentin]]''', Prefect
|-
|23 January 2013 to 21 December 2014||'''[[Marcelle Pierrot]]''', Prefect
|-
|21 December 2014 to present||'''[[Jacques Billant]]''', Prefect
|}

==Notes==
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==Sources==
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*{{citation |work=Worldstatesmen.org |title=Gaudeloupe
 |last=Cahoon |first=Ben  |url=http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Guadeloupe.html |accessdate=2018-09-22}}
{{refend}}
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