List of Governors-General of French Indochina

French Indochina, 1930.

Emblem of the Government-General of French Indochina

This is a list of European (as well as Japanese and Chinese) colonial administrators responsible for the territory of French Indochina, an area equivalent to modern-day Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.

List of colonial heads of French Indochina

Tenure	Incumbent	Notes
French Indochina
French Indochina formed (Cambodia, Annam, Tonkin, and Cochinchina, and from 3 October 1893, Laos)
16 November 1887 to April 1888	Jean Antoine Ernest Constans, Governor-General
April 1888 to 31 May 1889	Étienne Antoine Guillaume Richaud, Governor-General
31 May 1889 to April 1891	Jules Georges Piquet, Governor-General
April 1891 to June 1891	Bideau, acting Governor-General
June 1891 to 31 December 1894	Jean Marie Antoine de Lanessan, Governor-General
March 1894 to October 1894	Léon Jean Laurent Chavassieux, acting Governor-General	Acting for Lanessan
December 1894 to February 1895	François Pierre Rodier, acting Governor-General
February 1895 to 10 December 1896	Paul Armand Rosseau, Governor-General
December 1896 to 13 February 1897	Augustin Julien Fourès, acting Governor-General
13 February 1897 to October 1902	Joseph Athanase Paul Doumer, Governor-General
October 1902 to February 1908	Jean Baptiste Paul Beau, Governor-General
18 February 1907 to September 1907	Louis Alphonse Bonhoure, acting Governor-General
September 1908 to January 1910	Antony Wladislas Klobukowski, Governor-General
January 1910 to February 1911	Albert Jean George Marie Louis Picquié, acting Governor-General
February 1911 to November 1911	Paul Louis Luce, Governor-General
November 1911 to January 1914	Albert Pierre Sarraut, Governor-General	1st time
January 1914 to 7 April 1915	Joost van Vollenhoven, acting Governor-General
April 1915 to May 1916	Ernest Roume, Governor-General
May 1916 to January 1917	Jean Eugène Charles, acting Governor-General
January 1917 to May 1919	Albert Pierre Sarraut, Governor-General	2nd time
May 1919 to February 1920	Maurice Antoine François Montguillot, acting Governor-General	1st time
February 1920 to April 1922	Maurice Long, Governor-General
April 1922 to August 1922	François Marius Baudouin, acting Governor-General
August 1922 to April 1925	Martial Henri Merlin, Governor-General
April 1925 to November 1925	Maurice Antoine François Montguillot, acting Governor-General	2nd time
18 November 1925 to January 1928	Alexandre Varenne, Governor-General
January 1928 to August 1928	Maurice Antoine François Montguillot, acting Governor-General	3rd time
22 August 1928 to 15 January 1934	Pierre Marie Antoine Pasquier, Governor-General
15 January 1934 to September 1936	Eugène Jean Louis René Robin, Governor-General
September 1936 to 23 August 1939	Joseph Jules Brévié, Governor-General
23 August 1939 to 25 June 1940	Georges Catroux, acting Governor-General
25 June 1940 to 9 March 1945	Jean Decoux, Governor-General
Japanese Occupation of French Indochina
9 March 1945 to 28 August 1945	Yuitsu Tsuchihashi, Governor-General
9 March 1945 to 15 August 1945	Takeshi Tsukamoto, acting Governor-General	Acting for Tsuchihashi
Allied Military Administration
Above 16th parallel
9 September 1945 to 6 March 1946	Lu Han, Military Governor (Republic of China)
Below 16th parallel
6 September 1945 to 28 January 1946	Douglas David Gracey, Military Governor (United Kingdom)
French Indochina
23 September 1945 to 5 October 1945	Jean Marie Arsène Cédile, acting High Commissioner
5 October 1945 to 31 October 1945	Philippe François Marie de Hauteclocque, dit Leclerc, acting High Commissioner
31 October 1945 to 1 April 1947	Georges Louis Marie Thierry d'Argenlieu, High Commissioner
1 April 1947 to 20 October 1948	Émile Bollaert, High Commissioner
20 October 1948 to 17 December 1950	Léon Marie Adolphe Pascal Pignon, High Commissioner
17 December 1950 to 11 January 1952	Jean Joseph Marie Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny, High Commissioner
11 January 1952 to 1 April 1952	Raoul Albin Louis Salan, acting High Commissioner
1 April 1952 to 27 April 1953	Jean Letourneau, High Commissioner
27 April 1953 to 17 August 1953	Jean Letourneau, Commissioner-General
17 August 1953 to 10 April 1954	Maurice Dejean, Commissioner-General	Served at the time of the Battle of Dien Bien Phu
10 April 1954 to 2 June 1955	Paul Henri Romuald Ély, Commissioner-General
June 1955 to 21 July 1956	Henri Hoppenot, Commissioner-General

See also

• French Indochina

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: 
• Olivier Wieviorka (2008). Normandy: the landings to the liberation of Paris. Harvard University Press.[1] ISBN 978-0-674-02838-8.

External links

• Alexandre Varenne in Indochina