Colonial heads of the Comoros - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Tenure	Incumbent	Notes

French Suzerainty
25 March 1841	Annexed by France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France... ; ratified 13 June 1843
Mayotte Protectorate;
1841 to June 1843	Pierre Passot, French Representative
Subordinated to the governors of Île de Bourbon/Réunion Réunion Réunion is a French island with a population of about 800,000 located in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar, about south west of Mauritius, the nearest island.Administratively, Réunion is one of the overseas departments of France...
June 1843 to 11 March 1844	Pierre Passot, Commandant-Superior	1st Term
11 March 1844 to 17 June 1844	Paul Charles Rang, Commandant-Superior
17 June 1844 to 22 October 1844	Charles Louis Thiebault, acting Commandant-Superior
22 October 1844 to January 1846	Auguste Le Brun, acting Commandant-Superior
January 1846 to August 1849	Pierre Passot, Commandant-Superior	2nd Term
Subordinated to the governors of Réunion Réunion Réunion is a French island with a population of about 800,000 located in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar, about south west of Mauritius, the nearest island.Administratively, Réunion is one of the overseas departments of France...
11 August 1849 to 13 June 1851	Stanislas Fortune Livet, Commissioner
13 June 1851 to 18 October 1853	Philibert Bonfils, Commissioner
18 October 1853 to 13 December 1854	André Brisset, acting Commissioner
13 December 1854 to 15 August 1857	Auguste Joseph Verand, Commissioner
15 August 1857 to 14 August 1860	Charles Auguste Morel, Commissioner
14 August 1860 to 14 December 1864	Charles Gabrié, Commissioner
14 December 1864 to 8 July 1868	Joseph Christophe Colomb, Commissioner	1st Term
8 July 1868 to 15 April 1869	Joseph Ferdinand Hayes, acting Commissioner
15 April 1869 to 21 May 1869	L.J. Leguay, acting Commissioner
21 May 1869 to 4 March 1871	Joseph Christophe Colomb, Commissioner	2nd Term
4 March 1871 to 19 December 1871	Patrice Louis Ventre de la Touloubre, acting Commissioner	1st Term
19 December 1871 to 1 March 1875	Patrice Louis Ventre de la Touloubre, Commissioner	1st Term
1 March 1875 to 16 September 1875	Claude Fontaine, acting Commissioner
16 September 1875 to 26 December 1875	François Marie Ferriez, acting Commissioner
26 December 1875 to 2 January 1878	Patrice Louis Ventre de la Touloubre, Commissioner	2nd Term
2 January 1878 to 9 December 1878	Jean Roblin, acting Commandant
9 December 1878 to 7 September 1879	Charles Vassal, acting Commandant
7 September 1879 to 16 December 1879	Charles Bayet, acting Commandant
16 December 1879 to 31 December 1879	Edouard Sasias, acting Commandant
31 December 1879 to 3 March 1885	François Marie Ferriez, Commandant
3 March 1885 to 24 June 1886	Anne Léodor Philotée Metellus Gerville-Réache, Commandant
Ngazidja Grande Comore, Ndzuwani Anjouan, and Mwali Mohéli French protectorates
24 June 1886 to August 1887	Anne Léodor Philotée Metellus Gerville-Réache, Commandant	(contd.)
19 August 1887 to 5 September 1887	Paul Louis Maxime Celoron de Blainville, Commandant
Protectorate of the Comoros Comoros The Comoros , officially the Union of the Comoros is an archipelago island nation in the Indian Ocean, located off the eastern coast of Africa, on the northern end of the Mozambique Channel, between northeastern Mozambique and northwestern Madagascar... (Protectorat des Comores Comoros The Comoros , officially the Union of the Comoros is an archipelago island nation in the Indian Ocean, located off the eastern coast of Africa, on the northern end of the Mozambique Channel, between northeastern Mozambique and northwestern Madagascar... )
5 September 1887 to 4 May 1888	Paul Celeron de Blainville, Commandant
4 May 1887 to 1893	Clovis Papinaud, Commandant	1st Term
1893 to 30 March 1896	Etinne Lacascade, Commandant
30 March 1896 to 5 August 1897	Gentien Pereton, Commandant
5 August 1897 to 7 March 1899	Louis Micon, Commandant
7 March 1899 to 18 September 1900	Clovis Papinaud, Commandant	2nd Term
18 September 1900 to 15 October 1902	Pierre Hunert Auguste Pascal, Governor
15 October 1902 to 28 February 1905	Alfred Albert Martineau Alfred Albert Martineau Alfred Albert Martineau was a notable Governor-General in the French Colonial Empire.He was born in 1857 and died in 1941.-Titles:-See also:Colonial heads of Djibouti List of colonial governors in 1899... , Governor
28 February 1905 to 3 March 1906	Jean Auguste Gaston Joliet, Governor
3 March 1906 to 9 April 1908	Fernand Foureau, Governor
Dependent Territory of Madagascar
9 April 1908 to 8 September 1908	Fernand Foureau, Governor	(contd.)
8 September 1908 to 1 May 1911	Charles Henri Vergnes, Administrator
1 May 1911 to 28 September 1911	Frédéric Estèbe, Administrator
28 September 1911 to 25 July 1912
25 July 1912	Annexed by France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
Mayotte and Dependencies	Under Madagascar; ratified 23 February 1914
25 July 1912 to 21 February 1913	Gabriel Samuel Garnier-Mouton, Administrator
21 February 1913 to 1914	Honoré Cartron, Administrator
23 February 1914	de facto subordinated to Madagascar Madagascar The Republic of Madagascar is an island country located in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa...
24 October 1946 to 27 October 1946	Alain Alaniou, Administrator-superior
French overseas territory
27 October 1946 to 31 December 1948	Alain Alaniou, Administrator-superior
31 December 1948 to December 1950	Marie Emmanuel Adolphe Roger Rémy, acting Administrator-superior
December 1950 to April 1956	Pierre Coudert, Administrator-superior
April 1956 to 11 February 1958	Georges Victor Maurice Arnaud, acting Administrator-superior
11 February 1958 to 30 June 1959	Georges Victor Maurice Arnaud, Administrator-superior
30 June 1959 to 14 December 1960	Gabriel Savignac, acting Administrator-superior
14 December 1960 to 22 December 1961	Louis Saget, Administrator-superior
State of Comoros Comoros The Comoros , officially the Union of the Comoros is an archipelago island nation in the Indian Ocean, located off the eastern coast of Africa, on the northern end of the Mozambique Channel, between northeastern Mozambique and northwestern Madagascar...	Autonomous
(Etat Comorien Comoros The Comoros , officially the Union of the Comoros is an archipelago island nation in the Indian Ocean, located off the eastern coast of Africa, on the northern end of the Mozambique Channel, between northeastern Mozambique and northwestern Madagascar... )
22 December 1961 to 27 February 1962	Louis Saget, Administrator-superior	(contd.)
27 February 1962 to 22 May 1962	Louis Saget, High Commissioner
22 May 1962 to 15 February 1963	Yves de Daruvar, High Commissioner
15 February 1963 to 26 July 1966	Henri Joseph Marie Bernard, High Commissioner
26 July 1966 to November 1969	Antoine Colombani, High Commissioner
November 1969 to July 1975	Jacques Mouradian, High Commissioner
6 July 1975	Independence as State of Comoros Comoros The Comoros , officially the Union of the Comoros is an archipelago island nation in the Indian Ocean, located off the eastern coast of Africa, on the northern end of the Mozambique Channel, between northeastern Mozambique and northwestern Madagascar... , and secession of Mayotte Mayotte Mayotte is an overseas department and region of France consisting of a main island, Grande-Terre , a smaller island, Petite-Terre , and several islets around these two. The archipelago is located in the northern Mozambique Channel in the Indian Ocean, namely between northwestern Madagascar and...

For continuation after independence, see: Heads of State of the Comoros

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