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West Africa |
(Goree 1902-1904; Saint-Louis 1895-1902) |
(1959 est.) |
Governors-general
16 Jun 1895 - 1 Nov 1900 Jean
Baptiste Émile
Louis
(b. 1853 - d. 1933)
Barthélémy Chaudié
15 Jul 1897 - 2 Oct 1897
Noël Eugène Ballay
(b. 1847 - d. 1902)
(acting for Chaudié)
28 Jul 1898 - 13 Nov 1898 Noël Eugène
Ballay
(s.a.)
(acting for Chaudié)
1 Nov 1900 - 26 Jan 1902 Noël Eugène
Ballay
(s.a.)
19 Apr 1901 - 26 Oct 1901 Victor Lanrezac (acting
for Ballay)(b. 1854 - d. 1916)
26 Jan 1902 - 15 Mar 1902 Pierre Paul Marie
Capest (acting) (b. 1857 - d. 1924)
15 Mar 1902 - 15 Dec 1907 Ernest
Roume
(b. 1858 - d. 1941)
29 Jun 1902 - 25 Oct 1902 Victor Liotard
(acting for Roume) (b. 1858 - d. 1916)
10 Jun 1903 - 29 Oct 1903 Martial Henri
Merlin
(b. 1860 - d. 1935)
(acting for Roume)
8 Jul 1904 - 5 Nov 1904
Martial Henri Merlin
(s.a.)
(acting for Roume)
21 Jul 1905 - 5 Nov 1905 Martial
Henri Merlin
(s.a.)
(acting for Roume)
18 Mar 1905 - 22 Apr 1905 Camille Guy
(acting for Roume) (b. 1860 - d. 1929)
15 Dec 1907 - 9 Mar 1908 Martial Henri
Merlin (1st time) (s.a.)
(acting)
9 Mar 1908 - 26 Jun 1915 Amédée
William
Merlaud-Ponty (b.
1866 - d. 1915)
Jan 1912 - Aug
1912 Marie
François Joseph
Clozel (b. 1860 - d.
1918)
(acting for Ponty)
14 Jun 1915 - 3 Jun 1917 Marie
François Joseph
Clozel (s.a.)
(acting for Ponty to 26 Jun 1915)
3 Jun 1917 - 22 Jan 1918 Joost van
Vollenhoven
(b. 1877 - d. 1918)
22 Jan 1918 - 30 Jul 1919 Gabriel Louis
Angoulvant (acting) (b. 1872 - d. 1932)
30 Jul 1919 - 16 Sep 1919 Charles Désiré
Auguste Brunet (b. 1878 -
d. 1957)
(acting)
16 Sep 1919 - 18 Mar 1923 Martial Henri
Merlin (2nd time) (s.a.)
18 Mar 1923 - 15 Oct 1930 Jules Gaston
Henri Cardé
(b. 1874 - d. 1949)
31 May 1924 - 19 Oct 1924 Auguste Dirat
(acting for Cardé) (b. 1872 -
d. 19..)
17 Apr 1926 - 19 Nov 1926 Auguste
Dirat (acting for Cardé)
(s.a.)
23 Mar 1929 - 30 Oct 1929 Auguste Dirat
(acting for Cardé) (s.a.)
15 Oct 1930 - 27 Sep 1936 Joseph Jules
Brévié
(b. 1889 - d. 1964)
6 Apr 1933 - 2 Dec 1933 Albéric
Auguste Fournier
(b. 1878 - d. 19..)
(acting for Brévié)
7 May 1935 - 5 Dec 1935
Pierre François Boisson
(b. 1894 - d. 1948)
(acting for Brévié)
27 Sep 1936 - 14 Jul 1938 Jules Marcel de
Coppet
(b. 1881 - d. 1968)
14 Jul 1938 - 28 Oct 1938 Léon Geismar
(acting)
(b. 1895 - d. 1944)
28 Oct 1938 - 10 Aug 1939 Pierre François
Boisson (1st time) (s.a.)
(acting)
10 Aug 1939 - 25 Jun 1940 Léon Henri
Charles
Cayla
(b. 1881 - d. 1965)
25 Jun 1940 - 13 Jul 1943 Pierre François
Boisson (2nd time) (s.a.)
(also High Commissioner for all "French Africa,"
responsible for the territories that did not rally
to the "Free" French)
13 Jul 1943 - 2 Apr 1946 Pierre
Charles
Cournarie
(b. 1895 - d. 1968)
May 1946 - 27 Jan 1948 René
Victor Marie Barthès
(b. 1894 - d. 196.)
27 Jan 1948 - 24 May 1951 Paul Léon Albin
Béchard
(b. 1899 - d. 1982)
24 May 1951 - 21 Sep 1952 Paul Louis
Gabriel Chauvet (acting)(b. 1904 - d. 2007)
21 Sep 1952 - 5 Jul 1956 Bernard
Cornut-Gentille
(b. 1909 - d. 1992)
5 Jul 1956 - 4 Apr 1957 Gaston
Custin
(b. 1903 - d. 1993)
High Commissioners
4 Apr 1957 - Jul
1958 Gaston
Custin
(s.a.)
Jul 1958 - 22 Dec 1958
Pierre
Messmer
(b. 1916 - d. 2007)
Senegal
Governors of the Compagnie Normande de Sénégambie
1626 -
1631
Thomas Lambert (Lombard)
(d. 1631)
1631 -
1641
Jacques Fumechon
1641 -
1648
Jean Colyer (Caullier)
1649 -
1650
sieur de Souffy (Soussy)
(d. 1650)
1651 -
1658
sieur Mésineau
(d. 1658)
Governors of the Compagnie du Cap-Vert
et du Sénégal
1658 -
1661
sieur Raguenet
(d. 1661)
1662 - 1664
sieur
du Boulay
(d. 1664)
Governors of the Compagnie des Indes
Occidentales
1665 - 1668
sieur
Jacquet
1668 - 9 Apr
1672
sieur de Richemont
(d. 1673)
Governor of the Compagnie du Sénégal
1672 -
1673
sieur de Richemont (acting)
(s.a.)
Director and Commandant-general of the Compagnie
du Sénégal
1674 -
1682
Jacques Fumechon
(d. 1682)
Director of the Compagnie d'Afrique
1682 - 12 Sep
1684
Denis Basset
Directors-general of the Compagnie de
Guinée
12 Sep 1684 - 1688
Louis Moreau
de Chambonneau
(1st time)
1688 -
1690
Michel Jajolet de La Courbé
1690 - 1 Jan
1693
Louis Moreau de Chambonneau
(2nd time)
1 Jan 1693 - Jul 1693
John Booker -English
commander
(d. 1693)
Jul 1693 - Mar
1696 Jean
Bourguignon
Directors and Commandants of the Compagnie
du Sénégal
Mar 1696 - 1697
Jean Bourguignon (acting)
Aug 1697 - 12 Apr 1702 André
Brué
(b. 1654 - d. 1738)
12 Apr 1702 -
1706
Joseph Le Maître
1706 -
1709
Michel Jajolet de La Courbé
Directors of the Compagnie de Rouen
1710 - 15 Aug
1711
Guillaume Joseph
Mustellier (b.
16.. - d. 1711)
1712 - 2 May
1713
Pierre de Richebourg
20 Apr 1714 - 15 Dec 1718 André
Brué
(s.a.)
Directors of the Compagnie des Indes
Orientales
15 Dec 1718 - May 1720
André
Brué
(s.a.)
May 1720 - Apr
1723 Nicolas
Desprès de Saint-Robert (d. 1725/26)
(1st time)
1723 -
1725
Julien du Bellay
1725
Nicolas Desprès de Saint-Robert (s.a.)
(2nd time)
1725 -
1726
Arnaud Plumet
1726 -
1733
Jean Levens de la Rouquette
1733 - 7 Mar
1733
Lejuge
(d. 1733)
1733 -
1738
Sebastian Devaulx (acting to 1736)
1738 -
1746
Pierre Félix Barthélemy
David (b. 1711 - d. 1795)
1746 - 30 Apr
1758
Jean-Baptiste Estoupan de la Rué
British Governors
30 Apr 1758 - 10 Feb 1763 Richard
Alchorne Worge
(b. 1707 - d. 1774)
10 Feb 1763 - 25 May 1765 John Barnes
25 May 1765 - Nov 1775
Charles O'Hara
(b. 1730 - d. 1805)
Nov 1775 - 8 Apr
1777 Matthias MacNamara
8 Apr 1777 - 18 Aug 1778
John Clarke
18 Aug 1778 - 11 Feb 1779 William Lacy
(did not assume office)
18 Aug 1778 - 11 Feb 1779 George Fall
(acting)
Lieutenant governors
25 May 1765 - 24 Jan 1774 Joseph
Debat
(Gambia Superintendent of
Trade to Apr 1766)
24 Jan 1774 - Aug 1775
William Myres
Aug 1774 - Nov
1775 Matthias
MacNamara
Nov 1775 - Dec
1775 Thomas
Sharpless (acting)
Dec 1775 - 8 Aug
1776 Joseph
Wall
(b. 1737 - d. 1802)
8 Aug 1776 -
1776
George Fall (acting) (1st time)
1776 - 18 Aug
1778
William Lacy (acting)
18 Aug 1778 - 11 Feb 1779 George Fall
(acting) (2nd time)
Governors
11 Feb 1779 - Mar 1779
Armand Louis de Gontaut Biron,
(b. 1747 - d. 1793)
duc de Lauzun
Mar 1779 - 7 Mar
1781 Jacques Joseph Eyriès
(b.
1733 - d. 1798)
7 Mar 1781 - Jul
1782 J.B. Bertrand (acting)
Jul 1782 - Feb
1784 Anne
Gaston Dumontet
Feb 1784 - Feb
1786 Louis
Legardeur, sieur
de
(b. 1721 - d. 1786)
Repentigny
Feb 1786 - Dec
1787 Stanislas
Jean
Boufflers,
(b. 1738 - d. 1815)
chevalier de Boufflers
Dec 1787 - Jan
1801 François
Blanchot de
Verly
(b. 1735 - d. 1807)
(1st time)
Jan 1801 - 2 Jul
1802 Charbonnes (acting)
2 Jul 1802 - 27 Oct 1802
Louis Henri Pierre Lasserre
27 Oct 1802 - 12 Sep 1807 François
Blanchot de
Verly
(s.a.)
(2nd time)
Sep 1807 - 13 Jul 1809
Pierre Levasseur
British Governors
13 Jul 1809 -
1811
Charles William
Maxwell
(b. 1776 - d. 1848)
1811 -
1814
Charles
MacCarthy
(b. 1764 - d. 1824)
1814 - Dec 1816
Thomas Brereton
(b. 1782 - d. 1831)
Dec 1816 - 25 Jan 1817
Mackenzie
Commandants
1815 - 1816
Élie-Joseph, comte de Trigant
(b. 1759 - d. 1833)
de Beaumont (did not take
office)
Jul 1816 - Dec 1817
Julien Schmaltz (1st time)
(b. 1771 - d. 1826)
(arrived 25 Jan 1817)
Dec 1817 - 13 Mar 1819
Aimé Benjamin Fleuriau (acting)
(b. 1785 - d. 1862)
13 Mar 1819 - 14 Aug 1820 Julien Schmaltz
(2nd time) (s.a.)
14 Aug 1820 - 1 Mar 1821 Louis Jean
Lecoupe de Montereau, (b. 1772 - d. 1840)
baron Le Coupé
(acting)
1 Mar 1821 - 18 May 1827
Jacques François, baron
Roger (b. 1787 - d. 1849)
18 May 1827 - 7 Jan 1828 Hyacinthe
Benjamin Gerbidon
(b. 1786 - d. 1854)
(acting)
Governors
7 Jan 1828 - 11 May 1829
Louis Jean Guillaume Jubelin
(b. 1787 - d. 1860)
11 May 1829 - 24 May 1831 Pierre
Édouard
Brou
(b. 1786 - d. 1862)
24 May 1831 - 18 Oct 1833 Thomas Renault
de Saint-Germain (b. 1781 - d. 1833)
18 Oct 1833 - 13 Nov 1833 Jean-Baptiste
Bertrand Armand (b. 1795 -
d. 1849)
Cadéot (acting)
13 Nov 1833 - 10 May 1834 Eustache
Louis Jean
Quernel (b.
1787 - d. 1847)
10 May 1834 - 1 Jul 1836 Louis
Pujol
(b. 1790 - d. 1855)
1 Jul 1836 - 28
Dec 1836 Louis Augustin Médéric Malavois
(b. 1793 - d. 1836)
29 Dec 1836 - 13 Sep 1837 Louis
Laurent Auguste Guillet
(acting)
13 Sep 1837 - 12 Apr 1839 Julien Armand
Soret
(b. 1783 - d. 1864)
12 Apr 1839 - 19 May 1841 Guillaume
Basile Charmasson de
(b. 1780 - d. 1864)
Puylaval
19 May 1841 - 7 May 1842
Jean-Baptiste Montagniés
de (b. 1793 -
d. 1862)
La Roque
7 May 1842 - 5 Feb
1843 Paul Pageot des Noutières (acting)
(b. 1802 - d. 1879)
5 Feb 1843 - 24 May 1844
Louis Édouard
Bouët
(b. 1808 - d. 1871)
(from 1844, Louis Édouard Bouët-Willaumez)
24 May 1844 - Jul 1844
Laborel (acting)
Jul 1844 - 11 Dec 1845
Pierre Thomas (acting)
11 Dec 1845 - 20 Mar 1846 François Marie
Charles Ollivier (b. 1784 - d. 1846)
20 Mar 1846 - 30 Aug 1846 Hoube (acting)
30 Aug 1846 - 24 Aug 1847 Ernest Bourdon,
comte de Gramont (b. 1805 - d. 1847)
24 Aug 1847 - 7 Sep 1847 Caille
(acting)
(d. 1847)
7 Sep 1847 - Nov
1847 Léandre Bertin du Château
(acting) (b. 1804 - d. 1884)
Nov 1847 - Aug
1850 Auguste
Baudin
(b. 1800 - d. 1877)
Aug 1850 - 11 Oct 1850
Aumont (acting)
11 Oct 1850 - 16 Dec 1854 Auguste Léopold
Protet (1st time) (b. 1808 - d. 1862)
May 1853 - 30 Jan 1854
André César Vérand
(b. 1805 - d. 1870)
(acting for Protet)
31 Jan 1854 - 16 Dec 1854 Auguste Léopold
Protet (2nd time) (s.a.)
16 Dec 1854 - 1 Jun 1861 Louis Léon
César
Faidherbe
(b. 1818 - d. 1889)
(1st time)
4 Sep 1858 - 12 Feb 1859
A. Robin (acting for Faidherbe)
1 Jun 1861 - 1 Dec
1861 Léopold François Stephan (acting) (b.
1815 - d. 1886)
1 Dec 1861 - 13 May 1863
Jean Bernard
Jauréguiberry
(b. 1815 - d. 1887)
13 May 1863 - 14 Jul 1863 Jean Émile
Pinet-Laprade (1st time)(b. 1822 - d. 1869)
(acting)
14 Jul 1863 - 1 May 1865 Louis Léon
César
Faidherbe
(s.a.)
(2nd time)
1 May 1865 - 17 Aug 1869
Jean Émile Pinet-Laprade (2nd time)(s.a.)
(acting to 12 Jul 1865)
18 Aug 1869 - 17 Oct 1869 Ferdinand
Charles Alexandre Tredos (b. 1820 - d. 1897)
(acting)
17 Oct 1869 - 18 Jun 1876 François-Xavier
Michel Valière (b. 1826 - d.
1886)
18 Jun 1876 - Apr 1880
Louis Alexandre Esprit
Gaston (b. 1827 - d. 1896)
Brière de I'Isle
Apr 1880 - 4 Aug
1881 Louis Ferdinand de
Lanneau
(b. 1822 - d. 1881)
4 Aug 1881 - Oct
1881 Marie Auguste Deville de
Perière (b. 1825 - d. 1901)
(acting)
Oct 1881 - 28 Jun 1882
Henri Philibert
Canard
(b. 1824 - d. 1894)
28 Jun 1882 - 16 Nov 1882 Aristide Louis
Antoine Vallon (b. 1826 -
d. 1897)
16 Nov 1882 - 28 Jun 1883 Charles Etienne
René Servatius (b. 1878 - d.
1932)
28 Jun 1883 - 25 Jul 1883 Adolphe Ernest
Auguste Le Boucher (b. 1837 - d. 1896)
(acting)
25 Jul 1883 - 15 Apr 1884 Henry Bourdiaux
(acting)
(b. 1838 - d. 1899)
15 Apr 1884 - 14 Apr 1886 Jean-Baptiste
Alphonse Seignac (b. 1833 - d.
1902)
14 Apr 1886 - 29 Apr 1888 Jules
Genouille
(b. 1839 - d. 1923)
29 Apr 1888 - 22 Sep 1890 Léon Émile
Clément-Thomas
22 Sep 1890 - 19 May 1895 Henri Félix de
Lamothe
(b. 1843 - d. 1926)
19 May 1895 - 28 Jun 1895 Louis Mouttet
(acting)
(b. 1857 - d. 1902)
28 Jun 1895 - 1 Nov 1900 Jean
Baptiste Émile
Louis
(b. 1853 - d. 1933)
Barthélémy Chaudié
1 Nov 1900 - 26 Jan 1902
Noël Eugène
Ballay
(b. 1847 - d. 1902)
26 Jan 1902 - 15 Mar 1902 Pierre Paul
Marie
Capest
(b. 1857 - d. 1924)
15 Mar 1902 - 11 Nov 1902 Ernest
Roume
(b. 1858 - d. 1934)
11 Nov 1902 - 26 Aug 1907 Camille Lucien
Xavier
Guy
(b. 1860 - d. 1929)
26 Aug 1907 - 15 Dec 1907 Joost van
Vollenhouven (acting) (b. 1877 - d.
1918)
15 Dec 1907 - 10 Jun 1908 Martial Henri
Merlin
(b. 1860 - d. 1935)
10 Jun 1908 - 17 Oct 1908 Jean Jules
Émile
Peuvergne
(b. 1849 - d. 1916)
(1st time)
17 Oct 1908 - 23 Feb 1909 Jules
Maurice Gourbeil
(b. 1867 - d. 19..)
23 Feb 1909 - 2 May 1909 Marie
Antoine Edmond Gaudart (b. 1859 -
d. 1942)
(acting)
2 May 1909 - 5 Feb
1911 Jean Jules Émile
Peuvergne
(s.a.)
(2nd time)
5 Feb 1911 - 13 May 1914
Henri François Charles Cor
(b. 1864 - d. 19..)
13 May 1914 - 14 Feb 1916 Raphaël
Valentin Marius Antonetti (b. 1872 - d. 1938)
20 Mar 1917 - 23 Sep 1920 Fernand Émile
Levêque
(b. 1852 - d. 19..)
1919 - 1919
Pierre Aimable Chapon-Baissac
(b. 1876 – d. 19..)
(acting for Levêque)
23 Sep 1920 - 17 Sep 1921 Théophile
Antoine Pascal Tellier (b. 1872 - d. 1955)
(acting)
17 Sep 1921 - 4 Jul 1925 Pierre
Jean Henri
Didelot
(b. 1870 - d. 1941)
4 Jul 1925 - 23 May 1926
Camille Théodore Daniel Maillet (b. 1879 –
d. 1954)
(1st time)(acting)
23 May 1926 - 23 Oct 1926 Joseph Zébédée
Olivier Vadier (b. 1881 - d.
1963)
(acting)
23 Oct 1926 - 12 Mar 1929 Léonce Alphonse
Noël Henri Jore (b. 1882 - d. 1975)
12 Mar 1929 - 4 Jul 1930 Maurice
Beurnier (1st
time) (b. 1878
- d. 1949)
4 Jul 1930 - 15 Aug 1931
Camille Théodore Daniel Maillet (s.a.)
(2nd time)
15 Aug 1931 - 14 Oct 1931 Benoît Louis
Rebonne (acting)
14 Oct 1931 - Dec 1936
Maurice Beurnier (2nd
time) (s.a.)
Dec 1936 - 25 Oct 1938
Louis Lefebvre
25 Oct 1938 -
1940
Georges Hubert Parisot
(b. 1887 – d. 1969)
1 Jan 1941 - 22 Dec
1942 Georges Pierre Rey
22 Dec 1942 - 2 Dec 1943 Hubert
Jules
Deschamps
(b. 1900 - d. 1979)
2 Dec 1943 - Jun
1945 Charles Jean
Dagain
(b. 1885 - d. 1969)
Jun 1945 - Apr
1946 Pierre
Louis Maestracci
(b. 1893 - d. 1960)
Apr 1946 - 20 May 1947
Oswald
Durand
(b. 1888 - d. 1982)
20 May 1947 - 19 Oct 1950 Laurent Marcel
Wiltord
(b. 1900 - d. 1953)
19 Oct 1950 - 25 Apr 1952 Camille Victor
Bailly
(b. 1907 - d. 1984)
25 Apr 1952 - 19 Feb 1954 Lucien Eugène
Geay
(b. 1900 - d. 1976)
19 Feb 1954 - 31 Oct 1955 Maxime Antoine
Marie Jourdain (b. 1910 - d. 2003)
31 Oct 1955 - 10 Feb 1957 Jean
Colombani
(b. 1903 - d. 1977)
10 Feb 1957 - 25 Nov 1958 Pierre Auguste
Michel Marie Lami (b. 1909 - d. 1994)
High Commissioners
25 Nov 1958 - 20 Jun 1960 Pierre Auguste
Michel Marie Lami (s.a.)
Presidents
6 Sep 1960 - 31 Dec 1980
Léopold Sédar
Senghor
(b. 1906 - d. 2001) UPS;1976 PSS
1 Jan 1981 - 1
Apr 2000 Abdou
Diouf
(b.
1935)
PSS
(also president of Senegambia 1 Feb 1982 -
30 Sep 1989)
1 Apr 2000 - 2
Apr 2012 Abdoulaye
Wade
(b.
1926)
PDS
2 Apr 2012 -
Macky Sall
(b. 1961) APR
Vice President of the Government Council
18 May 1957 - 26 Jul 1958 Mamadou
Dia
(b. 1910 - d. 2009) UPS
President of the Government Council
26 Jul 1958 - 4 Apr 1959 Mamadou
Dia
(s.a.)
UPS
Prime ministers
4 Apr 1959 - 18 Dec 1962
Mamadou
Dia
(s.a.)
UPS
18 Dec 1962 - 26 Feb 1970 Post
abolished
26 Feb 1970 - 31 Dec 1980 Abdou
Diouf
(s.a.)
UPS;1976 PSS
1 Jan 1981 - 3
Apr 1983 Habib Thiam (1st
time)
(b.
1933)
PSS
3 Apr 1983 - 29 Apr 1983
Moustapha Niasse (1st
time) (b.
1939)
PSS
(interim)
29 Apr 1983 - 8 Apr 1991 Post
abolished
8 Apr 1991 - 3 Jul
1998 Habib Thiam (2nd
time)
(s.a.)
PSS
3 Jul 1998 - 5 Apr
2000 Mamadou Lamine
Loum
(b.
1952)
PSS
5 Apr 2000 - 3 Mar
2001 Moustapha Niasse (2nd
time)
(s.a.)
AFP
3 Mar 2001 - 4 Nov
2002 Mame Madior Boye
(f)
(b.
1940)
PDS
4 Nov 2002 - 21 Apr 2004
Idrissa
Seck
(b.
1959)
PDS
21 Apr 2004 - 19 Jun 2007 Macky
Sall
(s.a.)
PDS
19 Jun 2007 - 30 Apr 2009 Cheikh Hadjibou
Soumaré (b.
1951) Non-party
30 Apr 2009 - 5 Apr 2012 Souleymane
Ndéné
Ndiaye
(b. 1958) PDS
5 Apr 2012
-
Abdoul
Mbaye
(b. 1953)
Non-party
Territorial Disputes: The Gambia and Guinea-Bissau attempt to stem separatist violence, cross border raids, and arms smuggling into their countries from Senegal's Casamance region, and in 2006, respectively accepted 6,000 and 10,000 Casamance residents fleeing the conflict; 2,500 Guinea-Bissau residents fled into Senegal in 2006 to escape armed confrontations along the border.
Party abbreviations: APR
= Alliance pour la République (Alliance for the
Republic, "Yaakaar", split from PDS, est.2008);
BBY = Benno Bokk Yakaar (United
in Hope, pro-Sall coalition, est.2012); PSS
= Parti Socialiste du Sénégal (Socialist Party of
Senegal, social-democratic, until 1976 UPS, ruling party
1976-200); PDS = Parti
Démocratique Sénégalais (Senegalese Democratic Party,
liberal, est.1974);
- Former parties: UPS =
Union de Progressif de Senegalese (Senegalese
Progressive Union, ruling party 1960-74, renamed PSS
1976)
27 Nov 1924
Circumscription of Dakar
and Dependencies (incl. Gorée and
Rufisque)
separated from Senegal and directly
subordinated
to the
governors-general of French West Africa.
23 Jun 1940 - Nov 1942 Administration
loyal to Vichy France (from Nov 1942, Free French).
1946
Re-incorporated into
Senegal.
Administrators
(subordinated to the governors-general of French West
Africa)
1925
François Eugène Paul
Bernard (b. 1879 - d. 19..)
1925 – 1931
Joseph Zébédée Olivier Vadier
(b. 1881 – d. 1931)
1 Jan 1932 - 1940
Louis Charles Léonce Ponzio (b. 1883
- d. 1969)
1940 – 1943
Pierre Edouard Bienès
(b. 1896 – d. 1951)
1943 - 1945
Albert Mercadier
(b. 1897 - d. 1979)
1945 – 1946
André Marie Becq
(b. 1889 – d. 1960)
Gorée
![[French Flag]](fr.gif)
1801-1804, 1854 -
1859
1444
Discovered by Portuguese Capt. Dinis Diaz and claimed
for
Portugal (named Ilha de Palma).
1617 - 23 Jan 1663
Dutch colony
(Guede Reede or Goeree).
23 Jan 1663 - 11 Oct 1664 English
occupation.
11 Oct 1664 - 1 Nov 1677
Dutch rule restored (Goeree).
1 Nov 1677 - 1692
French rule (Gorée),
part of Senegal
(ceded to France 10 Aug 1678).
8 Feb 1693 - Jul
1693 British occupation.
Jul 1693
French rule
restored.
31 Dec 1758 - 10 Feb 1763 British occupy
Gorée (and from 30 Apr 1758,
Senegal).
10 Feb
1763
Gorée Island restored to France, part of Senegal.
8 May 1779 - 3 Sep
1783 British occupation (formally ceded to France
3 Sep 1783).
1800 - 18 Jan
1804
British occupation.
18 Jan 1804 - 9 Mar 1804 French
re-occupation.
9 Mar
1804
British re-occupation (from 13 Jul
1809 in rest of Senegal).
25 Jan
1817
Part of French Senegal colony.
1 Nov
1854
Gorée detached from Senegal, becoming part of the Colony
of Gorée and Dependencies, headed by the Commandant of
the
Naval Division of the Western Coasts of Africa (see Gabon).
26 Feb
1859
Gorée is re-incorporated into Senegal.
Governors
1617 -
1663
....
23 Jan 1663 -
1664 Sir
Robert
Holmes
(b. c.1622 - d. 1692)
1664 -
16..
Jan Cellarius
16.. - Nov
1677
Hopsak
1 Nov 1677 - 12 Sep 1763 the
governors of Senegal
8 Feb 1693 - 1693
James Booker -English
commander
(d. 1693)
12 Sep 1763 - Nov 1764
Pierre Poncet de la Rivière
(b. 1701 - d. 1784)
Nov 1764 - Mar 1765
.... (acting)
Mar 1765 - Jul
1767
Jean-Georges Le Baillif,
chevalier de Mesnager,
Jul 1767 - Mar
1768 Claude Le
Lardoux de la Gastière (d. 1768)
Mar 1768 - 4 Oct
1768 Maiziére (acting)
4 Oct 1768 - 10 Dec 1772
Pierre de Rastel de Rocheblave
(b. 1729 - d. 1779)
10 Dec 1772
Antoine Louis
Desmarets de
Montchaton (acting)
10 Dec 1772 - Nov 1774
Charles Hypolite Boniface
Nov 1774 - Dec
1777 Joseph
Alexandre Le
Brasseur (b. 1745 -
d. 1794)
Dec 1777 - Aug
1778 Alexandre
Davis Armény de Paradis (d.
1778)
Aug 1778 - 31 Jan
1779 Charles Boucher (acting)
31 Jan 1779 - 11 Feb 1779 Armand
Louis de
Gontaut,
(b. 1747 - d. 1793)
duc de Lauzun
British Lieutenant governors
8 May 1779 - May 1779
John Mackenzie, Lord Macleod
(b. 1727 - d. 1789)
10 May 1779 - Jul 1780 G.H.
Adams
Jul 1780 - 3 Sep
1783 Joseph
Wall
(b. 1737 - d. 1802)
British Commandants
5 Apr 1800 - 18 Jan 1804
John Fraser
(b. 1760 - d.
1843)
18 Jan 1804 - 9 Mar 1804 French
rule
9 Mar 1804-bf.15 Mar 1804
Charles Pickford (Picford)
(b. 1769 - d. 1841)
Mar 1804 -
1805
William
Murray
c.Mar 1805 - Sep
1808 Edward Lloyd
Sep 1808 - 1811
Charles
William Maxwell
(b. 1776 - d. 1848)
c.1811 -
1816
James
Chisholm
1816 - 25 Jan 1817
....
Commandant Supérieur of French
Establishements of the Western Coasts of Africa
1 Nov 1854 - 26 Feb 1859 Auguste
Léopold
Prôtet
(b. 1808 - d. 1862)
Commandants-Supérieur of
Gorée-Gabon
1854 - 23 Mar
1856
Jérôme Félix de Monléon
(b. 1798 - d. 1856)
Apr 1856 - 26 Feb 1859
Auguste Léopold
Prôtet
(s.a.)
Commandants-Particulier of Gorée
1 Nov 1854 - 19 Aug 1855
Timoléon Jean-François Ropert
(b. 1813 - d. 1872)
20 Aug 1855 - 15 Jan 1859 Jean
Isidore Raoul Paul d'Alteyrac (b. 1813 - d. ....)
15 Jan 1859 - 2 Mar 1859
Georges Étienne Catherine de Cools (b. 1811 - d.
....)
Casamance
| Map
of Casamance |
Capital: Ziguinchor (Sédhiou 1894-1909) |
Currency: Communaute Financiere Africaine Franc (XOF) |
Population: 390,252 (1990) |
1645
Portuguese under Gonçalo Gamboa Ayala establish
trading post at Ziguinchor.
23 Jan
1836
French establish a trading post at Carabane (Karabane).
4 Feb
1850
First of several French protectorate treaties with local
rulers.
12 May
1886 Ziguinchor
formally ceded to France by Portugal in exchange for
Massabé on the Loango coast.
22 Apr
1888
Beginning of French administration, part of Senegal.
10 Aug
1889
Britain cedes claims in the area to France.
18 Jan 1894
Casamance is put under an
Administrator Supérieur by Senegal.
1 Jun 1907
Casamance is split into two
circles: Cercle de Haute Casamance,
capital Sédihou and Cercle de Basse Casamance,
capital
Ziguinchor.
20 Jun 1960
Part of independent Senegal.
Mar
1962
Casamance divided is in two: Casamance Area,
capital
at Ziguinchor, and Region of Eastern Senegal, capital
at Tambacounda.
26 Dec
1982
Separatist rebellion begins in the Casamance region.
18 Dec
1983
Demonstrators demand the independence of Casamance.
24 Mar
1984
Casamance region split into Kolda and Ziguinchor.
7 Apr
1984
Senegal prohibits official use of name "Casamance."
30 Dec 2004
Diamacouné
Senghor signs a peace agreement with Senegal,
this is rejected by factions of MFDC.
Administrateurs Supérieur
18 Jan 1894 – 1896
A. Farque
1896 – 1898
G. Adam
1898 – c.1900
Seguin
c.1900 - c.Jul
1901 Forestier
190. - 19 Jul 1906
Aubry Lecomte
19 Jul 1906 – 11 May 1908 Guyon
1908 - Jun 1914
Charles
Maclaud
(b. 1866 - d. 1933)
Jun 1914 –
1917
Richard Edmond Maurice Edouard
(b. 1883 – d. 1958)
Brunot
1917 – 1921
Benquey
1921 –
1924
Gabriel Omer Descemet
(b. 1879 - d. 1961)
c.1926 - c.Jan 1927
Maubert
1928 - c.Apr
1929
Georges Emler
c.Apr 1930 - c.Jul 1931
Reynier
193.
Hamon
193. - 1933
Astruc
1933 – 30 Jun
1937 Jean Georges
Charles Albert (b.
1885 – d. 1937)
Chartier
18 Jun 1937 - 4 Oct 1938 Henri
Hontarréde
(b. 1886 - d. 1962)
1938 -
1939
Jules Surlemont (acting)
(b. 1897 - d. 1983)
1939
Henri
Carbou
(b. 1882 - d. 1973)
Commandants de Cercle
Nov 1939 - c.Oct
1940 Haumant
194. -
1942
Dumas
12 Apr 1942 - 31 May 1944 Sajous
31 May 1944 –
1947
Claude Michel
(b.
1899 – d. 1977)
1947 – 1948
Romain Paul Marie Cazenave
(b. 1897 - d. 1976)
1948 – 1948
Marc Marie Joseph
Auber (b. 1898
– d. 19..)
1948 - 1952
....
c.Jul 1952 -
1954
Jules Surlemont
(s.a.)
1954 – 1955
Jacques Victor
Mary
(b. 1910 – d. 2001)
195. - 1958
Bernard Follin
1958? - 1960
Paul Arondel
(b. 1894 - d. 1960)
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Secretary-general of the MFDC
1982 - Aug 2001
Abbé Augustin Diamacouné
Senghor (b. 1928 - d. 2007) MFDC
(23 Dec 1982 - 2 Jan 1988, 14 Jun 1990 - 24 Apr 1990,
19 Mar 1993 - 1993 imprisoned by Senegal;
Jul/Aug 1992 - 19 Mar 1993 in Guinea-Bissau exile)
23 Dec 1982 - Feb 1984 Seven
Members
(acting for Senghor)
- Diédhiou
- Ousmane Tamba
- Bountou Badji
- et. al.
Feb 1984 - Jan
1993 Sidi
Badji (1st time)(interim) (b. 1920? -
d. 2003)
21 Feb 1993 - 26 May 2003 Sidy Badji (2nd
time)
(s.a.)
(interim; in opposition)
Aug 2001 - Nov 2001
Jean-Marie François Baigui
2002 - 14 Jan 2007
Abbé Augustin Diamacouné Senghor
(s.a.)
Party abbreviation: MFDC = Mouvement des
Forces Démocratiques de le Casamance (Movement of
Democratic Forces of the Casamance, regionalist,
1947-1960, refounded 1982, separatist,
est. 2,300 troops [2002])
©2000 Ben Cahoon