Tenure
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Incumbent
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Notes
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French Suzerainty
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1 September 1858 to 1 November 1859 |
Charles Rigault de Genouilly, Commander-in-Chief of the Naval Division of Réunion and Indochina, and Commander-in-Chief of the Expeditionary Corps of the Chinese Seas
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1 November 1859 to 6 February 1861 |
Théogène François Page, Commander-in-Chief of the Naval Division of the Chinese Seas
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1 September 1858 to 18 February 1859 |
Charles Rigault de Genouilly, Governor |
In Tourane
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19 October 1859 to 23 March 1860 |
Théogène François Page, Governor |
In Tourane
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18 February 1859 to 1859 |
Charles Rigault de Genouilly, Governor |
In Saigon; the city became permanent administrative seat
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March 1859 to 1 April 1860 |
Jean Bernard Jauréguiberry, Acting Governor
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1 April 1860 to 6 February 1861 |
Théogène François Page, Governor
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1 April 1860 to 6 February 1861 |
Joseph Hyacinthe Louis Jules d'Ariès, Acting Governor |
Acting for Page
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6 February 1861 to 30 November 1861 |
Léonard Victor Joseph Charner, Governor
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30 November 1861 to 16 October 1863 |
Louis Adolphe Bonard, Governor
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16 October 1863 to 31 March 1865 |
Pierre-Paul de La Grandière, Governor |
1st time
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1 April 1865 to 28 November 1865 |
Pierre Gustave Roze, Interim Governor
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28 November 1865 to 4 April 1868 |
Pierre Paul de La Grandière, Governor |
2nd time
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4 April 1868 to 10 December 1869 |
Gustave Ohier, Acting Governor
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10 December 1869 to 9 January 1870 |
Joseph Faron, Interim Governor
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9 January 1870 to 1 April 1871 |
René de Cornulier-Lucinière, Governor
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1 April 1871 to 16 March 1872 |
Marie Jules Dupré, Governor |
1st time
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16 March 1872 to 16 December 1872 |
Charles Joseph Basher d'Arbaud, Acting Governor
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16 December 1872 to 15 March 1874 |
Marie Jules Dupré, Governor |
2nd time
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16 March 1874 to 30 November 1874 |
Jules François Émile Krantz, Acting Governor
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30 November 1874 to 31 January 1876 |
Victor Auguste, baron Duperré, Governor |
1st time
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1 February 1876 to 6 July 1876 |
Henri Gaëtan Ernest Bossant, Acting Governor
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7 July 1876 to 16 October 1877 |
Victor Auguste, baron Duperré, Governor |
2nd time
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16 October 1877 to 7 July 1879 |
Louis Charles Georges Jules Lafont, Governor
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7 July 1879 to 7 November 1882 |
Charles Le Myre de Vilers, Governor
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4 March 1881 to 31 October 1881 |
Arthur de Trentinian, Acting Governor |
Acting for de Vilers
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7 November 1882 to 27 July 1885 |
Charles Antoine François Thomson, Governor
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27 July 1885 to 19 June 1886 |
Charles Auguste Frédéric Bégin, Governor
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20 June 1886 to 22 October 1887 |
Ange Michel Filippini, Governor
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23 October 1887 to 2 November 1887 |
Noël Pardon, Acting Governor
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3 November 1887 to 15 November 1887 |
Jules Georges Piquet, Acting Governor
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3 November 1887 to 15 January 1888 |
Jean Antoine Ernest Constans, Lieutenant Governor
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15 January 1888 to 2 August 1888 |
Eugène Auguste Navelle, Lieutenant Governor
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3 August 1888 to 25 August 1888 |
Eugène Auguste Navelle, acting director of Local Service
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25 August 1888 to 16 May 1889 |
Paul Louis Maxime Céloron de Blainville, Director of Local Service
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21 May 1889 to 9 August 1889 |
Augustin Julien Fourès, Acting Lieutenant Governor |
1st time
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9 August 1889 to 11 September 1892 |
Henri-Eloi Danel, Lieutenant Governor
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11 September 1892 to 25 March 1894 |
Augustin Julien Fourès, Lieutenant Governor |
2nd time, acting to 21 October 1892
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25 March 1894 to 15 September 1894 |
Eugène Auguste Navelle, Acting Lieutenant Governor
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15 September 1894 to 18 July 1895 |
Augustin Julien Fourès, Lieutenant Governor |
3rd time
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18 July 1895 to 22 March 1896 |
Alexandre Antoine Étienne Gustave Ducos, Lieutenant Governor |
1st time
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22 March 1896 to 19 November 1896 |
Gustave Guillaume Sandret, Acting Lieutenant Governor
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19 November 1896 to 9 May 1897 |
Alexandre Antoine Étienne Gustave Ducos, Lieutenant Governor |
2nd time
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10 May 1897 to 1 January 1898 |
Ange Eugène Nicolai, Acting Lieutenant Governor
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1 January 1898 to 11 April 1899 |
Édouard Picanon, Lieutenant Governor |
1st time
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11 April 1899 to 1 November 1900 |
Ferdinand Georges Jules Bocquet, Acting Lieutenant Governor
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1 November 1900 to 28 July 1901 |
Édouard Picanon, Lieutenant Governor |
2nd time
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28 July 1901 to 3 September 1901 |
Louis Paul Luce, Acting Lieutenant Governor
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5 September 1901 to 18 September 1902 |
Henri Félix de Lamothe, Lieutenant Governor
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18 September 1902 to 10 March 1906 |
François Pierre Rodier, Lieutenant Governor |
1st time
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10 March 1906 to February 1907 |
Olivier Charles Arthur de Lalande de Calan, Acting Lieutenant Governor
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February 1907 to 29 June 1907 |
François Pierre Rodier, Lieutenant Governor |
2nd time
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29 June 1907 to 18 February 1908 |
Louis Alphonse Bonhoure, Lieutenant Governor |
1st time
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18 February 1908 to 23 September 1908 |
Ernest Outrey, Acting Lieutenant Governor |
1st time
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23 September 1908 to 9 January 1909 |
Louis Alphonse Bonhoure, Lieutenant Governor |
2nd time
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9 January 1909 to 15 June 1909 |
Ernest Outrey, Acting Lieutenant Governor |
2nd time
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16 June 1909 to December 1911 |
Jules Maurice Gourbeil, Lieutenant Governor
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December 1911 to 22 March 1912 |
Jules Maurice Gourbeil, Governor |
1st time
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22 March 1912 to 13 December 1912 |
Leon Destenay, Acting Governor
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13 December 1912 to January 1914 |
Jules Maurice Gourbeil, Governor |
2nd time
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31 January 1914 to 7 July 1914 |
Maurice Joseph Le Gallen, Acting Governor |
1st time
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7 July 1914 to 26 April 1916 |
Jules Maurice Gourbeil, Governor |
3rd time
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26 April 1916 to 1917 |
Louis Félix Marie Édouard Rivet, Acting Governor
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9 October 1917 to 22 June 1920 |
Maurice Joseph Le Gallen, Governor |
2nd time
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22 June 1918 to 20 February 1920 |
Georges René Gaston Maspéro, Acting Governor |
Acting for Le Gallen
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20 February 1920 to 18 November 1920 |
Maurice Joseph Le Gallen, Acting Governor |
3rd time
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18 November 1920 to 14 February 1922 |
Paul Achille Michel Quesnel, Acting Governor
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14 February 1922 to 1926 |
Maurice Cognacq, Governor |
Acting to 12 April 1922
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24 May 1924 to 17 December 1924 |
Auguste Eugène Ludovic Tholance, Acting Governor |
Acting for Cognacq
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19 April 1926 to 30 December 1926 |
Aristide Eugène Le Fol, Acting Governor
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30 December 1926 to 12 January 1929 |
Paul Marie Alexis Joseph Blanchard de la Brosse, Governor
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12 January 1929 to 6 March 1929 |
Eugène Henri Roger Eutrope, Interim Governor
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6 March 1929 to 1934 |
Jean-Félix Krautheimer, Governor
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21 November 1931 to 11 November 1932 |
Eugène Henri Roger Eutrope, Acting Governor |
Acting for Krautheimer
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20 May 1934 to 1939 |
Pierre André Michel Pagès, Governor
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1 March 1936 to 12 October 1936 |
Henri Georges Rivoal, Acting Governor |
Acting for Pagès
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12 May 1939 to 1940 |
René Veber, Governor
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16 November 1940 to 1942 |
Henri Georges Rivoal, Governor |
Acting to 11 December 1940
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21 November 1942 to 9 March 1945 |
Ernest Thimothée Hoeffel, Governor |
Acting to 16 March 1943
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Japanese Suzerainty
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9 March 1945 to 15 August 1945 |
Fujio Minoda, Governor
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Vietnamese Administration
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1945 to 25 August 1945 |
Nguyen Van Sam, Imperial Representative in the South
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25 August 1945 to 23 September 1945 |
Tran Van Giau, President of the Provisional Executive Committee |
In opposition
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Allied Control
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13 Sep 1945 to 28 Mar 1946[a] |
Douglas David Gracey, Military Commander |
From United Kingdom
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French Suzerainty
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24 August 1945 to 1947 |
Jean Henri Arsène Cédile, Commissioner in Cochinchina and South Annam
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20 May 1947 to 6 August 1947 |
Robert Dufour, Acting Commissioner
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6 August 1947 to 21 November 1949 |
Pierre Boyer De LaTour du Moulin, Interim Commissioner
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21 November 1949 to 31 July 1951 |
Charles Chanson, Commissioner |
Killed by a caodaist suicide bomber
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1 August 1951 to 27 September 1951 |
Raoul Albin Louis Salan, Acting Commissioner
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27 September 1951 to 27 April 1953 |
Paul Louis Bondis, Commissioner
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