Colonial heads of French Cameroon
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The following is a list of French Cameroon chief administrators during the colonial period. (Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)
For continuation after independence, see list of heads of state of Cameroon and list of heads of government of Cameroon.
| Tenure | Incumbent | Notes |
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| Cameroun | ||
| 26 September 1914 | French occupation | |
| 7 April 1916 to 8 October 1916 | Joseph Gauderique Aymerich, Administrator | |
| 8 October 1916 to 1919 | Lucien Fourneau, Administrator | |
| 6 March 1919 to 7 December 1919 | Jules Carde, acting Commissioner | |
| 7 December 1919 to 23 March 1921 | Jules Carde, Commissioner | |
| Cameroun | Autonomous | |
| 23 March 1921 to 20 July 1922 | Jules Carde, Commissioner | (contd.) |
| French Cameroun, League of Nations Mandate | ||
| 20 July 1922 to March 1923 | Jules Carde, Commissioner | (contd.) |
| March 1923 to 29 April 1923 | Albéric Fournier, acting Commissioner | |
| 29 April 1923 to June 1932 | Théodore Paul Marchand, Commissioner | |
| 31 August 1932 to 22 September 1932 | Paul Auguste François Bonnecarrère, acting Commissioner | |
| 22 September 1932 to 7 July 1934 | Paul Auguste François Bonnecarrère, Commissioner | |
| 7 July 1934 to 1936 | Jules Repiquet, Commissioner | |
| 1936 to January 1937 | Gaston Camille Guibet, acting Commissioner | |
| January 1937 to 16 November 1938 | Pierre Boisson, Commissioner | |
| 16 November 1938 to 29 August 1940 | Richard Brunot, Commissioner | |
| 29 August 1940 to 12 November 1940 | Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque Philippe François Marie, comte de Hauteclocque, then Leclerc de Hauteclocque, by a 1945 decree that incorporated his French Resistance alias Jacques-Philippe Leclerc to his name, , was a French general during World War II... , Governor |
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| 12 November 1940 to 20 July 1943 | Pierre Charles Cournarie, Governor | |
| 20 July 1943 to 15 November 1944 | Hubert Eugène Paul Carras, Governor | |
| 15 November 1944 to 16 January 1946 | Henri Pierre Nicolas, Governor | |
| 16 January 1946 to 16 March 1946 | Alexis Leger, acting Governor | |
| 16 March 1946 to 13 December 1946 | Robert Delavignette, High Commissioner | |
| French Cameroun, United Nations Trust Territory | ||
| 13 December 1946 to 25 March 1947 | Robert Delavignette, High Commissioner | (contd.) |
| 25 March 1947 to April 1947 | Robert Casimir, acting High Commissioner | 1st Term |
| April 1947 to 7 July 1949 | René Hoffherr, High Commissioner | |
| 7 July 1949 to 10 January 1950 | Robert Casimir, acting High Commissioner | 2nd Term |
| 10 January 1950 to 2 December 1954 | André Soucadaux, High Commissioner | |
| 2 December 1954 to 17 April 1956 | Roland Pré, High Commissioner | |
| 17 April 1956 to 29 January 1958 | Pierre Messmer Pierre Messmer Pierre Joseph Auguste Messmer was a French Gaullist politician. He served as Minister of Armies under Charles de Gaulle from 1960 to 1969 – the longest serving since Étienne François, duc de Choiseul under Louis XV – and then as Prime Minister under Georges Pompidou from 1972 to 1974... , High Commissioner |
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| 29 January 1958 to 19 February 1958 | Jean Ramadier, High Commissioner | |
| 19 February 1958 to 1 January 1960 | Xavier Antoine Torré, High Commissioner | |
| 1 January 1960 | Independence as Republic of Cameroons Cameroons British Cameroons was a British Mandate territory in West Africa, now divided between Nigeria and Cameroon.The area of present-day Cameroon was claimed by Germany as a protectorate during the "Scramble for Africa" at the end of the 19th century... |
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For continuation after independence, see list of heads of state of Cameroon and list of heads of government of Cameroon.