Historical country records
Martinique historical timeline
Martinique
| Date or term | Officeholder or event | Category |
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| 15 Sep 1635 | French colony | Leaders |
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| 1 Mar 1762 - 1763 | British occupation | Leaders |
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| 22 May 1794 - 1802 | British occupation | Leaders |
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| 1809 - 1814 | British occupation | Leaders |
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| 19 Mar 1946 | French overseas département | Leaders |
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| Governors (26 May 1802 - 10 | Sep 1817, captains-general) | Leaders |
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| 1689 - 1711 | Nicolas de Gabaret | Leaders |
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| 1711 - 1716 | Jean-Pierre de Charritte | Leaders |
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| 1716 | ..., marquis du Quesne | Leaders |
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| 7 Jan 1717 - 23 May 1717 | Antoine d'Arcy de la Varenne | Leaders |
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| 1717 - 1721 | De Hurault | Leaders |
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| 1721 - 1728 | Jean-Charles de Bochart, sieur de Champigny (b. ... - d. 1754) | Leaders |
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| 1728 - 1737 | François Louis de Brach | Leaders |
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| 1737 - 1742 | ... | Leaders |
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| 1742 - 1744 | André Martin, sieur de Pointesable | Leaders |
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| 1744 - 12 May 1750 | Charles de Thubières, marquis de Caylus (b. 1698 - d. 1750?) | Leaders |
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| 1750 - 1752 | ... | Leaders |
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| 1752 | Maximin, marquis de Bompar | Leaders |
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| 1752 - 1757 | Rouillé de Rocourt | Leaders |
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| 1757 - 7 Feb 1761 | François, marquis de La Ferté Beauharnais (b. 1714 - d. 1800) | Leaders |
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| 1761 - 1 Mar 1762 | Louis Le Vassor de La Touche de Tréville (b. 1710 - d. 1781) | Leaders |
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| 1762 - 1763 | William Rufane | Leaders |
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| Jul 1763 - Apr 1764 | François Louis de Salignac, marquis de Fénelon (b. 1722 - d. 1764) | Leaders |
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| 25 Jan 1765 - 1772 | Victor Thérèse Charpentier, comte d'Ennery (b. 1731 - d. 1776) | Leaders |
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| 9 Mar 1772 - 15 Mar 1776 | Vital Auguste, marquis de Grégoire, comte de Nozières (b. 1715 - d. ...) | Leaders |
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| 15 Mar 1776 - May 1777 | Robert d'Argout | Leaders |
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| May 1777 - Mar 1783 | François Claude Amour du Chariol, marquis de Bouillé (b. 1739 - d. 1800) | Leaders |
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| Mar 1783 - Mar 1791 | Claude Charles de Marillac, vicomte de Damas (b. 1731 - d. ...) | Leaders |
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| Jul 1789 - Apr 1790 | Charles Joseph Hyacinthe du Houx (acting for Damas) (b. 1734 - d. 1827) | Leaders |
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| 12 Mar 1791 - 3 Jul 1792 | Jean Pierre Antoine, comte de Béhague (b. 1727 - d. 1813) | Leaders |
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| Jan 1793 - 22 May 1794 | Donatien Marie Joseph de Vimeur, vicomte de Rochambeau (b. 1755 - d. 1813) | Leaders |
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| 1794 | Robert Prescott | Leaders |
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| 1794 - 1795 | John Vaughan | Leaders |
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| 1795 - 1796 | Sir Robert Shore Milnes | Leaders |
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| 1796 - 1802 | William Keppel | Leaders |
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| 1802 - 1809 | Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse | Leaders |
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| 24 Feb 1809 - 1809 | George Beckwith | Leaders |
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| 10 Jun 1809 - 1812 | John Broderick | Leaders |
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| 1812 - 1814 | Charles Wale | Leaders |
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| 1814 | Lindsay | Leaders |
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| 1814 - 1818 | Pierre René Marie, comte de Vaugiraud de Rosnay (b. 1741 - d. 1819) | Leaders |
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| 1818 - 1826 | François Xavier, comte de Donzelot | Leaders |
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| 1826 - 1829 | François Marie Michel de Bouillé | Leaders |
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| 1829 - 1830 | Louis Henri de Saulces de Freycinet (b. 1777 - d. 1840) | Leaders |
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| 1830 - 1834 | Jean Henri Joseph Dupôtet | Leaders |
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| 1834 - 1836 | Emmanuel Halgan | Leaders |
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| 1836 - Jan 1838 | Ange René Armand, baron de Mackau | Leaders |
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| Jan 1838 - Jul 1838 | Claude Rostoland (1st time) | Leaders |
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| 1838 - 1840 | Alphonse Louis Théodore de Mogès | Leaders |
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| 1840 - 1844 | Étienne Henri Mengin du Valdailly | Leaders |
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| 1844 - Mar 1848 | Pierre Louis Aimé Mathieu | Leaders |
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| Mar 1848 - 3 Jun 1848 | Claude Rostoland (2nd time) | Leaders |
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| 3 Jun 1848 - Nov 1848 | François Auguste Perrinon | Leaders |
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| 1848 - 1851 | Armand Joseph Bruat | Leaders |
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| 11 Apr 1851 - 1853 | Auguste Napoléon Vaillant | Leaders |
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| 1853 | Jacques Brunot (acting) | Leaders |
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| 15 Jun 1853 - Sep 1856 | Louis Henri de Gueydon | Leaders |
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| 1856 | Louis André Lagrange (1st time) | Leaders |
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| 1856 - 1859 | Armand Louis Joseph Denis, comte Fitte de Soucy | Leaders |
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| 1859 | Louis André Lagrange (2nd time) | Leaders |
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| 1859 - 1864 | Antoine Marie Ferdinand de Maussion de Candé (b. 1801 - d. 1867) | Leaders |
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| 1864 - 1867 | François Théodore de Lapelin | Leaders |
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| 1867 | André César Vérand (acting) | Leaders |
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| 1867 - 1869 | Louis Auguste Bertier | Leaders |
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| 1869 - 1870 | Marie Gabriel Couturier (acting) | Leaders |
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| 1870 - 1871 | Charles Menche de Loisne | Leaders |
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| 1871 | Octave Bernard Gilbert-Pierre | Leaders |
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| 1871 - 1874 | Georges Charles Cloué | Leaders |
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| 1874 | François Charles Michaux (acting) | Leaders |
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| 1875 - 1877 | Thomas Louis Kirkland Le Normant de Kergrist (b. 1813 - d. 1895) | Leaders |
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| 1877 - 1879 | Marie Bruno Ferdinand Grasset | Leaders |
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| 1879 | Charles Alexandre Lacouture | Leaders |
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| 1879 - 1881 | Théophile Aube | Leaders |
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| 1881 | Moreau (acting) | Leaders |
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| 1881 - 1887 | Vincent Gaëtan Allègre | Leaders |
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| 1887 | Coridon (acting) | Leaders |
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| 1887 - 1889 | Albert Grodet | Leaders |
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| 1889 - 1892 | Germain Casse | Leaders |
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| 1892 - 1895 | Delphino Moracchini | Leaders |
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| 1895 - 1898 | Noël Pardon | Leaders |
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| 1898 - 1901 | Marie Louis Gustave Gabrié | Leaders |
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| 16 Jul 1901 - 8 May 1902 | Louis Mouttet | Leaders |
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| May 1902 - 1902 | Georges Lhuerre (acting) | Leaders |
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| 1902 - 1904 | Philema Lemaire | Leaders |
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| 1904 - 1906 | Louis Alphonse Bonhoure | Leaders |
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| 10 Mar 1906 - 1908 | Charles Lepreux | Leaders |
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| 1908 - 1913 | Fernand Foureau | Leaders |
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| 1913 - 1914 | Joseph Henri Alfred Vacher | Leaders |
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| 1914 - 1915 | Georges Poulet | Leaders |
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| 1915 - 1920 | Camille Guy | Leaders |
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| 1920 - 1921 | Maurice Gourbeil | Leaders |
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| 1921 - 1923 | Fernand Levecque | Leaders |
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| 1923 - 1926 | Henri Marius Richard | Leaders |
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| 1926 - 1928 | Robert de Guise | Leaders |
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| 14 Feb 1928 - 23 Jul 1933 | Louis Gerbinis | Leaders |
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| 1933 - 1934 | Félix Éboué (acting) | Leaders |
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| 1934 | René Veber | Leaders |
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| 1934 - 1935 | Matteo Alfassa | Leaders |
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| 1935 - 1936 | Jacques Louis Fousset | Leaders |
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| 1936 | Marie Marc Georges Pelicier | Leaders |
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| 22 Oct 1936 - 7 Jan 1938 | Jean-Baptiste Alberti | Leaders |
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| 1938 | André Allys (acting) | Leaders |
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| 1938 - 1939 | Maurice Xavier Joseph Dechartre | Leaders |
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| 1939 - 1940 | Georges Spitz | Leaders |
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| 1940 - Mar 1941 | Louis Bressolles | Leaders |
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| Mar 1941 - 1943 | Yves Nicol | Leaders |
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| 14 Jul 1943 - 31 Jul 1944 | Louis Ponton | Leaders |
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| 1944 - Jan 1945 | Antoine Marie Angelini | Leaders |
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| 14 Jan 1945 - 1946 | Georges Parisot | Leaders |
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| 1946 - 1947 | Georges Orselli | Leaders |
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| Prefects (10 May 1982 - 24 | Feb 1988, commissioners of the republic) | Leaders |
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| 16 Aug 1947 - 27 Jul 1950 | Pierre Trouillé | Leaders |
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| 25 Aug 1950 - 1 Nov 1954 | Christian Laigret | Leaders |
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| 1 Nov 1954 - 16 Jun 1957 | Gaston Villéger | Leaders |
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| 1 Aug 1957 - 1 Jan 1960 | Jacques Boissier | Leaders |
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| 1 Jan 1960 - 25 Apr 1961 | Jean Parsi | Leaders |
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| 25 Apr 1961 - 8 Nov 1963 | Michel Grollemund | Leaders |
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| 21 Nov 1963 - 16 Sep 1966 | Raphaël Petit | Leaders |
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| 16 Sep 1966 - 1 Aug 1967 | Pierre Lambertin | Leaders |
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| 7 Aug 1967 - 20 Jun 1969 | Jean Deliau | Leaders |
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| 1 Sep 1969 - 15 Jun 1970 | Pierre Béziau | Leaders |
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| 1 Jul 1970 - 1 Jul 1973 | Jean Terrade | Leaders |
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| 1 Jul 1973 - 15 Nov 1975 | Christian Orsetti | Leaders |
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| 15 Nov 1975 - 20 May 1978 | Paul Noirot-Cosson | Leaders |
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| 20 May 1978 - 3 May 1979 | Raymond Heim | Leaders |
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| 3 May 1979 - 27 Jul 1981 | Marcel Julia | Leaders |
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| 27 Jul 1981 - 6 Mar 1985 | Jean Chevance | Leaders |
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| 6 Mar 1985 - 4 Nov 1987 | Édouard Lacroix | Leaders |
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| 4 Nov 1987 - 12 Apr 1989 | Jean Jouandet | Leaders |
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| 12 Apr 1989 - 4 Sep 1991 | Jean-Claude Roure | Leaders |
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| 4 Sep 1991 - 6 Jan 1995 | Michel Morin | Leaders |
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| 6 Jan 1995 - 24 Aug 1998 | Jean-François Cordet | Leaders |
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| 31 Aug 1998 - 21 Jun 2000 | Dominique Bellion | Leaders |
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| 24 Jul 2000 - 9 Feb 2004 | Michel Cadot | Leaders |
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| 9 Feb 2004 - 20 Jun 2007 | Yves Dassonville | Leaders |
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| 20 Jun 2007 - 2 Aug 2007 | Patrice Latron (interim) | Leaders |
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| 2 Aug 2007 - | Ange Mancini | Leaders |
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| 1970 - Apr 1992 | Emile Maurice | Presidents of the General Council (holding executive power from 2 Mar 1982) |
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| Apr 1992 - | Claude Lise | Presidents of the General Council (holding executive power from 2 Mar 1982) |
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French possessions in the Americas
| Date or term | Officeholder or event | Category |
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| 14 Sep 1939 - Sep 1943 | French possessions in the Americas (French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Saint-Pierre and Miquelon) grouped together | Leaders |
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| 14 Sep 1939 - 14 Jul 1943 | Georges Robert | High commissioners in the Antilles |
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| 14 Jul 1943 - Sep 1943 | Henri Hoppenot | High commissioners in the Antilles |
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