| Tenure
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Incumbent
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Notes
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Portrait
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| Malagasy Protectorate (1882–1897)
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| 28 April 1886 to March 1888 |
Charles Le Myre de Vilers,
Plenipotentiary |
1st term |
|
| March 1888 to 12 December 1889 |
Paul Augustin Jean Larrouy,
Resident-General |
1st term |
|
| 12 December 1889 to 11 October 1891 |
Maurice Bompard,
Resident-General |
|
|
| 11 October 1891 to October 1892 |
Jean Aurélien Lacoste,
Acting Resident-General |
|
|
| October 1892 to 8 September 1894 |
Paul Augustin Jean Larrouy,
Resident-General |
2nd term |
|
| October 1894 |
Albert d'Anthouard de Waservas,
Acting Resident-General |
|
|
| 14 October 1894 to 1 December 1895 |
Charles Le Myre de Vilers,
Plenipotentiary |
2nd time; served at the start of the Menalamba rebellion |
|
| September 1894 to 21 February 1895 |
Achille Ranchot,
Acting Resident-General |
For de Vilers |
|
| February 1895 to 1 December 1895 |
Robert Édouard Alphonse Chaloin,
Acting Resident-General |
For de Vilers |
|
| 1 December 1895 to 28 September 1896 |
Hippolyte Laroche,
Resident-General |
|
|
| 28 September 1896 to 31 July 1897 |
Joseph Gallieni,
Resident-General |
|
|
| Colony of Madagascar and Dependencies (1897–1958)
|
| 6 August 1896 to 31 July 1897 |
Joseph Gallieni,
Military Governor |
|
|
| 31 July 1897 to 11 May 1905 |
Joseph Gallieni,
Governor-General |
Served during the 1904–1905 uprising
|
| 11 May 1905 to 1 January 1906 |
Charles Louis Lépreux,
Acting Governor-General |
|
|
| 1 January 1906 to 13 December 1909 |
Victor Augagneur,
Governor-General |
|
|
| 13 December 1909 to 16 January 1910 |
Hubert Auguste Garbit,
Acting Governor-General |
1st term |
|
| 16 January 1910 to 31 October 1910 |
Henri François Charles Cor,
Acting Governor-General |
|
|
| 31 October 1910 to 5 August 1914 |
Albert Jean George Marie Louis Picquié,
Governor-General |
|
|
| 5 August 1914 to 14 October 1914 |
Hubert Auguste Garbit,
Acting Governor-General |
2nd term |
|
| 14 October 1914 to 24 July 1917 |
Hubert Auguste Garbit,
Governor-General
|
| 24 July 1917 to 1 August 1918 |
Martial Henri Merlin,
Governor-General |
|
|
| 1 August 1918 to 12 July 1919 |
Abraham Schrameck,
Governor-General |
|
|
| 12 July 1919 to 22 June 1920 |
Marie Casimir Joseph Guyon,
Acting Governor-General |
|
|
| 22 June 1920 to 13 March 1923 |
Hubert Auguste Garbit,
Governor-General |
3rd term |
|
| 13 March 1923 to 20 February 1924 |
Auguste Charles Désiré Emmanuel Brunet,
Acting Governor-General |
|
|
| 20 February 1924 to 30 January 1929 |
Marcel Achille Olivier,
Governor-General |
|
|
| 30 January 1929 to 1 May 1930 |
Hugues Jean Berthier,
Acting Governor-General |
|
|
| 1 May 1930 to 22 April 1939 |
Léon Henri Charles Cayla,
Governor-General |
1st term |
|
| 22 April 1939 to 10 June 1939 |
Léon Maurice Valentin Réallon,
Acting Governor-General |
|
|
| 10 June 1939 to 30 July 1940 |
Jules Marcel de Coppet,
Governor-General |
1st term |
|
| 30 July 1940 to 11 April 1941 |
Léon Henri Charles Cayla,
Governor-General |
2nd term |
|
| 11 April 1941 to 30 September 1942 |
Armand Léon Annet,
Governor-General |
Deposed in the Battle of Madagascar |
|
| 5 May 1942 to 11 October 1942 |
Robert Sturges,
Commander |
British occupation |
|
| 11 October 1942 to 1945 |
Gerald Smallwood,
Commander |
|
| 25 September 1942 to 7 January 1943 |
Anthony Sillery,
Occupied Territories Administrator |
|
| 30 September 1942 to 7 January 1943 |
Victor Marius Bech,
Acting Governor-General |
|
|
| 7 January 1943 to 3 May 1943 |
Paul Louis Victor Marie Legentilhomme,
High Commissioner of Free French Possessions in the Indian Ocean |
|
|
| 3 May 1943 to 27 March 1946 |
Pierre de Saint-Mart,
Governor-General |
|
|
| 27 March 1946 to 19 May 1946 |
Robert Boudry,
Acting Governor-General |
|
|
| 19 May 1946 to 23 December 1947 |
Jules Marcel de Coppet,
High Commissioner |
2nd term; served at the start of the Malagasy Uprising |
|
| February 1948 to 3 February 1950 |
Pierre Gabriel de Chevigné,
High Commissioner |
|
|
| 3 February 1950 to October 1954 |
Robert Isaac Bargues,
High Commissioner |
|
|
| October 1954 to 1 May 1959 |
Jean Louis Marie André Soucadaux,
High Commissioner |
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