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A state in west Africa, bounded on the north by Mauretania, to the east by Mali, and to the south bt Guinea. The state of the Gambia is imbedded entirely within, along the Gambia River.
Ruler Name | Start Year | End Year | Notes | Dynasty | Kingdom |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
To Compagnie Normande | 1626 | 1658 | First French settlement. | Senegal | |
Jacques Fumechon | 1626 | 1631 | Governor. | Senegal | |
Thomas Lambert | 1631 | 1641 | Senegal | ||
Jean Caullier | 1641 | 1648 | Senegal | ||
de Soussy | 1649 | 1650 | Senegal | ||
Mésineau | 1651 | 1658 | Senegal | ||
To Compagnie du Cap-Vert et du Sénégal | 1658 | 1664 | Senegal | ||
Raguenet | 1658 | 1661 | Senegal | ||
de Boulay | 1661 | 1664 | Senegal | ||
To Compagnie Française des Indes Occidentales | 1664 | 1672 | Senegal | ||
Jacquet | 1664 | 1668 | Senegal | ||
Sieur de Richemont | 1668 | 1673 | Acting Governor for Compagnie due Sénégal from 1672-1673. | Senegal | |
To Compagnie du Sénégal | 1672 | 1673 | Senegal | ||
Jacques Fumechon | r. 1674 | 1682 | Director. | Senegal | |
To Compagnie d'Afrique | 1682 | 1684 | Senegal | ||
Denis Basset | 1682 | 1684 | Director | Senegal | |
To Compagnie de Guinée | 1684 | 1696 | Senegal | ||
Louis Moreau de Chambonneau | 1684 | 1689 | Director. | Senegal | |
Michel Jajolet de la Courbe | 1689 | 1690 | Senegal | ||
Louis Moreau de Chambonneau | r. 1690 | 1693 | Senegal | ||
Jean Bourguignon | 1693 | 1697 | Acting Governor for Compagnie Royale du Sénégal from 1696-1697. | Senegal | |
To Compagnie Royale du Sénégal | 1696 | 1709 | Senegal | ||
André Brue | 1697 | 1702 | Director | Senegal | |
Joseph Lemaitre | 1702 | 1706 | Senegal | ||
Michel Jajolet de la Courbe | r. 1706 | 1709 | Senegal | ||
To Compagnie de Rouen | 1710 | 1718 | Senegal | ||
Guillaume Joseph Mustellier | 1710 | 1711 | Senegal | ||
Pierre de Richebourg | 1712 | 1713 | Senegal | ||
André Brue | r. 1714 | 1720 | Compagnie des Indes Orientales from 1718-1720. | Senegal | |
To Compagnies des Indes Orientales | 1718 | 1758 | Senegal | ||
Nicholas Desprès de Saint-Robert | 1720 | 1723 | Director. | Senegal | |
Julien du Bellay | 1723 | 1725 | Senegal | ||
Nicholas Desprès de Saint-Robert | r. 1725 | 1725 | Senegal | ||
Arnaud Plumet | 1725 | 1726 | Senegal | ||
Jean Levens de la Rouquette | 1726 | 1733 | Senegal | ||
Lejuge | 1733 | 1733 | Senegal | ||
Sebastian Devaulx | 1733 | 1738 | Acting Director from 1733-1736. | Senegal | |
Pierre Félix Barthélemy David | 1738 | 1746 | Senegal | ||
Jean-Baptiste Estoupan de la Brüe | 1746 | 1758 | Senegal | ||
To Great Britain | 1758 | 1779 | Senegal | ||
Richard Alchrone Worge | 1758 | 1763 | Governor. | Senegal | |
John Barnes | 1763 | 1765 | Senegal | ||
Charles O'Hara | 1765 | 1775 | Senegal | ||
Joseph Debat | 1765 | 1766 | Senegal | ||
Matthias MacNamara | 1775 | 1777 | Senegal | ||
John Clarke | 1777 | 1778 | Senegal | ||
William Lacy | 1778 | 1779 | Never assumed office. | Senegal | |
George Fall | 1778 | 1779 | Acting Governor in place of William Lacy. | Senegal | |
To France | 1779 | 1809 | Gorée District returned to France in 1763. | Senegal | |
Armand Louis de Gontaut | 1779 | 1779 | Governor. | Senegal | |
Jacques Joseph Eyries | 1779 | 1781 | Senegal | ||
J. B. Bertrand | 1781 | 1782 | Acting Governor. | Senegal | |
Anne Gaston Dumontet | 1782 | 1784 | Senegal | ||
Louis Legardeur | 1784 | 1786 | Senegal | ||
Stanislas Jean Boufflers | 1786 | 1787 | Senegal | ||
François Blanchot de Verly | 1787 | 1801 | Senegal | ||
Charbonnes | 1801 | 1802 | Acting Governor. | Senegal | |
Louis Henri Pierre Lasserre | 1802 | 1802 | Senegal | ||
François Blanchot de Verly | r. 1802 | 1807 | Senegal | ||
Pierre Levasseur | 1807 | 1809 | Senegal | ||
To Great Britain | 1809 | 1816 | Senegal | ||
Charles William Maxwell | 1809 | 1811 | Governor. | Senegal | |
Charles MacCarthy | 1811 | 1814 | Senegal | ||
Thomas Brereton | 1814 | 1817 | Senegal | ||
To France | 1816 | 1960 | Senegal | ||
Julien Schmaltz | 1817 | 1817 | Senegal | ||
Amié-Benjamin Fleuriau | 1817 | 1819 | Acting Commandant. | Senegal | |
Julien Schmaltz | r. 1819 | 1820 | Senegal | ||
Louis-Jean-Baptiste le Coupé de Montereau | 1820 | 1821 | Acting Commandant. | Senegal | |
Jacques-François Roger | 1821 | 1827 | Senegal | ||
Hyachinthe-Benjamin Gerbidon | 1827 | 1828 | Acting Commandant. | Senegal | |
Jean Jubelin | 1828 | 1829 | Governor. | Senegal | |
Pierre-Édouard Brou | 1829 | 1831 | Senegal | ||
Thomas Renault de Saint-Germain | 1831 | 1833 | Senegal | ||
Jean-Baptiste Bertrand Armand Cadéot | 1833 | 1833 | Acting Governor. | Senegal | |
Eustache-Louis-Jean Quernel | 1833 | 1834 | Senegal | ||
Louis Pujol | 1834 | 1836 | Senegal | ||
Médéric Malavois | 1836 | 1836 | Senegal | ||
Louis-Laurent-Auguste Guillet | 1836 | 1837 | Acting Governor. | Senegal | |
Julien-Armand Soret | 1837 | 1839 | Senegal | ||
Pons Guillaume-Bazile Charmasson de Puylaval | 1839 | 1841 | Senegal | ||
Jean-Baptiste Montagniès de la Roque | 1841 | 1842 | Senegal | ||
Paul Pageot des Noutières | 1842 | 1843 | Senegal | ||
Édouard Bouët-Willaumez | 1843 | 1844 | Senegal | ||
Auguste-Lazare Laborel | 1844 | 1844 | Acting Governor | Senegal | |
Pierre Thomas | 1844 | 1845 | Acting Governor | Senegal | |
François-Marie-Charles Olivier | 1845 | 1846 | Senegal | ||
Hoube | 1846 | 1846 | Acting Governor. | Senegal | |
Ernest Bourdon | 1846 | 1847 | Senegal | ||
Caille | 1847 | 1847 | Acting Governor. | Senegal | |
Lèandre Bertin du Château | 1847 | 1847 | Acting Governor. | Senegal | |
Auguste Baudin | 1847 | 1850 | Senegal | ||
Aumont | 1850 | 1850 | Acting Governor. | Senegal | |
Auguste Léopold Protet | 1850 | 1854 | Senegal | ||
André César Vérand | 1853 | 1854 | Acting for Protet. | Senegal | |
Auguste Léopold Protet | r. 1854 | 1854 | Senegal | ||
Louis Léon César Faidherbe | 1854 | 1861 | Senegal | ||
A. Robin | 1858 | 1859 | Acting for Faidherbe. | Senegal | |
Léopold François Stephan | 1861 | 1861 | Acting Governor. | Senegal | |
Jean Bernard Jauréguiberry | 1861 | 1863 | Senegal | ||
Émile Pinet-Laprade | 1863 | 1863 | Senegal | ||
Louis Léon César Faidherbe | r. 1863 | 1865 | Senegal | ||
Émile Pinet-Laprade | r. 1865 | 1869 | Senegal | ||
Ferdinand Charles Alexandre Tredos | 1869 | 1869 | Acting Governor. | Senegal | |
François-Xavier Michel Valière | 1869 | 1876 | Senegal | ||
Louis Briere de l'Isle | 1876 | 1880 | Senegal | ||
Louis Ferdinand de Lanneau | 1880 | 1881 | Senegal | ||
Marie Auguste Deville de Perière | 1881 | 1881 | Acting Governor. | Senegal | |
Henri Philibert Canard | 1881 | 1882 | Senegal | ||
Aristide Louis Antoine Vallon | 1882 | 1882 | Senegal | ||
René Servatius | 1882 | 1883 | Senegal | ||
Adolphe Ernest Auguste le Boucher | 1883 | 1883 | Acting Governor. | Senegal | |
Henry Bourdiaux | 1883 | 1884 | Acting Governor. | Senegal | |
Alphonse Seignac-Lesseps | 1884 | 1886 | Senegal | ||
Jules Genouille | 1886 | 1888 | Senegal | ||
Léon Émile Clément-Thomas | 1888 | 1890 | Senegal | ||
Henri Félix de Lamothe | 1890 | 1895 | Senegal | ||
Louis Mouttet | 1895 | 1895 | Acting Governor. | Senegal | |
Jean-Baptiste Émile Louis | 1895 | 1900 | Senegal | ||
Noël Eugène Ballay | 1900 | 1902 | Senegal | ||
Pierre Paul Marie Capest | 1902 | 1902 | Acting Governor. | Senegal | |
Ernest Roume | 1902 | 1902 | Senegal | ||
Camille Lucien Xavier Guy | 1902 | 1907 | Senegal | ||
Joost Van Vollenhoven | 1907 | 1907 | Acting Governor. | Senegal | |
Martial Henri Merlin | 1907 | 1908 | Senegal | ||
Jean Jules Émile Peuvergne | 1908 | 1908 | Senegal | ||
Maurice Gourbeil | 1908 | 1909 | Senegal | ||
Marie Antoine Edmond Gaudard | 1909 | 1909 | Acting Governor. | Senegal | |
Jean Jules Émile Peuvergne | r. 1909 | 1911 | Senegal | ||
Henri François Charles Core | 1911 | 1914 | Senegal | ||
Raphaël Valentin Marius Antonetti | 1914 | 1916 | Senegal | ||
Fernand Émile Levêque | 1917 | 1920 | Senegal | ||
Théophile Antoine Pascal | 1920 | 1921 | Acting Governor. | Senegal | |
Pierre Jean Henri Didelot | 1921 | 1925 | Senegal | ||
Camille Théodore Raoul Maillet | 1925 | 1926 | Acting Governor. | Senegal | |
Joseph Zébédée Olivier Cadier | 1926 | 1926 | Acting Governor. | Senegal | |
Léonce Alphonse Noël Henri Jore | 1926 | 1929 | Senegal | ||
Maurice Beurnier | 1929 | 1930 | Senegal | ||
Camille Théodore Raoul Maillet | r. 1930 | 1931 | Senegal | ||
Benoît Louis Rebonne | 1931 | 1931 | Acting Governor. | Senegal | |
Maurice Beurnier | r. 1931 | 1936 | Senegal | ||
Louis Lefebvre | 1936 | 1938 | Senegal | ||
Jean Paul Parisot | 1938 | 1940 | Senegal | ||
Georges Pierre Rey | 1941 | 1942 | Senegal | ||
Hubert Jules Deschamps | 1942 | 1943 | Senegal | ||
Charles Jean Dagain | 1943 | 1945 | Senegal | ||
Pierre Louis Maestracci | 1945 | 1946 | Senegal | ||
Oswald Durand | 1946 | 1947 | Senegal | ||
Laurent Marcel Wiltord | 1947 | 1950 | Senegal | ||
Camille Victor Bailly | 1950 | 1952 | Senegal | ||
Lucien Eugène Geay | 1952 | 1954 | Senegal | ||
Maxime Marie Antoine Jourdain | 1954 | 1955 | Senegal | ||
Jean Colombani | 1955 | 1957 | Senegal | ||
Pierre Auguste Michel Marie Lami | 1957 | 1960 | Senegal | ||
To Senegal | 1960 | Present | Senegal |
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