List of colonial governors of Louisiana
This is a list of the colonial
governors of Louisiana
, from the founding of the first settlement by the French in 1699 to the territory's acquisition by the United States in 1803.
The
Spanish governors administered a territory which was much larger than the modern U.S. state of Louisiana, comprising Louisiana (New France) and Louisiana (New Spain)
, respectively.
At the same time, there are parts of present-day
French Louisiana, but it was administered by the Kingdom of Great Britain for twenty years (1763–83) following the British victory in the French and Indian War
.
List
First French Louisiana (1682–1762)
| # | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Took office | Left office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 
|
Sauvolle (1671–1701) |
1699 | 1701 (Died in office) |
| 2 | 
|
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville (1680–1767) |
1701 | 1713 |
| 3 | 
|
Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac (1658–1730) |
1713 | 1716 |
| 4 |
|
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville (1680–1767) |
1716 | 1717 |
| 5 |
|
Jean-Michel de Lepinay (c. 1665–1721) |
1717 | 1718 |
| 6 |
|
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville (1680–1767) |
1718 | 1724 |
| 7 |
|
Pierre Dugué de Boisbriand (1675–1736) |
1724 | 1726 |
| 8 | 
|
Étienne Perier (1686–1766) |
1726 | 1733 |
| 9 |
|
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville (1680–1767) |
1733 | 1743 |
| 10 | 
|
Pierre de Rigaud de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial (1698–1778) |
1743 | 1753 |
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|
Louis Billouart (1704–1770) |
1753 | 1763 |
| 12 | 
|
Jean-Jacques Blaise d'Abbadie (1726–1765) |
1763 | 1765 (Died in office) |
| 13 | 
|
Charles Philippe Aubry (c. 1720–1770) |
1765 | 1768 |
Spanish Louisiana (1762–1802)
| # | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Took office | Left office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 
|
Antonio de Ulloa (1716–1795) |
1766 | 1768 |
| 2 |
|
Charles Philippe Aubry (c. 1720–1770) |
1768 | 1769 |
| 3 | 
|
Alejandro O'Reilly (1722–1794) |
1769 | 1769 |
| 4 | 
|
Luis de Unzaga (1721–1790) |
1770 | 1777 |
| 5 | 
|
Bernardo de Gálvez (1746–1786) |
1777 | 1785 |
| 6 | 
|
Esteban Rodríguez Miró (1744–1795) |
1785 | 1791 |
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|
Francisco Luis Héctor de Carondelet (1748–1807) |
1791 | 1797 |
| 8 | 
|
Manuel Gayoso de Lemos (1747–1799) |
1797 | 1799 |
| 9 | 
|
Francisco Bouligny (1736–1800) |
1799 | 1799 |
| 10 | 
|
Sebastián Calvo de la Puerta y O'Farrill (1751–1820) |
1799 | 1801 |
| — |
|
Nicolás María Vidal (Acting Civil Governor) (1739–1806) |
1799 | 1801 |
| 11 |
|
Juan Manuel de Salcedo (1743–c. 1810) |
1801 | 1803 |
Second French Louisiana (1802–1804)
| # | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Took office | Left office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 
|
Pierre Clément de Laussat[a] (1756–1835) |
1803 | 1803 |
| ||||
See also
References
- Cowan, Walter Greaves; McGuire, Jack B., eds. (2010). Louisiana Governors: Rulers, Rascals, and Reformers. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-60473-320-4.
- Dawson III, Joseph G. (1990). The Louisiana Governors: From Iberville to Edwards. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: LSU Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-1527-5.