List of colonial governors of Haiti

Since 1659, Saint-Domingue (now the Republic of Haiti), was a French colony, recognized by Spain on September 20, 1697. From September 20, 1793 to October 1798 parts of the island were under British occupation.[1]

Governors (1691-1714)
  1. October 1, 1691 - July 1700 Jean du Casse
  2. July 1700 - December 16, 1703 Joseph d'Honon de Gallifet (acting)
  3. December 16, 1703 - October 13, 1705 Charles Auger
  4. October 13, 1705 - December 28, 1707 Jean-Pierre de Charitte (acting)
  5. December 28, 1707 - 1710 François-Joseph, comte de Choiseul-Beaupré
  6. 1710 - February 7, 1711 Jean-Pierre de Charitte (2nd time)
  7. February 7, 1711 - May 24, 1711 Laurent de Valernod
  8. May 24, 1711 - August 29, 1712 Nicolas de Gabaret
  9. August 29, 1712 - 1713 Paul-François de La Grange, comte d'Arquian
  10. 1713 - 1714 Louis de Courbon, comte de Blénac

Governors-General (1714-1803)
  1. 1714 - 11 Jan 1717 Louis de Courbon, comte de Blénac
  2. January 11, 1717 - July 10, 1719 Charles Joubert de La Bastide, marquis de Châteaumorand
  3. 10 Jul 1719 - 6 Dec 1723 Léon de Sorel
  4. December 6, 1723 - October 8, 1731 Gaspard-Charles de Goussé, chevalier de La Rochalar
  5. October 8, 1731 - February 4, 1732 Antoine-Gabriel, marquis de Vienne de Busserolles
  6. February 4, 1732 - October 8, 1732 Étienne Cochard de Chastenoye (acting)
  7. October 8, 1732 - July 1737 Pierre, marquis de Fayet
  8. July 1737 - November 11, 1737 Étienne Cochard de Chastenoye (2nd time) (acting)
  9. November 11, 1737 - November, 1746 Charles de Brunier, marquis de Larnage
  10. November 19, 1746 - August 12, 1748 Étienne Cochard de Chastenoye (3rd time) (acting)
  11. August 12, 1748 - March 29, 1751 Hubert de Brienne-Conflans, comte de Conflans
  12. March 29, 1751 - May 31, 1753 Emmanuel-Auguste de Cahideux du Bois de Lamothe
  13. May 31 - March 24, 1757 Joseph-Hyacinthe de Rigaud, marquis de Vaudreuil
  14. March 24, 1757 - July 30, 1762 Philippe-François Bart
  15. July 30, 1762 - March 7, 1763 Gabriel de Bory de Saint-Vincent
  16. March 7, 1763 - August 4, 1763 Armand, vicomte de Belzunce
  17. August 4, 1763 - April 23, 1764 Pierre-André de Gohin, comte de Montreuil (acting)
  18. April 23, 1764 - July 1, 1766 Charles Henri Hector d'Estaing
  19. July 1, 1766 - February 10, 1769 Louis-Armand-Constantin de Rohan, prince de Montbazon
  20. February 10, 1769 - January 15, 1772 Pierre Gédéon de Nolivos
  21. January 15, 1772 - April 30, 1772 De la Ferronays (acting)
  22. April 30, 1772 - April 15, 1775 Louis-Florent de Vallière
  23. May 12, 1775 - August 16, 1775 Jean-François, comte de Reynaud de Villeverd (acting)
  24. August 16, 1775 - December 13, 1776 Victor-Thérèse Charpentier
  25. December 28, 1776 - May 22, 1777 Jean-Baptiste de Taste de Lilancour (acting)
  26. May 22, 1777 - March 7, 1780 Robert, comte d'Argout
  27. March 7, 1780 - April 25, 1780 Jean-Baptiste de Taste de Lilancour (2nd time) (acting)
  28. April 25, 1780 - July 28, 1781 Jean-François, comte de Reynaud de Villeverd (2nd time)
  29. July 28, 1781 - February 14, 1782 Jean-Baptiste de Taste de Lilancour (3rd time) (acting)
  30. February 14, 1782 - July 3, 1785 Guillaume de Bellecombe
  31. July 3, 1785 - April 27, 1786 Gui-Pierre de Coustard (acting)
  32. April 27, 1786 - November 1787 César Henri, comte de La Luzerne
  33. November 1787 - December 22, 1788 Alexandre de Vincent de Mazade (acting)
  34. December 22, 1788 - 1789 Marie-Charles du Chilleau
  35. 1789 - August 19, 1789 Alexandre de Vincent de Mazade (2nd time) (acting)
  36. August 19, 1789 - November 1790 Antoine de Thomassin de Peynier
  37. November 9, 1790 - 1792 Philibert François Rouxel de Blanchelande
  38. 1792 - Jun 1792 Adrien-Nicolas, marquis de la Salle, comte d'Offémont
  39. Jun 1792 - October 21, 1792 Jean-Jacques d'Esparbes
  40. October 21, 1792 - January 2, 1793 Donatien-Marie-Joseph de Vimeur, vicomte de Rochambeau
  41. January 2, 1793 - June 19, 1793 Léger-Félicité Sonthonax (commissioner)
  42. June 19, 1793 - October 1793 François-Thomas Galbaud du Fort
  43. October 1793 - May 11, 1796 Étienne Maynaud de Bizefranc de Laveaux
  44. May 11, 1796 - August 24, 1797 Léger-Félicité Sonthonax (2nd time) (commissioner)
  45. April 1, 1797 - May 5, 1802 Toussaint Louverture
  46. March 27, 1798 - October 23, 1798 Gabriel-Marie-Théodore-Joseph Hédouville (commissioner)
  47. February 5, 1802 - November 2, 1802 Charles Leclerc
  48. November 2, 1802 - November 30, 1803 Donatien-Marie-Joseph de Vimeur, vicomte de Rochambeau (2nd time)
  49. November 30, 1803 - December 31, 1803 Jean-Jacques Dessalines

For continuation after independence, see: List of heads of state of Haiti

British Governors (1793-1798)

Governors
Portrait Name

(Birth–Death)

 Term of office
Took office Left office
John Whitelocke September 20, 1793 October 1794
Adam Williamson (governor)

(1736 — 1798)

 October 1794 October 1796
Gordon Seorbes 

(1738 — 1828)

 October 1796 October 1796
John Graves Simcoe October 1796 January 1797
John Whyte   (1740 — 1816)                      January 1797 January 1797
Nesbit

(1746 — 1817)   

 January 1797 March 1797
Thomas Maitland March 1797 October 1798


Foreign governors and military commanders
Portrait Name
(Birth–Death)		 Term of office Title(s) Country
Took office Left office
United States occupation of Haiti
William Banks Caperton
(1855–1941)		 28 July 1915 15 August 1915 Commander cruiser squadron, Atlantic Fleet  United States
Littleton Waller
(1856–1926)		 15 August 1915 21 November 1916 Commander, Expeditionary Forces Operating in Haiti  United States
Eli K. Cole
(1867–1929)		 22 November 1916 27 November 1917 Commander, Expeditionary Forces Operating in Haiti  United States
John H. Russell Jr.
(1872–1947)		 28 November 1917 6 December 1918 Commander, Expeditionary Forces Operating in Haiti  United States
Albertus W. Catlin
(1868–1933)		 7 December 1918 14 July 1919 Commander, Expeditionary Forces Operating in Haiti  United States
Louis M. Little
(1878–1960)		 15 July 1919 1 October 1919 Commander, Expeditionary Forces Operating in Haiti  United States
John H. Russell Jr.
(1872–1947)		 2 October 1919 14 January 1922 Commander, Expeditionary Forces Operating in Haiti  United States
George O. Van Orden
(1878–1957)		 14 January 1922 28 March 1922 Commander, Expeditionary Forces Operating in Haiti  United States
Theodore P. Kane
(1868–1943)		 29 March 1922 15 November 1923 Commander, Expeditionary Forces Operating in Haiti  United States
William N. McKelvy
(1869–1933)		 16 November 1923 21 January 1924 Commander, Expeditionary Forces Operating in Haiti  United States
Ben H. Fuller
(1870–1937)		 21 January 1924 11 June 1925 Commander, Expeditionary Forces Operating in Haiti  United States
William N. McKelvy
(1869–1933)		 12 June 1925 25 June 1925 Commander, Expeditionary Forces Operating in Haiti  United States
Harold Courtland Snyder
(1872–1933)		 26 June 1925 29 July 1925 Commander, Expeditionary Forces Operating in Haiti  United States
Ben H. Fuller
(1870–1937)		 30 July 1925 7 December 1925 Commander, Expeditionary Forces Operating in Haiti  United States
John T. Myers
(1871–1952)		 8 December 1925 24 January 1928 Commander, Expeditionary Forces Operating in Haiti  United States
Presley M. Rixey Jr.
(1879–1953)		 25 January 1928 22 February 1928 Commander, Expeditionary Forces Operating in Haiti  United States
Louis Mason Gulick
(1879–1933)		 23 February 1928 24 June 1929 Commander, Expeditionary Forces Operating in Haiti  United States
Richard M. Cutts
(1878–1934)		 25 June 1929 11 May 1931 Commander, Expeditionary Forces Operating in Haiti  United States
Louis M. Little
(1878–1960)		 3 July 1931 15 August 1934 Commander, Expeditionary Forces Operating in Haiti  United States
Arthur Bailly-Blanchard
(1855–1925)		 15 November 1915 26 September 1921 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary  United States
John H. Russell Jr.
(1872–1947)		 11 February 1922 16 November 1930 High Commissioner to Haiti  United States
Dana Gardner Munro
(1892–1990)		 16 November 1930 14 September 1932 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary  United States
Norman Armour
(1887–1982)		 7 November 1932 4 March 1933 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary  United States
11 April 1933 21 March 1935
George A. Gordon
(1885–1959)		 6 September 1935 21 July 1937 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary  United States
Operation Uphold Democracy
Hugh Shelton
(born 1942)		 19 September 1994 25 October 1994 Commander of the Multinational Forces Haiti (MNF)  United States
David C. Meade
(born 1941?)		 25 October 1994 14 January 1995 Commander of the Multinational Forces Haiti (MNF)  United States
George A. Fisher Jr.
(born 1942)		 14 January 1995 31 March 1995 Commander of the Multinational Forces Haiti (MNF)  United States
Joseph W. Kinzer
(born 1939)		 31 March 1995 5 March 1996 Commander of the United Nations Mission in Haiti Force (UNMIH)  United States
J. R. Pierre Daigle
(born 1950)		 5 March 1996 30 June 1997 Commander of the United Nations Mission in Haiti Force (UNMIH)  Canada
Robin Gagnon
(born 1950)		 1 August 1997 30 November 1997 Commander of the United Nations Mission in Haiti Force (UNMIH)  Canada
2004 Haitian coup d'état
Ronald S. Coleman
(born 1948)		 29 February 2004 1 June 2004 Commanding General, Combined Joint Task Force Haiti and Commander of the Multinational Interim Force in Haiti (MIF)  United States
Augusto Heleno
(born 1947)		 1 June 2004 1 September 2005 Commander, United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti Force (MINUSTAH)  Brazil
Urano Teixeira da Matta Bacellar
(1947–2006)		 1 September 2005 7 January 2006 Commander, United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti Force (MINUSTAH)  Brazil
Eduardo Aldunate Herman
(born 1948)
Interim		 7 January 2006 20 January 2006 Interim Commander, United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti Force (MINUSTAH)  Chile
José Elito Carvalho de Siqueira
(born 1946)		 20 January 2006 9 January 2007 Commander, United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti Force (MINUSTAH)  Brazil
Carlos Alberto Dos Santos Cruz
(born 1952)		 9 January 2007 9 April 2009 Commander, United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti Force (MINUSTAH)  Brazil
Floriano Peixoto Vieira Neto
(born 1954)		 9 April 2009 11 April 2010 Commander, United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti Force (MINUSTAH)  Brazil
Luiz Guilherme Paul Cruz
(born 1957)		 11 April 2010 30 March 2011 Commander, United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti Force (MINUSTAH)  Brazil
Luiz Eduardo Ramos Pereira
(born 1956)		 30 March 2011 27 March 2012 Commander, United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti Force (MINUSTAH)  Brazil
Fernando Rodrigues Goulart
(born 1958)		 27 March 2012 27 March 2013 Commander, United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti Force (MINUSTAH)  Brazil
Edson Leal Pujol
(born 1955)		 27 March 2013 15 March 2014 Commander, United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti Force (MINUSTAH)  Brazil
José Luiz Jaborandy Jr.
(1958–2015)		 15 March 2014 30 August 2015 Commander, United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti Force (MINUSTAH)  Brazil
Jorge Peña Leiva
(born 1961)
Acting		 4 September 2015 13 October 2015 Acting Commander, United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti Force (MINUSTAH)  Chile
Ajax Porto Pinheiro
(born 1956)		 13 October 2015 15 October 2017 Commander, United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti Force (MINUSTAH)  Brazil
2010 Haiti earthquake
P. K. "Ken" Keen
(born c. 1953)		 14 January 2010 18 April 2010 Commander of the Joint Task Force for Haiti (JTF–H)  United States
Simeon G. Trombitas
(born 1948)		 18 April 2010 1 June 2010 Commander of the Joint Task Force for Haiti (JTF–H)  United States
Special Representatives of the Secretary-General and Heads of MINUJUSTH
Mamadou Diallo 2017 2017 Secretary-General   Guinea
Susan D. Page 2017 2018 Secretary-General USA
Mamadou Diallo 2018 2019 Secretary-General USA
Helen Meagher La Lime 2019 Secretary-General USA

See also

References
  1. Bob Corbett (2001). "Haiti Rulers". Webster University. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-03-14. (actually taken from rulers.org!!!)
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