List of governors of São João Baptista de Ajudá

List of Colonial Heads of Fort of São João Baptista de Ajudá

Territory located in present-day coastal Benin

Tenure Incumbent Notes
1680 to ????Jacinto de Figueiredo e Abreu, GovernorPortuguese governor of São Tomé and Príncipe authorized to erect a fort in the city of Hweda
17?? to ????Abandoned
1721 to 1730Re-foundation of the fort as São João Baptista de Ajudá, under the Portuguese colony of Brazil
1721 to 1730Francisco Pereira Mendes, Governor 
1730Under Companhia de Cacheu e Cabo Verde 
1730 to 1732Francisco Pereira Mendes, Governor 
17?? to 1736Manuel Correia da Cunha, Governor 
17?? to 1743João Basílio, Governor 
17?? to 1746Martinho de Cunha Barbosa, interim Governor 
1746 to 1746Francisco Nunes Pereira, GovernorUsurper
1746 to 1746Francisco do Espírito Santo, interim Governor 
1746 to 17??Filipe José de Gouveia, Governor 
17?? to 1752..., Governor 
1752 to 1759Teodósio Rodrigues da Costa, Governor 
1759 to 1760António Nunes de Gouveia, interim Governor 
1760 to 17??Félix José de Gouveia, Governor 
17?? to 1790..., Governor 
1790 to 1797Francisco António da Fonseca e Aragão 
April 1797 to ????Manuel Bastos Varela Pinto Pacheco 
???? to 1817..., Governor 
1817 to 18??Francisco Félix de Sousa, Governor1st Term
1844 to 1845Joaquim José Libânio, Governor 
1839 to 1845..., Governor 
1845 to 1847/1848Francisco Félix de Sousa, Governor2nd Term
1849 to 18??Quaresma, Governor 
1851 to 1851Alferes Elerpech, Governor 
1851 to 8 May 1858Isidoro Félix de Sousa, subordinate Governor 
1852 to 1853João Justino da Costa, Governor 
1853 to 1858José Pinheiro de Sousa, Governor 
1858 to 1858Francisco Félix de Sousa, Governor3rd Term
1858 to 1861Abandoned
1861 to 1865Ceded to French missionaries by the rulers of Dahomey
23 February 1865Reclaimed by Portugal, under the governors of São Tomé and Príncipe
1865 to 1868José Maria Borges de Sequeira, Governor 
1868 to 1869Vital de Bettencourt de Vasconcellos Côrte-Real do Canto, Governor 
1869 to ?1872 Abandoned
?1872 to 187?António Joaquim, Governor 
187? to 1878Augusto Frutuoso de Figueiredo de Barros, Governor 
1878 to 1879Lourenço da Rocha, Governor 
1879 to 1881Lieutenant António José Machado, Governor 
1881 to 1883..., Governor 
1883 to 1885Lieutenant Fernando Gonçalves, Governor 
1885 to 1885Bernardo Francisco Luís da Cruz, Governor 
1885 to 1885Lieutenant José Gomes de Sousa, Governor 
1885 to 1886Lieutenant Francisco Rego, Governor 
1886 to 1887Major António Domingues Cortez da Silva Curado, Governor 
1887 to 1888Manuel Francisco Rodrigues Guimarães, Governor 
1888 to 1888Captain Vicente da Rosa Rolim, Governor1st Term
1888 to 1890Manuel José Ferreira dos Santos, Governor1st Term
1890 to 1890Carolino Acácio Cordeiro, Governor 
1890 to 1893Captain Vicente da Rosa Rolim2nd Term
1893 to 189?Manuel José Ferreira dos Santos, Governor2nd Term
1897 to 1898Lieutenant ...Campos, Governor 
1898 to ????Lieutenant ... Nunes de Aguiar, Governor 
1900 to 19??Lieutenant António Mendes da Costa, Governor 
19?? to 1905Lieutenant João de Deus Pires, Governor 
1905 to 1906Joaquim Luís de Carvalho, Governor 
1906 to 1909..., Governor 
1909 to 1911Sebastião Lousada, Governor 
1911 to 1911Cândido João de Barros, Governor 
1911 to 1912Guilherme Spínola de Melo, Governor 
1912 to 19??..., Governor 
19?? to 1928Lieutenant Viriato Henrique dos Anjos Garcez, Governor 
1928 to 1931Captain Joaquim Sinel de Cordes, Governor 
1932 to 1938Captain Miguel Maria Pupo Correia, Governor1st Term
1938 to 1941Captain José Pimenta Segurado de Avelar Machado, Governor 
1941 to 1942Jean-Louis Bourjac, GovernorSelf-proclaimed; not recognized by Portugal
1942 to 1944José de Vasconcelos e Sá Guerreiro Nuno, interim Governor1st Term
1944 to 1946Captain Carlos Alberto de Serpa Soares, Governor 
1946 to 1946José de Vasconcelos e Sá Guerreiro Nuno, Governor2nd Term
1946 to 1951Captain Miguel Maria Pupo Correia, Governor2nd Term
1951 to 1954António João Teles Pereira de Vasconcelos, Administrator 
1954 to 1956Ernesto António Pereira Enes, Administrator 
1956 to 1 August 1961António Agostinho Saraiva Borges, Intendant 
1 August 1961Annexed by Dahomey
1975Annexation gains Portuguese recognition

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