Commandants and Governors of Colonial Louisiana, 1699-1803
French Period
French royal commandants, 1699-1713
Pierre Le Moyne, sieur d'Iberville et d'Ardillieres, 1699-1706 (commandant of Louisiana, from Fort Maurepas, Biloxi, 1699-1702, then from Fort Louis de la Louisiane, Old Mobile, 1702-06, but generally absent; died of fever, Havana, Cuba, 1706)
Sieur de Sauvole, 1699-1700 (temporary commandant while Iberville was in France, from Fort Maurepas; died of fever)
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, sieur de Bienville, 1702-11 (Iberville's younger brother; commander at Old Mobile under Iberville, 1702-06; acting commandant after Iberville's death, 1706-08; commandant jointly with Jean-Baptiste-Martin Dartaguiette d'Iron, 1708-11; sole commandant awaiting Cadillac's arrival, 1711-13)
Nicolas Daneau de Muy, 1707-08 (titular governor, never served; died on his way to Old Mobile)
French propietary governors [Crozat period], 1713-17
Antoine de Laumet dit La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, 1710-16 (appointed by concessionaire Antoine Crozat, 1710, actually served 1713-16, governed from New Mobile; first with title of governor; recalled by Crozat, 1716)
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, sieur de Bienville, 1716-17 (acting governor after recall of Cadillac, from New Mobile)
French proprietary governors [Law period], 1717-30
Jean-Michel, sieur de l'Epinay et de Longueville, 1717-18 (from New Mobile)
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, sieur de Bienville & Joseph Le Moyne, sieur de Sérigny (Bienville's older brother), 1718-25 (co-governors, from New Mobile until 1723, then from New Orleans; recalled to France to answer charges, 1724)
Pierre Sidrac Dugué, sieur de Boisbriant, 1725-27 (acting governor in Bienville's & Sérigny's absence, from New Orleans)
Étienne de Perier, 1727-33 (royal governor after 1730; recalled by French Court, 1732)
French royal governors, 1733-63
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, sieur de Bienville, 1733-43
Pierre-Francois de Rigaud de Cavagnial, marquis de Vaudreuil, 1743-52
Louis Billouart de Kervaségan, chevalier de Kerlérec, 1752-63
Interregnum
Denis-Nicolas Foucault, 1762-63 (acting commissaire-ordonnateur or chief administrative officer)
Jean-Jacques-Blaise d'Abbadie, 1763-65 (director general & commissaire-ordonnateur)
Charles-Philippe Aubry, 1765-66 (commandant of French troops & interim governor)
Spanish Period & French Transition
Antonio de Ulloa y de la Torre-Guiral, 1766-68 (appointed May 1765, did not arrive until March 1766, retained Aubry as governor's agent, governed from Balize, below New Orleans, September 1766 to summer 1767, ousted by colonial revolt October 1768)
Charles-Philippe Aubry, 1768-69 (interim governor)
Alejandro O'Reilly, 1769-70 (governor of Cuba as well)
Luis de Unzaga y Amezaga, 1770-77
Bernardo de Gálvez, 1777-85 (at Havana, 1782-85)
Estevan Rodriguez Miró y Sabater, 1782-92 (interim governor, 1782-85; governor, 1785-92)
Francisco Luis Hector, Baron de Carondelet et Noyelles, 1792-97
Manuel Gayoso de Lemos y Amorin, 1797-99 (died in office)
Francisco Bouligny, 1799 (acting governor)
Sebastian Calvo de la Puerta y O'Fariel, Marquis de Casa Calvo, 1799-1801
Juan Manuel de Salcedo, 1801-30 Nov 1803
Pierre Clément de Laussat, 30 Nov-20 Dec 1803 (French colonial prefect, oversaw transfers of the colony from Spain to France and from France to the United States)
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