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 French and 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 Louisiana which were historically administered by other colonial powers, with the most prominent example being the area known as the Florida Parishes, north of Lake Pontchartrain and east of the Mississippi River. This territory was originally part of French Louisiana, but it belonged to the Kingdom of Great Britain for twenty years (1763–83) following 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 crozat (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 (16??–17??) |
1717 | 1718 |
| 6 | |
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville (1680–1767) |
1718 | 1724 |
| 7 | |
Pierre Dugué de Boisbriand (1675–1736) |
1724 | 1726 |
| 8 | |
Étienne Périer (1687–1766) |
1726 | 1733 |
| 9 | |
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville (1680–1767) |
1733 | 1743 |
| 10 |  |
Pierre de Rigaud de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial (1698–1778) |
1743 | 1753 |
| 11 | |
Louis Billouart (1704–1770) |
1753 | 1763 |
| 12 | |
Jean-Jacques Blaise d'Abbadie (1726–1765) |
1763 | 1765 (Died in office) |
| 13 | |
Charles Philippe Aubry (17??–1770) |
1765 | 1768 |
Spanish Louisiana (1762–1802)
| # | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Took office | Left office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 |  |
Antonio de Ulloa (1716–1795) |
1766 | 1768 |
| 15 | |
Charles Philippe Aubry (17??–1770) |
1768 | 1769 |
| 16 |  |
Alejandro O'Reilly (1722–1794) |
1769 | 1769 |
| 17 | |
Luis de Unzaga (1721–1790) |
1770 | 1777 |
| 18 |  |
Bernardo de Gálvez (1746–1786) |
1777 | 1785 |
| 19 |  |
Esteban Rodríguez Miró (1744–1795) |
1785 | 1791 |
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Francisco Luis Héctor de Carondelet (1748–1807) |
1791 | 1797 |
| 21 |  |
Manuel Gayoso de Lemos (1747–1799) |
1797 | 1799 |
| 22 |  |
Francisco Bouligny (1736–1800) |
1799 | 1799 |
| 23 | |
Sebastián Calvo de la Puerta y O'Farrill (1751–1820) |
1799 | 1801 |
| 24 | |
Juan Manuel de Salcedo (1743–18??) |
1801 | 1803 |
Second French Louisiana (1802–1804)
| # | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Took office | Left office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| – |  |
Pierre Clément de Laussat** (1756–1835) |
1803 | 1803 |
**Laussat was initially only to be the interim head of Louisiana until arrival of the Governor General Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte appointed by Napoleon. However, news of the Louisiana Purchase reached Bernadotte before he could sail from La Rochelle in May 1803.