The island of Guadeloupe was occupied by the French in 1635.
Originally privately owned, it became a dependency of the French state in 1674.
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FRENCH ADMINISTRATORS
Governors
Gouverneurs
(not all miltary ranks could be retraced)
1845 - 1848 Marie Jean François Layrle 1791 - 1881
1848 Alexandre Gatine, Commissioner General
enstrusted with the abolition of slavery 1805 - 1864
1848 Col. Jacques Amédée Philippe Fiéron 1796 - 1872
1848 - 1849 Capt. Jean Jacques Louis Fabre* 1800 - 1864
1849 - 1851 Col. Jacques Amédée Philippe Fiéron (2x)
1851 ... Chaumont*
1851 - 1853 Capt. Tranquille Aubry-Bailleul 1798 -
1853 - 1856 Capt. Philibert Augustin Bonfils
1856 - 1857 ... Guillet*
1857 - 1859 Adm. Philippe Victor Touchard 1810 - 1879
1859 - 1860 Napoléon Joseph Louis Bontemps* 1813 - 1872
1860 - 1864 BrigGen. Charles Victor Frébault 1813 - 1888
1864 ... Desmazes*
1864 - 1870 Louis Hippolyte de Lormel
1870 - 1880 Gabriel Couturier
1880 ... Mazé*
1880 - 1886 Léonce Laugier 1829 -
1886 ... Sainte-Luce*
1886 - 1891 Antoine Frédéric Henri LeBoucher 1837 - 1896
1891 - 1894 Louis Hippolyte Marie Nouët 1844 - 1933
1894 - 1895 Noël Pardon
1895 - 1901 Delphino Moracchini 1846 - 1903
1901 - 1903 Martial Henri Merlin 1860 - 1935
1903 - 1905 Paul Marie Armand de LaLoyère 1847 -
1905 - 1907 Léon Jules Pol Boulloche 1855 -
1907 - 1909 Victor Marie Louis Ballot 1853 - 1939
1909 - 1911 Henri François Charles Core
1911 - 1913 Jean Jules Émile Peuvergne 1849 -
1913 - 1917 Émile Joseph Merwart 1869 - 1960
1917 - 1920 Jules Maurice Gourbeil
1920 - 1924 Pierre Louis Alfred Duprat
1924 Jocelyn Robert
1924 - 1926 Maurice Beurnier 1878 -
1926 - 1929 Louis Martial Innocent Gerbinis 1871 - 1954
1929 - 1931 Théophile Antoine Pascal Tellier 1872 - 1955
1931 - 1934 Alphonse Paul Albert Choteau 1... - 1936
1934 - 1936 Louis Joseph Bouge 1878 - 1960
1936 - 1938 Antoine Félix Sylvestre Éboué 1884 - 1944
1938 - 1940 Marie François Julien Pierre Alype 1886 - 1956
1940 - 1943 Constant Louis Sylvain Sorin (1) 1901 - 1970
1943 ... Perrier*
1943 - 1946 Maurice Pierre Eugène Bertaut
(appointed by the CFNL) 1900 -
(1) In 1939 Guadeloupe became part ot the so-called "Theater Atlantic West" and
in 1940 Governor Sorin was forced to rally to the Vichy-regime established
in France after German victory.
This situation lasted until 1943 when the French Committee for National
Liberation (Comité Français de Libération Nationale - CFLN) of Algiers
toke over the administration.
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REPRESENTATIVES OF GUADELOUPE TO THE FRENCH PARLIAMENT
1799 - 1848 : no colonial representatives to the French assemblies
Respresentatives to the Constitutional National Assembly
Représentants à l'Assemblée nationale constituante
1848 - 1849 -Charles Dain 1812 - 1873
-Louisy Matthieu (2) 1817 - 1874
-François Auguste Perrinon 1812 - 1861
(2) First Black member of French assemblies.
Representatives to the Legislati National Assembly
Représentants à l'Assemblée nationale legislative
1849 - 1851 -François Auguste Perrinon s.a.
-Victor Schoelcher 1804 - 1893
1851 - 1871 : no colonial representatives to the French assemblies
Representatives to the National Assembly
Représentants à l'Assemblée nationale
1871 - 1873 Louis Adolphe Rollin 1836 - 1909
1871 - 1874 Suzanne Vicomte Melvil-Bloncourt 1823 - 1890
1873 - 1876 Eugène François Germain Casse 1837 - 1900
1874 - 1876 Étienne Théodore Mondésir Lacascade 1841 - 1907
1876 : the French National Assembly was divided into
- the Chamber of Deputies (Chambre des Députes) with two depuities from
Guadeloupe
- the Senate (Senat) with one Senator from Guadeloupe.
Deputies
Deputés
1876 - 1879 Étienne Théodore Mondésir Lacascade s.a.
1876 - 1881 Eugène François Germain Casse s.a.
1879 - 1881 Émile Marie Auguste Réaux 1851 - 1902
1881 - 1889 Alexandre Gaston Sarlat 1854 - 1950
1881 - 1906 Gaston Marie Sidoine Théonile Gerville-Réache 1854 - 1908
1889 - 1898 Martyr Louis Auguste Isaac 1853 - 1913
1898 - 1902 Hégésippe Jean Légitimus 1868 - 1944
1902 - 1911 Alfred Léon Gérault "Gérault-Richard" 1860 - 1911
1906 - 1914 Hégésippe Jean Légitimus (2x)
1912 - 1942 Gratien Candace (Under Secretary of State
of the Colonies 1932 - 1933) 1873 - 1953
1914 - 1924 René Achille Boisneuf "René-Boisneuf" 1873 - 1927
1924 - 1928 Armand Jean-François 1874 - 1938
1928 - 1936 Jean-Marie Charles Eugène Graëve 1878 - 1958
1936 - 1942 Maurice Satineau 1891 - 1960
(In 1939 it had been decided that the chamber elected in 1936 would continue until
1942. Thereafter no new elections were held)
Senators
Senateurs
1876 - 1885 Charles André, Vicomte de La Jaille 1824 - 1892
1885 - 1900 Pierre Alexandre Ildeponse Isaac 1845 - 1899
1900 - 1912 Adolphe Marie Dieudonné Ciceron 1853 - 1928
1912 - 1945 Henry Bérenger (Commissioner General
of Gasolines and Fuels/Gasolines and
Petroleum 1918 - 1920) 1857 - 1952
The settlement of Basse Terre was established in 1636.
It became a town and the administrative center of Guadeloupe in 1643, when French
Governor Charles Houël, seigneur de Petit-Pré fixed his residence there.
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CHIEF ADMINISTRATORS
Mayors
Maires
1847 - 1848 Aristide Lignieres
1848 J. L. Rousseau
1848 Lomont Bernard
1848 - 1850 P. H. Laurichesse
1850 ... Pothonier
1850 - 1852 P. H. Laurichesse (2x)
1853 - 1954 ... Puech
1854 - 1863 ... Rullier
1863 - 1869 A. Eggimann
1869 - 1871 Aristide Lignieres (2x)
1871 - 1876 Émile Le Dentu
1876 - 1883 Richard Jean-Romain
1883 - 1884 Hildebert Bernus
1884 - 1888 Auguste Silvie
1888 - 1893 Hildebert Bernus (3x)
1893 - 1894 J. Cascon
1894 - 1897 ...
1897 N. Montout
1897 - 1900 Delmance Demonchy
1900 - 1911 ...
1911 - 1925 Arnaud Lignieres
1925 - 1933 Georges Favreau
1933 - 1938 Maurice Marie-Claire
1938 - 1941 Maurice Martin
1941 - 194. Louis Constant Fleming
1945 - 1951 Joseph Pitat 1908 - 1969
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