List of Governors of Louisiana - Definition and Overview

List of Governors of Louisiana

First French Era

• Sieur Sauvole de la Villantry 1699-1701
• Jean Baptiste de la Moyne, Sieur de Bienville 1701-1713
• Antonine de la Mothe Cadillac 1713-1716
• Jean Baptiste de la Moyne 1716-1717
• De l'Epinay 1717-1718
• Jean Baptiste de la Moyne 1718-1724
• Pierre Dugue, Sieur de Boisbriant 1724-1726
• Etienne Perier 1726-1733
• Jean Baptiste de la Moyne 1733-1743
• Pierre de Cavagnal, Marquis de Vaudreuil 1743-1753
• Louis Billouart, Chevalier de Kerlerec 1753-1763
• Jean Jacques D'Abbadie 1763-1765
• Charles Philippe Aubry 1765-1766

France to Spain transition period

• Charles Philippe Aubry 1766-1769
• Antonio de Ulloa 1766-1768 (Appointed by Spain, not recognized by the colony)

Era of rule by Spain

• Alejandro O'Reilly (Captain General) 1769
• Luis de Unzaga 1770-1777
• Bernardo de Galvez 1777-1785
• Estevan Miro 1785-1791
• Francisco Luis Hector, Baron de Carondelet 1791-1797
• Manuel Gayoso de Lemos 1797-1798
• Sebastian de la Puerta y O'Farril, Marquis de Casa Calvo 1799-1801
• Juan Manuel de Salcedo 1801-1803

Second French period

• Pierre Clement de Laussat 1803

United States territorial period

Note: from 1804 to 1812, what would later become the State of Louisiana was known as the "Orleans Territory". The contemporary "Louisiana Territory" was to the north, and did not including modern Louisiana.

• William Charles Cole Claiborne 1803-1812

First period of U.S. statehood

American Civil War Era

Governors of Confederate States of America held territory in Louisiana

• Thomas Overton Moore Democratic 1862-1864
• Henry W. Allen Democratic 1864-1865

Governors of Union held territory in Louisiana

• George F. Shepley 1862-1864
• Michael Hahn Republican 1864-1865

Reconstruction Era

Second U.S. Statehood Era