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[[File:091 kamerun (1905).png|thumb|German Cameroon (bordered in ''red''), 1905.]]
[[File:Cameroon boundary changes.PNG|thumb|'''Cameroon 1901&ndash;1972'''
{{legend|darkorange|[[Kamerun|German Cameroon]]}}
{{legend|red|[[British Cameroon]]}}
{{legend|blue|[[French Cameroon]]}}
{{legend|green|Republic of [[Cameroon]]}}]]

This article lists the '''colonial governors of [[Cameroon]]'''. It encompasses the period when the country was under [[German colonial empire|colonial rule]] of the [[German Empire]] (as [[Kamerun]]), [[military occupation]] of the territory by the [[Allies of World War I|Allies]] of [[World War I]] (during the [[Kamerun campaign]] of the [[African theatre of World War I|African theatre]]), as well as the period when it was a Class B [[League of Nations mandate#Class B mandates|League of Nations mandate]] and a [[United Nations trust territories|United Nation trust territory]], under the administration of [[France]] (as [[French Cameroon]]) and the [[United Kingdom]] (as [[British Cameroons]]) respectively.

==List==

(Dates in italics indicate ''de facto'' continuation of office)

===German Kamerun===

{| class="wikitable"
|- align=left
! Tenure
! width=60px|Portrait
! Incumbent
! Notes
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|14 July 1884 to 19 July 1884||[[File:Gustav Nachtigal by Hanfstaengl (cropped).jpg|60px]] ||'''[[Gustav Nachtigal]]''', <br>Kommissar||Commissioner
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|19 July 1884 to 1 April 1885|| ||'''[[Maximilian Buchner]]''', <br>acting Kommissar||acting Commissioner
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|1 April 1885 to 4 July 1885||[[File:Eduard von Knorr.jpg|60px]]||'''[[Eduard von Knorr]]''', <br>acting Kommissar||acting Commissioner
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|4 July 1885 to 14 February 1891||[[File:Julius von Soden.jpg|60px]]||'''[[Julius von Soden]]''', <br>Governor||
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|13 May 1887 to 4 October 1887||[[File:Erich Sellin - Jesko von Puttkamer (1905).jpg|60px]]||'''[[Jesko von Puttkamer]]''', <br>acting Governor||Acting for Soden, 1st time
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|4 October 1887 to 17 January 1888||rowspan=2|[[File:Eugen von Zimmerer (restored).png|60px]]||rowspan=2|'''[[Eugen von Zimmerer]]''', <br>acting Governor||Acting for Soden, 1st time
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|26 December 1889 to 17 April 1890||Acting for Soden, 2nd time
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|17 April 1890 to 3 August 1890|| ||'''[[Markus Graf von Pfeil]]''', <br>acting Governor||Acting for Soden
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|3 August 1890 to 14 August 1890|| ||'''Kurz''', <br>acting Governor||Acting for Soden
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|14 August 1890 to 2 December 1890||[[File:Erich Sellin - Jesko von Puttkamer (1905).jpg|60px]]||'''[[Jesko von Puttkamer]]''', <br>acting Governor||Acting for Soden, 2nd time
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|2 December 1890 to 15 April 1891|| ||'''{{ill|Heinrich Leist|de}}''', <br>acting Governor||Acting for Soden to 14 February 1891, 1st time
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|15 April 1891 to 13 August 1895||[[File:Eugen von Zimmerer (restored).png|60px]]||'''[[Eugen von Zimmerer]]''', <br>Governor||
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|7 August 1891 to 5 January 1892||[[File:Bruno von Schuckmann.jpg|60px]]||'''[[Bruno von Schuckmann]]''', <br>acting Governor||Acting for Zimmerer
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|27 June 1893 to 24 February 1894|| ||'''{{ill|Heinrich Leist|de}}''', <br>acting Governor||Acting for Zimmerer, 2nd time
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|31 December 1894 to 27 March 1895||[[File:Erich Sellin - Jesko von Puttkamer (1905).jpg|60px]]||'''[[Jesko von Puttkamer]]''', <br>acting Governor||Acting for Zimmerer, 3rd time
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|27 March 1895 to 4 May 1895|| ||'''von Lucke''', <br>acting Governor||Acting for Zimmerer
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|13 August 1895 to 9 May 1907||[[File:Erich Sellin - Jesko von Puttkamer (1905).jpg|60px]]||'''[[Jesko von Puttkamer]]''', <br>Governor||
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|27 October 1895 to 10 September 1897||rowspan=2|[[File:Theodor Seitz.jpg|60px]]||rowspan=2|'''[[Theodor Seitz]]''', <br>acting Governor||Acting for Puttkamer, 1st time
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|12 January 1898 to 13 October 1898||Acting for Puttkamer, 2nd time
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|17 January 1900 to 31 July 1900||[[File:August Köhler.jpg|60px]]||'''{{ill|August Köhler (governor)|de|August Köhler (Gouverneur)|lt=August Köhler}}''', <br>acting Governor||Acting for Puttkamer
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|1 August 1900 to 6 September 1900|| ||'''[[Emil Diehl]]''', <br>acting Governor||Acting for Puttkamer
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|6 September 1900 to 15 November 1900|| ||'''{{ill|Oltwig von Kamptz|de}}''', <br>acting Governor||Acting for Puttkamer
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|3 February 1902 to 3 October 1902|| ||'''{{ill|Albert Plehn|de}}''', <br>acting Governor||Acting for Puttkamer
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|9 May 1904 to 8 November 1904||[[File:Karl Ebermaier.jpg|60px]] ||'''[[Karl Ebermaier]]''', <br>acting Governor||Acting for Puttkamer
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|9 November 1904 to 31 January 1905||[[File:Gleim, Otto (1866-1929).jpg|60px]]||'''{{ill|Otto Gleim|de}}''', <br>acting Governor||Acting for Puttkamer, 1st time
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|January 1906 to November 1906|| ||'''[[Franz Ludwig Wilhelm Müller]]''', <br>acting Governor||Acting for Puttkamer
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|November 1906 to 9 May 1907||[[File:Gleim, Otto (1866-1929).jpg|60px]]||'''{{ill|Otto Gleim|de}}''', <br>acting Governor||Acting for Puttkamer, 2nd time
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|9 May 1907 to 27 August 1910||[[File:Theodor Seitz.jpg|60px]]||'''[[Theodor Seitz]]''', <br>Governor||
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|10 February 1909 to October 1909|| ||'''[[Wilhelm Peter Hansen]]''', <br>acting Governor||Acting for Seitz, 1st time
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|28 August 1910 to 29 January 1912||[[File:Gleim, Otto (1866-1929).jpg|60px]]||'''{{ill|Otto Gleim|de}}''', <br>Governor||
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|August 1910 to September 1910|| ||'''[[Theodor Steinhausen]]''', <br>acting Governor||Acting for Gleim
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|September 1910 to 25 October 1910||rowspan=2| ||rowspan=2|'''[[Wilhelm Peter Hansen]]''', <br>acting Governor||Acting for Gleim, 2nd time
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|October 1911 to 29 January 1912||Acting for Gleim, 3rd time
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|29 January 1912 to 4 March 1916||[[File:Karl Ebermaier.jpg|60px]]||'''[[Karl Ebermaier]]''', <br>Governor||
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|9 October 1913 to 1914|| ||'''[[August Full]]''', <br>acting Governor||Acting for Ebermaier
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|(26 September 1914)||colspan="3"|''Occupation by [[Great Britain]] and [[France]] begins''
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|4 March 1916||colspan="3"|''[[Germany]] surrenders territory to occupying powers''
|}

===Allied occupation of German Cameroon===

{| class="wikitable"
|- align=left
! Tenure
! width=60px|Portrait
! Incumbent
! Notes
|- valign=top
|26 August 1914 to ''7 April 1916''||rowspan=2|[[File:Joseph Gaudérique Aymerich.jpg|60px]]||'''[[Joseph Gaudérique Aymerich]]''', <br>Military Commander||Military Commander of French Cameroon
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|''7 April 1916'' to 8 October 1916||'''[[Joseph Gaudérique Aymerich]]''', <br>Administrator||Administrator of French Cameroon
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|8 October 1916 to 6 March 1919|| ||'''[[Lucien Louis Fourneau]]''', <br>Administrator||Administrator of French Cameroon
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|6 March 1919 to 28 June 1919||[[File:Jules Carde 1923.jpg|60px]]||'''[[Jules Carde]]''', <br>Commissioner||Commissioner of French Cameroon
|- valign=top
|28 June 1919||colspan="4"|''Formal division into [[French Cameroons|French]] and [[British Cameroons]]''
|}

===French Cameroon===

{| class="wikitable"
|- align=left
! Tenure
! width=60px|Portrait
! Incumbent
! Notes
|- valign=top
|colspan="4"|'''French-occupied territory'''
|- valign=top
|7 April 1916 to 8 October 1916||[[File:Joseph Gaudérique Aymerich.jpg|60px]]||'''[[Joseph Gaudérique Aymerich]]''', <br>Administrator||
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|8 October 1916 to 6 March 1919|| ||'''[[Lucien Louis Fourneau]]''', <br>Administrator||
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|6 March 1919 to ''20 July 1922''||[[File:Jules Carde 1923.jpg|60px]]||'''[[Jules Carde]]''', <br>Commissioner||Acting to 7 December 1919
|- valign=top 
|colspan="4"|'''French Cameroons (''[[League of Nations mandate]]'')'''
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|''20 July 1922'' to March 1923||[[File:Jules Carde 1923.jpg|60px]]||'''[[Jules Carde]]''', <br>Commissioner||
|- valign=top
|September 1920 to June 1921|| ||'''[[Paul Auguste François Bonnecarrère]]''', <br>acting Commissioner||Acting for Carde
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|March 1923 to 29 April 1923|| ||'''[[Albéric Auguste Fournier]]''', <br>acting Commissioner||
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|29 April 1923 to 31 August 1932|| ||'''[[Théodore Paul Marchand]]''', <br>Commissioner||1st time
|- valign=top
|27 December 1924 to 11 May 1925||rowspan=4| ||rowspan=4|'''[[Ernest Augustin Bleu]]''', <br>acting Commissioner||Acting for Marchand, 1st time
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|2 March 1926 to 31 October 1926||Acting for Marchand, 2nd time
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|26 April 1929 to 26 October 1929||Acting for Marchand, 3rd time
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|19 June 1931 to 6 February 1932||Acting for Marchand, 4th time
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|31 August 1932 to 7 July 1934|| ||'''[[Paul Auguste François Bonnecarrère]]''', <br>Commissioner||Acting to 22 September 1932
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|7 July 1934 to 1936|| ||'''[[Jules Vincent Repiquet]]''', <br>Commissioner||
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|1936 to January 1937|| ||'''[[Gaston Camille Guibet]]''', <br>acting Commissioner||
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|January 1937 to 16 November 1938|| ||'''[[Pierre François Boisson]]''', <br>Commissioner||
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|7 October 1937 to 9 March 1938|| ||'''[[Pierre Émile Aubert]]''', <br>acting Commissioner||Acting for Boisson
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|16 November 1938 to 27 August 1940|| ||'''[[Richard Edmond Maurice Édouard Brunot]]''', <br>Commissioner||
|- valign=top
|27 August 1940 to 20 November 1940||[[File:Leclerc-casque.jpg|60px]]||'''[[Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque]]''', <br>Governor||
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|20 November 1940 to 20 July 1943|| ||'''[[Pierre Charles Albert Cournarie]]''', <br>Governor||
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|20 July 1943 to 15 November 1944|| ||'''[[Hubert Eugène Paul Carras]]''', <br>Governor||
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|15 November 1944 to 16 January 1946|| ||'''[[Henri Pierre Nicolas]]''', <br>Governor||
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|16 January 1946 to 16 March 1946|| ||'''[[Adrien Émile Amédée Léger]]''', <br>acting Governor||
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|16 March 1946 to ''13 December 1946''|| ||'''[[Robert Delavignette]]''', <br>High Commissioner||
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|colspan="4"|'''French Cameroons (''[[United Nations trust territories|United Nations trust territory]]'')'''
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|''13 December 1946'' to 25 March 1947|| ||'''[[Robert Delavignette]]''', <br>High Commissioner||
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|25 March 1947 to April 1947|| ||'''[[Robert Casimir]]''', <br>acting High Commissioner||1st time
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|April 1947 to 7 July 1949|| ||'''[[René Hoffherr]]''', <br>High Commissioner||
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|7 July 1949 to 10 January 1950|| ||'''[[Robert Casimir]]''', <br>acting High Commissioner||2nd time
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|10 January 1950 to 2 December 1954|| ||'''[[Jean Louis Marie André Soucadoux]]''', <br>High Commissioner||
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|2 December 1954 to 17 April 1956|| ||'''[[Roland Joanes Louis Pré]]''', <br>High Commissioner||
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|17 April 1956 to 29 January 1958||[[File:Pierre Messmer01 (cropped 2).JPG|60px]]||'''[[Pierre Messmer]]''', <br>High Commissioner||
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|29 January 1958 to 19 February 1958|| ||'''[[Jean Paul Ramadier]]''', <br>High Commissioner||
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|19 February 1958 to 1 January 1960|| ||'''[[Xavier Antoine Torre]]''', <br>High Commissioner||
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|1 January 1960||colspan="3"|''Independence as '''[[Cameroon|Republic of Cameroon]]'''''
|}

===British Cameroons===

{| class="wikitable"
|- align=left
! Tenure
! width=60px|Portrait
! Incumbent
! Notes
|- valign=top
|colspan="4"|'''British-occupied territory'''
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|1916|| ||'''[[Kenneth V. Elphinstone]]''', <br>Resident||
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|1916 to 1917|| ||'''[[E. C. Duff]]''', <br>Resident||
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|1917 to 1919|| ||'''[[P. V. Young]]''', <br>Resident||
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|1919|| ||'''[[W. G. Ambrose]]''', <br>Resident||
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|1919|| ||'''John C. Maxwell''', <br>Resident||
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|1919 to ''20 July 1920''|| ||'''[[John Davidson (British Army officer)|Sir John H. Davidson]]''', <br>Resident||
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|colspan="4"|'''British Cameroons (''[[League of Nations mandate]]'')'''
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|''20 July 1920'' to 1921?|| ||'''[[John Davidson (British Army officer)|Sir John H. Davidson]]''', <br>Resident||
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|1921 to 1925|| ||'''[[Fitz Herbert Ruxton]]''', <br>Senior Resident||
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|1925|| ||'''[[William Edgar Hunt]]''', <br>acting District Officer||
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|1925 to 1928|| ||'''[[Edward John Arnett]]''', <br>Senior Resident||1st time
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|1928 to 1929|| ||'''[[H. J. Aveling]]''', <br>acting Resident||
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|1929 to 1932|| ||'''[[Edward John Arnett]]''', <br>Resident||2nd time
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|1932 to 1933|| ||'''[[Frederick Bernard Carr]]''', <br>District Officer||
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|1933|| ||'''[[George Hugo Findlay]]''', <br>Senior Resident||
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|1933 to 1935|| ||'''[[John Wynne Corrie Rutherfoord]]''', <br>Resident||
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|1935 to 1938|| ||'''[[O. W. Firth]]''', <br>Senior Resident||
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|1938 to 1939|| ||'''[[Ludlow Sealy-King]]''', <br>acting Resident||1st time
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|1939 to 1942|| ||'''[[Arthur Evelyn Francis Murray]]''', <br>Senior Resident||
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|1942 to 1943|| ||'''[[Ludlow Sealy-King]]''', <br>Resident||2nd time
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|1943 to 194?|| ||'''[[James Macrae Simpson]]''', <br>Resident||
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|194? to 25 February 1945|| ||'''[[Percy Graham Harris]]''', <br>Resident||
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|20 March 1945 to 10 October 1945|| ||'''[[Alfred Leeming]]''', <br>Senior District Officer||
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|1945|| ||'''[[Reuben John Hook]]''', <br>acting Resident||
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|1945 to 1946|| ||'''[[Frank B. Bridges]]''', <br>Resident||
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|14 February 1946 to ''13 December 1946''|| ||'''[[Neil Mackenzie]]''', <br>Senior District Officer||
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|colspan="4"|'''British Cameroons (''[[United Nations trust territories|United Nations trust territory]]'')'''
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|''13 December 1946'' to 4 August 1949|| ||'''[[Neil Mackenzie]]''', <br>Senior District Officer||
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|25 August 1949 to 31 December 1949|| ||'''[[Doyle Arthur Fitzroy Shute]]''', <br>Senior Resident||
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|1949 to ''1 October 1954''|| ||'''[[Edward John Gibbons]]''', <br>Special Resident||
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|1 October 1954||colspan="3"|''Autonomous territory within [[Colonial Nigeria|Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria]]''
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|''1 October 1954'' to 1956|| ||'''[[Edward John Gibbons]]''', <br>Commissioner||
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|1956 to 1 October 1961||[[File:Sir John Osbaldiston Field.jpg|60px]]||'''[[John Osbaldiston Field]]''', <br>Commissioner||
|-
|1 June 1961||colspan="3"|''Northern British Cameroons incorporated into [[Federation of Nigeria]]''
|-
|1 October 1961||colspan="3"|''Southern British Cameroons incorporated into [[Cameroon|Republic of Cameroon]]''
|}

For continuation after independence, ''see: ''[[List of presidents of Cameroon]]

==See also==
* [[President of Cameroon]]
** [[List of presidents of Cameroon]]
* [[Prime Minister of Cameroon]]
** [[List of prime ministers of Cameroon]]
* [[List of heads of government of French Cameroon]]
* [[List of heads of government of British Cameroons]]
* [[History of Cameroon]]
* [[Politics of Cameroon]]

==External links==
* [http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Cameroon.html World Statesmen – Cameroon]

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[[Category:Colonial history of Cameroon|Governors]]
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