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French Consul Agent
1858 - 4 Jun 1859 Henri Lambert
(d. 1859)
Commissioner
29 Dec 1883 - 24 Jun 1884 Léonce Lagarde, vicomte
de (b. 1860 - d. 1936)
Rouffeyroux
Commandant
24 Jun 1884 - 5 Sep 1887 Léonce Lagarde, vicomte
de (s.a.)
Rouffeyroux
Governors
5 Sep 1887 - 7 Mar 1899 Léonce Lagarde,
vicomte de (s.a.)
Rouffeyroux
7 Mar 1899 - 23 Mar 1899 Louis Alexandre Antoine Mizon
(b. 1853 - d. 1899)
(acting)
28 Mar 1899 - 13 Apr 1900 Alfred Albert Martineau
(b. 1859 - d. 1945)
13 Apr 1900 - 6 Dec 1900 Gabriel Louis Angoulvant (acting)
(b. 1872 - d. 1932)
6 Dec 1900 - 2 Apr 1904 Adrien Jules Jean Bonhoure
(b. 1860 - d. 19..)
7 Sep 1901 - Jun 1902 Louis Auguste
Bertrand Ormières (b. 1851 - d. 19..)
(1st time)(acting for Bonhoure)
23 May 1903 - Dec 1903 Albert Dubarry (1st
time)
(acting for Bonhoure)
2 Apr 1904 - 5 Aug 1904 Albert Dubarry (2nd time)
(acting)
5 Aug 1904 - 1915
Pierre Hubert Auguste Pascal
9 Sep 1905 - 13 Oct 1905 Raphaël Antonetti
(b. 1872 - d. 1938)
(acting for Pascal)
13 Oct 1905 - 19 May 1906 Louis Auguste Bertrand Ormières
(s.a.)
(2nd time)(acting for Pascal)
19 May 1906 - 19 Jun 1906 Patte (acting for Pascal)
Jul 1908 - 5 Jul 1909 Jean Baptiste
Castaing (1st time)
(acting for Pascal)
Jun 1911 - Dec 1911 Jean
Baptiste Castaing (2nd time)
(acting for Pascal)
1915 - 1916
Paul Simoni
1916 - 1918
Victor Marie Fillon
1918 - 1924
Jules Gérard Auguste Lauret
(b. 1866 - d. 19..)
1924 - 1932
Pierre Aimable Chapon-Baissac
1932 - 1934
Louis Placide Blacher
(b. 1883 - d. 1960)
6 Aug 1934 - 18 Jul 1935 Jules Marcel de Coppet
(b. 1881 - d. 1968)
18 Jul 1935 - 20 Dec 1935 Achille Louis Auguste Silvestre (b. 1879 - d. 1937)
20 Dec 1935 - 1 May 1937 Armand Léon Annet
(b. 1888 - d. 1973)
1 May 1937 - 27 Apr 1938 Marie François Julien
Pierre-Alype (b. 1886 - d. 1956)
(acting to 19 Mar 1938)
27 Apr 1938 - 25 Jul 1940 Hubert Jules Deschamps
(b. 1900 - d. 1979)
(acting to 2 May 1939)
25 Jul 1940 - 2 Sep 1940 Gaëtan Louis Elie Germain
2 Sep 1940 - 21 Oct 1942 Pierre Marie Elie Louis
(b. 1894 - d. 1985)
Nouailhetas
21 Oct 1942 - 4 Dec 1942 Truffert
4 Dec 1942 - 28 Dec 1942 Edmond Gustave Dupont (acting)
(b. 1888 - d. 1957)
30 Dec 1942 - 22 Jun 1943 Ange Marie Charles André
(b. 1896 - d. 1947)
Bayardelle
22 Jun 1943 - 1 May 1944 Michel Raphaël Antoine
Saller (b. 1899 - d. 1976)
(acting to 7 Jan 1944)
1 May 1944 - 30 Apr 1946 Jean Victor Louis Joseph Chalvet
(b. 1893 - d. 1975)
30 Apr 1946 - 1 Mar 1950 Paul Henri Siriex
(b. 1908)
1 Mar 1950 - 6 Apr 1954 Numa François
Henri Sadoul (b. 1906 -
d. 1990)
6 Apr 1954 - 13 Aug 1954 Roland Joanes Louis Pré
(b. 1907 - d. 1980)
13 Aug 1954 - 7 Aug 1957 René Jean Albert Petitbon
(b. 1902 - d. 19..)
7 Aug 1957 - 1958
Maurice Meker
21 Oct 1958 - 16 Nov 1962 Jacques Marie Julien Compain
(b. 1912 - d. 1984)
16 Nov 1962 - 15 Sep 1966 René Tirant
(b. 1907)
15 Sep 1966 - 3 Jul 1967 Louis Joseph Édouard
Saget (b. 1915)
High Commissioners
3 Jul 1967 - 5 Feb 1969 Louis Joseph Édouard
Saget (s.a.)
5 Feb 1969 - 21 Aug 1971 Dominique Ponchardier
(b. 1917 - d. 1986)
21 Aug 1971 - 1 Aug 1974 Georges Thiercy
(b. 1915)
1 Aug 1974 - 9 Feb 1976 Christian Dablanc
(b. 1931 - d. 1989)
9 Feb 1976 - 27 Jun 1977 Camille d'Ornano
Presidents
27 Jun 1977 - 8 May 1999 Hassan Gouled Aptidon (Issa)
(b. 1916 - d. 2006) RPP
8 May 1999 -
Ismail Omar Guelleh (Issa)
(b. 1947)
RPP/UMP
Vice presidents of the Government Council
1957 - Dec 1958
Mahamoud Harbi Farah (Fourlaba) (b. 1921 - d. 1960)
PMP
Dec 1958 - Apr 1959 Hassan
Gouled Aptidon (Issa) (s.a.)
PMP
Apr 1959 - Jun 1960 Ahmed
Dini Ahmed (Afar)
(b. 1932 - d. 2004) LPAI
Jun 1960 - 1966
Ali Aref Bourhan (Afar)
(b. 1934)
UNI
1966 - 1967
Abdallah Mohamed Kamil (Afar) (b.
1936)
RDA
Presidents of the Government Council
7 Jul 1967 - 29 Jul 1976 Ali Aref Bourhan (Afar)
(s.a.)
UNI
29 Jul 1976 - 18 May 1977 Abdallah Mohamed Kamil (Afar)
(s.a.)
RDA
Prime ministers
18 May 1977 - 12 Jul 1977 Hassan Gouled Aptidon (Issa)
(s.a.)
RPP
12 Jul 1977 - 5 Feb 1978 Ahmed Dini Ahmed (Afar)
(s.a.)
RPP
5 Feb 1978 - 2 Oct 1978 Abdallah Mohamed Kamil
(Afar) (s.a.)
RPP
2 Oct 1978 - 7 Mar 2001 Barkat Gourad Hamadou
(Afar) (b. 1930)
RPP
7 Mar 2001 -
Dileita Mohamed Dileita (Afar) (b. 1958)
RPP/UMP
Note: The Ethno-linguistic group of leaders, which plays
an important role in politics,
is listed in parentheses after the leaders name when known i.e.
(Issa).
Territorial Disputes: Djibouti maintains economic ties and border accords with "Somaliland" leadership while maintaining some political ties to various factions in Somalia; Kuwait is chief investor in the 2008 restoration and upgrade of the Ethiopian-Djibouti rail link.
Party abbreviations: RPP = Rassemblement populaire
pour le Progrès (Popular Assembly for Progress Party, authoritarian,
only legal party 1981-1992); UMP = Union pour la Majorité
Présidentielle (Union for Presidential Majority, coalition of
RPP, Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy [FRUD], National
Democratic Party [PND], and the Social Democratic People's Party [PPSD],
pro-Guelleh, est.2003);
- Former parties: LPAI = Ligue Populaire Africaine
pour l'Indépendance (African People's League for Independence);
PMP
= Parti Mouvement Populaire (People's Movement Party);
RDA = Rassemblement Démocratique Afar (Afar Democratic
Rally); UNI = Union Nationale pour l'Indépendance (National
Union for Independence)
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