List of heads of state of Dominica

This article lists the governors and other administrators of Dominica (where known), during its time as a colony of the Kingdom of Great Britain (1761–1778; 1784–1800), the Kingdom of France (1778–1784), and the United Kingdom (1800–1978). In 1833, following the creation of the Federal Colony of the Leeward Islands, Dominica's governor was replaced by a Presidents , subordinate to the Governor-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands. In 1895, the president was replaced by an administrator, who remained subordinate to the Governor-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands until 1940, when Dominica was transferred to the Windward Islands Colony. From 1940 to 1958, the administrator was subordinate to the Governor of the Windward Islands. From 1958 to 1962, the presidents was subordinate to the Governor-General of the West Indies Federation. In 1967, the presidents was replaced by a presidents, following Dominica's designation as an Associated State.

List of heads of state of Dominica

#	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office		Political party
1		Thomas Indian Warner	1664	1674
2		Baron Willoughby	1674	1700
3		Tobias Frere	1700	1706
4		Claude Le Grand	1706	1742
5		Descasseaux Bontemps	1742	1754
6		Descasseaux	1754	1754
7		Louis Robert de la Touche de Longpré	1754	1761
8		Lord Rollo	1761	1763
9		Robert Melvill	1763	1765
10		George Scott	1765	1768
11		Sir William Young	1768	1773
12		William Stewart	1773	1774
13		Thomas Shirley	1774	1778
14		William Stewart	1778	1778
15		Marie-Charles du Chilleau	1778	1781
16		Comte de Bourgon	1781	1782
17		M. de Beaupré	1782	1784
18		Sir John Orde	1784	1789
19		Thomas Bruce	1789	1790
20		Sir John Orde	1790	1792
21		Thomas Bruce	1792	1794
22		Henry Hamilton	1794	1796
23		John Matson	1796	1797
24		Andrew James Cochrane Johnstone	1797	1802
25		George Prévost	1802	1805
26		George Metcalfe	1805	1808
27		Edward Barnes	1808	1808
28		James Montgomerie	1808	1809
29		Edward Barnes	1809	1812
30		John Corlet	1812	1813
31		George Robert Ainslie	1813	1814
32		Benjamin Lucas	1814	1816
33		Robert Reid	1816	1816
34		Charles William Maxwell	1816	1819
35		Robert Reid	1819	1820
36		Samuel Ford Whittingham	1820	1821
37		Robert Reid	1821	1822
38		Earl of Huntingdon	1822	1824
39		William Bremner	1824	1824
40		William Nicolay	1824	1827
41		John Laidlaw	1827	1828
42		William Nicolay	1828	1830
43		James Potter Lockhart	1830	1832
44		Evan John Murray Mac Gregor	1832	1833
45		Charles Marsh Schomberg	1833	1835
46		James Potter Lockhart	1835	1837
47		Henry Light	1837	1838
48		John Longley	1838	1838
49		S. Bridgewater	1838	1839
50		John Macphail	1839	1843
51		Dugald Stewart Laidlaw	1843	1845
52		George McDonald	1845	1951
53		Samuel Wensley Blackall	1851	1861
54		Harry St. George Ord	1857	1960
55		George Berkeley	1860	1961
56		Thomas Price	1861	1864
57		William Cleaver Francis Robinson	1864	1865
58		James Robert Longden	1865	1867
59		Henry Ernest Gascoyne Bulwer	1867	1869
60		Sanford Freeling	1869	1871
61		Neale Porter	1871	1872
62		Alexander Wilson Moir	1872	1873
63		Charles Monroe Eldridge	1873	1882
64		James Meade	1882	1887
65		George Ruthven Le Hunte	1887	1894
66		Edward Baynes	1894	1895
67		Philip Arthur Templer	1895	1899
68		Hesketh Bell	1899	1905
69		William Douglas Young	1905	1914
70		Edward Rawle Drayton	1914	1915
71		Arthur William Mahaffy	1915	1919
72		Robert Walter	1919	1923
73		Wilfred Bennett Davidson-Houston	1923	1924
74		Edward Carlyon Eliot	1924	1927
75		Herbert Walter Peebles	1927	1928
76		Edward Carlyon Eliot	1928	1930
77		Thomas Edwin Percival Baynes	1930	1931
78		Walter Andrew Bowring	1931	1933
79		Henry Bradshaw Popham	1933	1937
80		Thomas Edwin Percival Baynes	1937	1938
81		James Scott Neill	1938	1946
82		Edwin Porter Arrowsmith	1946	1952
83		Henry Laurence Lindo	1952	1960
84		Alec Lovelace	1960	3 November 1965
85		Geoffrey Colin Guy	3 November 1965	3 November 1967	Independent
86	File:No image.png	Sir Louis Cools-Lartigue (1905–1993)	3 November 1967	1968	Independent
87		Gerald Austin Winston	1968	1968
88		Sir Louis Cools-Lartigue (1905–1993)	1968	October 1970
89		Eustace Hazelwood Francis	October 1970	3 November 1977
90		Sir Louis Cools-Lartigue (1905–1993)	3 November 1977	3 November 1978
91	File:No image.png	Sir Louis Cools-Lartigue (1905–1993)	3 November 1978	16 January 1979	Independent
92	File:No image.png	Fred Degazon (1913–2008)	16 January 1979	15 June 1979	Independent
93		Pershing Waldron	15 June 1979	15 June 1979
94	File:No image.png	Sir Louis Cools-Lartigue (1905–1993)	15 June 1979	16 June 1979	Independent
95		Fred Degazon (1913–2008)	16 June 1979	21 June 1979	Independent
96	File:Jenner Armour.jpg	Jenner B. M. Armour (1932–2001)	21 June 1979	25 February 1980	Independent
97		Eden Bowers	25 February 1980	25 February 1980
98	File:No image.png	Aurelius Marie (1904–1995)	25 February 1980	19 December 1983	Independent
99		Marie Davis Pierre	19 December 1983	19 December 1983
100	File:No image.png	Clarence Seignoret (1919–2002)	19 December 1983	25 October 1993	Dominica Labour Party
101	File:No image.png	Crispin Sorhaindo	25 October 1993	5 October 1998	Dominica Freedom Party
102		Neva Edwards	1995	1995
103		Crispin Sorhaindo	1995	5 October 1998
104	File:No image.png	Vernon Shaw (1930–2013)	6 October 1998	2000	United Workers' Party
105		Osborne Symes	2000	2000
106		Vernon Shaw (1930–2013)	2000	1 October 2003
107	File:Nicholas Liverpool.jpg	Nicholas Liverpool (1934–2015)	1 October 2003	17 September 2012	Independent
108	File:No image.png	Eliud Williams (1948–)	17 September 2012	2 October 2013	Dominica Labour Party
109		Alix Boyd Knights	2 October 2013	2 October 2013
110	File:Savarin entering (cropped).jpg	Charles Savarin (1943–)	2 October 2013	2 October 2023	Dominica Labour Party
111		Joseph Isaac	10 February 2020	10 February 2020
112	File:Savarin entering (cropped).jpg	Charles Savarin (1943–)	10 February 2020	2 October 2023
113	File:No image.png	Sylvanie Burton (1965–)	2 October 2023	Incumbent	Dominica Labour Party

See also

• List of presidents of Dominica

References

• Rulers.org
• World Statesmen