List of governors of pre-independence Sudan
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The governors of pre-independence Sudan were the colonial administrators responsible for the territory of Turco-Egyptian Sudan and Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, an area equivalent to modern-day Sudan and South Sudan.
List
[edit](Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)
Tenure | Portrait | Incumbent | Notes |
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Turco-Egyptian Sudan | |||
November 1820 to 1821 | Isma'il Kamil Pasha, Commander |
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April 1821 to September 1824 | Muhammad Bey Defterdar, Commander |
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September 1824 to May 1825 | Osman Bey Jarkas, Commander |
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May 1825 to March 1826 | Mahu Bey Urfali, Commander |
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March 1826 to 1835 | Ali Khurshid Agha, Governor |
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1835 to June 1838 | Ali Khurshid Pasha, Hakimdar |
Governor-General | |
June 1838 to 6 October 1843 | Ahmad Pasha abu Widan, Hakimdar |
Governor-General | |
1843 to 1845 | Ahmad Pasha Manikli (Manliki), Hakimdar |
Governor-General | |
1845 to 1850 | Khalid Khusraw Pasha, Hakimdar |
Governor-General | |
1850 to January 1851 | 'Abd al-Latif Pasha, Hakimdar |
Governor-General | |
January 1851 to May 1852 | Rustum Pasha Jarkas, Hakimdar |
Governor-General | |
May 1852 to 1853 | Isma'il Haqqi Pasha abu Jabal, Hakimdar |
Governor-General | |
1853 to 1854 | Salim Pasha Sa'ib al-Jaza'irli, Hakimdar |
Governor-General | |
July 1854 to November 1854 | Ali Pasha Sirri al-Arna'ut, Hakimdar |
Governor-General | |
1854 to 1855 | Ali Pasha Jarkas, Governor |
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1856 to 1858 | Arakil Bey al-Armani, Governor |
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1859 to 1861 | Hasan Bey Salama Jarkas, Governor |
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1861 to 1862 | Muhammad Rasikh Bey, Governor |
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1862 to 1865 | Mūsā Pasha Ḥamdī, Hakimdar |
Governor-General | |
1865 to November 1865 | 'Umar Bey Fakhri, acting Hakimdar |
acting Governor-General | |
November 1865 to 1866 | Ja'afar Pasha Sadiq, Hakimdar |
Governor-General | |
1866 to 5 February 1871 | Ja'afar Pasha Mazhar, Hakimdar |
Governor-General | |
5 February 1871 to October 1872 | Ahmad Mumtaz Pasha, Hakimdar |
Governor-General | |
October 1872 to 1872 | Edhem Pasha al-Arifi at-Atqalawi, acting Hakimdar |
acting Governor-General | |
1872 to 18 May 1877 | ![]() |
Al-Zubayr Rahma Mansur, Hakimdar |
Governor-General |
May 1877 to December 1879 | ![]() |
Charles George Gordon ("Gordon Pasha"), Hakimdar |
Governor-General, 1st time |
December 1879 to February 1882 | ![]() |
Muhammad Rauf Pasha, Hakimdar |
Governor-General |
4 March 1882 to 11 May 1882 | ![]() |
Carl Christian Giegler ("Giegler Pasha"), acting Hakimdar |
acting Governor-General |
May 1882 to March 1883 | 'Abd al-Qadir Pasha Hilmi, Hakimdar |
Governor-General | |
March 1883 to 5 November 1883 | 'Ala al-Din Pasha Siddiq, Hakimdar |
Governor-General | |
February 1884 to 18 February 1884 | Henry Watts Russell de Coetlogon, acting Hakimdar |
acting Governor-General | |
18 February 1884 to 26 January 1885 | ![]() |
Charles George Gordon ("Gordon Pasha"), Hakimdar |
Governor-General, 2nd time; Killed at the end of the Siege of Khartoum |
26 January 1885 to 2 October 1898 | Territory of Turkish Sudan under complete control of Mahdiyah (Mahdist State) | ||
Mahdist State | |||
29 June 1881 to 22 June 1885 | ![]() |
Muhammad Ahmad, Mahdi |
Self-proclaimed Mahdi, Islamic Messiah |
22 June 1885 to 2 September 1898 | ![]() |
Abdallahi ibn Muhammad, Khalifa |
Self-proclaimed Caliph, successor to Muhammad Ahmad; Defeated in the Battle of Omdurman, and later killed in the Battle of Umm Diwaykarat |
British Military Administration | |||
2 September 1898 to 19 January 1899 | ![]() |
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, Military Governor |
Simultaneously served as Sirdar |
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (condominium) | |||
19 January 1899 to 22 December 1899 | ![]() |
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, Governor-General |
Simultaneously served as Sirdar |
22 December 1899 to 31 December 1916 | ![]() |
Sir Francis Reginald Wingate, Governor-General |
Simultaneously served as Sirdar |
1 January 1917 to 20 November 1924 | ![]() |
Sir Lee Oliver Fitzmaurice Stack, Governor-General |
Simultaneously served as Sirdar; assassinated in Cairo[1] |
21 November 1924 to 5 January 1925 | Wasey Sterry acting Governor-General |
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5 January 1925 to 6 July 1926 | ![]() |
Sir Geoffrey Francis Archer, Governor-General |
The first civilian Governor-General[2] |
31 October 1926 to 10 January 1934 | ![]() |
Sir John Loader Maffey, Governor-General |
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10 January 1934 to 19 October 1940 | ![]() |
Sir George Stewart Symes, Governor-General |
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19 October 1940 to 8 April 1947 | Sir Hubert Jervoise Huddleston, Governor-General |
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8 April 1947 to 29 March 1954 | Sir Robert George Howe, Governor-General |
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29 March 1954 to 12 December 1955 | ![]() |
Sir Alexander Knox Helm, Governor-General |
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12 December 1955 to 1 January 1956 | Muhammad Ahmad Abu Rannat, acting Governor-General |
Chief Justice of Sudan | |
1 January 1956 | Independence as Republic of the Sudan |
For continuation after independence, see: List of heads of state of Sudan
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "The Assassination of Sir Lee Stack". The Townsville Daily Bulletin. 24 November 2014. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
- ^ Ibrahim, Hassan Ahmed (2004). Sayyid ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Mahdī: a study of neo-Mahdīsm in the Sudan, 1899–1956. BRILL. p. 92. ISBN 90-04-13854-4.
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