List of colonial governors of Italian Tripolitania

Governor of Italian Tripolitania
Governatore della Tripolitania Italiana
Coat of arms of Italian Tripolitania
Longest serving Pietro Badoglio 18 December 1928 – 31 December 1933
Reports to	King of Italy
Formation	5 October 1911
First holder	Raffaele Borea Ricci d'Olmo
Final holder	Pietro Badoglio
Abolished	31 December 1933
Succession	Governor-General of Italian Libya

Map of traditional provinces of Libya, with Tripolitania marked in green.

This article lists the colonial governors of Italian Tripolitania from 1911 to 1934. They administered the territory on behalf of the Kingdom of Italy.

List

Complete list of colonial governors of Italian Tripolitania:

No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office
			Took office	Left office	Time in office
Italian Suzerainty
1		Vice admiral Raffaele Borea Ricci d'Olmo (1857–1942)	5 October 1911	13 October 1911	8 days
2		Major general Carlo Caneva (1845–1922)	13 October 1911	5 November 1911	23 days
Italian Tripolitania Protectorate
2		Major general Carlo Caneva (1845–1922)	5 November 1911	2 September 1912	302 days
3		Major general Ottavio Ragni (1852–1919)	2 September 1912	2 June 1913	273 days
4		Lieutenant general Vincenzo Garioni (1856–1929)	2 June 1913	1 October 1914	1 year, 121 days
5		Divisional general Giorgio Cigliana (1857–1919)	2 October 1914	16 November 1914	45 days
6		Lieutenant general Luigi Druetti (1853–1919)	16 November 1914	5 February 1915	81 days
7		Lieutenant general Giulio Cesare Tassoni (1859–1942)	5 February 1915	15 July 1915	160 days
8		Lieutenant general Giovanni Ameglio (1854–1921)	15 July 1915	8 August 1918	3 years, 24 days
(4)		Lieutenant general Vincenzo Garioni (1856–1929)	8 August 1918	8 August 1919	1 year
9		Vittorio Menzinger (1861–1925)	16 August 1919	6 July 1920	325 days
–		Ugo Niccoli (1868–?) Acting	6 July 1920	31 July 1920	25 days
10		Luigi Mercatelli (1853–1922)	1 August 1920	16 July 1921	349 days
–		Eduardo Baccari (1871–1952) Acting	16 July 1921	24 August 1921	39 days
11		Giuseppe Volpi (1877–1947)	24 August 1921	12 November 1922	1 year, 80 days
Italian Tripolitania Colony
11		Giuseppe Volpi (1877–1947)	12 November 1922	3 July 1925	2 years, 233 days
12		Marshal Emilio De Bono (1866–1944)	3 July 1925	18 December 1928	3 years, 168 days
12		Marshal Pietro Badoglio (1871–1956)	18 December 1928	31 December 1933	5 years, 13 days

For continuation after unification, see: List of governors-general of Italian Libya

See also

• Ottoman Tripolitania
  • Pasha of Tripoli
• Italian Libya
  • List of governors-general of Italian Libya
• Italian Cyrenaica
  • List of colonial governors of Italian Cyrenaica
• Italian Tripolitania