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Léon-André Blum b. 9 Apr 1872, Paris |
| Title: | Président du Gouvernement provisoire de la République française (President of the Provisional Government of the French Republic) |
| Term: | 12 Dec 1946 - 22 Jan 1947 |
| Chronology: | 12 Dec 1946, election as president proclaimed by the Assemblée nationale (National Assembly), session of the Assembly, Palais-Bourbon, Paris [1] |
| 16 Jan 1947, ceased to exercise the functions of head of state with the installation of President of the Republic | |
| 16 Jan 1947, submitted resignation to President of the Republic; continued in office (styled Président du Gouvernement provisoire de la République française, chargé de l'expédition des affaires courantes) until the appointment of the President of the Council of Ministers by the President of the Republic (22 Jan 1947) |
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Léon Blum was first elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1919. In the elections of 1928 the Socialist Party won 104 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, but Blum himself was defeated. A year later he was returned for Narbonne, which also returned him in 1932 and again in 1936. Blum presided over the Popular Front coalition government in 1936-37. He was the first Socialist and the first Jew to become premier of France. After the liberation of France, Blum emerged as one of France's leading veteran statesmen, and in the spring of 1946 he negotiated a U.S. loan to France of $1,4 billion for postwar reconstruction. In December 1946 he formed a month-long "caretaker government," the first all-Socialist French ministry, pending the election of the first president of the new Fourth Republic. Blum retired from public life in January 1947, but served as vice-premier in André Marie's ministry of August 1948. Biography source: [2] |
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Election record is found in [1]; initial count (Blum: 575, Schuman: 8) was rectified on 13 Dec 1946 after a protest rasised by two deputies, who claimed they did not vote for Blum, but for Schuman. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| [1] | Journal officiel de la République Française. Débats parlementaires. Compte rendu in extenso des séances de l'Assemblée nationale et du Conseil de la République. Année 1946. N° 118. Vendredi, 13 décembre 1946. P. 84. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [2] | "Who's Who in France". | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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