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Paul Ramadierb. 17 Mar 1888, La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime |
| Title: | Président du Conseil des ministres (President of the Council of Ministers) |
| Term: | 22 Jan 1947 - 24 Nov 1947 |
| Chronology: | _, endorsed by vote of the Assemblée nationale (National Assembly), session of the Assembly, Palais-Bourbon, Paris [1] |
| _, appointed on the list of members of the Council of Ministers, decree of the President of the Republic [2] | |
| _, ceased to exercise the duties of office upon the appointment of successor [3] |
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| The son of a psychiatre; educated at a Rodez lyceum; studied law at the Faculty of Law and Philosophy at Toulouse; received doctorate in law from the University of Paris (1911); advocate at the Paris Court of Appeals (from 1908); elected mayor of Decazeville (1919-1941, 1945-1959); councilor general of the canton of Decazeville (1928-1961); affiliated himself with the Socialist Party (Section Française de l'Internationale Ouvrière, SFIO), but later entered the Socialist and Republican Union (Union socialiste et républicaine); elected to the Chambre des députés (Chamber of Deputies), representing Aveyron (1928-1940); served as under-secretary of state for mining (1936-1937) and under-secretary of state for public works (1937–1938); held the portfolio of labor minister (18 Jan 1938 - 13 Mar 1938, 10 Apr 1938 - 23 Aug 1938) in the cabinets of Camille Chautemps and Edouard Daladier; joined the Résistance during World War II; served as minister of supplies (1944-1945) in the cabinet of Charles de Gaulle and as minister of justice (16 Dec 1946 - 22 Jan 1947) in the cabinet of Léon Blum; elected to the Assemblée nationale (National Assembly, 1945-1951, 1956-1958); following the promulgation of constitution of the Fourth Republic, he was appointed President of the Council of Ministers (22 Jan 1947 - 24 Nov 1947) and formed a coalition government of gaullists, socialists and communists (reorganized on 22 Oct 1947: gaullists, socialists, radicals); failed to achieve progress in combating post-war issues, including food shortages and labor protests; served as minister of state (26 Jul 1948 - 5 Sep 1948), minister of national defense (11 Sep 1948 - 28 Oct 1949); president of the International Labor Bureau (1952-1955); minister of economic affairs and finance (14 Feb 1956 - 13 Jun 1957) in the cabinet of Guy Mollet. Biography source: [_] | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sources for election results: [1][4] | |||||||||||||||||||||
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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. N° 81. Mercredi, 12 juillet 1950. P. 5383, 5397-5398. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| [2] | Journal officiel de la République Française. Lois et Décrets. N° 166. Jeudi, 20 juillet 1950. P. 7563. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| [3] | Journal officiel de la République Française. Lois et Décrets. N° 61. Dimanche, 11 mars 1951. P. 2642. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| [4] | Journal officiel de la République Française. Débats parlementaires. Compte rendu in extenso des séances de l'Assemblée nationale et du Conseil de la République. N° 104. Jeudi, 9 août 1951. P. 6275, 6280-6281. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| [5] | Journal officiel de la République Française. Lois et Décrets. N° 188. Samedi, 11 août 1951. P. 8747. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| [6] | Journal officiel de la République Française. Lois et Décrets. N° 18. Lundi, 21 janvier 1952. P. 915. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| [7] | "René Pleven: un Français libre en politique", by Christian Bougeard (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 1995). | ||||||||||||||||||||
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