André Jeanbon, dit Jeanbon Saint-André

Born in the family of a fuller; attended a college at Montauban (1759-1765); was trained as sailor at Bordeaux (1765-1766); served in the merchant navy (1766-1771); studied at the Lausanne seminary (1771-1773) and became a Protestant minister at Castres (1773-1783) and afterwards at Montauban (1788-1790); appointed a municipal officer at Montauban (1790); elected (6 Sep 1792) to the Convention nationale (National Convention) (1792-1795) as a deputy for the département of Lot; took seat with the Montagnards; was elected president of the Jacobin Club (2 Nov 1792); voted for the death sentence at the trial of King Louis XVI; was elected a member of the Comité de salut public (Committee of Public Safety) (12 Jun 1793 - 31 Jul 1794); served as President of the National Convention (11 Jul 1793 - 25 Jul 1793); reorganized the military harbors of Brest and Cherbourg (1793-1794); was sent on a mission to Toulon and Marseilles; arrested (28 May 1795); released by the amnesty of 26 Oct 1795; served as consul at Algiers and Smyrna (1798); was kept prisoner by the Turks (1798-1801); appointed commissary-general of the départements on the left bank of the Rhine (20 Dec 1801 - 22 Sep 1802) and prefect of the département of Mont-Tonnerre (20 Dec 1801 - 10 Dec 1813). Biography source: [2]