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Dominique-François-Jean Arago b. 26 Feb 1786, Estagel, Pyrénées-Orientales |
| Title: | Membre de la Commission du Pouvoir exécutif (Member of the Executive Power Commission) |
| Term: | 11 May 1848 - 24 Jun 1848 |
| Chronology: | 10 May 1848, elected member of the Executive Power Commission by the Assemblée nationale constituante (Constituent National Assembly), meeting of the Assembly, Palais-Bourbon, Paris [1] |
| 11 May 1848, assumed presidency by general consent, meeting of the Commission, Ministry of Marine, Paris [2] | |
| 24 Jun 1848, collective resignation of the Executive Power Commission submitted to the Constituent National Assembly (acknowledged) [3] |
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Educated at the École Polytechnique and University of Toulouse; entered the Paris Observatory (1804); appointed one of the professors of the École Polytechnique and one of the astronomers of the Imperial Observatory; appointed director of the Paris Observatory (1830); as scientist, discovered the principle of the production of magnetism and devised an experiment that proved the wave theory of light; elected to the Chambre des députés [Chamber of Deputies] (1831-1848); elected a member of the General Council of Seine (1840-1848); known for his republican views, was nominated a member of the Provisional Government (24 Feb 1848 - 9 May 1848); appointed minister of marine and colonies (24 Feb 1848 - 11 May 1848), interim minister of war (19 Mar 1848 - 5 Apr 1848), minister of war (5 Apr 1848 - 11 May 1848); elected to the Assemblée nationale constituante [Constituent National Assembly] (1848-1849); elected (10 May 1848) a member of the Executive Power Commission; assumed presidency of the Commission (11 May 1848); elected to the Assemblée nationale législative (Legislative National Assembly) (1849-1851). Biography source: [4] |
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| Election source: [1] | |||||||||||||||||
| [1] | Compte rendu des séances de l'Assemblée nationale. Tome premier. Du 4 Mai au 16 Juin 1848. (Paris: Imprimerie de l'Assemblée nationale, 1849), p. 104. | ||||||||||||||||
| [2] | Comité national du centenaire de 1848. Procès-verbaux du Gouvernement provisoire et de la Commission du pouvoir exécutif, 24 février-22 juin 1848 (Paris: Impr. nationale, 1950). | ||||||||||||||||
| [3] | Compte rendu des séances de l'Assemblée nationale. Tome deuxième. Du 17 Juin au 7 Août 1848. (Paris: Imprimerie de l'Assemblée nationale, 1849). | ||||||||||||||||
| [4] | Dictionnaire des parlementaires français: depuis le 1er mai 1789 jusqu'au 1er mai 1889, ed. by Adolphe Robert, Edgar Bourloton, Gaston Cougny (Paris: Bourloton, 1889-1891). | ||||||||||||||||
| Image: portrait by Ary Scheffer. | |||||||||||||||||
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