Camille Chautemps

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Camille Chautemps
Camille Chautemps
In office
February 21, 1930 – March 2, 1930
Preceded by André Tardieu
Succeeded by André Tardieu
In office
November 26, 1933 – January 30, 1934
Preceded by Albert Sarraut
Succeeded by Édouard Daladier
In office
June 22, 1937 – March 13, 1938
Preceded by Léon Blum
Succeeded by Léon Blum
Born February 1, 1885
Died July 1, 1963
Political party Radical

Camille Chautemps (February 1, 1885 in Paris – July 1, 1963 in Washington, D.C., U.S.) was a French Radical politician of the Third Republic, three times President of the Council (Prime Minister).

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[edit] Career

Chautemps entered politics and became Mayor of Tours in 1912, and a Radical deputy in 1919. Between 1924 and 1926, he served in the center-left coalition governments of Édouard Herriot, Paul Painlevé and Aristide Briand, and became President of the Council briefly in 1930. Again in center-left governments in 1932-1934, he served as Interior Minister, and became Prime Minister again in November 1933. He resigned his posts in January 1934 as a result of the Stavisky Affair.

In Léon Blum's Popular Front government of 1936, Chautemps was a Minister of State, and then succeeded Blum at the head of the government from June 1937 to March 1938.

Pursuing the program of the Popular Front, he proceeded to nationalize the railroads and create the SNCF. He resigned shortly before the Anschluss, and served from April 1938 to 1940 as Vice-President of the Council in the governments of Édouard Daladier and Paul Reynaud.

As a cabinet member in 1940, he was among the first to suggest the surrender of France to Nazi Germany. He held a ministry in the Vichy government (see Vichy France) but broke with Philippe Petain's government after arriving in the U.S. on an official mission. He lived in the U.S. for much of the rest of his life. After World War II a French court convicted him in absentia for collaborating with the enemy (source: http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9360438).

He was also in his youth a rugby union player, he played in the first senior team of the Stade Français -1 of the 2 main rugby union clubs in Paris- (origin: Henri Garcia, historian of the French Rugby)

[edit] Chautemps's First Ministry, 21 February - 2 March 1930

  • Camille Chautemps - President of the Council and Minister of the Interior - Radical Socialist Party
  • Aristide Briand - Minister of Foreign Affairs
  • René Besnard - Minister of War
  • Charles Dumont - Minister of Finance
  • Maurice Palmade - Minister of Budget
  • Louis Loucheur - Minister of Labour, Hygiene, Welfare Work, and Social Security Provisions
  • Théodore Steeg - Minister of Justice
  • Albert Sarraut - Minister of Marine
  • Charles Daniélou - Minister of Merchant Marine
  • Laurent Eynac - Minister of Air
  • Jean Durand - Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts
  • Claudius Gallet - Minister of Pensions
  • Henri Queuille - Minister of Agriculture
  • Lucien Lamoureux - Minister of Colonies
  • Édouard Daladier - Minister of Public Works
  • Julien Durand - Minister of Posts, Telegraphs, and Telephones
  • Georges Bonnet - Minister of Commerce and Industry

[edit] Chautemps's Second Ministry, 26 November 1933 - 30 January 1934

  • Camille Chautemps - President of the Council and Minister of the Interior - Radical Socialist Party
  • Joseph Paul-Boncour - Minister of Foreign Affairs
  • Édouard Daladier - Minister of War
  • Georges Bonnet - Minister of Finance
  • Paul Marchandeau - Minister of Budget
  • Lucien Lamoureux - Minister of Labour and Social Security Provisions
  • Eugène Raynaldy - Minister of Justice
  • Albert Sarraut - Minister of Marine
  • Eugène Frot - Minister of Merchant Marine
  • Pierre Cot - Minister of Air
  • Anatole de Monzie - Minister of National Education
  • Hippolyte Ducos - Minister of Pensions
  • Henri Queuille - Minister of Agriculture
  • Albert Dalimier - Minister of Colonies
  • Joseph Paganon - Minister of Public Works
  • Alexandre Israël - Minister of Public Health
  • Jean Mistler - Minister of Posts, Telegraphs, and Telephones
  • Laurent Eynac - Minister of Commerce and Industry

Changes

  • 9 January 1934 - Lucien Lamoureux succeeds Dalimier as Minister of Colonies. Eugène Frot succeeds Lamoureux as Minister of Labour and Social Security Provisions. William Bertrand succeeds Frot as Minister of Merchant Marine.

[edit] Chautemps's Third Ministry, 22 June 1937 - 18 January 1938

[edit] Chautemps's Fourth Ministry, 18 January - 13 March 1938

  • Camille Chautemps - President of the Council - Radical Socialist Party
  • Édouard Daladier - Vice President of the Council and Minister of National Defense and War
  • Yvon Delbos - Minister of Foreign Affairs
  • Albert Sarraut - Minister of the Interior
  • Paul Marchandeau - Minister of Finance
  • Paul Ramadier - Minister of Labour
  • César Campinchi - Minister of Justice
  • William Bertrand - Minister of Military Marine
  • Paul Elbel - Minister of Merchant Marine
  • Guy La Chambre - Minister of Air
  • Jean Zay - Minister of National Education
  • Robert Lassalle - Minister of Pensions
  • Fernand Chapsal - Minister of Agriculture
  • Théodore Steeg - Minister of Colonies
  • Henri Queuille - Minister of Public Works
  • Marc Rucart - Minister of Public Health
  • Fernand Gentin - Minister of Posts, Telegraphs, and Telephones
  • Pierre Cot - Minister of Commerce
  • Georges Bonnet - Minister of State
  • Ludovic-Oscar Frossard - Minister of State in charge of the Services of the Presidency of the Council
Preceded by
Anatole de Monzie		 Minister of Justice
1925		 Succeeded by
René Renoult
Preceded by
André Tardieu		 Prime Minister of France
1930		 Succeeded by
André Tardieu
Preceded by
Albert Sarraut		 Prime Minister of France
1933–1934		 Succeeded by
Édouard Daladier
Preceded by
Léon Blum		 Prime Minister of France
1937–1938		 Succeeded by
Léon Blum