Paul Ramadier

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Paul Ramadier
Paul Ramadier
In office
January 22, 1947 – November 24, 1947
Preceded by Léon Blum
Succeeded by Robert Schuman
Born March 17, 1888
Died October 14, 1961
Political party SFIO

Paul Ramadier (March 17, 1888, La Rochelle - October 14, 1961) was a prominent French Socialist politician of the Third and Fourth Republics. Mayor of Decazeville starting in 1919, he served as the first Prime Minister of the Fourth Republic in 1947. On July 10, 1940, he voted against the granting of the full powers to Marshall Pétain, who installed the Vichy regime the next day. Paul Ramadier took part in the Resistance, and his name was included in the Yad Vashem Jewish memorial after the war. It was during his first ministry that the Communists were forced out of the government in May 1947 — the same crisis happened in Italy with the PCI —, putting an end to the "tripartism" period (Socialist SFIO, Christian Democrat MRP, and French Communist Party - PCF). He then voted the Marshall Plan, and was also in charge during the repression of the Malagasy uprising in 1947, in which 80 000 Malagasys died.

[edit] Ramadier's First Ministry, 22 January - 22 October 1947

Changes

  • 4 May 1947 - Pierre-Henri Teitgen succeeds Thorez as Vice President of the Council. The other Communist ministers (Croizat, Marranne, and Tillon) also resign.
  • 9 May 1947 - Daniel Mayer succeeds Croizat as Minister of Labour and Social Security. Robert Prigent succeeds Marranne as Minister of Public Health and Population. Jean Letourneau succeeds Tillon as Minister of Reconstruction and Town Planning. Eugène Thomas enters the Cabinet as Minister of Posts.
  • 11 August 1947 - Robert Lacoste succeeds Letourneau as Minister of Commerce, becoming thus Minister of Commerce and Industry.

[edit] Ramadier's Second Ministry, 22 October - 24 November 1947

Preceded by
Pierre-Henri Teitgen		 Minister of Justice
1946–1947		 Succeeded by
André Marie
Preceded by
Léon Blum		 Prime Minister of France
1947		 Succeeded by
Robert Schuman